OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Communication Research is 8. 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
Effects of pro-white identity cues in American political candidate communication	143
Reviewer Acknowledgement	38
That’s so immoral! Investigating the effects of moral violations reported in the form of (in)complete moral dyads in news articles on emotions and memory	34
La inclusión relacional: examining neoliberal tensions, relational opportunities, and fixed understandings in diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the Global South	33
Reflecting on 50 years of theory inHuman Communication Research: where do we go from here	33
Is more patient empowerment always better? Examining the moderating role of perceived physician’s argument quality	32
Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments	31
Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion	31
End-of-life topic avoidance among gender-diverse young adults: the importance of normalizing gender-affirming end-of-life conversations	30
A framework of moderators in social norm-based message persuasiveness based on a systematic review	21
Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research	20
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis	18
Fifty-years of theory-driven research in HCR: prominence, progress, and opportunities	17
The separate and combined effects of (in)accessible and (un)sophisticated political communication on citizens’ reasoning and attitudes toward politicians	16
Beliefs as causal mediators in the design of communication interventions: exploring semantic and affective priming in parallel encouragement designs	14
Discounting constituent attitudes: motivated reasoning, ambiguity, and policymaker perceptions of constituent characteristics	12
Immersive and Interactive Awe: Evoking Awe via Presence in Virtual Reality and Online Videos to Prompt Prosocial Behavior	11
Psychological insight as an effect of inspiring narratives: validating the psychological insight self-report scale	11
Will political disagreement silence political expression? The role of information repertoire filtration and discussion network heterogeneity	11
Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004)	11
Can’t stop thinking aboutStar WarsandThe Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement	10
Emotional Appeals, Climate Change, and Young Adults: A Direct Replication of Skurka et al. (2018)	10
Communication Interdependence and Cohabitation: The Role of Interpersonal Technologies in Satisfaction and Disillusionment among Couples in Transition	10
Rethinking Communication in the Era of Artificial Intelligence	10
Partisan YouTube use and evaluation of knowledge in Korea and the United States: a fresh perspective via the Dunning–Kruger effect	10

Is news media sharing an active framing process? Examining whether individual tweets retain news media frames about climate change	10
Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research	10
Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures	10
Do Audiences Judge the Morality of Characters Relativistically? How Interdependence Affects Perceptions of Characters’ Temporal Moral Descent	9
Deliberating alone: deliberative bias and giving up on political talk	9
An extension of advice response theory over time	9
Tuning out tenderness: the influence of gender and friends on U.S. adolescents’ emotional self-socialization via film selection and avoidance	9
Getting socialized but trying not to get stuck: early career professionals’ liminality in dual socialization processes	8
The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K.	8
How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views? Evidence from a Content Analysis of Stormfront	8
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete: Understanding Users’ Response to Conflicting AI and Crowdsourced Fact-Checking	8