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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	83
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	77
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	69
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	60
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity	47
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	41
Dataveillance inhibits legitimate communication: causal evidence for chilling effects	38
Modes of dialogic communication, modes of reality	35
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	35
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	33
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	33
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	33
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	33
Techno-refusal as a generative orientation to the future	31
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	30
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	29
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	26
Response to the 2025 ICA Presidential Address: Whose cosmopolitan imagination? African reflections on Silvio Waisbord’s call for global communication studies	25
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	23
Undocumented college students’ career-related communication with their parents and the ecological vocational anticipatory socialization model	22
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	22
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	21
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	20

The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	20
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	19
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being	19
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	19
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	19
The social factors and functions of media use	18
Media capture, academia capture? Rising authoritarianism and public knowledge capture	17
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	16
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research	16
Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories	14
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	14
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	14
Walking the moral plank: using virtual reality to investigate moral decision-making under threat	14
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	14
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	13
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	13
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	12
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	12
A forum for books	11
Media emotion regulation and executive functions: individual differences in temporal ordering among young children	11
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	11
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	11
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	11
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	10
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children	10
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: a social identity perspective	10
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	10
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex	10
Blowing artificial intelligence bubbles: studies of technological hype	10
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	10
Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not	10
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers	10
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities	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
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture	10
Temporal dynamics of media and communication processes: a review of theories and meta-analysis of empirical studies	10
A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements	9
An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust	9
When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment	8
Material intelligence, or, knowing by hand	8
Memory inception through gaze-contingent message exposure: using virtual reality to study media influence	8
Response to “Gender Diversity at Academic Conferences—The Case of the International Communication Association (ICA)”	8
Streaming users as temporal publics: recalibrating platform power in Latin America	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	8
Are partisan, unreliable, digital-born, and mass-oriented media more likely to thrive on social media? Comparing four information ecosystems	7
Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns	7
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates	7
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	7
An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States	7

Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	7
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families	7
On digital media history	7
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system	6
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–2023	6
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal	6
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy	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
“What do you want to do?”: expertise tension and authority negotiation in emergency nurse–physician interactions	5
Identity construction through talk of difference and similarity: blocking and threading analysis	5
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents	5
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector	5
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate	5
Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)	5
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse	5
The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism	4
Diffusion as translation: transediting and the diffusion of social movement discourses across linguistic borders in the age of globalization	4
Correction to: 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
Media consolidation and news content quality	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
Networked privacy and its broader implications	4
Meta-theorizing framing in communication research (1992–2022): toward academic silos or professionalized specialization?	4
The madness of misperceptions: evaluating the ways anger contributes to misinformed beliefs	4