OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health Communication is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Hesitant or Not? The Association of Age, Gender, and Education with Potential Acceptance of a COVID-19 Vaccine: A Country-level Analysis	179
Feeling angry: the effects of vaccine misinformation and refutational messages on negative emotions and vaccination attitude	73
COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse on Twitter: A Content Analysis of Persuasion Techniques, Sentiment and Mis/Disinformation	69
The Persistence of Vaccine Hesitancy: COVID-19 Vaccination Intention in New Zealand	69
Preparing for A COVID-19 Vaccine: A Mixed Methods Study of Vaccine Hesitant Parents	65
An Investigation of Low COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions among Black Americans: The Role of Behavioral Beliefs and Trust in COVID-19 Information Sources	62
An Assessment of the Rapid Decline of Trust in US Sources of Public Information about COVID-19	59
How Media Literacy and Science Media Literacy Predicted the Adoption of Protective Behaviors Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	51
Health Information Sources and the Influenza Vaccination: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Vaccine Efficacy and Safety	48
Community-based Strategies to Engage Pastors Can Help Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Health Disparities in Black Communities	46
COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention: Message Framing and the Moderating Role of Perceived Vaccine Benefits	42
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	37
The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and Its Relationship with Community Mobility: A Mixed-Method Approach	36
Using Social Media for Health: National Data from HINTS 2019	35
Evaluating Crisis Communication. A 30-item Checklist for Assessing Performance during COVID-19 and Other Pandemics	33
COVID-19 News and Misinformation: Do They Matter for Public Health Prevention?	32
What Do Social Media Influencers Say about Health? A Theory-Driven Content Analysis of Top Ten Health Influencers’ Posts on Sina Weibo	32
The Impact of Emotion and Government Trust on Individuals’ Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-country Comparison	32
Which Beliefs Predict Intention to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19? A Mixed-Methods Reasoned Action Approach Applied to Health Communication	30
Comparison of COVID-19 Information Seeking, Trust of Information Sources, and Protective Behaviors in China and the US	28
Communication, Health Literacy and a Systems Approach for Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Massive Vaccine Roll-out in Israel	27
Preliminary Insights from a U.S. Probability Sample on Adolescents’ Pornography Exposure, Media Psychology, and Sexual Aggression	27
The Role of Temporal Distance Perception in Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Persuasion Related to E-Cigarettes	25
Vaccine Literacy—helping Everyone Decide to Accept Vaccination	25
The Effects of Perceived Threat and Efficacy on College Students’ Social Distancing Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	24

Fact-Checking of Health Information: The Effect of Media Literacy, Metacognition and Health Information Exposure	23
Development of a Scale to Measure Trust in Public Health Authorities: Prevalence of Trust and Association with Vaccination	21
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Positive Psychology: The Role of News and Trust in News on Mental Health and Well-Being	21
Vaccine Hesitancy and Demand for Immunization in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Implications for the Region and Beyond	20
Promoting Sexual Health in High School: A Feasibility Study of A Web-based Media Literacy Education Program	20
Visual Attention to the Use of #ad versus #sponsored on e-Cigarette Influencer Posts on Social Media: A Randomized Experiment	19
Anti-Vaxxers, Politicization of Science, and the Need for Trust in Pandemic Response	19
Face Masks: Their History and the Values They Communicate	19
Uncertainty and Negative Emotions in Parental Decision-making on Childhood Vaccinations: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior to the Context of Conflicting Health Information	18
A Systematic Review of Responsibility Frames and Their Effects in the Health Context	18
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	17
SNS Usage and Third-person Effects in the Risk Perception of Zika Virus among Singaporean Women	16
Emotional and Cognitive Responses to COVID-19 Information Overload under Lockdown Predict Media Attention and Risk Perceptions of COVID-19	16
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Patient-Provider Communication and the Role of E-Health Use	15
Cancer Survivors’ Emotional Well-being: Roles of Internet Information Seeking, Patient-centered Communication, and Social Support	15
COVID-19: An Urgent Call for Coordinated, Trusted Sources to Tell Everyone What They Need to Know and Do	14
The dynamics of trust and communication in COVID-19 vaccine decision making: A qualitative inquiry	14
Expanding the Health Information National Trends Survey Research Program Internationally to Examine Global Health Communication Trends: Comparing Health Information Seeking Behaviors in the U.S. and G	14
Predictors of Patient-Centered Communication among U.S. Adults: Analysis of the 2017-2018 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)	14
Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	13
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	12
Discussions of Potential Mammography Benefits and Harms among Patients with Limited Health Literacy and Providers: “Oh, There are Harms?”	12
Adapting Online Patient Decision Aids: Effects of Modality and Narration Style on Patients’ Satisfaction, Information Recall and Informed Decision Making	12
From Risk Butterflies to Citizens Engaged in Risk Prevention in the Zika Virus Crisis: Focusing on Personal, Societal and Global Risk Perceptions	12
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	12
Health Communication and Decision Making about Vaccine Clinical Trials during a Pandemic	11
Evaluating a Health Literacy Communication Training for Medical Students: Using Plain Language	11
Patient-Provider Communication and Online Health Information Seeking among a Sample of US Older Adults	11
Recalled Exposure to COVID-19 Public Education Campaign Advertisements Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence	10
Youth’s Proximity to Marijuana Retailers and Advertisements: Factors Associated with Washington State Adolescents’ Intentions to Use Marijuana	10
When Media Health Stories Conflict: Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing (CHIP) Model	10
What Is the World Doing about COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance?	10
Promoting Smoking Cessation in China: Using an Expansion of the EPPM with Other-oriented Threat	10
Ashamed Caregivers: Self-Stigma, Information, and Coping among Dementia Patient Families	9
Fifteen Years after a 10-year Retrospective: The State of Health Mass Mediated Campaigns	9
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	9
When Social Media Images and Messages Don’t Match: Attention to Text versus Imagery to Effectively Convey Safety Information on Social Media	8
A Health Crisis in the Age of Misinformation: How Social Media and Mass Media Influenced Misperceptions about COVID-19 and Compliance Behavior	8
Ideology and COVID-19 Vaccination Intention: Perceptual Mediators and Communication Moderators	8
Integrating Reasoned Action Approach and Message Sidedness in the Era of Misinformation: The Case of HPV Vaccination Promotion	8
First-Person, Third-Person, or Bystander? Exploring the Persuasive Influence of Perspective in Mental Health Narratives	8
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	8
Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings	8
Tailoring Temporal Message Frames to Individuals’ Time Orientation Strengthens the Relationship between Risk Perception and Behavioral Intention	8
Building Confidence to CONVINCE	8
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	8
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	7
Show Me a Photo of the Character: Exploring the Interaction between Text and Visuals in Narrative Persuasion	7
Impact of Graphic Warning Messages on Intentions to Use Alternate Tobacco Products	7
African American Parents’ Perceived Vaccine Efficacy Moderates the Effect of Message Framing on Psychological Reactance to HPV Vaccine Advocacy	7

Death Narratives, Negative Emotion, and Counterarguing: Testing Fear, Anger, and Sadness as Mechanisms of Effect	7
A comprehensive examination of association between belief in vaccine misinformation and vaccination intention in the COVID-19 context	7
The Effect of Repetition on the Perceived Truth of Tobacco-Related Health Misinformation Among U.S. Adults	7
Effect of Patient-Centered Communication on Physician-Patient Conflicts from the Physicians’ Perspective: A Moderated Mediation Model	7
What if I Tell You E-Cigarette Users are Inferior? An Investigation of Social Identity Threat in Health Messaging	7
Relationships of Family History-related Factors and Causal Beliefs to Cancer Risk Perception and Mammography Screening Adherence Among Medically Underserved Women	7
Communicating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Contamination to the Public Through Personal Relevance	6
Vaccine Videos and Information Sharing: The Effects of Framing, Evidence Type, and Speaker Expertise	6
Undermining Credibility: The Limited Influence of Online Comments to Vaccine-related News Stories	6
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	6
To Tailor or Not to Tailor: An Investigation of Narrative Tailoring for Health Communication	6
Self-Efficacy and Other Considerations in Performance of Risk-Reducing Behaviors during a Major Disease Outbreak	6
Navigating Uncertain Times: Information Management about Pregnancy and Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
A Content Analysis of Reddit Users’ Posts about Challenges to Contraceptive care-seeking during COVID-19-related Restrictions in the United States	6
The Interplay between Message Framing and Message Recipients’ Regulatory Focus in Promoting HPV Prevention Strategies	6
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	6
Marketing Physical Activity? Exploring the Role of Brand Resonance in Health Promotion	6
The Influence of Information Source on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Motivation for Self-Protective Behavior	6
Sophocles’Philoctetesand Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Misperceptions of the Prevalence of Health Conditions and Behaviors	6
Double Vision on Social Media: How Self-Generated Alcohol-Related Content Posts Moderate the Link between Viewing Others’ Posts and Drinking	6
Empowering Parents to Protect Children during COVID-19 with Message Strategy Based on Efficacy, Threat Levels, and Channel Preferences	6
Can Altruistic Emotions Promote Vaccine Advocacy? Examining the Use of Empathy and Elevation in Vaccine Messages	6
Investigating Disparities by Sex and LGBTQ Identity: A Content Analysis of Sexual Health Information on College Student Health Center Websites	6
COVID-19 Vaccine-related Information Seeking and Scanning: A Test of Mediators between Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention among Unvaccinated Black Americans	6
“Vaccine Communication in a Pandemic: Improving Vaccine Literacy to Reduce Hesitancy, Restore Trust and Immunize Communities”: Editor’s Introduction	6
Yet Again Conversations Matter: The Importance of Interpersonal Discussions, Educational Campaigns, and Advertising on Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions, Attitudes, and Intentions in At-Risk Young Adu	6