OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Self-Esteem: Heading for a Person-Specific Media Effects Paradigm	88
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	81
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	71
Antecedents and Effects of Parasocial Relationships: A Meta-Analysis	57
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale	44
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	36
The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics	36
Thematic Co-occurrence Analysis: Advancing a Theory and Qualitative Method to Illuminate Ambivalent Experiences	32
Learning from Incidental Exposure to Political Information in Online Environments	28
Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017	24
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	24
Populist attitudes and politicians’ disinformation accusations: effects on perceptions of media and politicians	23
Stories Collectively Engage Listeners’ Brains: Enhanced Intersubject Correlations during Reception of Personal Narratives	22
Visual misinformation on Facebook	21
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	21
How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics: Comparing Longitudinal Statistical Approaches in Order to Analyze Within- and Between-Person Effects	20
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	20
Mapping Exposure Diversity: The Divergent Effects of Algorithmic Curation on News Consumption	19
Do people learn about politics on social media? A meta-analysis of 76 studies	19
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	19
Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging	19
Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis	19
Television, Continuity, and Change: A Meta-Analysis of Five Decades of Cultivation Research	18
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	18
To Misspecify Is Common, to Probe Misspecification Scientific: Common “Confounds” in Pornography Research May Actually Be Predictors	17

Just a Glance, or More? Pathways from Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure to Attitude (De)Polarization Through Response Behaviors and Cognitive Elaboration	17
Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics	16
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication	16
Effects of the news finds me perception on algorithmic news attitudes and social media political homophily	14
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages	14
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	14
Generational Change in Chinese Journalism: Developing Mannheim’s Theory of Generations for Contemporary Social Conditions	13
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	13
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	13
Relational Uncertainty Within Relational Turbulence Theory: The Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Model	11
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions	10
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	10
A Source Like Any Other? Field and Survey Experiment Evidence on How Interest Groups Shape Public Opinion	10
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	10
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	10
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	9
Dual Process Models and Information Engagement: Testing Effects of Seeking, Scanning, and Trust in Sources on Attitudes Toward Marijuana	9
The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors	9
The Science of Open (Communication) Science: Toward an Evidence-Driven Understanding of Quality Criteria in Communication Research	9
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*	9
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	9
Persuasive Message Pretesting Using Non-Behavioral Outcomes: Differences in Attitudinal and Intention Effects as Diagnostic of Differences in Behavioral Effects	8
Copaganda and post-Floyd TVPD: broadcast television’s response to policing in 2020	8
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	8
Gendered times: how gendered contexts shape campaign messages of female candidates	8
A Content Analysis of American Primetime Television: A 20-Year Update of the National Television Violence Studies	8
Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach	8