Humor-International Journal of Humor 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity16
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The demise of the joke11
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy11
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”8
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality8
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks6
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study5
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
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?5
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south5
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic4
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism4
Humor in ASD: a differentiation between text comprehension difficulties and humor appreciation4
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion4
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19394
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online4
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Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic3
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking3
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Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers3
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor3
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television3
The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem3
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings3
Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change2
Just kidding? Exploring the role of traditional versus counter-traditional gender role jokes on gender identity threat2
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Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change2
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Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies2
The rise in humor scandals: a cross-national comparison of humor-related public controversies in eight European countries (1990–2022)2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety2
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes2
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera2
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic2
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’2
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage2
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles2
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm2
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