OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotional Support from AI Chatbots: Should a Supportive Partner Self-Disclose or Not?	55
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years	54
Why We Don’t Click: Interrogating the Relationship Between Viewing and Clicking in Social Media Contexts by Exploring the “Non-Click”	54
Seeing Is Believing: Is Video Modality More Powerful in Spreading Fake News via Online Messaging Apps?	52
In AI We Trust? Effects of Agency Locus and Transparency on Uncertainty Reduction in Human–AI Interaction	45
Sticker and Emoji Use in Facebook Messenger: Implications for Graphicon Change	37
Good News! Communication Findings May be Underestimated: Comparing Effect Sizes with Self-Reported and Logged Smartphone Use Data	31
People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse	30
AI agency vs. human agency: understanding human–AI interactions on TikTok and their implications for user engagement	29
Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	29
Privacy Management and Self-Disclosure on Social Network Sites: The Moderating Effects of Stress and Gender	28
Failure to Launch: Competing Institutional Logics, Intrapreneurship, and the Case of Chatbots	28
Following Social Media Influencers in Early Adolescence: Fear of Missing Out, Social Well-Being and Supportive Communication with Parents	23
A Bigger Pie: The Effects of High-Speed Internet on Political Behavior	18
Can AI Enhance People’s Support for Online Moderation and Their Openness to Dissimilar Political Views?	17
When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust	16
Too Much or Too Little Messaging? Situational Determinants of Guilt About Mobile Messaging	14
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	13
Social Media Public Opinion as Flocks in a Murmuration: Conceptualizing and Measuring Opinion Expression on Social Media	12
Re-domestication of Internet Technologies: Digital Exclusion or Digital Choice?	12
Domesticating Gay Apps: An Intersectional Analysis of the Use of Blued Among Chinese Gay Men	12
Do You Care Who Flagged This Post? Effects of Moderator Visibility on Bystander Behavior	11
Youths as targets: factors of online hate speech victimization among adolescents and young adults	11
Navigating Sexual Racism in the Sexual Field: Compensation for and Disavowal of Marginality by Racial Minority Grindr Users in Singapore	11
Memes, Memes, Everywhere, nor Any Meme to Trust: Examining the Credibility and Persuasiveness of COVID-19-Related Memes	11

Beyond Anonymity: Network Affordances, Under Deindividuation, Improve Social Media Discussion Quality	10
Always Available, Always Attached: A Relational Perspective on the Effects of Mobile Phones and Social Media on Subjective Well-Being	9
The detection of political deepfakes	9
The Fake One is the Real One: Finstas, Authenticity, and Context Collapse in Teen Friend Groups	9
Online Social Regulation: When Everyday Diplomatic Skills for Harmonious Disagreement Break Down	8
Fighting cheapfakes: using a digital media literacy intervention to motivate reverse search of out-of-context visual misinformation	8
Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures	8
When national identity meets conspiracies: the contagion of national identity language in public engagement and discourse about COVID-19 conspiracy theories	7
Don’t Stress Me Now: Assessing the Regulatory Impact of Face-to-Face and Online Feedback Prosociality on Stress During an Important Life Event	7
The Role of Local Influential Users in Spread of Situational Crisis Information	7
A typology of social media rituals	7
The Dynamics of Social Capital: Examining the Reciprocity between Network Features and Social Support	7
Victims' Goal Understanding, Uncertainty Reduction, and Perceptions in Cyberbullying: Theoretical Evidence From Three Experiments	7
Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology	7
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability	7
Pathways to Deeper News Engagement: Factors Influencing Click Behaviors on News Sites	6
Vicarious Interactions in Online Support Communities: The Roles of Visual Anonymity and Social Identification	6
Slacking with the Bot: Programmable Social Bot in Virtual Team Interaction	6
Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior	6
Plural and Porous: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Mobile Messaging Group Chats	6
Provocation as Agentic Practice: Gender Performativity in Online Strategies of Transgender Sex Workers	6
Digital Asymmetries in Transnational Communication: Expectation, Autonomy and Gender Positioning in the Household	5
“You Can Connect with Like, the World!”: Social Platforms, Survival Support, and Digital Inequalities for People Experiencing Homelessness	5
The “Connected” Caregivers: Exploring the Interplay of Left-Behind Women’s Socio-Structural Immobilities and Communicative Mobilities in Transnational Power Geometries	5
The Influence of Interdependence in Networked Publics Spheres: How Community-Level Interactions Affect the Evolution of Topics in Online Discourse	5
Inaccuracies andIzzat: Channel Affordances for the Consideration of Face in Misinformation Correction	5
Digital Distraction or Stimulated Self-Disclosure: Preadolescents’ Mobile Device Use in the Family Context	4
Core Tech Support Networks and Digital Inequalities in American Disadvantaged Urban Communities	4
Liking versus commenting on online news: effects of expression affordances on political attitudes	4
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	4
“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband	3
A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality	3
Time counts? A two-wave panel study investigating the effects of WeChat affordances on social capital and well-being	3
Children’s mobile communicative practices and locational privacy	3
Which mediated social interactions satisfy the need to belong?	3
Retweet for justice? Social media message amplification and Black Lives Matter allyship	3
Confronting whiteness through virtual humans: a review of 20 years of research in prejudice and racial bias using virtual environments	3
Measurement of Perceived Importance and Urgency of Email: An Employees’ Perspective	3
Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation: The Role of Interpersonal Communication Processes in Mediated Compliance-Gaining Conversations	3
Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to Technology and the Future of Work special issue	2
Understanding darkness: age, sex, and tech-proficiency in knowledge and perceptions of technology-mediated abuse	2
Facts are hard to come by: discerning and sharing factual information on social media	2
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents	2
Expression of Concern: Digital Communication Media Use and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis	2
The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations	2
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021	2
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	2