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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19	196
Association of COVID-19 Misinformation with Face Mask Wearing and Social Distancing in a Nationally Representative US Sample	129
Protection Motivation and the COVID-19 Virus	110
Media Exposure and Health Behavior during Pandemics: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Knowledge and Fear on Compliance with COVID-19 Prevention Measures	102
Public Health Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Lessons from Communication Science	85
Impact of Information Exposure on Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Preventative Behaviors at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	72
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets	65
Why Do Some Americans Resist COVID-19 Prevention Behavior? An Analysis of Issue Importance, Message Fatigue, and Reactance Regarding COVID-19 Messaging	57
Health Information Consumption under COVID-19 Lockdown: An Interview Study of Residents of Hubei Province, China	52
Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Communication to Mitigate the Pandemic: Dilemmas and Practical Implications	52
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to Enhance Participation of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Trials: A 10-Year Systematic Review	51
The Effect of Social Media on Stress among Young Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic: Taking into Account Fatalism and Social Media Exhaustion	48
Communicating Uncertainties during the COVID-19 Outbreak	47
Do Social Norms Influence Young People’s Willingness to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine?	47
Do Messages Matter? Investigating the Combined Effects of Framing, Outcome Uncertainty, and Number Format on COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention	43
Health Beliefs, Trust in Media Sources, Health Literacy, and Preventive Behaviors among High-Risk Chinese for COVID-19	41
“After Philando, I Had to Take a Sick Day to Recover”: Psychological Distress, Trauma and Police Brutality in the Black Community	39
What Drives People Away from COVID-19 Information?: Uncovering the Influences of Personal Networks on Information Avoidance	35
Global COVID-19 Advertisements: Use of Informational, Transformational and Narrative Advertising Strategies	34
Mainstream News Media’s Role in Public Health Communication During Crises: Assessment of Coverage and Correction of COVID-19 Misinformation	34
U.S. Political Partisanship and COVID-19: Risk Information Seeking and Prevention Behaviors	33
Red Media, Blue Media, Trump Briefings, and COVID-19: Examining How Information Sources Predict Risk Preventive Behaviors via Threat and Efficacy	33
COVID-19 Message Fatigue: How Does It Predict Preventive Behavioral Intentions and What Types of Information are People Tired of Hearing About?	32
Wear or Not to Wear a Mask? Recommendation Inconsistency, Government Trust and the Adoption of Protection Behaviors in Cross-Lagged TPB Models	32
News Attention and Social-Distancing Behavior Amid COVID-19: How Media Trust and Social Norms Moderate a Mediated Relationship	32

Persuasive Messages, Social Norms, and Reactance: A Study of Masking Behavior during a COVID-19 Campus Health Campaign	31
Toward More Effective Public Health Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Suggesting Audience Segmentation Based on Social and Media Resources	31
In Science We Trust: The Effects of Information Sources on COVID-19 Risk Perceptions	31
African American Women’s Maternal Healthcare Experiences: A Critical Race Theory Perspective	30
Negotiating Health Amidst COVID-19 Lockdown in Low-income Communities in Aotearoa New Zealand	30
Perceived Knowledge as [Protective] Power: Parents’ Protective Efficacy, Information-Seeking, and Scrutiny during COVID-19	30