OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers in Human Behavior is 78. 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
Might insecurity and use of ICT enhance internet addiction and exhaust people? A study in two European countries during emergency remote working	484
Emotions in the time of coronavirus: Antecedents of digital and social media use among Millennials	454
What drives older adults’ acceptance of virtual humans? A conjoint and latent class analysis on virtual exercise coach attributes for a community-based exercise program	453
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology	384
Editorial Board	279
Editorial Board	271
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud	266
Positive mental health mediates the association between insomnia symptoms and addictive social media use in Germany and Poland	250
Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year	214
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect	209
Experiencing the body as play: Cultivating older adults’ exergame experiences using embodied metaphors and multimodal feedback	208
The trajectories of online mental health information seeking: Modeling search behavior before and after completion of self-report screens	185
Exploring user-avatar bond profiles: Longitudinal impacts on internet gaming disorder	173
The roles of stress, non-digital hobbies, and gaming time in adolescent problematic game use: A focus on sex differences	172
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings	169
Long-term effect of cybervictimization on displaced aggressive behavior across two years: Mutually predicting mediators of hostile emotion and moral disengagement	167
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams	163
Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective	162
Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance	162
How do depression, duration of internet use and social connection in adolescence influence each other over time? An extension of the RI-CLPM including contextual factors	161
Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating	158
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks	148
Illusion of diffusion: A percolation perspective on social structure and segregation in Twitter networks	145
Personality and susceptibility to political microtargeting: A comparison between a machine-learning and self-report approach	142
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective	139

Problematic gaming, social withdrawal, and Escapism: The Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming (C-DOG) model	133
Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context	132
Effects of social skills on lexical alignment in human-human interaction and human-computer interaction	132
Longitudinal relations between gaming, physical activity, and athletic self-esteem	130
Shifting from face-to-face to online teaching during COVID-19: The role of university faculty achievement goals for attitudes towards this sudden change, and their relevance for burnout/engagement and	128
Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review	128
Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes	125
Institutional behavior mechanism: Exploring the impacts of macro-environmental stimuli on continued digital payment adoption behavior	125
Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography	123
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.	121
Investigating 4D movie audiences’ emotional responses to motion effects and empathy	121
AI or human: How endorser shapes online purchase intention?	121
Talking to a bot or a wall? How chatbots vs. human agents affect anticipated communication quality	120
Robomorphism: Examining the effects of telepresence robots on between-student cooperation	119
Adults still can't resist: A social robot can induce normative conformity	117
The search suggestion effect (SSE): A quantification of how autocomplete search suggestions could be used to impact opinions and votes	114
Online communities as a risk factor for gambling and gaming problems: A five-wave longitudinal study	111
Value co-destruction: The influence of failed interactions on members’ behaviors in online travel communities	111
Exploration vs. limitation – An investigation of instructional design techniques for spatial ability training on mobile devices	106
The link between flow and performance is moderated by task experience	106
Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media	106
Not all consumer-generated images are attractive and persuasive: A heuristic cue perspective	106
Social media addiction among Hong Kong adolescents before and after the pandemic: The effects of parenting behaviors	104
Associations between problematic internet use and substance misuse among US college students	102
Gender differences in the longitudinal association between cumulative ecological risk and smartphone dependence among early adolescents: A parallel mediation model	101
Dating apps and their relationship with body image, mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review	101
Secure software design evaluation and decision making model for ubiquitous computing: A two-stage ANN-Fuzzy AHP approach	99
Sensation seeking and cyberbullying among Chinese adolescents: Examining the mediating roles of boredom experience and antisocial media exposure	94
Exploring users' adoption intentions of intelligent virtual assistants in financial services: An anthropomorphic perspectives and socio-psychological perspectives	92
The influence of gestures and visuospatial ability during learning about movements with dynamic visualizations – An fNIRS study	92
What matters most in the responses to political campaign posts on social media: The candidate, message frame, or message format?	91
How do people learn about politics when inadvertently exposed to news? Incidental news paradoxical Direct and indirect effects on political knowledge	91
Smartphone and the brain: Stress and self-control mediate the association between the connectome-based predictive modeling of fMRI brain network and problematic smartphone use	90
Not so funny after all! Humor, parents, peers, and their link with cyberbullying experiences	90
Profiling proclivity for technology-facilitated sexual violence through Dark Tetrad traits	89
Retraction notice to “Predicting the change trajectory of employee robot-phobia in the workplace: The role of perceived robot advantageousness and anthropomorphism” [Computers in Human Behavior 135 (2	89
Editorial Board	87
Speed and symmetry: Developing effective organisational responses to social media criticism of CSR	86
Restrictive deterrence and the scope of hackers’ reoffending: Findings from two randomized field trials	83
What affects the usage of artificial conversational agents? An agent personality and love theory perspective	82
An individual adaptive ubiquitous learning paradigm: Focusing on the collection and utilization of academic emotions	82
Would you rather come to a tango concert in theater or in VR? Aesthetic emotions & social presence in musical experiences, either live, 2D or 3D	82
The effects of computer-assisted adaptive instruction and elaborated feedback on learning outcomes. A randomized control trial	82
Evaluating and eliciting design requirements for an improved user experience in live-streaming commerce interfaces	82
Towards Intelligent-TPACK: An empirical study on teachers’ professional knowledge to ethically integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools into education	81
Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism	81
Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth	81
A whole new ball game: Fan perceptions of augmented reality enhanced sport broadcasts	81
Do digital competencies and social support boost work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic?	80
BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents' appearance-related prosocial tendencies	80

Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children's screen time in early childhood	79
Online antecedents for young consumers’ impulse buying behavior	78
The roles of trust, personalization, loss of privacy, and anthropomorphism in public acceptance of smart healthcare services	78
Mobile gaming and Internet addiction: When is playing no longer just fun and games?	78