Humor-International Journal of Humor Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Humor-International Journal of Humor Research 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The demise of the joke16
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy11
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Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality8
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Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity8
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”7
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks5
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?5
Humor and A1C: the interaction between humor and diabetes control5
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian4
Claire Schmidt: If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers4
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion3
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south3
Are more humorous children more intelligent? A case from Turkish culture3
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease3
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19393
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study3
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings2
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic2
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure2
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online2
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The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem2
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Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change2
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor2
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism2
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Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking2
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic2
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers2
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic2
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television2
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’1
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction1
Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
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William V. Costanzo: When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West1
Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest1
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor1
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism1
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change1
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up1
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage1
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples1
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety1
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population1
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement1
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek1
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm1
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes1
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Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies1
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates1
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles1
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century1
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Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor1
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy1
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera1
Waterlow, Jonathan: It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin1
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