OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Communication Research is 4. 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
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
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	7
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
‘It's a roller coaster of emotions!’: investigating the paradoxes of childcare app use and work engagement	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