OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Journal is 1. 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
TikTok: an exploratory study of young adults’ uses and gratifications	30
College student interpersonal and institutional relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative exploratory study	29
Risk perception and COVID-19 preventive behaviors: application of the integrative model of behavioral prediction	25
Blame, then shame? Psychological predictors in cancel culture behavior	23
‘The left is right’: Left and right political orientation across Eastern and Western Europe	19
Representations of Native Americans in U.S. culture? A case of omissions and commissions	16
Effects of victimization experience, gender, and empathic distress on bystanders’ intervening behavior in cyberbullying	13
Gender and climate change views in context: a cross-national multilevel analysis	11
Understanding spontaneous volunteering in crisis: towards a needs-based approach of explanation	11
Understanding residents’ green purchasing behavior from a perspective of the ecological personality traits: the moderating role of gender	10
Man vs. machine: Human responses to an AI newscaster and the role of social presence	10
So much more than cheap labor! Volunteers engage in emotional labor	10
Optimistic but tired of hearing about COVID: optimism as a predictor of COVID-19 information and behavioral fatigue among Filipino youth	9
The well-being of gamers, video game players, and non-players	9
Gender gap in housework time: how much do individual resources actually matter?	9
Influences on medical app adoption by patients: the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model and the moderating effects of technology readiness	8
Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States	8
Beyond vaccination: messaging from religious leaders can help increase adherence to COVID-19 mitigation guidelines following vaccination. A research note	8
Trust, personality, and belief as determinants of the organic reach of political disinformation on social media	7
Cooling down the future: A discourse analysis of climate change skepticism	6
Rally around your fellows: Information and social trust in a real-world experiment during the corona crisis	6
Predictors of cellphone-related distracted walking among college students	6
Keep calm and conceal carry: opinions about campus carry on a nontraditional university campus in Texas	6
How does perceived parental rejection influence cyberbullying by children? A serial mediation model of children’s depression and smartphone addiction	6
COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in the United States: A mixed-methods study on lived experiences and well-being	6

Youth online activity and distress: The role of social media rumination	6
Applied pedagogies for higher education: Real-world learning and innovation across the curriculum	5
Fostering compliance with COVID-19 guidelines: insights for risk communication strategies during a pandemic	5
Prejudice and work discrimination: Exploring the effects of employers’ work experience, contact and attitudes on the intention to hire people with mental illness	5
The relationships between smartphone distraction, problematic smartphone use and mental health issues amongst a Chinese sample	5
We’re new to this. Diversity agendas in public Spanish universities according to their leaders	5
News consumption and affective polarization in Taiwan: The mediating roles of like-minded discussion and relative hostile media perception	5
Generational differences in urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Exploring the role of farmland holding	5
I choose to be powerful: Economic inequality encourages preferences of power over status positions	5
How terrorism cues affect attitude polarization over undocumented immigrants via negative emotions and information avoidance: A terror management theory perspective	4
What factors determine college students’ green purchase behavior? An empirical investigation of the modified model of goal-directed behavior	4
Partisanship and generalized trust in response to the 2016 U.S. presidential election	4
Does mobile payment adoption affect the level and inequality of food expenditure?	4
#Cancelled: A qualitative content analysis of cancel culture in the YouTube beauty community	4
You’ve lost that trusting feeling: Diminishing trust in the news media in rural versus urban US communities	4
Childhood adversity, depression, and digital self-harm	4
Christian universities as moral communities: Drinking, sex, and drug use among university students in the United States	4
Facilitating or inhibiting charitable giving? Exploring the dual role of compulsory donations in China	4
Sitting pretty: satisfaction with physical appearance, division of household chores, and satisfaction with housework	4
Local existential threat, authoritarianism, and support for right-wing populism	4
Relative deprivation and prosocial behavior: Evidence from South Korea	4
A cross-stressor adaptation perspective on challenge stressors, dietary behavior, and exercise of college students	4
“Enthusiasm” toward the other side matters: Emotion and willingness to express disagreement in social media political conversation	4
Emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress: a cross-sectional study of allied mental health professionals in the UK	4
Examining the roles of marital status and sex on communication with backburners on social media	3
The spatial diffusion of covid-19 in Texas	3
Landownership as a socio-psychological phenomenon: Exploration of the owner-land relationship	3
Concentration and dispersion: school-to-work linkages and their impact on occupational assortative mating	3
Social determinants of chronic ill-health in contemporary South Africa: a social disadvantage approach	3
Research note: authoritarianism, racial resentment, and attitudes on the Colin Kaepernick protests	3
Race discrimination and segregation in manufacturing jobs: Evidence from matched-pair testing of staffing agencies	3
Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides in Mainland China	3
Cognitive function, co-residence, and social participation among older persons in Thailand	3
Exploring how Instagram addiction is associated with women’s body image and drive for thinness	3
Local government growth from a tri-sector perspective	3
Not risky business? Nationalism and foreign direct investment	2
Why is greater income inequality associated with lower life satisfaction and poorer health? Evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey, 2012	2
Perceptions of upward social mobility and life satisfaction in China: the moderating role of Internet use	2
Social movements as complex adaptive systems: The antecedents and consequences of movement participation in the age of social media	2
Teaching innovation in university education: Case studies and main practices	2
The power of gossip: contextual talk in tourism communication	2
When trauma isn’t traumatic enough: Authoritarianism, sex, and religion influence agreement with Alabama’s HB 314 restrictions on traumatic abortion	2
A textual analysis of the effect of short-term volunteering on attitudes toward refugees in Malaysia	2
An exploratory factor analysis of the Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale in a sample of self-identified nerds/geeks	2
Initial validation of the corrective feedback acceptance and synthesis in supervision scale	2
It takes a village: examining social capital effects of parental and community agency involvement on school delinquency	2
Varieties of qualitative research methods: Selected contextual perspectives Varieties of qualitative research methods: Selected contextual perspectives , edited by Janet	2
Chinese people’s explicit and implicit attitudes toward rural left-behind elderly in the context of traditional-modern culture conflicts	2
How does it work? An exploration into psychosocial mechanisms that underlie associations between religiosity/faith and sexual risks in emerging Croatian adults	2
Millennial attitudes toward disability in three social contexts	2

Environmental capacities in Latin America: a comparison of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico	2
Women’s well-being and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: A longitudinal mixed-methods approach	2
State expenditures and inequality in the U.S	2
Spatial segregation of Chinese immigrants in Seoul, South Korea, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from population data derived from mobile phone signals	2
Pocketbook versus identity? Farmers’ attitudes towards international trade	2
Investigating the negative-cognitive-triad-hypothesis of news choice in Germany and South Korea: does depression predict selective exposure to negative news?	2
The psychology of multilingualism: Concepts, theories and application The psychology of multilingualism: Concepts, theories and application , by Lajos Göncz, Newcastle,	1
Corpus-assisted discourse studies Corpus-assisted discourse studies , by Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner and Paul Baker, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 202	1
Mathematics education in the age of artificial intelligence: How artificial intelligence can serve mathematical human learning	1
Effects of news sharing and discussion network heterogeneity on incidental exposure to counter-attitudinal political information on Facebook	1
Scandal-ridden campaigns: the relationship between cognitive load and candidate evaluation	1
Gains and losses under economic reform: Understanding individual experience and the preference for state intervention in transition China	1
When do people become more willing to pay taxes? The effects of government spending information on the public’s willingness to pay taxes	1
Sources of political trust and their regional variations in China	1
Transitions in marital, parental, occupational status, and political news consumption in China	1
Social class in Europe: New inequalities in the old world	1
The lives of Freda: The political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi The lives of Freda: The political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi , by An	1
Enforcing freedom: Drug courts, therapeutic communities, and the intimacies of the state	1
Media literacy and partisan convergence across social network sites	1
Gendered violence in state house races	1
The catalysts of “Red for Ed”: Statewide teachers’ strikes as collective voice and conflict expansion for communities of fate	1
Immigrant region of origin, divorce, and remarriage in the United States	1
AI and education in China—Imagining the future, excavating the past	1
Varieties of environmental movements, political strategies and movement dynamism	1
Impact of protest activities on electoral outcome: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB movement	1
We are human beings: The social support to commercial sex workers during COVID-19 in the criminalised setting at uMhlathuze Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Discourses of globalisation, cultural diversity, and values education	1
The politics of words: A survey experiment on “defund the police”	1
Comparison of psychological states of runners within urban and nature environments: the application of electroencephalography (EEG), geographic information systems (GIS), and fitness tracker	1
Gender, job satisfaction and quits: A generational comparison	1
Using a decentering framework to create English/Spanish surveys about abortion: Insights into comparative survey research (CSR) for new survey development and recommendations for optimal use	1
Semantic analysis of Arab leaders on social media	1
Perceptions and assessments of socialism versus the US System: experimental evidence	1
Stereotyping the Chinese in Arab Nations:Effects of media use, perceived realism, and perceived Chinese-Arab relations	1
Perceived parental depression and adolescents’ excessive smartphone use: The mediating role of adolescents’ depression and anxiety	1
A longitudinal study of the relationship between parents’ self-esteem and children’s digital media addiction: Testing the mediating roles of children’s self-esteem and aggression	1
John Dewey’s democracy and education: A centennial handbook	1
Race Marxism: The truth about critical race theory and praxis Race Marxism: The truth about critical race theory and praxis , by J. A. Lindsay, Orlando, FL, New Discours	1
Social progress in Britain	1
The silver economy: An ageing society in the European Union The silver economy: An ageing society in the European Union , by Agata Niemczyk, Katarzyna Szalonka, Anna Gar	1
Who protests in China: Mobilizing workers across China’s diverse urban labor force	1
Social disorganization, collective efficacy, bullying perpetration, and victimization: An empirical test	1
Resilience and positive changes for undergraduate students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Don’t you know it’s risky and influential? Antecedents and consequences of perceived fake news risks and influences	1
The Cambridge companion to twenty-first century American poetry The Cambridge companion to twenty-first century American poetry , edited by Timothy Yu, New York, NY, Cam	1
The ties that corporatize: A social network analysis of the career paths of university presidents	1
Threatening men, threatened women and vice versa: Job and status-related risk factors for experiencing sexual harassment in the media and cultural sectors	1
Care-receivers’ expected intergenerational support in aging rural China: A perspective of sustainable livelihoods and the sandwich effect	1
How does fact-check labeling impact the evaluations of inadvertently placed brand ads?	1
Competency-based education model: is it appropriate for counselor education?	1
Examining the association between mothers’ life logistics and screen time of children aged 4 – 5 years old	1
Global dwelling: Approaches to sustainability, design and participation	1
Presidential debates and voter decision making	1