OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Research is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review	157
Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk	88
Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues	69
Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review	61
Using a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social Media	55
Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Misinformation on Climate Change	33
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns	27
“Be Nice or Leave Me Alone”: An Intergroup Perspective on Affective Polarization in Online Political Discussions	26
Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting	26
Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries	23
Trusting Others: A Pareto Distribution of Source and Message Credibility Among News Reporters	22
When Brands (Don’t) Take My Stance: The Ambiguous Effectiveness of Political Brand Communication	22
How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as “Terrorism” or “Mental Illness”	21
Casual Condomless Sex, Range of Pornography Exposure, and Perceived Pornography Realism	16
A Meta-Analysis of Factors Related to Health Information Seeking: An Integration from Six Theoretical Frameworks	15
The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement: A Natural Experiment on Weibo	14
“It’s Going to be Out There For a Long Time”: The Influence of Message Persistence on Users’ Political Opinion Expression in Social Media	13
Framing as a Bridging Concept for Climate Change Communication: A Systematic Review Based on 25 Years of Literature	13
How Satirical News Impacts Affective Responses, Learning, and Persuasion: A Three-Level Random-Effects Meta-Analysis	12
Talking Politics: The Relationship Between Supportive and Opposing Discussion With Partisan Media Credibility and Use	11
13 Reasons Why, Perceived Norms, and Reports of Mental Health-Related Behavior Change among Adolescent and Young Adult Viewers in Four Global Regions	11
Privacy Cynicism and its Role in Privacy Decision-Making	11
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	10
Media Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Short-Term Trust Changes, Their Ideological Drivers and Consequences in Switzerland	9
There and Back Again? Exploring the Real-Time Cognitive Journey of Narrative Transportation	9

The Paradox of Interaction: Communication Network Centralization, Shared Task Experience, and the Wisdom of Crowds in Online Crowdsourcing Communities	9
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation	9
Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search	9
To Share or Not to Share? How Emotional Judgments Drive Online Political Expression in High-Risk Contexts	8
The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals	8
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms	7
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	7
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas	7
Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement	7
A Grounded Theory of Credibility Work and Illness: Explication and Application to the Case of Women on Trial in Health Care	7
Understanding the Internal and External Communicative Drivers of Organizational Innovativeness	7
Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction	6
The Privacy Calculus Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Online Privacy Decisions on Between- and Within-Person Levels	6
Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	6
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics	6