OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Research is 5. 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
“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
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
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation	14
There and Back Again? Exploring the Real-Time Cognitive Journey of Narrative Transportation	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
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
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
Do Bandwagon Cues Affect Credibility Perceptions? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence	10

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
Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	9
A Longitudinal Examination of Enacted Goal Attention in End-of-Life Communication in Families	8
Living at the Speed of Mobile: How Users Evaluate Social Media News Posts on Smartphones	7
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
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
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
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
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