OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Communication is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	114
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	69
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	56
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	56
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	52
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	45
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	43
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	43
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity	42
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	38
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	30
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	30
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	28
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	28
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	26
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	25
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	24
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	23
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	23
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	22
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	21
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	20
Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	20

Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	18
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	17
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being	17
Undocumented college students’ career-related communication with their parents and the ecological vocational anticipatory socialization model	17
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	17
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	17
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	16
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research	15
The social factors and functions of media use	14
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	14
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	13
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	13
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	13
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	12
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	12
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	12
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	12
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	12
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	11
Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories	11
A forum for books	11
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	11
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	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
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	10
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	10
Temporal dynamics of media and communication processes: a review of theories and meta-analysis of empirical studies	10