OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cyberpsychology-Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sociocultural values, attitudes and risk factors associated with adolescent cyberbullying in East Asia: A systematic review	41
Social media and eating disorder psychopathology: A systematic review	25
Relationship dissolution strategies: Comparing the psychological consequences of ghosting, orbiting, and rejection	16
“Cognitive control in media multitaskers” ten years on: A meta-analysis	15
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	15
Problematic internet use prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Correlations of online social network size with well-being and distress: A meta-analysis	14
The validation of the Perceived Surveillance Scale	13
The effectiveness of prevention programs for problematic Internet use in adolescents and youths: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
The relationship between Internet use and self-concept clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Instagram selfie-posting and young women’s body dissatisfaction: Investigating the role of self-esteem and need for popularity	11
Concern about appearance on Instagram and Facebook: Measurement and links with eating disorders	11
Professional networking: Exploring differences between offline and online networking	11
Are online behaviors damaging our in-person connections? Passive versus active social media use on romantic relationships	11
Autonomy vs. control: Associations among parental mediation, perceived parenting styles, and U. S. adolescents’ risky online experiences	11
Solitary and joint online pornography use during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: Intrapersonal and interpersonal correlates	11
Assessment of virtual reality as an anxiety and disgust provoking tool: The use of VR exposure in individuals with high contamination fear	11
Harmonious and obsessive involvement, self-esteem, and well-being. A longitudinal study on MMORPG players	10
Servant by default? How humans perceive their relationship with conversational AI	10
Mindfulness mediates relations between anxiety with problematic smartphone use severity	10
Social identification and collective action participation in the internet age: A meta-analysis	10
Disinformation in Poland: Thematic classification based on content analysis of fake news from 2019	10
Stress, dependency, and depression: An examination of the reinforcement effects of problematic smartphone use on perceived stress and later depression	9
The temporality and accessibility of message types (TAMT) model: Examining social media message types and the associations between exposure to alcohol and binge drinking	9
Compulsive Instagram use: Roles of stickiness, gratifications, and mindfulness	9

The impact of nomophobia and smartphone presence on fluid intelligence and attention	9
Inspiration on social media: Applying an entertainment perspective to longitudinally explore mental health and well-being	8
The association between media multitasking and executive function in Chinese adolescents: Evidence from self-reported, behavioral and fNIRS data	8
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	8
Do Facebook and Instagram differ in their influence on life satisfaction? A study of college men and women in South Korea	8
Social connections during physical isolation: How a shift to online interaction explains friendship satisfaction and social well-being	8
Exercise in virtual reality with a muscular avatar influences performance on a weightlifting exercise	8
Actions speak louder than looks: The effects of avatar appearance and in-game actions on subsequent prosocial behavior	7
Predicting individual differences to cyber attacks: Knowledge, arousal, emotional and trust responses	7
Understanding the intention to donate online in the Chinese context: The influence of norms and trust	7
Do the offline and social media Big Five have the same dimensional structure, mean levels, and predictive validity of social media outcomes?	7
Attachment style and social media fatigue: The role of usage-related stressors, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity	7
Loneliness is negatively related to Facebook network size, but not related to Facebook network structure	7
Can mediated communication moderate the relationship between being in isolation and quarantine for COVID-19 and loneliness?	6
False consensus in the echo chamber: Exposure to favorably biased social media news feeds leads to increased perception of public support for own opinions	6
Comparison of mental rotation ability, attentional capacity and cognitive flexibility in action video gamers and non-gamers	6
Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	6
Virtually renovating the Trauma Film Paradigm: Comparing virtual reality with on-screen presentation of an analogue trauma	6
The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	6
The effect of emotion background on pathological internet users’ comments on online news: Evidence from online text analysis	5
Gender differences in videoed accounts of victim blaming for revenge porn for self-taken and stealth-taken sexually explicit images and videos	5
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	5
Exploring individuals’ descriptive and injunctive norms of ghosting	5
Cyber victimization and cyber aggression among high school students: Emotion regulation as a moderator	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
Conditionally helpful? The influence of person-, situation-, and device-specific factors on maternal smartphone use for stress coping and on coping effectiveness	5
The impact of video game character viewpoints and task on perceptions of cognitive and similarity identification	5
Active and passive selfie-related behaviors: Implications for body image, self-esteem and mental health	5
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis	5
Digital social multitasking (DSMT), digital stress, and socioemotional wellbeing among adolescents	4
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	4
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	4
Drinking among friends: The role of personality in links between online exposure to peer drinking and adolescent alcohol use	4
Smartphone stress: Concept, structure, and development of measurement among adolescents	4
Social network sites and obsessive-compulsive disorder: An investigation with suppression analyses	4
What makes an Internet troll? On the relationships between temperament (BIS/BAS), Dark Triad, and Internet trolling	4
The use of online social network sites during the COVID-19 pandemic as a protective or risk factor for well-being of university students	4
Criteria and rules for privacy management prior to self-disclosures on social network sites (SNSs)	4
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators: A qualitative study	4
Caregiving strategies, parental practices, and the use of Facebook groups among Israeli mothers of adolescents	4
The relationship between preference for online social interaction and affective well-being via compulsive dating app use: The moderating role of algorithmic beliefs	3
Body talk on social network sites and body dissatisfaction among college students: The mediating roles of appearance ideals internalization and appearance comparison	3
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	3
Virtual contact hypothesis: Preliminary evidence for intergroup contact hypothesis in interactions with characters in video games	3
Understanding the role of emotion regulation strategies in cybervictimization and cyberaggression over time: It is basically your fault!	3
Witnessing intimate partner violence and cyberbullying among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of self-control and moderating effect of parental psychological control	3
Gaming as a coping strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	3
Sexual and gender-based violence: To tweet or not to tweet?	3
Getting the privacy calculus right: Analyzing the relations between privacy concerns, expected benefits, and self-disclosure using response surface analysis	3

Adolescents’ intention and willingness to engage in risky photo disclosure on social networking sites: Testing the prototype willingness model	3
Moral disengagement mechanisms predict cyber aggression among emerging adults	3
Peer cyber-victimization and addictive phone use: Indirect effects of depression and anxiety among college students	2
The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (ONNUS)	2
Why do we trust in online reviews? Integrative literature review and future research directions	2
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	2
Technology-facilitated abuse of young adults in the United States: A latent class analysis	2
The chain-mediating role of perceived stress and problematic smartphone use in the link between critical thinking and academic engagement among Spanish adolescents	2
Online religious counseling for older adults	2
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	2
Relationships among selfie-viewing on social media, thin-ideal internalization, and restrained eating in adolescents: The buffering role of media literacy	2
The role of negative and positive urgency in the relationship between craving and symptoms of problematic video game use	2
The relationships among relatedness frustration, affiliation motivation, and WeChat engagement, moderated by relatedness satisfaction	2
Adolescents who are nonusers of fashionable social networking platforms	2
“It's just more complicated!”: Experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities when navigating digital sexual fields	2
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	2
How technological affordances predict political expression via Quora: Mediated by risk appraisal and moderated by social motivation	2
It’s now or never! Future discounting in the application of the online privacy calculus	2