OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asian Journal of Communication is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Minority ethnic media: challenges for the future	24
Judgments of honest and deceptive communication in art forgery controversies: two field studies testing truth-default theory’s projected motive model in Korea	19
From tsunami through terror attacks to Covid-19: crisis communication strategies and recovery campaigns to combat Thailand’s tourism crises	15
A supporting hand: effects of party participation in corporate governance on media companies’ performance in China	12
Impact of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media messages: the moderating effect of civic online reasoning	12
The multifaceted impact of social media on risk, behavior, and negative emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea	10
Theory and practice of agenda setting: understanding media, bot, and public agendas in the South Korean presidential election	10
The social presence of online education: how MOOC platforms in China cope with collective trauma during COVID-19	10
Understanding religious influence through elevation on green advertising effectiveness among Muslims: an examination from the UAE and the USA	10
Editorial 2021 April	8
Civic engagement in anti-Asian violence activism: a comparative view between Asians and non-Asian ethnic groups in the United States	8
Exporting soft power of entertainment: cultural mechanisms for Chinese TV talent show formats remade overseas	8
Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism: understanding Chinese fanquan girls’ personifications of the nation-state	8
The impacts of new propaganda media use on youth's political socialization	8
Military’s public relations practice in the social media era: exploring the Chinese military’s use of WeChat and public engagement	7
Innovations in communication theories: the man is the message	7
The effect of cross-cutting exposure on attitude change: examining the mediating role of response behaviors and the moderating role of openness to diversity and social network homogeneity	7
Do political elite endorsements influence online mobilization? A study of Twitter behavior in Narendra Modi’s 2019 election campaigns	7
Countering online ‘regional blackening': interventions for province-targeted hate speech in the Chinese digital sphere	6
Perceptions of the media's role and job satisfaction: a survey of journalists in Xinjiang	6
New perspectives on geography of media New perspectives on geography of media , by Shao Pei-ren, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University Press, October 2021, 236 pages, ¥50 (paper	6
Characterizing Asians in violence: a comparative analysis of English- and Chinese-language media’s crime news coverage during the pandemic	6
Explaining change in independence–unification views in Taiwan: a within-between model	5
Praxis, hashtag activism, and social justice: a content analysis of #StopAsianHate narratives	5
Do viewers really talk about ads during commercial breaks? Findings from a South Korean social TV platform	5

Fostering opinion leaders’ pro-environmental behaviour: examining the mediating role of social media expression and the moderating role of mianzi	5
Traditional norms and political inequality: assessing gender disparities in online political participation across 51 countries	5
The dynamics of social media influencer-driven CSR advertising: The role of sponsorship disclosure and perceived similarity	5
Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability	4
Examining the Indonesian government’s social media use for disaster risk communication	4
Stringent censorship and relaxed co-governance: understanding platform governance and user practices of queer social and dating apps	4
A replication and extension of the prosocial effect of online social interactions among Chinese and American emerging adults	4
Examining public perceptions of cultivated meat in Singapore: food neophobia and neophilia as precursors to the influence of presumed media influence model	4
Parental mediation of children’s digital media use in high digital penetration countries: perspectives from Singapore and Australia	4
Cross-Cutting exposure, perceived realism, and online political engagement in the age of algorithms	4
Communications in contemporary China: orchestrating thinking	4
Facebook populism: mediatized narratives of exclusionary nationalism in the Philippines	3
One-sided portrayal: Singapore media discourse of social scientists’ roles	3
COVID-racism on social media and its impact on young Asians in Australia	3
Online opinions, sentiments and news framing of the first nuclear referendum in Taiwan: a mix-method approach	3
News credibility revisited: the roles of news comment engagement and news literacy on news portal credibility in South Korea	3
Channeling engagement into action: the role of empowerment in Asian Americans’ social media use in combating anti-Asian discrimination	3
‘We are citizens, not fans’: frictions and negotiations in idolizing the nation in state propaganda	3
Hiding in the echo chamber: fact-Checking failures and individual tactics of accuracy determination on WhatsApp in India	3
The soft power of the Korean wave: parasite, BTS and drama	2
Leveraging moral foundations for corporate social advocacy combating anti-Asian racism: A computational approach	2
Image, issue, and affective priming effects of candidates’ Facebook posts on voters’ trait perceptions and overall evaluations	2
Exploring the climate change discourse on Chinese social media and the role of social bots	2
Digital reading of net generation in China	2
Social media use and anti-immigrant attitudes: evidence from a survey and automated linguistic analysis of Facebook posts	2
Zoning China: online video, popular culture, and the state	2
Branded webtoon, the rise of the digital comic industry in South Korea	2
Blaming Asians for coronavirus: the role of valenced framing and discrete emotions in hostile media effect	1
Islamic communication as an invention of modern-western knowledge: critical analysis toward Islamic communication in Indonesia	1
Make the invisible visible: communicative response to anti-Asian racism	1
The effect of dialogic competencies in internal communication and D&I-oriented leadership on relational outcomes with minority employees: focusing on the perspectives of Asian employees	1
Netflix’s effects on the Korean Wave: power relations between local cultural industries and global OTT platforms	1
Communicating stakeholder engagement and its quality: analyzing the CSR reports of the leading Chinese companies	1
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: discourse, strategy and impact	1
Wiki warriors: language editors counter knowledge hierarchies during the pandemic	1
Book review of rethinking media studies: media, meditation and communication	1
Communication strategies for promoting sports participation for health: an examination of goal-framing effects in South Korea	1
South Korean newspaper coverage of Yemeni refugees: analysis of topics and sentiments using machine learning techniques	1
Media and climate change: making sense of press narratives	1
Cyber-troops, digital attacks, and media freedom in Indonesia	1
The effects of message attributes and source characteristics of news posts on audience engagement on social media	1
Polymedia, de-territorialization, and cultural transformation: Pakistani students’ digitally mediated acculturation journeys in China	1
Politically engaged but unwilling to protest: analyzing the role of authoritarian orientations and internet use on protest participation behavior	1
Exploring the effects of the first-hand experience of deliberative practice: the case of the Shin-Gori Nuclear Reactor Nos. 5 and 6 in South Korea	1
Islamic communication research: this is just the start	1
Media freedom in Asia: challenges from below	1
Exploring influence attempts, wishful identification, parasocial relationships, and behavioral loyalty among Thai game live-streamers and their viewers	0
Evaluating state-led social mobilization in public health crises: agenda dynamics in China’s COVID-19 response	0
Examining public perception and cognitive biases in the presumed influence of deepfakes threat: empirical evidence of third person perception from three studies	0
The “Funny Line Veil” and the mediated political subjectivity of Muslim women in Indonesia	0

Effects of narratives and information valence in digital headlines on user responses	0
CSR-company fit in the sin industry: addressing negative contributions, NFC, and perceived motives	0
Do we always cast our votes with accurate information? The mediating role of misperception in the relationship between partisan media use and retrospective voting	0
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in Urban China	0
Understanding PM2.5 risk information seeking and processing among South Koreans: evidence of desensitization?	0
Reimagining a glocal framework: the search for academic legitimacy in Chinese public relations discipline from 1985 to 2018	0
Queer recognition and politics on YouTube: the circulation of Filipino Miss Universe fans’ reaction videos	0
Which dimensions of regional diversity facilitate media cluster formation?	0
Fact-checking in China: normative and strategic transparency of Chinese journalists in fact-checking reports	0
Bitter or sweet? The interactive impact of message framing and environmental attitude on the effectiveness of green advertising	0
Reflexive racialization and discursive affect with the #VeryAsian Hashtag	0
The role of digital devices in chronic disease management during the Covid-19 pandemic—a study of senior citizens in Wuhan	0
Green advertising: examining the effects of appeal arrangement on young Indonesian consumers’ Green attitudes and buying intention	0
The postcolonial route of WeChat: technological mimicry, excess, and orientalism	0
How do social media affect people’s compassion and civic action? The case of the Sewol Ferry disaster in Korea	0
Commodification of instrumental Islamic piety in Indonesian political contestation 2019	0
The skepticism equation in influencer marketing: the interplay of influencer–product fit and content style in shaping ad skepticism and purchase intention	0
Impact of vertical integration on movie scheduling in Korea	0
Online intercultural education and study abroad: theory into practice	0
What’s the matter?: The meaning of halal culture for Indonesian Muslims	0
The filter bubble generated by artificial intelligence algorithms and the network dynamics of collective polarization on YouTube: the case of South Korea	0
Taking stock of social-political polarization in Asia: political communication, social media and digital governance	0
Modernizing propaganda in Republican China under a foreign gaze	0
Analyzing the meaning of sexual violence in Tamil movies: a mixed method approach	0
Empowering the religious minority: examining the mobilizing role of social media for online political participation in an Asian democracy	0
Social media intergroup expression and White Americans’ attitudes toward ethnic Chinese during COVID-19	0
The role of social media in empowering activism: testing the integrative model of activism to anti-Asian hate crimes	0
Linking incidental corrective information exposure to health misinformation correction intention: testing an extended cognitive mediation model	0
Cognitive reasoning, risk targets and behavioral responses to COVID-19 outbreaks among Wuhan residents during lockdown	0
The mediating role of social recommendation in the relationship between concern over expression and social media news participation: a comparative study of six Asian societies	0
Social media, gendered anxiety and disease-related misinformation: discourses in contemporary China’s online anti-African sentiments	0
Doxing, regulation, and privacy protection: expanding the behavioral consequences of the third-person effect	0
From alternative health media to vaccine misbeliefs: the roles of medical folk wisdom and institutional trust	0
A quantitative analysis of doctoral dissertations in communication in mainland China	0
(Im)mobile homes: family life at a distance in the age of mobile media	0
Covid-19 and xenophobia in America: media exposure, anti-Asian stigmatization, and deservingness of Asian immigrants	0
Actual and perceived polarization on independence-unification views in Taiwan	0
Chinese news discourse from perspectives of communication, linguistics and pedagogy	0
The Islamophobia controversy in Nussa dan Rarra cartoon film: an insight into Indonesian netizens’ tweets	0
From the eyes of censorship supporters: Chinese attitudes regarding two types of online censorship	0
Looking after the elderly, looking after the nation: Red (Xiao Hongshu) and China’s biopolitical governance of ageing	0
Ulama and terrorism in media: phenomenology research about the perceptions of ulama to terrorism news in Indonesia mass media	0
Stage-emotion compatibility and the effectiveness of antismoking campaigns in South Korea: tailoring guilt and shame appeals to individuals in different stages of change	0
Deradicalization communication model through preaching in the province of Yala South Thailand	0
Biology and technology: guarding, nurturing, and governing life	0
Impact of multi-platform social media news use on civic participation: the mediating role of news engagement and the moderated mediation effect of news trust	0
Two Wikipedias in Bhutan: problems and solutions for knowledge equity in the digital age	0
Chinese films abroad: distribution and translation	0
Restoration of mobility through mobile health: the digital health code as a technology of governance	0
Complexity thinking in translation studies methodological considerations	0
Demystifying disinformation shadow economies: fake news work models in Indonesia and the Philippines	0
The role of English Wikipedia in mediating East Asian historical disputes: the case of Balhae	0
The interweaving of network nationalism and transnational cultural consumption: the role conflict of K-pop fans	0
‘I’m not a virus’: Asian hate in Donald Trump’s rhetoric	0
Translation strategies in global news: what Sarkozy said in the suburbs	0
News framing through English-Chinese translation	0
Two sides of a coin: understanding social media use and its relationships to online perceived discrimination and life satisfaction	0
Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio	0
Islamic fashion in Malaysia: the commodification of religious values on Instagram	0
Engender tolerance and participation in polarized gender issues: the mediating role of discussion in cross-cutting exposure	0
Communication and capitalism: a critical theory	0
The view from the hinterland: caste, gender and press freedom in Hindi news reporting	0
China, media, and international conflicts	0
Multimodal Chinese discourse: Understanding communication and society in contemporary China	0
Reframing Islam in bollywood cinema: a study on the construction of the Islamic identity in Indian cinema	0
China’s mediated public diplomacy towards Japan: a text-as-data approach	0
Living with digital platforms in Asia-Pacific: editorial note	0
Rethinking Asian values in journalism: the case of the pressroom in the South Korean presidential office	0
Development communication for youth empowerment in Indonesia’s renewable energy projects	0
Charting new horizons: a bibliometric analysis of the landscape of grounded theory in Indonesian communication studies	0
Parenting in a media-saturated family: monitoring children’s media use throughout their lives	0
Islamic communication in Asia has a distinctive colour, style, and practice	0
A cognitive mechanism for democratic norms: testing a hypothesized model of news literacy, cross-cutting discussion, and elaboration	0
From visual pleasure to global imagination: Chinese youth’s reception of Hollywood films	0
In Memoriam	0
Facebook interfaith contact and social distance toward religious minorities	0