OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Communication Research is 2. 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
Building organizational resilience through strategic internal communication and organization–employee relationships	31
Post-truth propaganda: heuristic processing of political fake news on Facebook during the 2016 U.S. presidential election	20
Romanians’ willingness to comply with restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from an online survey	15
Communication scholar-activism: conceptualizing key dimensions and practices based on interviews with scholar-activists	15
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	13
Disaster communication behaviors in the U.S. and China: which channels do you use and with whom?	13
Post-disaster communities on social media: citizen participation in crisis communication after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	13
Publics’ communication on controversial sociopolitical issues: extending the situational theory of problem solving	11
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico	11
Perceptions of police use of force among U.S. adults and the role of communication accommodation in improving police–civilian interactions	10
Work–life-imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring social support and health outcomes in the United States	10
Predictors and outcomes of LGB individuals’ sexual orientation disclosure to heterosexual romantic partners	9
Exploring workplace bullying from diverse perspectives: A Journal of Applied Communication Research forum	9
‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future	9
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Expanding feminist resilience theorizing: conceptualizing embodied resilience as a material-discursive process during infertility	8
High-reliability organizing and communication during naturalistic decision making: U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasting teams’ use of ‘floating’	8
‘Picture me heart disease free’: understanding African Americans’ cardiovascular disease experiences through a culture-centered approach	8
Spanning communication boundaries to address health inequalities: the role of community connectors and social media	7
Seafood stories: the effect of video message type on U.S. support for sustainable aquaculture	7
Can scientists communicate interpersonal warmth? Testing warmth messages in the context of science communication	7
Discovering One’s Undocumented Immigration Status through Family Disclosures: The Perspectives of U.S. College Students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)	7
Welfare recipients communicated pathways to resilience during stigma and material hardship in the heartland of America	6
Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy	6
Overcoming disaster linguicism: using autoethnography during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark to explore how community translators can provide multilingual disaster communication	6

Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions	6
When web add-on correction comes with fear-arousing misinformation in public health crisis: focusing on the role of risk perception in belief in misinformation	6
Everyone’s ‘uncomfortable’ but only some people report: privacy management, threshold levels, and reporting decisions stemming from coworker online sexual harassment	5
The meanings of heart health among low-income Malay women in Singapore: narratives of food insecurity, caregiving stressors, and shame	5
Information seeking behavior about obesity among South Koreans: applying the risk information seeking and processing model	5
The dialectical experience of the fear of missing out for U.S. American iGen emerging adult college students	5
‘Anything is helpful’: examining tensions and barriers towards a more LGBT-inclusive healthcare organization in the United States	5
‘Eligible to be heard’ in transportation planning	5
Can we create the ‘being’ of leadership? A mixed-methods study of two leadership pedagogies at a southwestern, U.S. university	5
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	5
Climbing the ‘scaffolded city’: tactics used by homeless young adults to navigate employment barriers	5
Examining and evaluating multilevel communication within a mixed-methods, community-based participatory research project in a rural, minority–majority U.S. Town	5
Uncertainty and support-seeking in US-based online diabetes forums	5
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States	5
Applying structurational divergence theory to climate change adaptation in a localized context: understanding adaptive potential of coffee producers in Risaralda, Colombia	4
The effects of perceived stigma and neighborhood storytelling networks on future outlook: mixed-method research in Fukushima, Japan	4
The relationship between the disaster communication action context and citizen intent to shape climate-related disaster policy across California wildfire seasons	4
Life interrupted instead of disrupted: triggers and resilient communication processes revealed in POZ.com online narratives by men with HIV who have sex with men	4
Frequency and importance of interpersonal communication about a school-based intervention with parents, peers, and teachers: application of social interface model	4
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	4
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism	4
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory	4
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.	4
Exploring the discursive construction of subgroups in global virtual teams	4
Intimate partner violence disclosure among Muslim-Americans: a survey study of disclosure likelihood to varying networks and the roles of relational context, religiosity, and marginalization	4
‘Better safe than sorry’: examining trauma as an obstacle to empowerment and social change in a U.S. intimate partner violence intervention	4
Technological capital within aging United States-based populations: challenges and recommendations for online intervention uptake	4
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative	4
Rushing to respond: image reparation and dialectical tension in crisis communication in academia	3
Bridging trauma-informed care and organizational accommodations: an ethnographic analysis of tensional knots in an anti-violence nonprofit	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
Initiating a cross-sector interorganizational collaboration: lessons from a failed attempt at following appreciative inquiry practice	3
Decisions to react after mass shootings: exploring negative affect, relational trust, and public behavioral intentions toward the National Rifle Association	3
Student understandings of career and gainful employment: a critique of US educational policy using structurating activity theory	3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals	3
Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors	3
Promoting six-month exclusive breastfeeding: an examination of social norms messaging and outcome expectations	3
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	3
High reliability organizing through an extended crisis: a case study of a U.S. university during COVID-19	3
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers	3
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	3
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	3
When race and agency collide: examining pregnant black women’s experiences in healthcare	3
The long walk home: India’s migrant labor, livelihood, and lockdown amid COVID-19	3
A latent profile analysis of U.S. undocumented college students’ advocacy communication strategies and its relationship with health	3
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	3
Organizational practices leading to closeting: the interactional construction of ‘closets’	3
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies	3
Intervention orientations in communication research	3
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals	2

The labor of diversity in the 2020–2021 U.S. communication job market	2
How the U.S. National Weather Service communicates to protect communities: an extension of microboundary spanning theory	2
Body as disease	2
‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers	2
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting	2
‘He never hit me #WhyIStayed’: countering the U.S. domestic violence master narrative	2
‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide	2
Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China	2
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	2
A preliminary investigation of the use of racial/ethnic categories in emergency telephone calls in the United States	2
Practicing entertainment for social change in the United States: comparing the influences of U.S.-based documentary storytelling and print campaign resources in a univision prosocial media campaign	2
Communication and decision-making of cesarean sections in China: an exploration of both obstetricians’ and patients’ perspectives	2
Developing a grounded practical theory of engaged communication scholarship: theorizing communities of practice in NCA journals	2
Resilience processes buffer the negative associations between marginalizing communication and career outcomes for women in male-dominated workplaces	2
Communication dilemmas and race in an Asian American Chamber of Commerce	2
User experiences, usability, and social presence of a peer-to-peer support app: survey of young adults affected by cancer	2
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	2
Communication as raced practice	2