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

Article	Citations
The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)	19
Communication as raced practice	17
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	16
Pandemic communication as transformation	14
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals	14
Work–life-imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring social support and health outcomes in the United States	11
Transparency in action: iterative engagement with the UNGC and Mistra Environmental Communication Program	10
Motivating neighborhood-focused health activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and neighborhood activism	10
Resilient communication using art in applied contexts	9
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming	8
Body as disease	8
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
Do you hear the people sign?: A critical discourse analysis of comments on a 2015 online petition opposing North Carolina’s ag-gag law	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
‘Everybody Else in That Room’: support dilemmas and benefits of supportive communication in batterer intervention	7
‘The balance is a forever moving one’: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control	7
‘It's a roller coaster of emotions!’: investigating the paradoxes of childcare app use and work engagement	6
Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China	6
Challenging color-evasion in democratic dialogue: using critical race discourse analysis to generate practical theory for facilitators	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
Making and breaking boundaries	6
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	5
Communication scholar-activism: conceptualizing key dimensions and practices based on interviews with scholar-activists	5

‘Better safe than sorry’: examining trauma as an obstacle to empowerment and social change in a U.S. intimate partner violence intervention	5
The influence of follower reactions on political leaders’ environmental policy communication: toward a social-mediated dynamic influence framework	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
Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy	5
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism	5
The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications	4
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	4
Character, contact, and stigma reduction: investigating mediated contact and U.S. digital stories of opioid use disorder	4
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States	4
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies	4
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	4
Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military	4
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers	4
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	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
How political consultants can leverage partisan media combativeness in the U.S.	4
Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication	4
Student understandings of career and gainful employment: a critique of US educational policy using structurating activity theory	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
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting	4
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative	4
The ‘think-and-do tank’ model of the Center for Climate Change Communication	3
Bridging communication research and practice: scholarly partnerships with translational organizations	3
User experiences, usability, and social presence of a peer-to-peer support app: survey of young adults affected by cancer	3
Race-making of the COVID-19 outbreak in early mainstream frames: the production of the epidemic(ed) transnational citizen	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
Development of evidence-based tools using human-centered design to promote PrEP uptake for young men who have sex with men of color	3
Indigenous communication in Latin America for social re-existence: communicative experiences in the Colombian Cauca	3
Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions	3
Organizational practices leading to closeting: the interactional construction of ‘closets’	3
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	3
Community relations under pressure: Local residents’ perceptions of corporate crisis communication	3
Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach	3
‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future	3
A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines	3
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The Cincinnati Project	3
Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity	2
Seafood stories: the effect of video message type on U.S. support for sustainable aquaculture	2
Explicating the effects of narrative source and causal attribution on nulliparous Chinese women’s childbirth injury-related risk perceptions and information-seeking intentions	2
Transforming authoritative discourse: mediating cogenerative dialogues between scientists and high school students	2
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	2
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	2
Post-disaster communities on social media: citizen participation in crisis communication after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	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
‘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
Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online	2
Applying structurational divergence theory to climate change adaptation in a localized context: understanding adaptive potential of coffee producers in Risaralda, Colombia	2

Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies	2
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers	2
Correction	2
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
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the U.S. foster parent perspective	1
JACR special issue reviewers, 2021–2022	1
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: the work of Mistra Environmental Communication	1
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico	1
High reliability organizing through an extended crisis: a case study of a U.S. university during COVID-19	1
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory	1
The enactment of relational maintenance when Guatemalan parents are forcibly separated from their families due to deportation	1
Enacting compassion in mHealth: communicative subprocesses of compassionate coaching and their relationships to resilience during a prolonged pandemic	1
Decisions to react after mass shootings: exploring negative affect, relational trust, and public behavioral intentions toward the National Rifle Association	1
Welfare recipients communicated pathways to resilience during stigma and material hardship in the heartland of America	1
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals	1
Perceptions of police use of force among U.S. adults and the role of communication accommodation in improving police–civilian interactions	1
Racialized scripts of silence: how whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States	1
Using cultural discourse analysis and storytelling to design an applied intervention for U.S. English language education	1
Quarantined across borders: theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing	1
Rethinking (LGBT) empowerment: exploring the potential of community-based participatory research project among human rights NGOs in Ghana	1
‘He never hit me #WhyIStayed’: countering the U.S. domestic violence master narrative	1
Bridging trauma-informed care and organizational accommodations: an ethnographic analysis of tensional knots in an anti-violence nonprofit	1
Frequency and importance of interpersonal communication about a school-based intervention with parents, peers, and teachers: application of social interface model	1
Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors	1
Unimagined communities in a time of global crisis	1
Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines	1
The Washington Climate Assembly: note-taking modalities as deliberative guidance in an online citizens’ assembly	1
Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky	1
Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China	1
Enacting resilience at multiple levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring communication theory of resilience for U.S. undocumented college students	1