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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
My AI Friend: How Users of a Social Chatbot Understand Their Human–AI Friendship	65
When I Learn the News is False: How Fact-Checking Information Stems the Spread of Fake News Via Third-Person Perception	44
Permanently Online—Always Stressed Out? The Effects of Permanent Connectedness on Stress Experiences	31
Rethinking the Virtuous Circle Hypothesis on Social Media: Subjective versus Objective Knowledge and Political Participation	25
High-Quality Listening Supports Speakers’ Autonomy and Self-Esteem when Discussing Prejudice	24
Reducing Resistance: The Impact of Nonfollowers’ and Followers’ Parasocial Relationships with Social Media Influencers on Persuasive Resistance and Advertising Effectiveness	21
The Effects of Political Incivility on Political Trust and Political Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Research	19
Rethinking Communication in the Era of Artificial Intelligence	19
Pornography and Sexual Dissatisfaction: The Role of Pornographic Arousal, Upward Pornographic Comparisons, and Preference for Pornographic Masturbation	19
Immersive and Interactive Awe: Evoking Awe via Presence in Virtual Reality and Online Videos to Prompt Prosocial Behavior	18
Algorithmic Agents in the Hybrid Media System: Social Bots, Selective Amplification, and Partisan News about COVID-19	18
Persuasion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theories and Complications of AI-Based Persuasion	16
Communicative Resilience of First-Generation College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Transformative or Not? How Privacy Violation Experiences Influence Online Privacy Concerns and Online Information Disclosure	16
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete: Understanding Users’ Response to Conflicting AI and Crowdsourced Fact-Checking	14
Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions	13
Artificial Intelligence and Impression Management: Consequences of Autonomous Conversational Agents Communicating on One’s Behalf	11
Do Audiences Judge the Morality of Characters Relativistically? How Interdependence Affects Perceptions of Characters’ Temporal Moral Descent	10
Staying-at-Home with Tragedy: Self-expansion Through Narratives Promotes Positive Coping with Identity Threat	10
Political Comedy as a Gateway to News Use, Internal Efficacy, and Participation: A Longitudinal Mediation Analysis	10
Replication Note: What is Political Incivility?	9
Self-Conscious Emotions and Esteem Support: The Effectiveness of Esteem Support in Alleviating State Shame and Guilt	9
Better Ask Your Neighbor: Renegotiating Media Trust During the Russian–Ukrainian Conflict	9
The Cultivation of Parent and Child Materialism: A Parent–Child Dyadic Study	8
Countering Biased Judgments of Individuals Who Display Autism-Characteristic Behavior in Forensic Settings	7

Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis	7
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	7
Ecological Influences on Network Tie Dissolution in the Evolution of Affiliation Networks in the International Communication Association, 2009–2015	6
How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views? Evidence from a Content Analysis of Stormfront	6
Does Information about Bias Attenuate Selective Exposure? The Effects of Implicit Bias Feedback on the Selection of Outgroup-Rich News	5
Algorithms and Organizing	5
Examining the longitudinal relationship between visibility and persistence on stress and technology-assisted supplemental work	5
Affective forecasting in elections: A socio-communicative perspective	5
“They Never Really Leave Us”: Transcendent Narratives About Loss Resonate With the Experience of Severe Grief	5
Stress, relational turbulence, and communal coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Do you love your phone more than your child? The consequences of norms and guilt around maternal smartphone use	4
Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments	4
Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures	4
Conceptualizing other-resilience: exploring how hearing parents enact resilience for themselves and their children who use cochlear implants	4
Minding the source: toward an integrative theory of human–machine communication	4
Breaking the “Virtuous Circle”: How Partisan Communication Flows Can Erode Social Trust but Drive Participation	4
The role of theory in researching and understanding human communication	4
Emotional Appeals, Climate Change, and Young Adults: A Direct Replication of Skurka et al. (2018)	4
Interpersonal Discussion and Political Knowledge: Unpacking the Black Box via a Combined Experimental and Content-Analytic Approach	3
Situated socio-material assemblages: assemmethodology in the making	3
Embodied Cognition and Media Engagement: When the Loneliness of the Protagonist Makes the Reader Sense Coldness (and Vice Versa)	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
Eudaimonic entertainment overcoming resistance: an update and expansion of narrative persuasion models	3
How Communicating about Discrimination Influences Attributions of Blame and Condemnation	3
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction	3
Assessing the Russian Troll Efforts to Sow Discord on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Election	3
Message fatigue beyond the health message context: a replication and further extension of So et al. (2017)	3
Can’t stop thinking about Star Wars and The Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement	3
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects	2
Pornography and religiosity: prediction and process	2
Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004)	2
Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research	2
“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	2
Communication Interdependence and Cohabitation: The Role of Interpersonal Technologies in Satisfaction and Disillusionment among Couples in Transition	2
Fact-checking as a deterrent? A conceptual replication of the influence of fact-checking on the sharing of misinformation by political elites	2
Sharing the Fun? How Social Information Affects Viewers’ Video Enjoyment and Video Evaluations	2
The labor of communicatively coping: toward an Integrative Theory of Communication Work	2
Deception detection and question effects: testing truth-default theory predictions in South Korea	2
The CODE^SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation	2
Fifty-years of theory-driven research in HCR: prominence, progress, and opportunities	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
Quantitative criticalism for social justice and equity-oriented communication research	2
Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations’ ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: a network approach	2
A Recipe for Success: The Effect of Dyadic Communication and Cooperative Gameplay on Subsequent Non-gaming Task Performance	2
Belief maintenance as a media effect: a conceptualization and empirical approach	2
Public speaking goes to China: cultural discourses of circulation	2
Trolls without borders: a comparative analysis of six foreign countries’ online propaganda campaigns	2