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

Article	Citations
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	94
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	52
Editor’s Note	48
Foreword	44
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	43
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	34
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	32
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	30
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	23
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	23
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	22
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	22
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	21
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
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	19
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	18
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	18
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	16
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	15
Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops	15
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	14
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	14
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	14
Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	14

Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents ^© For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	14
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	14
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	13
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	13
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	12
A Six-Month Outcome Evaluation of Media Aware Parent, a Parent-Based Media Mediation and Sexual Health Communication Program to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health	12
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	12
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	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	11
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	11
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	11
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	11
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	11
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	11
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	11
Competencies for Health Communication Specialists: Survey of Health Communication Educators and Practitioners	10
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	10
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	10
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	10
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	9
We Post It, U Reddit: Exploring the Potential of Reddit for Health Interventions Targeting College Populations	9
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	9
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	9
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	9
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	8
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	8
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Examining the Effects of Social Media Warning Labels on Perceived Credibility and Intent to Engage with Health Misinformation: The Moderating Role of Vaccine Hesitancy	8
“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	8
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	8
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	8
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	8
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	7
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	7
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	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
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	7
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7
Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	7
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	7
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	7
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	7
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	6

For Myself or for Others? The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Family Health History Communication and Online Health Information Seeking	6
Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	6
Effects of Exposure to an Entertainment-Based Genetic Testing Narrative on Genetic Testing Knowledge, Attitudes and Counseling Discussion Intentions	6
Factors that Influence Intent to Share Genetic Information Related to Cancer Risk with Family Members	6
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	6
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.	6
Critical Dynamics in Black and Latino Parents’ Perceptions of Childhood COVID-19 Vaccination: How the “Middle” Moves	6
“It Encourages Family Discussion”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the This Is Us Alzheimer’s Disease & Caregiving Storyline	6
Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned	6
Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Increase Iron-Folic Acid Supplement Consumption: Reduction in Anemia Through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project	6
I’m Lovin’ It: How Fast Food Advertising Influences Meat-Eating Preferences	6
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	6
Using the “Media as Mediator” Approach to Understand the Influence of Communication Channel Trust on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: England, January 2022	6