OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human 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 2020-11-01 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
Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions	16
Communicative Resilience of First-Generation College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete: Understanding Users’ Response to Conflicting AI and Crowdsourced Fact-Checking	14
Do Audiences Judge the Morality of Characters Relativistically? How Interdependence Affects Perceptions of Characters’ Temporal Moral Descent	13
Artificial Intelligence and Impression Management: Consequences of Autonomous Conversational Agents Communicating on One’s Behalf	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