Journal of Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Communication is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”109
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries62
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–201950
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity47
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation45
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic43
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama41
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media41
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships40
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts36
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association34
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework32
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries29
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis27
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age26
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers24
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health23
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue23
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling23
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States20
Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation20
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis20
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China19
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-1919
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history18
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-1918
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity17
The social factors and functions of media use17
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States17
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands15
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being14
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research13
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms13
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory13
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT12
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news12
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening12
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–202012
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity11
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars11
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions11
Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories11
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski11
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action11
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study11
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 202010
A forum for books10
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse9
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows9
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook9
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture9
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities9
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