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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity17
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The demise of the joke9
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy9
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality8
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”7
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south5
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism5
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Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks5
Out-law Stand-up : Testimonial Humor in contemporary women’s stand-up comedy5
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian5
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease5
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion4
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study4
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic4
Humor in ASD: a differentiation between text comprehension difficulties and humor appreciation4
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online4
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19394
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Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change3
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Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic3
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers3
The rise in humor scandals: a cross-national comparison of humor-related public controversies in eight European countries (1990–2022)3
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings3
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor3
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic3
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’3
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage2
Parody and disengagement from stigma: mental illness in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend2
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The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety2
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change2
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles2
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera2
Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies2
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm2
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes2
Just kidding? Exploring the role of traditional versus counter-traditional gender role jokes on gender identity threat2
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism1
Psychometric adaptation of the Comic Style Markers in a Polish sample1
Introduction to the special issue: humor, trauma and healing1
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy1
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century1
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law1
Visualized kinesic humor in silent comic strips1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest1
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement1
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor1
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Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism1
Sharing affect with the unacquainted: the role of conversational humor in initial interactions among Mandarin Chinese speakers1
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek1
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, and Jaroslav Švelch: Video Games and Comedy1
It’s all fun and games until…: unintentional (?) direct fire amid the playful humor of Miguel Mihura’s Codorniz1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
Jojo Rabbit: ethical implications and aesthetic innovations of a ludic Nazi Germany satire1
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles1
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere1
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor1
Five theses on humor literacy in the public sphere1
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication1
Humor styles and well-being of women with endometriosis during the COVID-19 pandemic1
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