OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using time travel in virtual reality (VR) to increase efficacy perceptions of influenza vaccination	135
Transparency, openness and privacy among software professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use of the digital calendar	107
Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online	83
Active social media use and its impact on well-being — an experimental study on the effects of posting pictures on Instagram	74
Pre-framing an emerging technology before it is deployed at work: the case of artificial intelligence and radiology	63
Inaccuracies andIzzat: Channel Affordances for the Consideration of Face in Misinformation Correction	56
First-level fundamentals: computer ownership is more important for internet benefits than in-home internet service	48
How cognitive elaboration fosters knowledge acquisition on social media—a field experiment	39
Subtle momentary effects of social media experiences: an experience sampling study of posting and social comparisons on connectedness and self-esteem	38
Does ostracism/rejection impact self-disclosures? Examining the appeal of perceived social affordances after social threat	29
A cross-national examination of the effects of accuracy nudges and content veracity labels on belief in and sharing of misleading news	28
To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment	28
Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures	27
Accumulative cartography: a visual semiotic analysis of online mobile maps	23
It matters how you google it? Using agent-based testing to assess the impact of user choices in search queries and algorithmic personalization on political Google Search results	23
Rules for Mediated Romance: A Digital Exploration of How Couples Negotiate Expectations	22
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents	22
When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust	21
Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”	21
Are active and passive social media use related to mental health, wellbeing, and social support outcomes? A meta-analysis of 141 studies	21
Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval?	20
Learning about climate change with algorithmic news? A two-wave panel study examining the role of “news-finds-me” perception	19
Do mindsets really matter? A second look at how perceptions of social media experiences relate to well-being	19
The lonely algorithm problem: the relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok	18
Disconnectivity synced with identity cultivation: adolescent narratives of digital disconnection	18

Correction to: Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	18
The Fake One is the Real One: Finstas, Authenticity, and Context Collapse in Teen Friend Groups	18
Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of autonomous vehicles	17
Digital disconnection, digital inequality, and subjective well-being: a mobile experience sampling study	17
The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations	17
Finding love in algorithms: deciphering the emotional contexts of close encounters with AI chatbots	15
Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children	15
Beyond Anonymity: Network Affordances, Under Deindividuation, Improve Social Media Discussion Quality	14
Signaling outrage is a signal about the sender: moral perceptions of online flaming	14
Walled cosmopolitanization: how China’s Great Firewall mediates young urban gay men’s lives	13
Correction to: Gay employees on social media: Strategies to portray professionalism	13
Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of algorithmic awareness among German and U.S. social media users	12
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance	12
Machine heuristic: concept explication and development of a measurement scale	12
The value affordances of social media engagement features	12
“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband	11
Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities	11
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an introduction to the special issue	11
AI-mediated social support: the prospect of human–AI collaboration	11
A typology of social media rituals	10
The gendered lens of AI: examining news imagery across digital spaces	10
Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities	10
Reinvention mediates impacts of skin tone bias in algorithms: implications for technology diffusion	10
Liking without borders? Authenticity and the evaluation of Instagram photo genres	9
Mediating social support through sensor-based technologies for children’s health behavior change	9
Under-the-radar engagement: how and why news users limit their public expression	9
Enabling and constraining factors of remote informal communication: a socio-technical systems perspective	9
Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI	9
A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality	9
Understanding screenshot collection and sharing on messaging platforms: a privacy perspective	8
Liking versus commenting on online news: effects of expression affordances on political attitudes	7
Correction by distraction: how high-tempo music enhances medical experts’ debunking TikTok videos	7
Navigating the empty shell: the role of articulation work in platform structures	7
Humor Reduces Online Incivility	7
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability	7
Momentary motivations for digital disconnection: an experience sampling study	7
Surveillance and the future of work: exploring employees’ attitudes toward monitoring in a post-COVID workplace	7
Corrigendum to: Understanding the Effects of Personalization as a Privacy Calculus: Analyzing Self-Disclosure Across Health, News, and Commerce Contexts	6
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021	6
Positioning in a collaboration network and performance in competitions: a case study of Kaggle	6
Digitally mediated (dis)empowerment paradox in women-led group-buying during the Shanghai COVID lockdown	6
Digital parenting divides: the role of parental capital and digital parenting readiness in parental digital mediation	6
Confronting whiteness through virtual humans: a review of 20 years of research in prejudice and racial bias using virtual environments	6
Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to Technology and the Future of Work special issue	6
Tailoring generative AI chatbots for multiethnic communities in disaster preparedness communication: extending the CASA paradigm	6
Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior	6
Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood: an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths’ performances of the masculine self	6
Sensing technologies, digital inclusion, and disability diversity	5
AI agency vs. human agency: understanding human–AI interactions on TikTok and their implications for user engagement	5
No judgment: value optimization and the reinvention of reviewing on YouTube	5

Correction to: Liking without borders? Authenticity and the evaluation of Instagram photo genres	5
Retweet for justice? Social media message amplification and Black Lives Matter allyship	5
Programmed differently? Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub	5
Language use in online support provision: the impact of others’ supportive messages, support-seeking strategy, and channel publicness	5
To Like or Not to Like? An Experimental Study on Relational Closeness, Social Grooming, Reciprocity, and Emotions in Social Media Liking	5
Youths as targets: factors of online hate speech victimization among adolescents and young adults	5