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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	99
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	55
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	50
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	48
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	46
Foreword	36
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	34
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	33
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	33
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	24
A COM-B and Theoretical Domains Framework Mapping of the Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Communication and Help-Seeking Among People With, or Seeking a Diagnosis Of, Endometriosis	24
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	22
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	20
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	19
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	19
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	19
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	18
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	17
Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops	17
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents ^© For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	16
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	16
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	15
Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	15
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	15

A Six-Month Outcome Evaluation of Media Aware Parent, a Parent-Based Media Mediation and Sexual Health Communication Program to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health	14
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	14
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	14
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	14
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	13
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	13
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	13
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	12
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	12
From Information Seeking and Scanning to the Practice of Healthy Habits: A Longitudinal Test of the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction in the Context of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption	12
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	12
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	12
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	12
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	11
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	11
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	11
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	11
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	11
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	11
Advancing Health communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	11
Competencies for Health Communication Specialists: Survey of Health Communication Educators and Practitioners	11
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	10
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	10
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	10
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	10
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	10
We Post It, U Reddit: Exploring the Potential of Reddit for Health Interventions Targeting College Populations	10
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	10
“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	9
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	9
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	9
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	9
Examining the Effects of Social Media Warning Labels on Perceived Credibility and Intent to Engage with Health Misinformation: The Moderating Role of Vaccine Hesitancy	9
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	9
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	8
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	8
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	8
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	8
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	8
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	8
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7
The lived experience in one of the hardest hit communities in New York City (Harlem), and one of the least vaccinated for COVID-19. Some Lessons Learned.	7
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	7
Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	7
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	7

Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	7
I’m Lovin’ It: How Fast Food Advertising Influences Meat-Eating Preferences	7
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
Climate Communication, Public Health, and Social Media: Examining the Role of Health Agencies in Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health	7
Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project	7
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	7
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
Critical Dynamics in Black and Latino Parents’ Perceptions of Childhood COVID-19 Vaccination: How the “Middle” Moves	6
Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned	6
Interactive Health Messages Work Better for Those Who Feel Less in Control: The Role of External Health Locus of Control and Risk Perception	6
Infographics and the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM): Differences between Visual and Textual Health Messages	6
Telehealth Talk on Reddit: Understanding How Language Use About Telemedicine Evolved Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Effects of Exposure to an Entertainment-Based Genetic Testing Narrative on Genetic Testing Knowledge, Attitudes and Counseling Discussion Intentions	6
A Systems Map of the Challenges of Climate Communication	6
Changing the Script: Intergenerational Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niamey, Niger	6
The Impact of Emotion and Government Trust on Individuals’ Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-country Comparison	6
Using the “Media as Mediator” Approach to Understand the Influence of Communication Channel Trust on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: England, January 2022	6
Factors that Influence Intent to Share Genetic Information Related to Cancer Risk with Family Members	6
Examining the Effects of Celebrity (Vs. Noncelebrity) Narratives on Opioid Addiction Prevention: Identification, Transportation, and the Moderating Role of Personal Relevance	6
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	6
“It Encourages Family Discussion”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the This Is Us Alzheimer’s Disease & Caregiving Storyline	6
For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking	6