OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotional Support from AI Chatbots: Should a Supportive Partner Self-Disclose or Not?	87
Seeing Is Believing: Is Video Modality More Powerful in Spreading Fake News via Online Messaging Apps?	76
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years	68
AI agency vs. human agency: understanding human–AI interactions on TikTok and their implications for user engagement	64
In AI We Trust? Effects of Agency Locus and Transparency on Uncertainty Reduction in Human–AI Interaction	61
People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse	45
Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	40
When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust	30
Following Social Media Influencers in Early Adolescence: Fear of Missing Out, Social Well-Being and Supportive Communication with Parents	25
Can AI Enhance People’s Support for Online Moderation and Their Openness to Dissimilar Political Views?	23
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability	22
The detection of political deepfakes	21
Too Much or Too Little Messaging? Situational Determinants of Guilt About Mobile Messaging	21
Social Media Public Opinion as Flocks in a Murmuration: Conceptualizing and Measuring Opinion Expression on Social Media	20
Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures	20
Do You Care Who Flagged This Post? Effects of Moderator Visibility on Bystander Behavior	17
Fighting cheapfakes: using a digital media literacy intervention to motivate reverse search of out-of-context visual misinformation	16
Beyond Anonymity: Network Affordances, Under Deindividuation, Improve Social Media Discussion Quality	16
Memes, Memes, Everywhere, nor Any Meme to Trust: Examining the Credibility and Persuasiveness of COVID-19-Related Memes	15
Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI	15
Domesticating Gay Apps: An Intersectional Analysis of the Use of Blued Among Chinese Gay Men	15
Technical Features of Asynchronous and Synchronous Community Platforms and their Effects on Community Cohesion: A Comparative Study of Forum-based and Chat-based Online Mental Health Communities	14
Navigating Sexual Racism in the Sexual Field: Compensation for and Disavowal of Marginality by Racial Minority Grindr Users in Singapore	14
Always Available, Always Attached: A Relational Perspective on the Effects of Mobile Phones and Social Media on Subjective Well-Being	13
Re-domestication of Internet Technologies: Digital Exclusion or Digital Choice?	13

Youths as targets: factors of online hate speech victimization among adolescents and young adults	12
The Role of Local Influential Users in Spread of Situational Crisis Information	11
The Dynamics of Social Capital: Examining the Reciprocity between Network Features and Social Support	10
The Fake One is the Real One: Finstas, Authenticity, and Context Collapse in Teen Friend Groups	10
Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior	9
A typology of social media rituals	9
Slacking with the Bot: Programmable Social Bot in Virtual Team Interaction	9
Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology	8
Online Social Regulation: When Everyday Diplomatic Skills for Harmonious Disagreement Break Down	8
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents	8
Provocation as Agentic Practice: Gender Performativity in Online Strategies of Transgender Sex Workers	8
Pathways to Deeper News Engagement: Factors Influencing Click Behaviors on News Sites	8
When national identity meets conspiracies: the contagion of national identity language in public engagement and discourse about COVID-19 conspiracy theories	8
The effects of disagreement and unfriending on political polarization: a moderated-mediation model of cross-cutting discussion on affective polarization via unfriending contingent upon exposure to inc	7
Vicarious Interactions in Online Support Communities: The Roles of Visual Anonymity and Social Identification	7
Building relational confidence in remote and hybrid work arrangements: novel ways to use digital technologies to foster knowledge sharing	7
Inaccuracies andIzzat: Channel Affordances for the Consideration of Face in Misinformation Correction	7
Confronting whiteness through virtual humans: a review of 20 years of research in prejudice and racial bias using virtual environments	6
Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of algorithmic awareness among German and U.S. social media users	6
The Influence of Interdependence in Networked Publics Spheres: How Community-Level Interactions Affect the Evolution of Topics in Online Discourse	6
Which mediated social interactions satisfy the need to belong?	6
To Like or Not to Like? An Experimental Study on Relational Closeness, Social Grooming, Reciprocity, and Emotions in Social Media Liking	5
The social movement was live streamed: a relational analysis of mobile live streaming during the 2019 Hong Kong protests	5
Core Tech Support Networks and Digital Inequalities in American Disadvantaged Urban Communities	5
Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of autonomous vehicles	5
The “Connected” Caregivers: Exploring the Interplay of Left-Behind Women’s Socio-Structural Immobilities and Communicative Mobilities in Transnational Power Geometries	5
Social media mindsets: a new approach to understanding social media use and psychological well-being	5
Measurement of Perceived Importance and Urgency of Email: An Employees’ Perspective	5
The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations	5
“You Can Connect with Like, the World!”: Social Platforms, Survival Support, and Digital Inequalities for People Experiencing Homelessness	5
A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality	5
“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband	4
Liking versus commenting on online news: effects of expression affordances on political attitudes	4
Retweet for justice? Social media message amplification and Black Lives Matter allyship	4
Does mindless scrolling hamper well-being? Combining ESM and log-data to examine the link between mindless scrolling, goal conflict, guilt, and daily well-being	4
Humor Reduces Online Incivility	4
Using time travel in virtual reality (VR) to increase efficacy perceptions of influenza vaccination	4
Children’s mobile communicative practices and locational privacy	4
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance	4
Communication networks do not predict success in attempts at peer production	4
Time counts? A two-wave panel study investigating the effects of WeChat affordances on social capital and well-being	4
Managing collapsed boundaries in global work	3
Facts are hard to come by: discerning and sharing factual information on social media	3
Language use in online support provision: the impact of others’ supportive messages, support-seeking strategy, and channel publicness	3
Valuing digital possessions: the role of affordances	3
Are active and passive social media use related to mental health, wellbeing, and social support outcomes? A meta-analysis of 141 studies	3
The value affordances of social media engagement features	3
Digital disconnection, digital inequality, and subjective well-being: a mobile experience sampling study	3
Toxicity and prosocial behaviors in massively multiplayer online games: The role of mutual dependence, power, and passion	3
From context adaptation to context restoration: strategies, motivations, and decision rules of managing context collapse on WeChat	3

Information processing on smartphones in public versus private	3
Surveillance and the future of work: exploring employees’ attitudes toward monitoring in a post-COVID workplace	3
Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children	3
Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation: The Role of Interpersonal Communication Processes in Mediated Compliance-Gaining Conversations	3