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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	55
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	50
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	49
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	46
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	38
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	37
Foreword	34
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	27
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	25
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	21
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	19
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	19
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	18
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	18
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	18
Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	18
Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops	16
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	16
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents ^© For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	15
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	15
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	14
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	14
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	14
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

Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	14
Determining whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the The Social Norms Approach are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses	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 Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	13
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	13
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	12
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	12
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	12
Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination – Development and Feasibility of a Decision Support Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study	12
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	12
Misfluencers, the Human Agents Behind AI-Driven Infodemics	11
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	11
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	11
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	11
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
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	10
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	10
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	10
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	10
Advancing Health communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	10
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	10
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	10
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	10
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Competencies for Health Communication Specialists: Survey of Health Communication Educators and Practitioners	10
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	9
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	9
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	9
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	9
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	8
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	8
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	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
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
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	8
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	7
Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	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
Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	7
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	7
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7

The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	7
Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	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
I’m Lovin’ It: How Fast Food Advertising Influences Meat-Eating Preferences	6
Factors that Influence Intent to Share Genetic Information Related to Cancer Risk with Family Members	6
Bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Study of AI and Information Seeking Research	6
Does Climate Change Affect Health? Beliefs from the Health Information National Trends Survey	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
Finding My Way: Black Doulas’ Communication with Other Birthing Care Providers in an Interprofessional Work Environment	6
Examining the Effects of Celebrity (Vs. Noncelebrity) Narratives on Opioid Addiction Prevention: Identification, Transportation, and the Moderating Role of Personal Relevance	6
Using the “Media as Mediator” Approach to Understand the Influence of Communication Channel Trust on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: England, January 2022	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
The Stigma Toward Dementia on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Dutch Language Tweets	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
“It Encourages Family Discussion”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the This Is Us Alzheimer’s Disease & Caregiving Storyline	6
Changing the Script: Intergenerational Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niamey, Niger	6