Health Communication

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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Considering Emotion in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Fostering Vaccine Confidence490
“Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19187
Evaluating the Impact of Attempts to Correct Health Misinformation on Social Media: A Meta-Analysis150
Association of COVID-19 Misinformation with Face Mask Wearing and Social Distancing in a Nationally Representative US Sample125
Protection Motivation and the COVID-19 Virus107
Media Exposure and Health Behavior during Pandemics: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Knowledge and Fear on Compliance with COVID-19 Prevention Measures94
(Mis)communicating about COVID-19: Insights from Health and Crisis Communication81
Public Health Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Lessons from Communication Science77
We Need the Lens of Equity in COVID-19 Communication71
Impact of Information Exposure on Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Preventative Behaviors at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States71
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets57
Why Do Some Americans Resist COVID-19 Prevention Behavior? An Analysis of Issue Importance, Message Fatigue, and Reactance Regarding COVID-19 Messaging51
Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Communication to Mitigate the Pandemic: Dilemmas and Practical Implications51
Health Information Consumption under COVID-19 Lockdown: An Interview Study of Residents of Hubei Province, China51
Do Social Norms Influence Young People’s Willingness to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine?50
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to Enhance Participation of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Clinical Trials: A 10-Year Systematic Review47
Communicating Uncertainties during the COVID-19 Outbreak46
Construction of Meaning during a Pandemic: The Forgotten Role of Social Norms42
Do Messages Matter? Investigating the Combined Effects of Framing, Outcome Uncertainty, and Number Format on COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention42
The Effect of Social Media on Stress among Young Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic: Taking into Account Fatalism and Social Media Exhaustion41
“After Philando, I Had to Take a Sick Day to Recover”: Psychological Distress, Trauma and Police Brutality in the Black Community38
Health Beliefs, Trust in Media Sources, Health Literacy, and Preventive Behaviors among High-Risk Chinese for COVID-1938
What Drives People Away from COVID-19 Information?: Uncovering the Influences of Personal Networks on Information Avoidance33
U.S. Political Partisanship and COVID-19: Risk Information Seeking and Prevention Behaviors32
News Attention and Social-Distancing Behavior Amid COVID-19: How Media Trust and Social Norms Moderate a Mediated Relationship32
Global COVID-19 Advertisements: Use of Informational, Transformational and Narrative Advertising Strategies32
Pandemics and PSAs: Rapidly Changing Information in a New Media Landscape32
COVID-19 Message Fatigue: How Does It Predict Preventive Behavioral Intentions and What Types of Information are People Tired of Hearing About?31
Mainstream News Media’s Role in Public Health Communication During Crises: Assessment of Coverage and Correction of COVID-19 Misinformation31
Advancing Visual Health Communication Research to Improve Infodemic Response31
In Science We Trust: The Effects of Information Sources on COVID-19 Risk Perceptions30
Provider-Patient Communication on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) for HIV Prevention: An Exploration of Healthcare Provider Challenges30
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