OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)	17
Communication as raced practice	14
Pandemic communication as transformation	13
Forum on public scholarship	13
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals	12
Intercultural disaster communication and community resilience: examining post-hurricane communication in communities with limited English-speaking proficiency	11
Transparency in action: iterative engagement with the UNGC and Mistra Environmental Communication Program	10
From global crisis to local impact: evaluating feminist and human rights pedagogies in human trafficking awareness MOOCs	10
Motivating neighborhood-focused health activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and neighborhood activism	9
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming	9
I’m just trying to fill my kids up: parents’ pre-emptive (re)construction of identities amidst rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States	8
‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers	8
‘Everybody Else in That Room’: support dilemmas and benefits of supportive communication in batterer intervention	8
Resilient communication using art in applied contexts	8
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	7
How did New Zealanders decide to get vaccinated against COVID-19? Developing a novel comprehensive model of vaccination intention	7
Body as disease	7
‘The balance is a forever moving one’: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control	7
Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China	6
All joking aside? Comparing the effects of a humorous vs. a non-humorous message strategy in building organization–public relationships and community resilience	6
Culture-centered narratives of support and stigma: intergenerational tensions in the mental illness experiences of Vietnamese American youth	6
Challenging color-evasion in democratic dialogue: using critical race discourse analysis to generate practical theory for facilitators	6
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism	6
Making and breaking boundaries	5

Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy	5
Writing for the masses: translating communication research with praxis in mind	5
‘It's a roller coaster of emotions!’: investigating the paradoxes of childcare app use and work engagement	5
Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication	5
‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide	5
The influence of follower reactions on political leaders’ environmental policy communication: toward a social-mediated dynamic influence framework	5
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	5
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers	4
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative	4
How political consultants can leverage partisan media combativeness in the U.S.	4
Air Aware: a theory-driven, co-designed air quality communication campaign to promote health protective behaviors among outdoor workers	4
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	4
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies	4
Coalitional possibilities and the making of GRIDS	4
Character, contact, and stigma reduction: investigating mediated contact and U.S. digital stories of opioid use disorder	4
The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications	4
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	4
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting	4
A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines	4
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States	4
Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military	4
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 events	4
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	4
Body politics, reproductive rights, and digital media advocacy within stigmatized contexts: a critical discourse analysis of Weibo discussions on IUDs in modern-day China	4
Community relations under pressure: Local residents’ perceptions of corporate crisis communication	3
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’: narrative problematics in U.S. pandemic birth stories	3
The ‘think-and-do tank’ model of the Center for Climate Change Communication	3
Indigenous communication in Latin America for social re-existence: communicative experiences in the Colombian Cauca	3
Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity	3
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	3
Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions	3
Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach	3
Bridging communication research and practice: scholarly partnerships with translational organizations	3
Ready to detox from neoliberal publishing? Let’s write for ‘translation’ together	3
The Cincinnati Project	3
Race-making of the COVID-19 outbreak in early mainstream frames: the production of the epidemic(ed) transnational citizen	3
Exploring public-sector YouTube influencer PR strategies: a mixed-methods field study	3
Knowing the street: on the production of knowledge between homeless civic actors and their allies in the U.S.	3
‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future	3
Development of evidence-based tools using human-centered design to promote PrEP uptake for young men who have sex with men of color	3
Explicating the effects of narrative source and causal attribution on nulliparous Chinese women’s childbirth injury-related risk perceptions and information-seeking intentions	2
‘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 cancer	2
Masks across borders: etiquette, threat and prevention	2
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies	2
Developing and validating a novel health literacy needs assessment tool for people with HIV in the United States	2
Racialized scripts of silence: how whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States	2
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	2
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 prison	2
Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online	2

#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	2
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: the work of Mistra Environmental Communication	2
‘For future gains’: examining the effectiveness of combined messaging techniques on PrEP uptake and sexual risk compensation among Chinese men who have sex with men	2
Correction	2
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers	2
Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival	2
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory	1
Unimagined communities in a time of global crisis	1
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the U.S. foster parent perspective	1
The enactment of relational maintenance when Guatemalan parents are forcibly separated from their families due to deportation	1
Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines	1
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
Planting justice: co-constructing knowledge with Black women farmers for translatable research	1
Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China	1
JACR special issue reviewers, 2021–2022	1
We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation	1
Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky	1
Facilitation of young migrants’ agency in policy lab meeting interactions: a case analysis in an Italian city	1
Translating LGBT research into politics	1
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico	1
Bridging trauma-informed care and organizational accommodations: an ethnographic analysis of tensional knots in an anti-violence nonprofit	1
The Washington Climate Assembly: note-taking modalities as deliberative guidance in an online citizens’ assembly	1
Quarantined across borders: theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing	1
Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors	1
Rethinking (LGBT) empowerment: exploring the potential of community-based participatory research project among human rights NGOs in Ghana	1
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals	1
Overcoming resistance: an experimental approach to promoting regenerative agriculture among farmers using message design	1
Enacting compassion in mHealth: communicative subprocesses of compassionate coaching and their relationships to resilience during a prolonged pandemic	1
High reliability organizing through an extended crisis: a case study of a U.S. university during COVID-19	1