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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy16
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The demise of the joke11
Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity10
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality9
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Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”7
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?6
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks6
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south5
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian5
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study4
Humor in ASD: a differentiation between text comprehension difficulties and humor appreciation4
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease4
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism4
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19394
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic4
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television3
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The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online3
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Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion3
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates2
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic2
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“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings2
Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies2
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem2
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor2
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic2
Just kidding? Exploring the role of traditional versus counter-traditional gender role jokes on gender identity threat2
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage2
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety2
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking2
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers2
Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change2
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’2
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera2
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change2
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek1
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles1
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes1
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Jojo Rabbit: ethical implications and aesthetic innovations of a ludic Nazi Germany satire1
It’s all fun and games until…: unintentional (?) direct fire amid the playful humor of Miguel Mihura’s Codorniz1
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
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Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor1
Psychometric adaptation of the Comic Style Markers in a Polish sample1
Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism1
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor1
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism1
Five theses on humor literacy in the public sphere1
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale1
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, and Jaroslav Švelch: Video Games and Comedy1
Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population1
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
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy1
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy1
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The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter1
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Humor styles and well-being of women with endometriosis during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century1
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