Journal of Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Communication is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”116
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation97
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries53
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–201942
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media39
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic38
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama37
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity36
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework32
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association32
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships31
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts31
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries30
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis28
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States26
The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication Wm. L. Benoit & Andrew C. Billings26
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling24
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland24
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health21
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue21
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers20
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis17
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age17
Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation16
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history16
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China16
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (eds.)15
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-1915
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States15
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-1914
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*14
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity14
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity13
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands13
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research13
The social factors and functions of media use12
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication12
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address12
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory12
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms12
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT11
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action11
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–202011
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research11
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening11
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication10
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study10
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions10
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars10
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news10
The Ubiquitous President: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times9
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski9
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity9
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse8
A forum for books8
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 20208
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook8
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