OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Communication is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Self-Esteem: Heading for a Person-Specific Media Effects Paradigm	88
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	81
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	71
Antecedents and Effects of Parasocial Relationships: A Meta-Analysis	57
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale	44
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	36
The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics	36
Thematic Co-occurrence Analysis: Advancing a Theory and Qualitative Method to Illuminate Ambivalent Experiences	32
Learning from Incidental Exposure to Political Information in Online Environments	28
Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017	24
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	24
Populist attitudes and politicians’ disinformation accusations: effects on perceptions of media and politicians	23
Stories Collectively Engage Listeners’ Brains: Enhanced Intersubject Correlations during Reception of Personal Narratives	22
Visual misinformation on Facebook	21
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	21
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	20
How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics: Comparing Longitudinal Statistical Approaches in Order to Analyze Within- and Between-Person Effects	20
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	19
Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging	19
Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis	19
Mapping Exposure Diversity: The Divergent Effects of Algorithmic Curation on News Consumption	19
Do people learn about politics on social media? A meta-analysis of 76 studies	19
Television, Continuity, and Change: A Meta-Analysis of Five Decades of Cultivation Research	18
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	18
Just a Glance, or More? Pathways from Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure to Attitude (De)Polarization Through Response Behaviors and Cognitive Elaboration	17

To Misspecify Is Common, to Probe Misspecification Scientific: Common “Confounds” in Pornography Research May Actually Be Predictors	17
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication	16
Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics	16
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages	14
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	14
Effects of the news finds me perception on algorithmic news attitudes and social media political homophily	14
Generational Change in Chinese Journalism: Developing Mannheim’s Theory of Generations for Contemporary Social Conditions	13
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	13
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	13
Relational Uncertainty Within Relational Turbulence Theory: The Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Model	11
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions	10
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	10
A Source Like Any Other? Field and Survey Experiment Evidence on How Interest Groups Shape Public Opinion	10
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	10
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	10
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	9
Dual Process Models and Information Engagement: Testing Effects of Seeking, Scanning, and Trust in Sources on Attitudes Toward Marijuana	9
The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors	9
The Science of Open (Communication) Science: Toward an Evidence-Driven Understanding of Quality Criteria in Communication Research	9
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*	9
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	9
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	8
Gendered times: how gendered contexts shape campaign messages of female candidates	8
A Content Analysis of American Primetime Television: A 20-Year Update of the National Television Violence Studies	8
Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach	8
Persuasive Message Pretesting Using Non-Behavioral Outcomes: Differences in Attitudinal and Intention Effects as Diagnostic of Differences in Behavioral Effects	8
Copaganda and post-Floyd TVPD: broadcast television’s response to policing in 2020	8
Gender differences and similarities in news media effects on political candidate evaluations: a meta-analysis	7
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	7
A Methodological Framework for Analyzing the Appearance and Duration of Media Effects	7
Camera Point-of-View Exacerbates Racial Bias in Viewers of Police Use of Force Videos	7
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values	7
Seeing Red Through Rose-Colored Glasses: Subjective Hope as a Moderator of the Persuasive Influence of Anger	7
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform: Considering Issue Homophily in Interorganizational Relationships	7
Theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement: introduction, explication, and application	7
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes	7
Modulating moderation: a history of objectionability in Twitter moderation practices	6
Toward Open Research: A Narrative Review of the Challenges and Opportunities for Open Humanities	6
The madness of misperceptions: evaluating the ways anger contributes to misinformed beliefs	6
The ubiquity of long-tail lie distributions: seven studies from five continents	6
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	6
The social factors and functions of media use	5
A Latent Profile Analysis of Undocumented College Students’ Protection-Oriented Family Communication and Strengths-Based Psychological Coping	5
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	5
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	5
Network activated frames: content sharing and perceived polarization in social media	5
The Effects of Person-Centered Social Support Messages on Recipient Distress Over Time within a Conversation	5
Emerging hybrid networks of verification, accountability, and institutional resilience: the U.S. Capitol Riot and the work of open-source investigation	5
Examining the Effect of Message Style in Esteem Support Interactions: A Laboratory Investigation*	5
Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gate-keeping & Criminalizing Digital Inclusion	4

When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment	4
Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure: evidence from two online experiments	4
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	4
Mutual socialization during shared media moments: U.S. LGBTQ teens and their parents negotiate identity support	4
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	4
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Reconsidering communication visibility in politically restrictive contexts: organizational social media use in China	4
The Gender Divide in Wikipedia: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions	4
Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research*	3
Tweeting the Holocaust: social media discourse between reverence, exploitation, and simulacra	3
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	3
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	3
#GirlGamers, Soldiers, and Public Relations: Analyzing Gender Representation in U.S. Army Esports	3
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research	3
The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates	3
News for life: improving the quality of journalistic news reporting to prevent suicides	3
“Dando las Gracias a Mis Papás”: Analyzing the Enactment of Callings across Generations of Latinx Immigrants	3
Too close for comfort: leveraging identity-based relevance through targeted health information backfires for Black Americans	3
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture	3
Motivations underlying Latino Americans’ group-based social media engagement	2
Erratum to: Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	2
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities	2
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	2
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	2
Philadelphia’s news media system: which audiences are underserved?	2
Passive learning and incidental exposure to news	2
Introduction to the special issue of social media: the good, the bad, and the ugly	2
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	2
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address	2
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex	2
Broadcast information diffusion processes on social media networks: exogenous events lead to more integrated public discourse	2
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	2