Communication Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Communication Research is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Dynamic Public Perceptions of and Media Influences on Military Threats to Taiwan: A Method Triangulation Approach94
Unraveling Perceived Work Values of Role Models From TV Series and Social Media in Adolescents’ Work Value Endorsement: A Longitudinal Investigation73
How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands71
A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)53
How Political Overconfidence Fuels Affective Polarization in Cross-cutting Discussions50
Meta-Analytic Evidence That Message Fatigue is Associated With Unintended Persuasive Outcomes41
Trolling is in the Eye of the Beholder: An Attributional Approach to Predicting Perceptions of Trolling and Vigilantism in Online Games36
A Longitudinal Dynamic Perspective on Quality in Journalism: Investigating the Long-Term Macro-Level Media Effect of Suicide Reporting on Suicide Rates Across a Century34
The Immediate and Delayed Beliefs in Headlines With High-arousal Sentence Starters28
Examining How Sex Appeal Cues and Strength Cues Influence Impressions of Female Video Game Characters28
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media25
The Effects of Social Approval Signals on the Production of Online Hate: A Theoretical Explication25
Gains, Limits, and Side-Effects of Disinformation Interventions: Corrective Information and Self-Affirmation Assessed With Signal Detection Theory25
The Bio-Functional Audience: Shared Physiological Alignment to Narrative Media24
A Meta-Analysis of Studies Examining the Effect of Music on Beliefs23
Re-assessing the Dynamics of News Use and Trust: A Multi-Outlet Perspective23
Emerging Adults’ Relational Turbulence with Parents as a Function of Parent Involvement in Their Romantic Relationship: A Conditional Process Analysis23
Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences of TV Theme Nights and Their Relationships With Political Information Processing and Engagement21
Relational Maintenance for Separated Latina/o/x/e Immigrant Parents and Their Children: A Focus on Primary Caregivers as Communication Gatekeepers20
Reviewer Acknowledgment for 202220
Living in a (Mediated) Political World: Mindfulness, Problematic News Consumption, and Political Hostility19
Do Bandwagon Cues Affect Credibility Perceptions? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence19
On the Strength of Trust: The Moderating Role of Certainty in Judgments of Authorities18
A Longitudinal and Dyadic Study of Communal Coping and Relational Turbulence Among Surviving Parents and Emerging Adult Children After the Death of a Partner/Parent18
The Role of Communication in Redressing Health Disparities: Mobilizing Public Support and Action18
Theoretical Distinctions Between Emotion and Cognition Content in Supportive Messages: Examining Effects and Mediating Mechanisms17
Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception17
The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement17
When Humor Appeals Fail and When They Succeed: Using Latent Profile Analysis to Identify Audience Receptivity to Humorous Messages17
Understanding the Influence Discrepancy Between Human and Artificial Agent in Advice Interactions: The Role of Stereotypical Perception of Agency14
The Group Roots of Social Media Politics: Social Sorting Predicts Perceptions of and Engagement in Politics on Social Media14
Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sociocultural Factors on Risk Information Avoidance: A Meta-Analysis14
Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement14
Adolescents’ Trust in Political Content From Influencers: The Roles of Motive Attribution and Parental Mediation13
Politically Knowledgeable or Directional (Mis)Believers? How to Identify Those Who Are correct About Political Facts for the “Wrong” Reasons13
Navigating Multiple Identities for Positive Change Through Organizational Listening13
Expansion and Exploration of the Superdiffuser Model With Agent-Based Modeling12
The Effects of Individual Coping, Communal Coping, and Person-Centered Support on Depression Management12
Quality Conversation Can Increase Daily Well-Being12
The Role of Person-Centered Messages, Parallel Disclosures, and Reactance When Communicating Support for Parental Death11
The Perfect Li(f)e: A Longitudinal Study on Positive Social Media Content and European Adolescents’ Perfectionism11
The Impact of Machine Authorship on News Audience Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies11
Needing Space During Lockdown: A Test of Relational Turbulence Theory in the Context of Conversations About Physical and Emotional Space During the COVID-19 Pandemic11
Inferring human vision in a human-like way: Key factors influencing the cognitive processing of level-1 visual perspective-taking11
Distinguishing Person-Specific from Situation-Specific Variation in Media Use: A Meta-Analysis11
The Role of Political Interest in the Relationships Between Privacy Concerns, Social Network Size, and Political Expression on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram11
Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload10
Conditions of Relational Turbulence as Antecedents and Outcomes of Relationship Maintenance Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic10
Past Relational Experiences and Social Interaction: Direct, Moderated, and Mediated Associations Between Relational Difficulty, Communication, and Perception in Two Samples10
Revisiting Communication Infrastructure Theory: A Meta-Analytical Approach to Understanding the Influence of Integrated Connectedness to a Neighborhood Storytelling Network10
Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of News Media Trust across Time and Borders: A Systematic Literature Review (1951–2025)10
Beyond Formal Power: How Central Roles in Political Networks are Related to Media Visibility10
Gig Workers and Managing App-Based Surveillance10
Cancer Fatalism in the Information Age: A Meta-Analysis of Communicative and Behavioral Correlates10
Entertainment Contributes to Adaptive Coping: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Interplay Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Entertainment, Escapism, and Meaning Making10
The Online Privacy Divide: Testing Resource and Identity Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Differences in Privacy Concerns and Privacy Management Behaviors on Social Media9
Partisanship in Context: The (A)symmetric Influence of Local Newspaper Availability and Selective Exposure on Political Misperceptions in the U.S.9
Introducing the Transcendent Media Experience Model (TMEM)8
Empowered by Curation: Spatial Differentiation in the Interrelationship Between Social Media Political Curation, Political Competence, and Trust—The Case of Michigan8
Exploring the Relationship Between Exposure to Media Depictions of Undocumented Immigrants, Identity Management, and Undocumented Immigrants’ Family Communication Profiles8
Affective Responses to Counter-Attitudinal Testimonials Drive Persuasive Effects: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide8
Do Profile Photos Enhance Vicarious Intergroup Contact? Testing Theoretical Perspectives from Social Identity, the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE), and Social Presence8
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Adolescent Media Use, and Mental Health: Comparing Relationships Among Adolescents From South Korea and the United States8
Responses to Position-Disconfirming Meta-Advice in the Context of Conflicting Vs. Consistent Co-Presenting Messages: The Role of Reactance and Perceived Norms8
Chatbots and Loneliness: How Linguistic Dynamics in Conversations with Chatbots Shape Young Adults’ Loneliness7
Media Cynicism, Media Skepticism and Automatic Media Trust: Explicating Their Connection with News Processing and Exposure7
“I’ll Change My Beliefs When I See It”: Video Fact Checks Outperform Text Fact Checks in Correcting Misperceptions Among Those Holding False or Uncertain Pre-Existing Beliefs7
When Opinions Polarize Without Persuasion: Modeling the Dynamics of Attitude-Opinion Convergence and Decoupling7
Radical Right-Wing Political Deepfakes Can Successfully Delegitimize Targeted Political Actors: Evidence From Three-wave Experiments in the US and The Netherlands7
A Scoping Review of Prosocial and Antisocial Media Content and Effects in Narrative Entertainment Research Across Five Decades7
Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media: The Gun Violence Case7
Navigating Social Media News Use: Exploring the Impact of Intentional and Incidental News Consumption on Objective and Subjective Political Knowledge7
Testing the Predictive Power of a Cognitive-Structural Approach to Message Design: Persuasive Effects Among Republicans and Democrats7
Won’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough? Determinants of Disengaging From Mobile Media Apps in Daily Life7
Reviewer Acknowledgment 20246
Combatting the Misinformation Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Characteristics and Effectiveness of Media Literacy Interventions6
The Pulse of Privacy: The Role of Efficacy Framing and Discrete Emotion in Combating Privacy Powerlessness and Motivating Online Privacy Protection6
A Double-Edged Sword? The Consequences of Work-Related Instant Messaging Use for Employees6
Developing and Validating a 15-Item True/False Measure of News Literacy Knowledge6
Examining the Effects of Viewing Positive Aging TikTok Videos on Aging Outcomes and Attitudes Among Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Women6
Disentangling the Longitudinal Relationship Between Social Media Use, Political Expression and Political Participation: What Do We Really Know?6
Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement5
Expanding the Boundary Conditions of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging to Include Communication About Religion5
Sexual Minorities’ Uncertainty About Their Romantic Partner’s Communication With Their Family: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management5
The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization: A Longitudinal Study5
When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms5
Education-Based Gap in Misinformation Acceptance: Does the Gap Increase as Misinformation Exposure Increases?5
#BoPo, #Ideal, or #Mixed? Exploring Adolescents’ Daily Exposure to Appearance Content on Social Media and Its Relations with Body Image Components5
Political Identity Threats on Social Media5
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents5
Adolescents’ Digital Nightlife: The Comparative Effects of Day- and Nighttime Smartphone Use on Sleep Quality4
Promoting Mis/Disinformation Literacy Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Recommendations4
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms4
Source-Inconsistent News From Partisan Media: Expectancy Violations as a Way to Improve Attitudes Toward Out-Party Media4
Lost in a Maze? On the Philosophical Problems With Differential and Individual-Level Susceptibility in Research on Media Effects4
Angry and Alerted, Happy and Informed? An Experience Sampling Study on the Relationship Between Sentiment, Affect, and Attention Toward Campaign Communication4
Same News Frames, Different Issues: Issue Familiarity and Dynamic Framing Effects4
A Systematic Review of Attribution Theory Applied to Crisis Events in Communication Journals: Integration and Advancing Insights4
Which Visuals Really Matter? Effects of (Counter) Stereotypical Visual Information on Candidate Evaluations4
When Visual Communication Backfires: Reactance to Three Aspects of Imagery4
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions4
How Contextual Features Shape Incivility Over Time: An Analysis of the Evolution and Determinants of Political Incivility in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)3
When Disagreement Becomes Uncivil on Social Media: The Role of Passive Receiving and Active Expression of Incivility in Influencing Political Polarization3
From Buttons to Bots: Exploring the Impact of Enhanced Features in Voting Advice Applications on Desktops and Smartphones3
Withholding Social Support Because Those in Need Do Not Deserve It: A Thematic Narrative Analysis3
The Communicative Disenfranchisement of Disabled Individuals During Healthcare Appointments: Material Ramifications of Inaccessible Talk and Space3
Conflicting Goals When Seeking Support for Mental Health Concerns: Testing a Stigma Support Activation Model3
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies3
Toward a More Powerful Experimental Communication Science: An Assessment of Two Decades’ Research (2001–2023)3
Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation3
When the Algorithm Understands You (or Doesn’t): LGBTQ+ Youth’s Identity-Related Interactions with Algorithmic Media3
Is Knowledge Hiding Contagious Within Organizational Teams? Examining Its Diffusion Through Workplace and Social Communication Networks3
Entertainment for Cosmopolitism: Science Fiction Fosters Identification With All Humanity via Awe3
Short but Critical?: How “Fake News” and “Anti-Elitist” Media Attacks Undermine Perceived Message Credibility on Social Media3
More Sources Create Greater Audience Engagement: An Investigation into the Relationship Between the Number of News Sources and Audience Responses3
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