OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Humor-International Journal of Humor Research is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A pandemic of jokes? The Israeli COVID-19 meme and the construction of a collective response to risk	22
Comic styles and their relation to the sense of humor, humor appreciation, acceptability of prejudice, humorous self-image and happiness	21
Humor styles predict emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-19	17
Gender differences in using humor to respond to sexist jokes	13
Funny and meaningful: media messages that are humorous and moving provide optimal consolation in corona times	10
Understanding the effects of (dis)similarity in affiliative and aggressive humor styles between supervisor and subordinate on LMX and energy	9
Employing satire and humor in facing a pandemic	9
Humor and resilience: relationships with happiness in young adults	8
How cognitive, social, and emotional profiles impact humor appreciation: sense of humor in autism spectrum disorder and Williams syndrome	8
At whose expense? System justification and the appreciation of stereotypical humor targeting high- versus low-status groups	8
Is it really just a joke? Gender differences in perceptions of sexist humor	8
Different systems, similar challenges: humor and free speech in the United States and Europe	7
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor	7
Sophisticated humor against COVID-19: the Polish case	7
Psychometric properties of the Comic Style Markers – Portuguese version: applying bifactor and hierarchical approaches to studying broad versus narrow styles of humor	7
Sex and gender differences in humor: Introduction and overview	6
Relationships between everyday use of humor and daily experience	6
“If it stops, then I’ll start worrying.” Humor as part of the fire service culture, specifically as part of coping with critical incidents	6
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression	6
Gender differences in the associations of reappraisal and humor styles	6
The correlation between teachers’ humor and class climate: A study targeting primary and secondary school students	6
Relationships between personality and the everyday use of humor	5
The traditional sexual script and humor in courtship	5
Don’t laugh it off: Gender differences in perceptions of women’s responses to men’s use of sexist humor	5
Humor in the age of coronavirus: a recapitulation and a call to action	5

The development of sex differences in humor initiation and appreciation	5
Taking a joke seriously: When does humor affect responses to the slurring of people with intellectual disabilities?	5
“We came for the Sluts, but stayed for the Slutsk”: FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook page between ironic and genuine football fandom	5
Impersonated personae – paralanguage, dialogism and affiliation in stand-up comedy	4
What’s in a Tweet? Gender and sexism moderate reactions to antifat sexist humor on Twitter	4
What’s so funny? Adaptive versus maladaptive humor styles as mediators between early maladaptive schemas and resilience	4
Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma	3
All laughter is nervous: An anxiety-based understanding of incongruous humor	3
Supervisor humor and employee job performance: A moderated mediation model of work enjoyment and suspicion of the supervisor	3
When is it OK to Joke? Adding humor to fear-based colonoscopy screening messages may increase compliance	3
Humor style differences across four English-speaking countries	3
Depressogenic traits and depression: Are humor styles mediators?	3
Trait cheerfulness sensitivity to positive and negative affective states	3
‘Do Mormons thinkThe Book of Mormonis funny?’	3
A systematic review of the effects of laughter on blood pressure and heart rate variability	3
“If we don’t quarrel, we joke”: Emic perspectives on Belarusian families’ humorous folklore	3
Adolescents creating cartoons: A developmental study of humor	2
Humor in Supreme Court oral arguments	2
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor	2
Gerotranscendence and humor styles: the mediating role of generativity and wisdom	2
The temperamental basis of humor and using humor under stress in depression: a moderated mediation model	2
The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being	2
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure	2
Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021)	2
Perceived partner humor use and relationship satisfaction in romantic pairs: The mediating role of relational uncertainty	2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction	2
Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody	2