OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Communication Research is 2. 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
My AI Friend: How Users of a Social Chatbot Understand Their Human–AI Friendship	75
When I Learn the News is False: How Fact-Checking Information Stems the Spread of Fake News Via Third-Person Perception	48
Permanently Online—Always Stressed Out? The Effects of Permanent Connectedness on Stress Experiences	33
Rethinking the Virtuous Circle Hypothesis on Social Media: Subjective versus Objective Knowledge and Political Participation	26
Reducing Resistance: The Impact of Nonfollowers’ and Followers’ Parasocial Relationships with Social Media Influencers on Persuasive Resistance and Advertising Effectiveness	26
Pornography and Sexual Dissatisfaction: The Role of Pornographic Arousal, Upward Pornographic Comparisons, and Preference for Pornographic Masturbation	25
High-Quality Listening Supports Speakers’ Autonomy and Self-Esteem when Discussing Prejudice	24
The Effects of Political Incivility on Political Trust and Political Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Research	22
Rethinking Communication in the Era of Artificial Intelligence	22
Immersive and Interactive Awe: Evoking Awe via Presence in Virtual Reality and Online Videos to Prompt Prosocial Behavior	21
Persuasion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theories and Complications of AI-Based Persuasion	21
Algorithmic Agents in the Hybrid Media System: Social Bots, Selective Amplification, and Partisan News about COVID-19	19
Transformative or Not? How Privacy Violation Experiences Influence Online Privacy Concerns and Online Information Disclosure	17
Communicative Resilience of First-Generation College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions	16
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete: Understanding Users’ Response to Conflicting AI and Crowdsourced Fact-Checking	14
Artificial Intelligence and Impression Management: Consequences of Autonomous Conversational Agents Communicating on One’s Behalf	13
Do Audiences Judge the Morality of Characters Relativistically? How Interdependence Affects Perceptions of Characters’ Temporal Moral Descent	13
Staying-at-Home with Tragedy: Self-expansion Through Narratives Promotes Positive Coping with Identity Threat	10
Antecedents and consequences of fake news exposure: a two-panel study on how news use and different indicators of fake news exposure affect media trust	10
Better Ask Your Neighbor: Renegotiating Media Trust During the Russian–Ukrainian Conflict	10
Self-Conscious Emotions and Esteem Support: The Effectiveness of Esteem Support in Alleviating State Shame and Guilt	10
Replication Note: What is Political Incivility?	9
Countering Biased Judgments of Individuals Who Display Autism-Characteristic Behavior in Forensic Settings	8
Affective forecasting in elections: A socio-communicative perspective	8

“They Never Really Leave Us”: Transcendent Narratives About Loss Resonate With the Experience of Severe Grief	8
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis	8
How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views? Evidence from a Content Analysis of Stormfront	8
Do you love your phone more than your child? The consequences of norms and guilt around maternal smartphone use	8
The Cultivation of Parent and Child Materialism: A Parent–Child Dyadic Study	8
Examining the longitudinal relationship between visibility and persistence on stress and technology-assisted supplemental work	7
Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures	6
Stress, relational turbulence, and communal coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Eudaimonic entertainment overcoming resistance: an update and expansion of narrative persuasion models	6
The role of theory in researching and understanding human communication	6
Algorithms and Organizing	6
The labor of communicatively coping: toward an Integrative Theory of Communication Work	6
Ecological Influences on Network Tie Dissolution in the Evolution of Affiliation Networks in the International Communication Association, 2009–2015	6
Can’t stop thinking aboutStar WarsandThe Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement	6
Minding the source: toward an integrative theory of human–machine communication	5
Does Information about Bias Attenuate Selective Exposure? The Effects of Implicit Bias Feedback on the Selection of Outgroup-Rich News	5
Breaking the “Virtuous Circle”: How Partisan Communication Flows Can Erode Social Trust but Drive Participation	5
Emotional Appeals, Climate Change, and Young Adults: A Direct Replication of Skurka et al. (2018)	5
Conceptualizing other-resilience: exploring how hearing parents enact resilience for themselves and their children who use cochlear implants	5
Quantitative criticalism for social justice and equity-oriented communication research	4
Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments	4
How Communicating about Discrimination Influences Attributions of Blame and Condemnation	4
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects	4
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction	4
Fact-checking as a deterrent? A conceptual replication of the influence of fact-checking on the sharing of misinformation by political elites	3
Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004)	3
Deception detection and question effects: testing truth-default theory predictions in South Korea	3
Message fatigue beyond the health message context: a replication and further extension of So et al. (2017)	3
Interpersonal Discussion and Political Knowledge: Unpacking the Black Box via a Combined Experimental and Content-Analytic Approach	3
Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations’ ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: a network approach	3
Situated socio-material assemblages: assemmethodology in the making	3
They will hate us for this: effects of media coverage on Islamist terror attacks on Muslims’ perceptions of public opinion, perceived risk of victimization, and behavioral intentions	3
Assessing the Russian Troll Efforts to Sow Discord on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Election	3
“They didn’t really have key experiences that they thought they could bring to the table”: Perceptions of white racial absolution during cross-racial intergroup dialogues	3
Embodied Cognition and Media Engagement: When the Loneliness of the Protagonist Makes the Reader Sense Coldness (and Vice Versa)	3
Sharing the Fun? How Social Information Affects Viewers’ Video Enjoyment and Video Evaluations	2
Fifty-years of theory-driven research in HCR: prominence, progress, and opportunities	2
Pulling the field out of a “One Variable, One Role” mindset: maximizing the theoretical value of interaction terms in communication’s mediation models	2
The CODE^SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation	2
Communication Interdependence and Cohabitation: The Role of Interpersonal Technologies in Satisfaction and Disillusionment among Couples in Transition	2
Motivations to use multifunctional public goods in organizations: using agent-based modeling to explore differential uses of enterprise social media	2
Pornography and religiosity: prediction and process	2
Belief maintenance as a media effect: a conceptualization and empirical approach	2
A Recipe for Success: The Effect of Dyadic Communication and Cooperative Gameplay on Subsequent Non-gaming Task Performance	2
Public speaking goes to China: cultural discourses of circulation	2
Deliberating alone: deliberative bias and giving up on political talk	2
The role of audience favorability in processing (un)familiar messages: a heuristic-systematic model perspective	2
Audience–campaign planner interaction in social media communication campaigns: how it influences intended campaign responses in the observing audience	2
Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research	2
The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition	2

From serial reproduction to serial communication: transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality	2
Trolls without borders: a comparative analysis of six foreign countries’ online propaganda campaigns	2