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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic communication as transformation	17
Introduction: field report forum on brave space-making	16
Transparency in action: iterative engagement with the UNGC and Mistra Environmental Communication Program	16
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	15
The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)	14
Prevention strategies to reduce violence against rainbow communities: insights in Aotearoa	13
Forum on public scholarship	13
Intercultural disaster communication and community resilience: examining post-hurricane communication in communities with limited English-speaking proficiency	13
From global crisis to local impact: evaluating feminist and human rights pedagogies in human trafficking awareness MOOCs	12
Motivating neighborhood-focused health activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and neighborhood activism	11
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming	10
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	10
Resilient communication using art in applied contexts	10
How does neurodiversity impact information processing, communicative competence and task performance in video mediated interactions?	9
Pedagogy of engaged communication scholarship	9
Brave space-making as witnessing	9
From problem to practice: A conceptual framework and action agenda for health misinformation resilience	8
Body as disease	8
‘Everybody Else in That Room’: support dilemmas and benefits of supportive communication in batterer intervention	8
A field report on the Clima y Café initiative: an example of engaged scholarship through tailored climate adaptation communication	7
How did New Zealanders decide to get vaccinated against COVID-19? Developing a novel comprehensive model of vaccination intention	7
Is it just about the facts? The case for a critical, pro-democracy approach to information integrity	7
‘The balance is a forever moving one’: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control	7
Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy	6
Culture-centered narratives of support and stigma: intergenerational tensions in the mental illness experiences of Vietnamese American youth	6

‘It's a roller coaster of emotions!’: investigating the paradoxes of childcare app use and work engagement	6
Making and breaking boundaries	6
Challenging color-evasion in democratic dialogue: using critical race discourse analysis to generate practical theory for facilitators	6
Engaging the next generation of scholars: advising and conducting a community-engaged dissertation	6
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	6
The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications	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
Writing for the masses: translating communication research with praxis in mind	5
Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication	5
All joking aside? Comparing the effects of a humorous vs. a non-humorous message strategy in building organization–public relationships and community resilience	5
Divergent media engagement in a consensus democracy: media typology, political moderation, and climate change beliefs in Ireland	5
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
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	4
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	4
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	4
Organizational learning in the Marine Corps: an academic-military training partnership	4
Character, contact, and stigma reduction: investigating mediated contact and U.S. digital stories of opioid use disorder	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
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	4
A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines	4
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
Coalitional possibilities and the making of GRIDS	4
Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military	4
‘I am going to be a cold robot on Zoom if I do that’: exploring the challenges of neutrality in facilitating online deliberation	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
Aspen Collective for Engaged Communication Scholarship statement: co-drafting commitments to engaged scholarship	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
Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach	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
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’: narrative problematics in U.S. pandemic birth stories	3
Exploring the relational landscape of married partners caring for aging family members: a relational turbulence and transition processing perspective	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
Race-making of the COVID-19 outbreak in early mainstream frames: the production of the epidemic(ed) transnational citizen	3
The myth of the ivory tower: communication as an engaged discipline	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
Ready to detox from neoliberal publishing? Let’s write for ‘translation’ together	3
Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions	3
Community relations under pressure: Local residents’ perceptions of corporate crisis communication	3
Bridging communication research and practice: scholarly partnerships with translational organizations	2
Building communication infrastructure from below: solidarity outpatient clinics and community resilience in times of crisis	2
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	2
Developing and validating a novel health literacy needs assessment tool for people with HIV in the United States	2
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	2
Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online	2

Case study of sensemaking during the trauma and healing of organizational change	2
Brave space-making as co-creating anew	2
Masks across borders: etiquette, threat and prevention	2
Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival	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
Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity	2
Scaling impact through engaged communication	2
Combating anti-transgender misinformation: A sociological approach	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
Correction	2
Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines	1
The challenge of misinformation in the civics classroom	1
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the U.S. foster parent perspective	1
Explicating the effects of narrative source and causal attribution on nulliparous Chinese women’s childbirth injury-related risk perceptions and information-seeking intentions	1
Imagining possibilities for translocal collaborative engaged research and pedagogy	1
Quarantined across borders: theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing	1
We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation	1
Why are people skeptical of social media: Emerging evidence on fostering skepticism to improve accuracy	1
Join this conversation: a consulting frame for engaged scholarship	1
Wolf among the lambs: the case of Chi Alpha sexual abuse	1
Re-examining interpersonal source credibility in collaboration with community: a convergent mixed methods study	1
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: the work of Mistra Environmental Communication	1
Translating LGBT research into politics	1
The Washington Climate Assembly: note-taking modalities as deliberative guidance in an online citizens’ assembly	1
Brave space-making as disrupting	1
‘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	1
‘There’s going to be uncertainty our whole life’: experiences of chronic uncertainties and related management strategies among the undocumented community in the U.S.	1
Subjects in mirror are closer than they appear: reflections on the development and lessons of my engaged scholarship	1
Overcoming resistance: an experimental approach to promoting regenerative agriculture among farmers using message design	1
Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky	1
The plight of police propaganda: audiences’ consumption of in-group police TV characters and attitudes toward the police	1
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory	1
A critical sensemaking analysis of implicit bias in U.S. juror organizing	1
Planting justice: co-constructing knowledge with Black women farmers for translatable research	1
Racialized scripts of silence: how whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States	1
Emotional dependency: aging migrants’ interaction with online mini-dramas	1
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies	1
Unimagined communities in a time of global crisis	1
Brave space-making as engaged communication scholarship: witnessing, disrupting, and co-creating anew through storytelling	1
Making a difference: a decade of applied translational communication research and community engagement by the National Communication Association's Anti-Bullying Project	1
The art of shifting power toward equity in unequal partnerships: bearing witness to the fraught, yet necessary, process of sustainable and ethical community engagement	1
Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China	1