OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Health Communication is 24. 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
Hesitant or Not? The Association of Age, Gender, and Education with Potential Acceptance of a COVID-19 Vaccine: A Country-level Analysis	168
The Persistence of Vaccine Hesitancy: COVID-19 Vaccination Intention in New Zealand	65
Feeling angry: the effects of vaccine misinformation and refutational messages on negative emotions and vaccination attitude	65
Preparing for A COVID-19 Vaccine: A Mixed Methods Study of Vaccine Hesitant Parents	63
COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse on Twitter: A Content Analysis of Persuasion Techniques, Sentiment and Mis/Disinformation	61
An Investigation of Low COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions among Black Americans: The Role of Behavioral Beliefs and Trust in COVID-19 Information Sources	60
An Assessment of the Rapid Decline of Trust in US Sources of Public Information about COVID-19	54
How Media Literacy and Science Media Literacy Predicted the Adoption of Protective Behaviors Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	46
Health Information Sources and the Influenza Vaccination: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Vaccine Efficacy and Safety	46
Community-based Strategies to Engage Pastors Can Help Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Health Disparities in Black Communities	42
COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention: Message Framing and the Moderating Role of Perceived Vaccine Benefits	37
The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and Its Relationship with Community Mobility: A Mixed-Method Approach	33
Evaluating Crisis Communication. A 30-item Checklist for Assessing Performance during COVID-19 and Other Pandemics	32
What Do Social Media Influencers Say about Health? A Theory-Driven Content Analysis of Top Ten Health Influencers’ Posts on Sina Weibo	31
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	30
Which Beliefs Predict Intention to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19? A Mixed-Methods Reasoned Action Approach Applied to Health Communication	29
Using Social Media for Health: National Data from HINTS 2019	28
The Power of Celebrity Health Events: Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Audience Involvement and Behavioral Intentions	28
Communication, Health Literacy and a Systems Approach for Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Massive Vaccine Roll-out in Israel	27
The Impact of Emotion and Government Trust on Individuals’ Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-country Comparison	26
COVID-19 News and Misinformation: Do They Matter for Public Health Prevention?	26
Vaccine Literacy—helping Everyone Decide to Accept Vaccination	25
Comparison of COVID-19 Information Seeking, Trust of Information Sources, and Protective Behaviors in China and the US	25
Preliminary Insights from a U.S. Probability Sample on Adolescents’ Pornography Exposure, Media Psychology, and Sexual Aggression	25
Health Information Seeking Behaviors and Source Preferences between Chinese and U.S. Populations	24

The Role of Temporal Distance Perception in Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Persuasion Related to E-Cigarettes	24
Determinants of eHealth Literacy among Adults in China	24