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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In Our Sacred Voice – An Exploration of Tribal and Community Leader Perceptions as Health Communicators of Disease Prevention among American Indians in the Plains	116
Information Scanning Impacts Nonmedical Drug Use Among College Students: A Longitudinal Study of Scanning Effects	74
Swapping Insults, Neglecting Policy: How U.S. Presidential Candidates Communicate About Mental Health	73
The Role of Empathy in Jordanian Medical Encounters	53
Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health through Words and Visuals	46
Effects of Exposure to Conflicting Health Information on Topic-Specific Information Sharing and Seeking Intentions	43
Vicarious Acquisition of Learned Helplessness During the COVID-19 Campus Epidemics in China: Interactions Between Embodied and Mediated Experiences	42
Interactivity Can Enhance the Effectiveness of Threat Appeals: Implications for Preventive Health Websites	41
Can Stereotype Threat and Lift Visual Messages Affect Subsequent Physical Activity? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment Using Accelerometers	40
The Bubble and the Tower	38
Risk and Health Communication during Covid-19: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis	37
A Discourse Study on Handover Communication Among Care Providers in a Residential Care Home for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities	36
Dynamic Relations Between Negative News Media Experiences and Mental Distress? Examining Transactional Effects During Times of Health Crises	35
The Emotional Effects of Gain-Loss Frames in Persuasive Messages about Sun Protection on Health Promotional Outcomes: Evidence from an Experimental Study	35
Adult Children as Companions in Geriatric Consultations: An Interpersonal Perspective from China	33
Psycholinguistic Markers of COVID-19 Conspiracy Tweets and Predictors of Tweet Dissemination	32
Media Literacy and Its Potential Influence on Mpox-Related Perceptions and Prevention Intentions in China During the 2022 Multi-Country Outbreak of Mpox	31
Fun with Frustration? TikTok Influencers’ Emotional Expression Predicts User Engagement with COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	30
Extending the Roots of Memorable Messages: A Comprehensive Review and Forecast of Memorable Message Literature and Theory	28
Exploring Nurse Responses to Spontaneous Breastfeeding Episodes During Routine Infant Health Checks in Finland: A Multimodal Conversation Analytic Approach	28
Effects of Health Literacy in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Infodemic: The Case of Japan	27
“Compliant Supporters,” “Anxious Skeptics,” and “Defiant Deniers”: A Latent Profile Analysis of People’s Responses to COVID-19 Communications	27
A Comparison of Hugging Frequency and Its Association with Momentary Mood Before and During COVID-19 Using Ecological Momentary Assessment	27
Women in the Margins: A Culture-Centered Interrogation of Hunger and “Food Apartheid” in the United States	27
Whose Norms to Follow? Effects of Social Norm Specificity on Black Americans’ Intention to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines	26

Do Perceived Message Effectiveness Ratings Change in Response to Repeated Message Exposures?	26
The ‘Werther Effect’ of Goethe’s Werther : Anecdotal Evidence in Historical News Reports	26
Do Descriptive Norm Appeals in Public Service Ads Reduce Freedom Threats? Examining the Effects of Normative Messages and Media Literacy Skills on Decreasing Reactance	26