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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Misinformation on Climate Change	52
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns	37
Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting	34
“Be Nice or Leave Me Alone”: An Intergroup Perspective on Affective Polarization in Online Political Discussions	30
Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries	27
When Brands (Don’t) Take My Stance: The Ambiguous Effectiveness of Political Brand Communication	26
How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as “Terrorism” or “Mental Illness”	26
Privacy Cynicism and its Role in Privacy Decision-Making	22
Casual Condomless Sex, Range of Pornography Exposure, and Perceived Pornography Realism	20
A Meta-Analysis of Factors Related to Health Information Seeking: An Integration from Six Theoretical Frameworks	19
How Satirical News Impacts Affective Responses, Learning, and Persuasion: A Three-Level Random-Effects Meta-Analysis	15
Framing as a Bridging Concept for Climate Change Communication: A Systematic Review Based on 25 Years of Literature	15
“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
There and Back Again? Exploring the Real-Time Cognitive Journey of Narrative Transportation	14
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation	14
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	12
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	12
A Grounded Theory of Credibility Work and Illness: Explication and Application to the Case of Women on Trial in Health Care	11
Understanding the Internal and External Communicative Drivers of Organizational Innovativeness	11
The Privacy Calculus Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Online Privacy Decisions on Between- and Within-Person Levels	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	11
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas	11
Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement	11
Do Bandwagon Cues Affect Credibility Perceptions? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence	10

Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	9
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics	9
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms	9
A Longitudinal Examination of Enacted Goal Attention in End-of-Life Communication in Families	8
Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction	7
Reaching Science Skeptics: How Adaptive Framing of Climate Change Leads to Positive Responses Via Persuasion Knowledge and Perceived Behavioral Control	7
Living at the Speed of Mobile: How Users Evaluate Social Media News Posts on Smartphones	7
Entering an Information Era of Parallel Truths? A Qualitative Analysis of Legitimizing and De-legitimizing Truth Claims in Established Versus Alternative Media Outlets	6
Education-Based Gap in Misinformation Acceptance: Does the Gap Increase as Misinformation Exposure Increases?	6
The Enduring Effect of Internet Dating: Meeting Online and the Road to Marriage	6
Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News: How Online Bandwagons and Bots Dictate User Engagement	6
Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Role of Source Type, Perceived Credibility, and Individual Differences in Fact-Checking Effectiveness	6
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents	6
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	6
Why Do Journalists Face Varying Degrees of Digital Hostility? Examining the Interplay Between Minority Identity and Celebrity Capital	6
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	6
Political Para-Social Relationship as a Predictor of Voting Preferences in the Israeli 2019 Elections	5
Multiple Selves and Multitasking: A Dynamic Longitudinal Study	5
Disentangling the Effects of Temporal Framing on Risk Perception, Attitude, Behavioral Intention, and Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	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
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use	5
The Effect of Dynamic Norms Messages and Group Identity on Pro-Environmental Behaviors	4
Selective Avoidance: Understanding How Position and Proportion of Online Incivility Influence News Engagement	4
What Influences Relationship Formation in a Global Civil Society Network? An Examination of Valued Multiplex Relations	4
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies	4
Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload	4
A Meta-Analysis Examining the Role of Character-Recipient Similarity in Narrative Persuasion	4
Examining the Diffusion of Innovations from a Dynamic, Differential-Effects Perspective: A Longitudinal Study on AI Adoption Among Employees	3
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
Communication Privacy Management in Open Adoption Relationships: Negotiating Co-ownership across In-person and Mediated Communication	3
The Group Roots of Social Media Politics: Social Sorting Predicts Perceptions of and Engagement in Politics on Social Media	3
When a Chatbot Disappoints You: Expectancy Violation in Human-Chatbot Interaction in a Social Support Context	3
How Moral Expectancy Violations Influence Audiences’ Affective Dispositions Toward Characters	3
Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction	3
The Matilda Effect in Communication Research: The Effects of Gender and Geography on Usage and Citations Across 11 Countries	3
Ecological Influences on the Formation of the Hiring Network in the Communication Job Market, 2015 to 2019	3
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Case for the Visual Hostile Media Phenomenon	2
Affective Responses to Counter-Attitudinal Testimonials Drive Persuasive Effects: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide	2
Multiple Identities in Faith-based Organizations: Exploring Status and Value Homophily in Idealized Partnerships	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
Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality	2
Active vs. Passive Ambivalent Voters: Implications for Interactive Political Communication and Participation	2
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions	2
Appraising Uncivil Comments in Online Political Discussions: How Do Preceding Incivility and Senders’ Stance Affect the Processing of an Uncivil Comment?	2
Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement	2
Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?	2
Strategies of Blaming on Social Media: An Experimental Study of Linguistic Framing and Retweetability	2
Understanding the Influence Discrepancy Between Human and Artificial Agent in Advice Interactions: The Role of Stereotypical Perception of Agency	2

Support Seeking Behavior During Supportive Conversations: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and the Communication Medium	2
Expanding the Boundary Conditions of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging to Include Communication About Religion	2
Cancer Fatalism in the Information Age: A Meta-Analysis of Communicative and Behavioral Correlates	2
The Impact of Machine Authorship on News Audience Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies	2
When the Music’s No Good: Rhythms Prompt Interactional Synchrony But Impair Affective Communication Outcomes	2
Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement	2
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
Mechanisms for Employee Mobility Between Organizations: A Network Analysis of Faculty Turnover in Communication, 2013 to 2022	1
Best Prosody for News: A Psychophysiological Study Comparing a Broadcast to a Narrative Speaking Style	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
Racializing Accents: The Impact of Language and Racial Cues on Intergroup Communicative Outcomes	1
A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)	1
Competition, Cooperation, and Coexistence: An Ecological Approach to Public Agenda Dynamics in the United States (1958–2020)	1
Serving the Greater Social Good for Personal Gain: Effects of Polite Disagreements in Online Debates	1
When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms	1
When the Stakes are Low: How Key Features of Momentary Suspense Contribute to a Global Evaluation of Enjoyment	1
Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media: The Gun Violence Case	1
“Are You Doing What I Think You’re Doing?” Momentary Goal Projection and Goal Contagion in Romantic Conflict	1
Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception	1
Testing the Communication During Sexual Activity Model: An Examination of the Associations among Personality Characteristics, Sexual Communication, and Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction	1
Understanding How Immersive Media Enhance Prosociality: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis	1
Encouraging Replotting to Promote Persuasion: How Imagining Alternative Plotlines Influences Message Processing and Intentions	1
Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation	1
Navigating Multiple Identities for Positive Change Through Organizational Listening	1