OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cyberpsychology-Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Profiles of bullying, cyberbullying, and disinterest in reading among primary school learners in Spain	37
No relationships between self-reported Instagram use or type of use and mental well-being: A study using a nationally representative online sample of UK adults	35
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	29
Phubbing and relational evaluation among college students: A longitudinal study	28
Convergent and divergent predictors of extensive use time and problematic TikTok use	25
Depressive symptomatology is associated with problematic smartphone use severity in adolescents: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies	22
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	15
The role of nonverbal communication cues in reducing videoconference fatigue: A comparison of 2D and virtual reality videoconference platforms	15
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	15
The relationship between usage of social networking sites and meaning in life: Anonymous versus identifiable contexts	15
Reducing transphobia with the narratives of transgender YouTubers	15
Unveiling the depths of Tinder: Decoding the dark tetrad and sociosexuality in motives behind online dating	14
To respond or not to respond: The effects of interpersonal goals on responsive Facebook behaviours	14
An initial investigation of the role of depressive and anxious syndromes in Problematic Internet Use in adolescence and young adults	14
Adolescents’ ethnic hate speech exposure and ethnic bullying perpetration: The moderating role of tolerance towards diversity and gender	14
Tackling hate speech online: The effect of counter-speech on subsequent bystander behavioral intentions	13
Childhood risks and problematic smartphone use: Dual processes of life history strategy and psychological distress	13
Conceptualizing social media contingent self-esteem: Associations between echo chambers, contingent self-esteem, and problematic social media use	12
The role of negative and positive urgency in the relationship between craving and symptoms of problematic video game use	12
The use of online social network sites during the COVID-19 pandemic as a protective or risk factor for well-being of university students	11
User experience of mixed reality applications for healthy ageing: A systematic review	11
(Dis)Connected: Finding the link between problematic use of internet, parent-child communication and academic performance in emerging adults	9
Technology-facilitated abuse of young adults in the United States: A latent class analysis	9
Longitudinal bidirectional relations between parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: The roles of problematic social network use and personality	9
Prevalence and impact of Internet Gaming Disorder: A population-based study	9

When feeling positive is being “in the zone”: How challenge optimality causes changes in positive affect and flow	9
Profiles of problematic social networking site use: A cross-cultural validation of a scale with Spanish and Mexican adolescents	9
Online stress and offline stress: Uniqueness, differences, and cumulative effect on multiple well-being outcomes	8
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	8
Can time flow differently if you are a virtual reality newcomer?	8
Understanding the relations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and emerging adults’ mental health during a COVID-19 imposed lockdown	8
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	8
What is the post-game depression? A narrative inquiry	8
How to shop online: The construct and measurement of consumer competency in online shopping	8
Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	8
Breaking barriers: The impact of intergroup contact on bystanders' actions against bias-based cyberbullying	7
The effect of emotion background on pathological internet users’ comments on online news: Evidence from online text analysis	7
How it feels to be “left on read”: Social surveillance on Snapchat and young individuals’ mental health	7
Instagram Passive Active Use Measure (iPAUM): Development, validation and relation to self-esteem	7
Unraveling the positive and negative roles of positive body-focused social media interactions in adolescents’ body image	7
Unravelling social network usage patterns: A study based on unsupervised learning	7
The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	7
Is undergraduates’ adoption of the Internet of Things rational? The role of risk perception	7
Are you always ignoring attitude-challenging messages? Eye-tracking selective exposure on Chinese’ lowly involved news consumption	6
They shouldn’t be richer than me: How visual wealth exposure on social media increases relative deprivation	6
Acceptance and self-protection in government, commercial, and interpersonal surveillance contexts: An exploratory study	6
Social media as sources of sexual health knowledge: A compensatory or complementary form of education?	6
You teach me and I’ll teach you: The role of social interactions on positivity elicited from playing Pokémon GO	6
Internalizing personality traits and coping motivations for gaming during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-lagged panel mediation analysis	6
The longitudinal comorbidity of specific problematic internet use and psychological distress: A cross-lagged panel network analysis	6
An exploratory study of selfie motivations and their relation to sociability and shyness among youth	6
Problematic use of social media in adolescents or excessive social gratification? The mediating role of nomophobia	6
The dark triad and cyber aggression: Testing the longitudinal mediation of moral disengagement and toxic online disinhibition	6
Decoding user disclosure intentions in generative AI: Exploring the influence of system attributes on trust and privacy concerns within the extended technology acceptance model	6
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators: A qualitative study	5
The socially poor get richer, the rich get poorer: The effect of online self-disclosure on social connectedness and well-being is conditional on social anxiety and audience size	5
Is that Insta worthy? Predicting content sharing behavior on social media through interpersonal goals	5
Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use	5
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	5
Factors associated with connectedness to social media influencers among Italian and Dutch young adults	5
“Hang in there mama!” The role of online parenting forums in maternal mental health	5
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	5
Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions	5
Peer cyber-victimization and addictive phone use: Indirect effects of depression and anxiety among college students	4
The sense of responsibility and bystanders’ prosocial behavior in cyberbullying: The mediating role of compassion and the moderating roles of moral outrage and moral disgust	4
The temporality and accessibility of message types (TAMT) model: Examining social media message types and the associations between exposure to alcohol and binge drinking	4
Caught in the daily scroll: How upward social comparison fuels daily anxiety during short video use among Chinese young adults	4
Social media use does not increase individual-based relative deprivation: Evidence from a five-year RI-CLPM	4
Relationship between passion for playing video games and behavioral school engagement: Mediation through time spent playing	4
Dysfunctional risks of the internet and their overlap in the different stages of adolescence	4
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	4
Intolerance of uncertainty and emotion dysregulation mediate relations between fear of negative evaluation and problematic social media use severity	4
Exploring the dimensionality of Fear of Missing Out: Associations with related constructs	4
Meme-ingful connections: Unleashing the power of memes, GIFs, and emojis in relationship-oriented online communication	4
You can’t judge me! Virtual observers do not influence moral judgments in virtual environments	3

The use of artificial intelligence in mental health services in Turkey: What do mental health professionals think?	3
Drivers and social effects of the decision to turn on one’s camera during videoconferencing in groups	3
Investigating the cross-sectional and longitudinal relationship of X and LINE use with online relationship and life satisfaction: A 4-Year cohort study among Japanese adults	3
Working conditions and cybersecurity: Time pressure, autonomy and threat appraisal shaping employees’ security behavior	3
Latent profiles of problematic smartphone use severity are associated with social and generalized anxiety, and fear of missing out, among Chinese high school students	3
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	3
Big Five personality dimensions and disintegration as antecedents of vertical and horizontal internet privacy concerns	3
Problematic TikTok use severity, self-control, and school engagement: A one-year longitudinal study	3
Knowledge benefits through work-related social media use: A preregistered measurement burst study	3
Does the mere presence of smartphones impact cognition in the high school classroom?	3
From restrictions to awareness: Examining the varied relationship between mediation strategies and parental awareness of adolescents online sexual experiences across age groups	3
Willingness to self-disclose cyber victimization to friends or parents: Gender differences in cyber victimization a year later	3
Why do we trust in online reviews? Integrative literature review and future research directions	3
Online dating apps and the association with emotional reactions: A survey on the motivations, compulsive use, and subjective online success of Chinese young adults in online dating	3
Servant by default? How humans perceive their relationship with conversational AI	3
Digital social multitasking (DSMT), digital stress, and socioemotional wellbeing among adolescents	3
Until the shaken snowglobe settles: Feeling unsettled when using social media during COVID-19	3
Striving for accuracy attenuates the positive relationship between cyberbullying bystanders’ dispositional empathy and tendencies to help victims	3
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images	3