Journal of Applied Communication Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Communication Research is 1. 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
The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)23
Communication as raced practice19
Intercultural disaster communication and community resilience: examining post-hurricane communication in communities with limited English-speaking proficiency16
Work–life-imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring social support and health outcomes in the United States14
Pandemic communication as transformation14
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms13
Transparency in action: iterative engagement with the UNGC and Mistra Environmental Communication Program13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals12
Forum on public scholarship11
Motivating neighborhood-focused health activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and neighborhood activism10
From global crisis to local impact: evaluating feminist and human rights pedagogies in human trafficking awareness MOOCs9
I’m just trying to fill my kids up: parents’ pre-emptive (re)construction of identities amidst rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States8
‘Everybody Else in That Room’: support dilemmas and benefits of supportive communication in batterer intervention8
Resilient communication using art in applied contexts8
Body as disease8
‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers8
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming8
Do you hear the people sign?: A critical discourse analysis of comments on a 2015 online petition opposing North Carolina’s ag-gag law8
How did New Zealanders decide to get vaccinated against COVID-19? Developing a novel comprehensive model of vaccination intention7
Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China7
‘The balance is a forever moving one’: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control7
Challenging color-evasion in democratic dialogue: using critical race discourse analysis to generate practical theory for facilitators7
All joking aside? Comparing the effects of a humorous vs. a non-humorous message strategy in building organization–public relationships and community resilience6
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion6
The influence of follower reactions on political leaders’ environmental policy communication: toward a social-mediated dynamic influence framework6
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism5
The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications5
Communication scholar-activism: conceptualizing key dimensions and practices based on interviews with scholar-activists5
‘It's a roller coaster of emotions!’: investigating the paradoxes of childcare app use and work engagement5
Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy5
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp5
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-195
‘Better safe than sorry’: examining trauma as an obstacle to empowerment and social change in a U.S. intimate partner violence intervention5
‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide5
Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication5
Making and breaking boundaries5
E-sisters and the case of the Essure coil: power, representation, and voice in women’s public docket accounts to the FDA of medical device adverse events4
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers4
Body politics, reproductive rights, and digital media advocacy within stigmatized contexts: a critical discourse analysis of Weibo discussions on IUDs in modern-day China4
The Cincinnati Project4
A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines4
Character, contact, and stigma reduction: investigating mediated contact and U.S. digital stories of opioid use disorder4
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative4
How political consultants can leverage partisan media combativeness in the U.S.4
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis4
User experiences, usability, and social presence of a peer-to-peer support app: survey of young adults affected by cancer4
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States4
Student understandings of career and gainful employment: a critique of US educational policy using structurating activity theory4
Writing for the masses: translating communication research with praxis in mind4
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting4
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies4
Race-making of the COVID-19 outbreak in early mainstream frames: the production of the epidemic(ed) transnational citizen4
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic4
Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military4
Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions3
The ‘think-and-do tank’ model of the Center for Climate Change Communication3
Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach3
Bridging communication research and practice: scholarly partnerships with translational organizations3
Community relations under pressure: Local residents’ perceptions of corporate crisis communication3
Development of evidence-based tools using human-centered design to promote PrEP uptake for young men who have sex with men of color3
Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity3
Exploring public-sector YouTube influencer PR strategies: a mixed-methods field study3
Coalitional possibilities and the making of GRIDS3
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media3
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’: narrative problematics in U.S. pandemic birth stories3
Ready to detox from neoliberal publishing? Let’s write for ‘translation’ together3
Indigenous communication in Latin America for social re-existence: communicative experiences in the Colombian Cauca2
Applying structurational divergence theory to climate change adaptation in a localized context: understanding adaptive potential of coffee producers in Risaralda, Colombia2
Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online2
Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival2
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies2
Correction2
When web add-on correction comes with fear-arousing misinformation in public health crisis: focusing on the role of risk perception in belief in misinformation2
Post-disaster communities on social media: citizen participation in crisis communication after the Nepal earthquake, 20152
‘Naturally, it's me taking care’: filial piety as anticipatory resilience in the temporal flow and stressors of Chinese only children caring for parents with cancer2
Explicating the effects of narrative source and causal attribution on nulliparous Chinese women’s childbirth injury-related risk perceptions and information-seeking intentions2
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers2
‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future2
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp2
I can still be their mom from a distance: understanding the experiences of incarcerated mothers in a faith-based parenting program in a United States prison2
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment2
Developing and validating a novel health literacy needs assessment tool for people with HIV in the United States2
Unimagined communities in a time of global crisis1
JACR special issue reviewers, 2021–20221
Racialized scripts of silence: how whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States1
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory1
Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China1
High reliability organizing through an extended crisis: a case study of a U.S. university during COVID-191
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the U.S. foster parent perspective1
Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky1
Quarantined across borders: theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing1
Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines1
Masks across borders: etiquette, threat and prevention1
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico1
Bridging trauma-informed care and organizational accommodations: an ethnographic analysis of tensional knots in an anti-violence nonprofit1
Health pandemic in the era of (mis)information: examining the utility of using victim narrative and social endorsement of user-generated content to reduce panic buying in the U.S.1
The enactment of relational maintenance when Guatemalan parents are forcibly separated from their families due to deportation1
Planting justice: co-constructing knowledge with Black women farmers for translatable research1
Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors1
We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation1
The Washington Climate Assembly: note-taking modalities as deliberative guidance in an online citizens’ assembly1
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals1
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: the work of Mistra Environmental Communication1
Rethinking (LGBT) empowerment: exploring the potential of community-based participatory research project among human rights NGOs in Ghana1
Translating LGBT research into politics1
Welfare recipients communicated pathways to resilience during stigma and material hardship in the heartland of America1
Overcoming resistance: an experimental approach to promoting regenerative agriculture among farmers using message design1
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