OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A pandemic of jokes? The Israeli COVID-19 meme and the construction of a collective response to risk	25
Humor styles predict emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-19	18
Funny and meaningful: media messages that are humorous and moving provide optimal consolation in corona times	14
Different systems, similar challenges: humor and free speech in the United States and Europe	12
Employing satire and humor in facing a pandemic	10
Humor and resilience: relationships with happiness in young adults	10
At whose expense? System justification and the appreciation of stereotypical humor targeting high- versus low-status groups	9
Understanding the effects of (dis)similarity in affiliative and aggressive humor styles between supervisor and subordinate on LMX and energy	9
“If it stops, then I’ll start worrying.” Humor as part of the fire service culture, specifically as part of coping with critical incidents	8
How cognitive, social, and emotional profiles impact humor appreciation: sense of humor in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome	8
Psychometric properties of the Comic Style Markers – Portuguese version: applying bifactor and hierarchical approaches to studying broad versus narrow styles of humor	8
Sophisticated humor against COVID-19: the Polish case	8
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor	8
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression	7
Humor in the age of coronavirus: a recapitulation and a call to action	6
Gerotranscendence and humor styles: the mediating role of generativity and wisdom	5
“We came for the Sluts, but stayed for the Slutsk”: FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook page between ironic and genuine football fandom	5
‘Do Mormons thinkThe Book of Mormonis funny?’	5
Humor in Supreme Court oral arguments	5
“If we don’t quarrel, we joke”: Emic perspectives on Belarusian families’ humorous folklore	5
What’s so funny? Adaptive versus maladaptive humor styles as mediators between early maladaptive schemas and resilience	4
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor	4
Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma	4
Impersonated personae – paralanguage, dialogism and affiliation in stand-up comedy	4
The temperamental basis of humor and using humor under stress in depression: a moderated mediation model	3

The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being	3
A systematic review of the effects of laughter on blood pressure and heart rate variability	3
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure	3
Computational research and the case for taking humor seriously	3
Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021)	2
Organizational humor as making our work more meaningful: mediation by crafting job resources	2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction	2
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement	2
‘Just kidding?’ – an exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense	2
Adolescents creating cartoons: A developmental study of humor	2
The demise of the joke	2
Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody	2
Satire as safety valve: moving beyond a mistaken metaphor	2
Are more humorous children more intelligent? A case from Turkish culture	2
Differential effects of affective arousal and valence on humor appreciation in female university students	2
What makes Mormons laugh	2
“Some people work a bit more than me, and so we tease them”: the production of an elite student community in an elite French higher education institution	1
The relationship between humor and women’s body image concerns and eating behaviors	1
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication	1
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale	1
Children’s perceptions of others’ humor: does context matter?	1
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples	1
How ethnic groups and clan systems influence humor styles: evidence from indigenous students in Taiwan	1
Reply to Holger Kersten: “Second Thoughts on Hyperbole about Satire’s Efficacy”	1
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking	1
A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter	1
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety	1
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law	1
The state-trait model of cheerfulness and social desirability: an investigation on psychometric properties and links with well-being	1
“This does not interest the court!”: the 1966 Soviet Satire Trial and its persistent legacy	1
Apples versus oranges, normative claims, and other things we did not mention: a response to Purser and Harper (2023)	1
Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons	1
Cartoons on trial: a case study integrating discursive, legal and empirical perspectives	1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles	1
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic	1
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes	1
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion	1
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up	1
Prosodic markers of satirical imitation	1
Humor and A1C: the interaction between humor and diabetes control	1
Sexist jokes don’t appear to increase rape proclivity among men high in hostile sexism: Evidence from two pre-registered direct replications of Thomae and Viki (2013)	1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness	1
Self-deprecating humor and task persistence: the moderating role of self-defeating humor style	1
Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana: Punching up in stand-up comedy: speaking truth to power	1
The association of animated sitcom viewing with humor styles and humor types	1
Why cartoons make (some of) us smile	1