OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Political Overconfidence Fuels Affective Polarization in Cross-cutting Discussions	76
Meta-Analytic Evidence That Message Fatigue is Associated With Unintended Persuasive Outcomes	56
Trolling is in the Eye of the Beholder: An Attributional Approach to Predicting Perceptions of Trolling and Vigilantism in Online Games	52
Unraveling Perceived Work Values of Role Models From TV Series and Social Media in Adolescents’ Work Value Endorsement: A Longitudinal Investigation	47
Dynamic Public Perceptions of and Media Influences on Military Threats to Taiwan: A Method Triangulation Approach	47
A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)	32
How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands	32
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	31
A Longitudinal Dynamic Perspective on Quality in Journalism: Investigating the Long-Term Macro-Level Media Effect of Suicide Reporting on Suicide Rates Across a Century	27
Examining How Sex Appeal Cues and Strength Cues Influence Impressions of Female Video Game Characters	27
The Effects of Social Approval Signals on the Production of Online Hate: A Theoretical Explication	25
The Immediate and Delayed Beliefs in Headlines With High-arousal Sentence Starters	23
Re-assessing the Dynamics of News Use and Trust: A Multi-Outlet Perspective	23
A Meta-Analysis of Studies Examining the Effect of Music on Beliefs	22
Disentangling the Effects of Temporal Framing on Risk Perception, Attitude, Behavioral Intention, and Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	22
Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences of TV Theme Nights and Their Relationships With Political Information Processing and Engagement	21
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
Emerging Adults’ Relational Turbulence with Parents as a Function of Parent Involvement in Their Romantic Relationship: A Conditional Process Analysis	20
Do Bandwagon Cues Affect Credibility Perceptions? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence	19
Reviewer Acknowledgment for 2022	18
Relational Maintenance for Separated Latina/o/x/e Immigrant Parents and Their Children: A Focus on Primary Caregivers as Communication Gatekeepers	18
The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement	17
Living in a (Mediated) Political World: Mindfulness, Problematic News Consumption, and Political Hostility	17
On the Strength of Trust: The Moderating Role of Certainty in Judgments of Authorities	16
The Group Roots of Social Media Politics: Social Sorting Predicts Perceptions of and Engagement in Politics on Social Media	16

Understanding the Influence Discrepancy Between Human and Artificial Agent in Advice Interactions: The Role of Stereotypical Perception of Agency	16
The Role of Communication in Redressing Health Disparities: Mobilizing Public Support and Action	16
Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception	15
Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement	14
Navigating Multiple Identities for Positive Change Through Organizational Listening	13
Expansion and Exploration of the Superdiffuser Model With Agent-Based Modeling	13
Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sociocultural Factors on Risk Information Avoidance: A Meta-Analysis	13
Politically Knowledgeable or Directional (Mis)Believers? How to Identify Those Who Are correct About Political Facts for the “Wrong” Reasons	13
The Impact of Machine Authorship on News Audience Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies	13
When Humor Appeals Fail and When They Succeed: Using Latent Profile Analysis to Identify Audience Receptivity to Humorous Messages	13
The Role of Person-Centered Messages, Parallel Disclosures, and Reactance When Communicating Support for Parental Death	13
Adolescents’ Trust in Political Content From Influencers: The Roles of Motive Attribution and Parental Mediation	13
The Perfect Li(f)e: A Longitudinal Study on Positive Social Media Content and European Adolescents’ Perfectionism	12
Gig Workers and Managing App-Based Surveillance	10
Quality Conversation Can Increase Daily Well-Being	10
Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload	10
Distinguishing Person-Specific from Situation-Specific Variation in Media Use: A Meta-Analysis	10
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	10
The Role of Political Interest in the Relationships Between Privacy Concerns, Social Network Size, and Political Expression on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram	10
Psycho-Cardiac Distress Symptoms of Dyadic Communication Apprehension & The Role of Self-Esteem	9
Entertainment Contributes to Adaptive Coping: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Interplay Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Entertainment, Escapism, and Meaning Making	9
Revisiting Communication Infrastructure Theory: A Meta-Analytical Approach to Understanding the Influence of Integrated Connectedness to a Neighborhood Storytelling Network	9
Inferring human vision in a human-like way: Key factors influencing the cognitive processing of level-1 visual perspective-taking	9
Past Relational Experiences and Social Interaction: Direct, Moderated, and Mediated Associations Between Relational Difficulty, Communication, and Perception in Two Samples	9
Beyond Formal Power: How Central Roles in Political Networks are Related to Media Visibility	9
Cancer Fatalism in the Information Age: A Meta-Analysis of Communicative and Behavioral Correlates	9
Reconciling Conflicting Results of Cultural Diversity’s Effect on Project Team Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Examination	9
Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of News Media Trust across Time and Borders: A Systematic Literature Review (1951–2025)	8
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Adolescent Media Use, and Mental Health: Comparing Relationships Among Adolescents From South Korea and the United States	8
Conditions of Relational Turbulence as Antecedents and Outcomes of Relationship Maintenance Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
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	8
Exploring the Relationship Between Exposure to Media Depictions of Undocumented Immigrants, Identity Management, and Undocumented Immigrants’ Family Communication Profiles	8
Introducing the Transcendent Media Experience Model (TMEM)	8
The Online Privacy Divide: Testing Resource and Identity Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Differences in Privacy Concerns and Privacy Management Behaviors on Social Media	8
Affective Responses to Counter-Attitudinal Testimonials Drive Persuasive Effects: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide	7
Radical Right-Wing Political Deepfakes Can Successfully Delegitimize Targeted Political Actors: Evidence From Three-wave Experiments in the US and The Netherlands	7
“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 Beliefs	7
Empowered by Curation: Spatial Differentiation in the Interrelationship Between Social Media Political Curation, Political Competence, and Trust—The Case of Michigan	7
The Privacy Calculus Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Online Privacy Decisions on Between- and Within-Person Levels	7
A Scoping Review of Prosocial and Antisocial Media Content and Effects in Narrative Entertainment Research Across Five Decades	7
Responses to Position-Disconfirming Meta-Advice in the Context of Conflicting Vs. Consistent Co-Presenting Messages: The Role of Reactance and Perceived Norms	7
When Opinions Polarize Without Persuasion: Modeling the Dynamics of Attitude-Opinion Convergence and Decoupling	7
Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media: The Gun Violence Case	7
Won’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough? Determinants of Disengaging From Mobile Media Apps in Daily Life	6
Combatting the Misinformation Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Characteristics and Effectiveness of Media Literacy Interventions	6
Media Cynicism, Media Skepticism and Automatic Media Trust: Explicating Their Connection with News Processing and Exposure	6
Testing the Predictive Power of a Cognitive-Structural Approach to Message Design: Persuasive Effects Among Republicans and Democrats	6
The Pulse of Privacy: The Role of Efficacy Framing and Discrete Emotion in Combating Privacy Powerlessness and Motivating Online Privacy Protection	6
Navigating Social Media News Use: Exploring the Impact of Intentional and Incidental News Consumption on Objective and Subjective Political Knowledge	6
Developing and Validating a 15-Item True/False Measure of News Literacy Knowledge	6

Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement	5
Sexual Minorities’ Uncertainty About Their Romantic Partner’s Communication With Their Family: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management	5
Disentangling the Longitudinal Relationship Between Social Media Use, Political Expression and Political Participation: What Do We Really Know?	5
Education-Based Gap in Misinformation Acceptance: Does the Gap Increase as Misinformation Exposure Increases?	5
A Double-Edged Sword? The Consequences of Work-Related Instant Messaging Use for Employees	5
When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms	5
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents	5
Reviewer Acknowledgment 2024	5
The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization: A Longitudinal Study	5
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms	4
Which Visuals Really Matter? Effects of (Counter) Stereotypical Visual Information on Candidate Evaluations	4
Expanding the Boundary Conditions of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging to Include Communication About Religion	4
Adolescents’ Digital Nightlife: The Comparative Effects of Day- and Nighttime Smartphone Use on Sleep Quality	4
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions	4
#BoPo, #Ideal, or #Mixed? Exploring Adolescents’ Daily Exposure to Appearance Content on Social Media and Its Relations with Body Image Components	4
A Systematic Review of Attribution Theory Applied to Crisis Events in Communication Journals: Integration and Advancing Insights	4
Same News Frames, Different Issues: Issue Familiarity and Dynamic Framing Effects	4
Lost in a Maze? On the Philosophical Problems With Differential and Individual-Level Susceptibility in Research on Media Effects	4
Promoting Mis/Disinformation Literacy Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Recommendations	4
Source-Inconsistent News From Partisan Media: Expectancy Violations as a Way to Improve Attitudes Toward Out-Party Media	4
Is Knowledge Hiding Contagious Within Organizational Teams? Examining Its Diffusion Through Workplace and Social Communication Networks	3
Entertainment for Cosmopolitism: Science Fiction Fosters Identification With All Humanity via Awe	3
When Disagreement Becomes Uncivil on Social Media: The Role of Passive Receiving and Active Expression of Incivility in Influencing Political Polarization	3
How Contextual Features Shape Incivility Over Time: An Analysis of the Evolution and Determinants of Political Incivility in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	3
Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation	3
Withholding Social Support Because Those in Need Do Not Deserve It: A Thematic Narrative Analysis	3
When Visual Communication Backfires: Reactance to Three Aspects of Imagery	3
The Communicative Disenfranchisement of Disabled Individuals During Healthcare Appointments: Material Ramifications of Inaccessible Talk and Space	3
Conflicting Goals When Seeking Support for Mental Health Concerns: Testing a Stigma Support Activation Model	3
Short but Critical?: How “Fake News” and “Anti-Elitist” Media Attacks Undermine Perceived Message Credibility on Social Media	3
More Sources Create Greater Audience Engagement: An Investigation into the Relationship Between the Number of News Sources and Audience Responses	3
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies	3