OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Communication is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	81
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	69
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	68
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	64
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity	53
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	52
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	36
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	34
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts	32
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	32
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	32
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	30
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	29
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	29
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	28
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	26
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	24
Response to the 2025 ICA Presidential Address: Whose cosmopolitan imagination? African reflections on Silvio Waisbord’s call for global communication studies	24
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	23
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	22
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	22
Undocumented college students’ career-related communication with their parents and the ecological vocational anticipatory socialization model	21
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	20
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	20

Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	19
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research	19
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being	19
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	18
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	18
The social factors and functions of media use	17
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	16
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	15
Walking the moral plank: using virtual reality to investigate moral decision-making under threat	15
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	14
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	14
Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories	14
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	14
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	14
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	14
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	13
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	12
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	12
Temporal dynamics of media and communication processes: a review of theories and meta-analysis of empirical studies	11
A forum for books	11
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities	10
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	10
Organizational communication for social change on social media: NPOs’ social media strategies based on their perception of three stakeholder networks in collective and connective action	10
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	10
Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not	10
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	10
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex	10
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture	10
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	10
An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust	9
Blowing artificial intelligence bubbles: studies of technological hype	9
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children	9
A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements	9
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers	9
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	9
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: a social identity perspective	9
Memory inception through gaze-contingent message exposure: using virtual reality to study media influence	8
When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment	8
Response to “Gender Diversity at Academic Conferences—The Case of the International Communication Association (ICA)”	8
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	8
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	8
Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	7
Are partisan, unreliable, digital-born, and mass-oriented media more likely to thrive on social media? Comparing four information ecosystems	7
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	7
Material intelligence, or, knowing by hand	7
Streaming users as temporal publics: recalibrating platform power in Latin America	7
Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns	7
An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States	7
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates	7
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families	7

On digital media history	6
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy	6
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate	6
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal	6
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse	6
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–2023	6
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	6
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system	6
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents	6
Leveraging digital spaces and datafication in communication research: contributions of digital qualitative fluidity to ethnographic interviewing	5
Struggles for believability: from rape victims to senators, dictators, and news brands	5
Science fiction and self-transcendence: evidence from retrospective, experimental, and longitudinal studies	5
Identity construction through talk of difference and similarity: blocking and threading analysis	5
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism, Melissa Aronczyk & Maria I. Espinoza	5
“What do you want to do?”: expertise tension and authority negotiation in emergency nurse–physician interactions	5
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector	5
Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)	4
Networked privacy and its broader implications	4
How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism	4
Meta-theorizing framing in communication research (1992–2022): toward academic silos or professionalized specialization?	4
Motivations underlying Latino Americans’ group-based social media engagement	4
Media consolidation and news content quality	4
Diffusion as translation: transediting and the diffusion of social movement discourses across linguistic borders in the age of globalization	4