OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cyberpsychology-Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of young adults’ problematic technology use among Australian youth professionals	41
Online stress and offline stress: Uniqueness, differences, and cumulative effect on multiple well-being outcomes	25
The selfie production model: Rethinking selfie taking, editing, and posting practices	16
Gaming disorder and depression among chinese left-behind adolescents: Interactions of family, school, and personality factors	15
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	15
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	15
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	14
“It's just more complicated!”: Experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities when navigating digital sexual fields	13
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	13
Virtual contact hypothesis: Preliminary evidence for intergroup contact hypothesis in interactions with characters in video games	12
How to shop online: The construct and measurement of consumer competency in online shopping	11
Professional networking: Exploring differences between offline and online networking	11
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis	11
Online research on COVID-19—The role of content ranking and COVID-19 fear	11
Relationships among selfie-viewing on social media, thin-ideal internalization, and restrained eating in adolescents: The buffering role of media literacy	11
Cyberbullying on Instagram: How adolescents perceive risk in personal selfies?	11
Depressive symptomatology is associated with problematic smartphone use severity in adolescents: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies	10
Moral disengagement mechanisms predict cyber aggression among emerging adults	10
How public interactions via WeChat moments predict the emotional well-being of Chinese seniors and emerging seniors: The moderating roles of perceived self-network discrepancy and age	10
Social connections during physical isolation: How a shift to online interaction explains friendship satisfaction and social well-being	10
Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use	10
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	9
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	9
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	9
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators: A qualitative study	8

“He flattered me”. A comprehensive look into online grooming risk factors: Merging voices of victims, offenders and experts through in-depth interviews	8
Gender differences in videoed accounts of victim blaming for revenge porn for self-taken and stealth-taken sexually explicit images and videos	8
Why do we trust in online reviews? Integrative literature review and future research directions	8
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	8
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	8
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	7
Are online users influenced by what other users say? Meta-analyzing the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impact of online comment valence	7
Profiles of bullying, cyberbullying, and disinterest in reading among primary school learners in Spain	7
Conditionally helpful? The influence of person-, situation-, and device-specific factors on maternal smartphone use for stress coping and on coping effectiveness	7
From restrictions to awareness: Examining the varied relationship between mediation strategies and parental awareness of adolescents online sexual experiences across age groups	7
Adolescents who are nonusers of fashionable social networking platforms	6
Do the offline and social media Big Five have the same dimensional structure, mean levels, and predictive validity of social media outcomes?	6
The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (ONNUS)	6
Social network sites and obsessive-compulsive disorder: An investigation with suppression analyses	6
Social media use does not increase individual-based relative deprivation: Evidence from a five-year RI-CLPM	6
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	6
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	5
Electronic performance monitoring: The role of reactance, trust, and privacy concerns in predicting job satisfaction in the post-pandemic workplace	5
Inspiration on social media: Applying an entertainment perspective to longitudinally explore mental health and well-being	5
The role of personality factors in young adults’ motives for sharing alcohol references on social networking sites	5
Instant messaging and relationship satisfaction across different ages and cultures	5
Active and passive selfie-related behaviors: Implications for body image, self-esteem and mental health	5
Selective exposure in action: Do visitors of product evaluation portals select reviews in a biased manner?	5
Family communication patterns and internet addiction among Iranian female high school students: The mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction	5
Reducing transphobia with the narratives of transgender YouTubers	5
Do Facebook and Instagram differ in their influence on life satisfaction? A study of college men and women in South Korea	4
The validation of the Perceived Surveillance Scale	4
False consensus in the echo chamber: Exposure to favorably biased social media news feeds leads to increased perception of public support for own opinions	4
What is the post-game depression? A narrative inquiry	4
Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	4
Cyber victimization and cyber aggression among high school students: Emotion regulation as a moderator	4
Adolescents’ intention and willingness to engage in risky photo disclosure on social networking sites: Testing the prototype willingness model	4
Disinformation in Poland: Thematic classification based on content analysis of fake news from 2019	4
“The end justifies the memes”: A feminist relational discourse analysis of the role of macro memes in facilitating supportive discussions for victim-survivors of narcissistic abuse	4
Correlations of online social network size with well-being and distress: A meta-analysis	4
The effect of emotion background on pathological internet users’ comments on online news: Evidence from online text analysis	3
Assessment of virtual reality as an anxiety and disgust provoking tool: The use of VR exposure in individuals with high contamination fear	3
Predicting individual differences to cyber attacks: Knowledge, arousal, emotional and trust responses	3
Gaming as a coping strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	3
The relationships among relatedness frustration, affiliation motivation, and WeChat engagement, moderated by relatedness satisfaction	3
Online pornography use and sexual satisfaction in association with relationship satisfaction among middle-aged and older people	3
Peer cyber-victimization and addictive phone use: Indirect effects of depression and anxiety among college students	3
How it feels to be “left on read”: Social surveillance on Snapchat and young individuals’ mental health	3
The temporality and accessibility of message types (TAMT) model: Examining social media message types and the associations between exposure to alcohol and binge drinking	3
Effects of social comparison direction, comparison distance, and message framing on health behavioral intention in online support groups	3
Relationship between passion for playing video games and behavioral school engagement: Mediation through time spent playing	3
Can mediated communication moderate the relationship between being in isolation and quarantine for COVID-19 and loneliness?	2
Adverse childhood experiences in persons with excessive and destructive online behaviour	2
The impact of nomophobia and smartphone presence on fluid intelligence and attention	2

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	2
Is undergraduates’ adoption of the Internet of Things rational? The role of risk perception	2
Online experience sharing without explicit social interaction does not foster social bonding	2
Longitudinal predictors of online dating aggression: Similarities and differences between control and intrusiveness	2
ICTs opportunities and risks: Effectiveness of a nationwide intervention	2
Body talk on social network sites and body dissatisfaction among college students: The mediating roles of appearance ideals internalization and appearance comparison	2
Dysfunctional risks of the internet and their overlap in the different stages of adolescence	2
Autonomy vs. control: Associations among parental mediation, perceived parenting styles, and U. S. adolescents’ risky online experiences	2
Healthier but not happier? The lifestyle habits of health influencer followers	2
Exploring the dimensionality of Fear of Missing Out: Associations with related constructs	2
Swiping more, thinking less: Using TikTok hinders analytic thinking	2
Can time flow differently if you are a virtual reality newcomer?	2
Impressions matter more than privacy: The moderating roles of affordances in the relation between social anxiety and online safety-seeking behaviors	1
Solitary and joint online pornography use during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: Intrapersonal and interpersonal correlates	1
How does Chinese millennials’ active social media use relate to their future goals? A moderated mediation model	1
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images	1
Sexting during social isolation: Predicting sexting-related privacy management during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Supportive parenting and adolescents digital citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of self-regulation	1
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images	1
Willingness to self-disclose cyber victimization to friends or parents: Gender differences in cyber victimization a year later	1
Adolescents’ ethnic hate speech exposure and ethnic bullying perpetration: The moderating role of tolerance towards diversity and gender	1
The mediating role of preference for online interactions in the relationship between self-knowledge and problematic use of social networks	1
The relationship between Internet use and self-concept clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
The association between media multitasking and executive function in Chinese adolescents: Evidence from self-reported, behavioral and fNIRS data	1
Concern about appearance on Instagram and Facebook: Measurement and links with eating disorders	1
The effects of age-morphing technology on older adult issue campaigns: The interplay of construal level, perceived probability, and message appeal	1
Relationship dissolution strategies: Comparing the psychological consequences of ghosting, orbiting, and rejection	1
Texting and the brain: The time-course of social brain activation in face-to-face versus text-based computer-mediated-communication	1
An initial investigation of the role of depressive and anxious syndromes in Problematic Internet Use in adolescence and young adults	1
An exploratory study of selfie motivations and their relation to sociability and shyness among youth	1
Loneliness is negatively related to Facebook network size, but not related to Facebook network structure	1
Comparison of mental rotation ability, attentional capacity and cognitive flexibility in action video gamers and non-gamers	1
Does consciousness of social face matter? Understanding sharing behavior towards online charitable crowdfunding information	1