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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Profiles of bullying, cyberbullying, and disinterest in reading among primary school learners in Spain	29
Convergent and divergent predictors of extensive use time and problematic TikTok use	27
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	23
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	21
Depressive symptomatology is associated with problematic smartphone use severity in adolescents: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies	20
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	19
The relationship between usage of social networking sites and meaning in life: Anonymous versus identifiable contexts	19
Reducing transphobia with the narratives of transgender YouTubers	18
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	18
The relationships among relatedness frustration, affiliation motivation, and WeChat engagement, moderated by relatedness satisfaction	16
Adolescents’ ethnic hate speech exposure and ethnic bullying perpetration: The moderating role of tolerance towards diversity and gender	15
To respond or not to respond: The effects of interpersonal goals on responsive Facebook behaviours	15
An initial investigation of the role of depressive and anxious syndromes in Problematic Internet Use in adolescence and young adults	15
Tackling hate speech online: The effect of counter-speech on subsequent bystander behavioral intentions	14
The use of online social network sites during the COVID-19 pandemic as a protective or risk factor for well-being of university students	14
Conceptualizing social media contingent self-esteem: Associations between echo chambers, contingent self-esteem, and problematic social media use	14
The role of negative and positive urgency in the relationship between craving and symptoms of problematic video game use	13
Problematic internet use prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Unveiling the depths of Tinder: Decoding the dark tetrad and sociosexuality in motives behind online dating	13
User experience of mixed reality applications for healthy ageing: A systematic review	12
Attachment style and social media fatigue: The role of usage-related stressors, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity	12
Childhood risks and problematic smartphone use: Dual processes of life history strategy and psychological distress	12
(Dis)Connected: Finding the link between problematic use of internet, parent-child communication and academic performance in emerging adults	11
Technology-facilitated abuse of young adults in the United States: A latent class analysis	11
Prevalence and impact of Internet Gaming Disorder: A population-based study	11

When feeling positive is being “in the zone”: How challenge optimality causes changes in positive affect and flow	11
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	10
Online stress and offline stress: Uniqueness, differences, and cumulative effect on multiple well-being outcomes	10
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	10
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	10
Longitudinal bidirectional relations between parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: The roles of problematic social network use and personality	10
Profiles of problematic social networking site use: A cross-cultural validation of a scale with Spanish and Mexican adolescents	10
How to shop online: The construct and measurement of consumer competency in online shopping	9
Can time flow differently if you are a virtual reality newcomer?	9
What is the post-game depression? A narrative inquiry	9
The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	9
Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	9
Breaking barriers: The impact of intergroup contact on bystanders' actions against bias-based cyberbullying	9
Is undergraduates’ adoption of the Internet of Things rational? The role of risk perception	8
Predicting individual differences to cyber attacks: Knowledge, arousal, emotional and trust responses	8
How it feels to be “left on read”: Social surveillance on Snapchat and young individuals’ mental health	8
The effects of age-morphing technology on older adult issue campaigns: The interplay of construal level, perceived probability, and message appeal	8
Autonomy vs. control: Associations among parental mediation, perceived parenting styles, and U. S. adolescents’ risky online experiences	8
Unravelling social network usage patterns: A study based on unsupervised learning	8
The effect of emotion background on pathological internet users’ comments on online news: Evidence from online text analysis	8
An exploratory study of selfie motivations and their relation to sociability and shyness among youth	7
You teach me and I’ll teach you: The role of social interactions on positivity elicited from playing Pokémon GO	7
Are you always ignoring attitude-challenging messages? Eye-tracking selective exposure on Chinese’ lowly involved news consumption	7
Problematic use of social media in adolescents or excessive social gratification? The mediating role of nomophobia	7
Internalizing personality traits and coping motivations for gaming during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-lagged panel mediation analysis	6
“Hang in there mama!” The role of online parenting forums in maternal mental health	6
Acceptance and self-protection in government, commercial, and interpersonal surveillance contexts: An exploratory study	6
Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions	6
They shouldn’t be richer than me: How visual wealth exposure on social media increases relative deprivation	6
Is that Insta worthy? Predicting content sharing behavior on social media through interpersonal goals	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
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	5
Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use	5
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators: A qualitative study	5
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	5
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	5
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
Do the offline and social media Big Five have the same dimensional structure, mean levels, and predictive validity of social media outcomes?	4
You can’t judge me! Virtual observers do not influence moral judgments in virtual environments	4
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	4
Peer cyber-victimization and addictive phone use: Indirect effects of depression and anxiety among college students	4
Dysfunctional risks of the internet and their overlap in the different stages of adolescence	4
Meme-ingful connections: Unleashing the power of memes, GIFs, and emojis in relationship-oriented online communication	4
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images	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
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
Exploring the dimensionality of Fear of Missing Out: Associations with related constructs	4
Solitary and joint online pornography use during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: Intrapersonal and interpersonal correlates	3
Until the shaken snowglobe settles: Feeling unsettled when using social media during COVID-19	3

The use of artificial intelligence in mental health services in Turkey: What do mental health professionals think?	3
Problematic TikTok use severity, self-control, and school engagement: A one-year longitudinal study	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
Big Five personality dimensions and disintegration as antecedents of vertical and horizontal internet privacy concerns	3
Digital social multitasking (DSMT), digital stress, and socioemotional wellbeing among adolescents	3
Does the mere presence of smartphones impact cognition in the high school classroom?	3
Willingness to self-disclose cyber victimization to friends or parents: Gender differences in cyber victimization a year later	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
Drivers and social effects of the decision to turn on one’s camera during videoconferencing in groups	3
Moral disengagement mechanisms predict cyber aggression among emerging adults	2
Impressions matter more than privacy: The moderating roles of affordances in the relation between social anxiety and online safety-seeking behaviors	2
Servant by default? How humans perceive their relationship with conversational AI	2
Family communication patterns and internet addiction among Iranian female high school students: The mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction	2
Supportive parenting and adolescents digital citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of self-regulation	2
The impact of nomophobia and smartphone presence on fluid intelligence and attention	2
“It's just more complicated!”: Experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities when navigating digital sexual fields	2
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis	2
Facebook, social comparison and happiness: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	2
Working conditions and cybersecurity: Time pressure, autonomy and threat appraisal shaping employees’ security behavior	2
The selfie production model: Rethinking selfie taking, editing, and posting practices	2
Effects of social comparison direction, comparison distance, and message framing on health behavioral intention in online support groups	2
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	2
Instant messaging and relationship satisfaction across different ages and cultures	2
From restrictions to awareness: Examining the varied relationship between mediation strategies and parental awareness of adolescents online sexual experiences across age groups	2
Bystanders’ perceptions on online hate speech: Investigating the effects of perpetrators’ justifications and the bystander’s role on bystanders’ attitude and prosocial intervention intentions	2
Why do we trust in online reviews? Integrative literature review and future research directions	2
Active and passive selfie-related behaviors: Implications for body image, self-esteem and mental health	2
Can mediated communication moderate the relationship between being in isolation and quarantine for COVID-19 and loneliness?	2