OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Communication is 30. 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
Considering Emotion in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Fostering Vaccine Confidence	477
“Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19	175
Online Health Information Seeking: A Review and Meta-Analysis	146
Evaluating the Impact of Attempts to Correct Health Misinformation on Social Media: A Meta-Analysis	139
Association of COVID-19 Misinformation with Face Mask Wearing and Social Distancing in a Nationally Representative US Sample	121
Protection Motivation and the COVID-19 Virus	102
Media Exposure and Health Behavior during Pandemics: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Knowledge and Fear on Compliance with COVID-19 Prevention Measures	85
(Mis)communicating about COVID-19: Insights from Health and Crisis Communication	80
Trapped in a Double Bind: Chinese Overseas Student Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic	77
Public Health Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Lessons from Communication Science	72
We Need the Lens of Equity in COVID-19 Communication	69
Effects of Vaccine-Related Conspiracy Theories on Chinese Young Adults’ Perceptions of the HPV Vaccine: An Experimental Study	68
Impact of Information Exposure on Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Preventative Behaviors at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	66
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets	51
Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Communication to Mitigate the Pandemic: Dilemmas and Practical Implications	50
Health Information Consumption under COVID-19 Lockdown: An Interview Study of Residents of Hubei Province, China	47
Do Social Norms Influence Young People’s Willingness to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine?	45
Communicating Uncertainties during the COVID-19 Outbreak	43
Why Do Some Americans Resist COVID-19 Prevention Behavior? An Analysis of Issue Importance, Message Fatigue, and Reactance Regarding COVID-19 Messaging	42
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to Enhance Participation of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Trials: A 10-Year Systematic Review	41
The Effect of Social Media on Stress among Young Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic: Taking into Account Fatalism and Social Media Exhaustion	40
In the Wake of Scandals: How Media Use and Social Trust Influence Risk Perception and Vaccination Intention among Chinese Parents	38
Construction of Meaning during a Pandemic: The Forgotten Role of Social Norms	37
“After Philando, I Had to Take a Sick Day to Recover”: Psychological Distress, Trauma and Police Brutality in the Black Community	36
Do Messages Matter? Investigating the Combined Effects of Framing, Outcome Uncertainty, and Number Format on COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention	36

Health Beliefs, Trust in Media Sources, Health Literacy, and Preventive Behaviors among High-Risk Chinese for COVID-19	35
Re-Prioritizing Digital Health and Health Literacy in Healthy People 2030 to Affect Health Equity	33
What Drives People Away from COVID-19 Information?: Uncovering the Influences of Personal Networks on Information Avoidance	31
Advancing Visual Health Communication Research to Improve Infodemic Response	30
Global COVID-19 Advertisements: Use of Informational, Transformational and Narrative Advertising Strategies	30