OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	106
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	84
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	48
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	45
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	36
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	34
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	33
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	28
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	28
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	28
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	27
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	27
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	24
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	22
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	21
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	21
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland	20
The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication Wm. L. Benoit & Andrew C. Billings	20
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	19
Theorizing Chemical Rhetoric: Toward an Articulation of Chemistry as a Public Vocabulary	19
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	17
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	17
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	17

Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	17
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	14
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (eds.)	14
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	13
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*	13
Persuasive Message Pretesting Using Non-Behavioral Outcomes: Differences in Attitudinal and Intention Effects as Diagnostic of Differences in Behavioral Effects	13
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	13
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	13
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication	12
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	12
The social factors and functions of media use	12
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	12
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	12
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	11
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	11
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	11
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research	11
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address	11
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	10
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	10
Transfiguring Theaters for Disrespectable Leisure: An Ethnography on Black Womxn’s Ratchet Performances in Movie Showings ofGirls Trip	10
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	10
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	10
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	9
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	9
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	9
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	9