OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Communication is 26. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
What Encourages Patients to Recommend Their Doctor After an Online Medical Consultation? The Influence of Patient-Centered Communication, Trust, and Negative Health Information Seeking Experiences	97
Waiting for a Match: Mitigating Reactance in Prosocial Health Behavior Using Psychological Distance	65
Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health through Words and Visuals	63
A Test of Autonomy Restoration Postscripts to Mitigate Psychological Reactance to an Opt-Out Organ Donor Registry in the United States	55
Pandemic Communication Pandemic Communication , edited by Stephen M. Croucher and Audra Diers-Lawson, London, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, 307 pp., $33.39	48
Women in the Margins: A Culture-Centered Interrogation of Hunger and “Food Apartheid” in the United States	47
A Re(Defining) Moment: Eulogizing Good Death in the Face of COVID-19	43
Prognostication As an Interactionally Delicate Matter: A Conversation Analytic Study of Hospice Multidisciplinary Team Meetings	42
Memorable Messages About Fat Bodies Before, During, and After Pregnancy	39
“If You Don’t Lose Weight, the Government Will Take You Away”: An Analysis of Memorable Messages and Eating Disorders in the LGBTQ+ Community	35
The Effect of Social Media on Stress among Young Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic: Taking into Account Fatalism and Social Media Exhaustion	34
Patient Complaints to the Saudi Medical Call Center: Representative Response Strategies	33
Associations Between COVID-19 Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention: The Roles of Anticipated Regret and Collective Responsibility	33
Denying and Accepting a Family Member’s Illness: Uncertainty Management as a Process	32
Norms Message Features in an Alcohol Consumption Context: Testing the Roles of Functional Matching and Numeracy	32
Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model, Second edition	32
Visual Tailoring and Skin Cancer Prevention: Comparing Personalized, Stock, and Non-Ultraviolet Images	31
Is Sexual Consent Sexy?: Investigating the Effects of a Televised Depiction of Verbal Sexual Consent on College Students’ Sexual Consent Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	31
Athletes Drink Gatorade: DMA Advertising Expenditures, Ad Recall, and Athletic Identity Influence Energy and Sports Drink Consumption	30
Information Scanning Impacts Nonmedical Drug Use Among College Students: A Longitudinal Study of Scanning Effects	29
Sexual Difficulties in People 50+: A Content Analysis of Sex-related Queries Posted on Professional Counseling Websites	29
Effects of Character Accent on Perceived Similarity, Transportation, and Narrative Persuasion	29
Mitigating Identity Threat in Health Messaging: A Social Identity Complexity Perspective	27
Recapturing Communicative Erasure: Black Women Farmers’ Lived Experience, Political Voice and Cultural Knowledge as Critical Health Communication Praxis	27
“Compliant Supporters,” “Anxious Skeptics,” and “Defiant Deniers”: A Latent Profile Analysis of People’s Responses to COVID-19 Communications	26

Predicting Breastfeeding Intentions: A Test and Extension of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior with African American Social Identity