OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review	174
Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review	69
Using a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social Media	66
Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Misinformation on Climate Change	44
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns	30
“Be Nice or Leave Me Alone”: An Intergroup Perspective on Affective Polarization in Online Political Discussions	29
Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting	27
Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries	25
When Brands (Don’t) Take My Stance: The Ambiguous Effectiveness of Political Brand Communication	24
How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as “Terrorism” or “Mental Illness”	22
Privacy Cynicism and its Role in Privacy Decision-Making	18
Casual Condomless Sex, Range of Pornography Exposure, and Perceived Pornography Realism	18
A Meta-Analysis of Factors Related to Health Information Seeking: An Integration from Six Theoretical Frameworks	17
“It’s Going to be Out There For a Long Time”: The Influence of Message Persistence on Users’ Political Opinion Expression in Social Media	15
Framing as a Bridging Concept for Climate Change Communication: A Systematic Review Based on 25 Years of Literature	14
How Satirical News Impacts Affective Responses, Learning, and Persuasion: A Three-Level Random-Effects Meta-Analysis	12
There and Back Again? Exploring the Real-Time Cognitive Journey of Narrative Transportation	11
Media Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Short-Term Trust Changes, Their Ideological Drivers and Consequences in Switzerland	11
Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search	10
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	10
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation	10
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	10
The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals	9
Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	9
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas	9

Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement	9
Understanding the Internal and External Communicative Drivers of Organizational Innovativeness	9
A Grounded Theory of Credibility Work and Illness: Explication and Application to the Case of Women on Trial in Health Care	8
To Share or Not to Share? How Emotional Judgments Drive Online Political Expression in High-Risk Contexts	8
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics	8
Reaching Science Skeptics: How Adaptive Framing of Climate Change Leads to Positive Responses Via Persuasion Knowledge and Perceived Behavioral Control	7
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms	7
The Privacy Calculus Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Online Privacy Decisions on Between- and Within-Person Levels	7
Do Bandwagon Cues Affect Credibility Perceptions? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence	6
Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News: How Online Bandwagons and Bots Dictate User Engagement	6
Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction	6
Living at the Speed of Mobile: How Users Evaluate Social Media News Posts on Smartphones	6
A Longitudinal Examination of Enacted Goal Attention in End-of-Life Communication in Families	6
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use	5
How Contextual Features Shape Incivility Over Time: An Analysis of the Evolution and Determinants of Political Incivility in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
A Relational Turbulence Model of Sexual Communication in Couples With Depression	5
The Indirect Effects of Thinspiration and Fitspiration Images on Young Women’s Sexual Attitudes	5
Multiple Selves and Multitasking: A Dynamic Longitudinal Study	5
Political Para-Social Relationship as a Predictor of Voting Preferences in the Israeli 2019 Elections	5
What Influences Relationship Formation in a Global Civil Society Network? An Examination of Valued Multiplex Relations	4
Why Do Journalists Face Varying Degrees of Digital Hostility? Examining the Interplay Between Minority Identity and Celebrity Capital	4
Disentangling the Effects of Temporal Framing on Risk Perception, Attitude, Behavioral Intention, and Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	4
Predicting Public Cooperation Toward Government Actions in the Early Stages of an Influenza Pandemic in the United States: The Role of Authentic Governmental Communication and Relational Quality	4
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents	4
Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms	4
Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Role of Source Type, Perceived Credibility, and Individual Differences in Fact-Checking Effectiveness	4
Education-Based Gap in Misinformation Acceptance: Does the Gap Increase as Misinformation Exposure Increases?	4
Selective Avoidance: Understanding How Position and Proportion of Online Incivility Influence News Engagement	4
Entering an Information Era of Parallel Truths? A Qualitative Analysis of Legitimizing and De-legitimizing Truth Claims in Established Versus Alternative Media Outlets	3
Ecological Influences on the Formation of the Hiring Network in the Communication Job Market, 2015 to 2019	3
Needing Space During Lockdown: A Test of Relational Turbulence Theory in the Context of Conversations About Physical and Emotional Space During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Keep Them Apart or Join Them Together? How Identification Processes Shape Orientations to Network Brokerage	3
The Group Roots of Social Media Politics: Social Sorting Predicts Perceptions of and Engagement in Politics on Social Media	3
A Meta-Analysis Examining the Role of Character-Recipient Similarity in Narrative Persuasion	3
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies	3
Support Seeking Behavior During Supportive Conversations: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and the Communication Medium	2
A Meta-Analysis of Studies Examining the Effect of Music on Beliefs	2
Short but Critical?: How “Fake News” and “Anti-Elitist” Media Attacks Undermine Perceived Message Credibility on Social Media	2
Communication Privacy Management in Open Adoption Relationships: Negotiating Co-ownership across In-person and Mediated Communication	2
Examining the Diffusion of Innovations from a Dynamic, Differential-Effects Perspective: A Longitudinal Study on AI Adoption Among Employees	2
Active vs. Passive Ambivalent Voters: Implications for Interactive Political Communication and Participation	2
Multiple Identities in Faith-based Organizations: Exploring Status and Value Homophily in Idealized Partnerships	2
The Matilda Effect in Communication Research: The Effects of Gender and Geography on Usage and Citations Across 11 Countries	2
Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?	2
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions	2
Expanding the Boundary Conditions of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging to Include Communication About Religion	2
Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement	2
The Enduring Effect of Internet Dating: Meeting Online and the Road to Marriage	2
Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality	1
To Pause With a Cliffhanger or a Temporary Closure? The Differential Impact of Serial Versus Episodic Narratives on Children’s Physical Activity Behaviors	1

The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement	1
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Appraising Uncivil Comments in Online Political Discussions: How Do Preceding Incivility and Senders’ Stance Affect the Processing of an Uncivil Comment?	1
Encouraging Replotting to Promote Persuasion: How Imagining Alternative Plotlines Influences Message Processing and Intentions	1
How Moral Expectancy Violations Influence Audiences’ Affective Dispositions Toward Characters	1
A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)	1
Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement	1
Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception	1
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Case for the Visual Hostile Media Phenomenon	1
Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction	1
When the Stakes are Low: How Key Features of Momentary Suspense Contribute to a Global Evaluation of Enjoyment	1
The Effect of Dynamic Norms Messages and Group Identity on Pro-Environmental Behaviors	1
Best Prosody for News: A Psychophysiological Study Comparing a Broadcast to a Narrative Speaking Style	1
Racializing Accents: The Impact of Language and Racial Cues on Intergroup Communicative Outcomes	1
“Are You Doing What I Think You’re Doing?” Momentary Goal Projection and Goal Contagion in Romantic Conflict	1
Strategies of Blaming on Social Media: An Experimental Study of Linguistic Framing and Retweetability	1
Competition, Cooperation, and Coexistence: An Ecological Approach to Public Agenda Dynamics in the United States (1958–2020)	1
Affective Responses to Counter-Attitudinal Testimonials Drive Persuasive Effects: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
Cancer Fatalism in the Information Age: A Meta-Analysis of Communicative and Behavioral Correlates	1
Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload	1
The Impact of Machine Authorship on News Audience Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies	1
Stigma and Supportive Communication in the Context of Mental or Emotional Distress: An Extension of the Paradox of Support Seeking in Close Relationships	1
Parental Knowledge of Children’s Screen Time: The Role of Parent-Child Relationship and Communication	1
When the Music’s No Good: Rhythms Prompt Interactional Synchrony But Impair Affective Communication Outcomes	1