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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sociocultural values, attitudes and risk factors associated with adolescent cyberbullying in East Asia: A systematic review	34
Youth cyber dating abuse: A meta-analysis of risk and protective factors	33
A third-person perspective on phubbing: Observing smartphone-induced social exclusion generates negative affect, stress, and derogatory attitudes	27
Social media and eating disorder psychopathology: A systematic review	17
Two dimensions of problematic smartphone use mediate the relationship between fear of missing out and emotional well-being	16
Problematic internet use prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Relationship dissolution strategies: Comparing the psychological consequences of ghosting, orbiting, and rejection	12
“Cognitive control in media multitaskers” ten years on: A meta-analysis	12
The race to escape: Location-based escapism and physical activity as a motivator in the consumption of the AR game Pokémon Go	11
Sharing health risk messages on social media: Effects of fear appeal message and image promotion	10
Instagram selfie-posting and young women’s body dissatisfaction: Investigating the role of self-esteem and need for popularity	10
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	10
The relationship between Internet use and self-concept clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Mindfulness mediates relations between anxiety with problematic smartphone use severity	9
The effectiveness of prevention programs for problematic Internet use in adolescents and youths: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Solitary and joint online pornography use during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: Intrapersonal and interpersonal correlates	9
Are online behaviors damaging our in-person connections? Passive versus active social media use on romantic relationships	9
Correlations of online social network size with well-being and distress: A meta-analysis	9
Professional networking: Exploring differences between offline and online networking	8
The temporality and accessibility of message types (TAMT) model: Examining social media message types and the associations between exposure to alcohol and binge drinking	8
The validation of the Perceived Surveillance Scale	8
Loneliness is negatively related to Facebook network size, but not related to Facebook network structure	7
Disinformation in Poland: Thematic classification based on content analysis of fake news from 2019	7
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	7
Harmonious and obsessive involvement, self-esteem, and well-being. A longitudinal study on MMORPG players	7

Concern about appearance on Instagram and Facebook: Measurement and links with eating disorders	7
Do Facebook and Instagram differ in their influence on life satisfaction? A study of college men and women in South Korea	7
Compulsive Instagram use: Roles of stickiness, gratifications, and mindfulness	7
The impact of nomophobia and smartphone presence on fluid intelligence and attention	7
Social connections during physical isolation: How a shift to online interaction explains friendship satisfaction and social well-being	7
Actions speak louder than looks: The effects of avatar appearance and in-game actions on subsequent prosocial behavior	6
Autonomy vs. control: Associations among parental mediation, perceived parenting styles, and U. S. adolescents’ risky online experiences	6
A content analysis of teen-favored celebrities' posts on social networking sites: Implications for parasocial relationships and fame-valuation	6
The association between media multitasking and executive function in Chinese adolescents: Evidence from self-reported, behavioral and fNIRS data	6
Do the offline and social media Big Five have the same dimensional structure, mean levels, and predictive validity of social media outcomes?	6
Stress, dependency, and depression: An examination of the reinforcement effects of problematic smartphone use on perceived stress and later depression	6
The effectiveness of safe surfing, an anti-cyberbullying intervention program in reducing online and offline bullying and improving perceived popularity and self-esteem	6
Assessing the relationship between cyber and traditional forms of bullying and sexual harassment: Stepping stones or displacement?	6
Social identification and collective action participation in the internet age: A meta-analysis	5
Predicting individual differences to cyber attacks: Knowledge, arousal, emotional and trust responses	5
Social network sites, fear of missing out, and psychosocial correlates	5
Inspiration on social media: Applying an entertainment perspective to longitudinally explore mental health and well-being	5
Assessment of virtual reality as an anxiety and disgust provoking tool: The use of VR exposure in individuals with high contamination fear	5
Compare and despair or compare and explore? Instagram social comparisons of ability and opinion predict adolescent identity development	4
Virtually renovating the Trauma Film Paradigm: Comparing virtual reality with on-screen presentation of an analogue trauma	4
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis	4
Exercise in virtual reality with a muscular avatar influences performance on a weightlifting exercise	4
Facebook intensity, social network support, stability and satisfaction in long-distance and geographically-close romantic relationships: A test of a mediation model	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
Criteria and rules for privacy management prior to self-disclosures on social network sites (SNSs)	4
Social network sites and obsessive-compulsive disorder: An investigation with suppression analyses	4
Exploring individuals’ descriptive and injunctive norms of ghosting	3
Caregiving strategies, parental practices, and the use of Facebook groups among Israeli mothers of adolescents	3
Attachment style and social media fatigue: The role of usage-related stressors, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity	3
Comparison of mental rotation ability, attentional capacity and cognitive flexibility in action video gamers and non-gamers	3
Adolescents’ intention and willingness to engage in risky photo disclosure on social networking sites: Testing the prototype willingness model	3
False consensus in the echo chamber: Exposure to favorably biased social media news feeds leads to increased perception of public support for own opinions	3
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	3
Digital support seeking in adolescent girls: A qualitative study of affordances and limitations	3
Sexual and gender-based violence: To tweet or not to tweet?	3
Understanding the intention to donate online in the Chinese context: The influence of norms and trust	3
The effect of emotion background on pathological internet users’ comments on online news: Evidence from online text analysis	3
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	3
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	3
What makes an Internet troll? On the relationships between temperament (BIS/BAS), Dark Triad, and Internet trolling	3
Experiences in Alzheimer’s disease: What do stakeholders post on the Internet?	3
The use of online social network sites during the COVID-19 pandemic as a protective or risk factor for well-being of university students	3
Can mediated communication moderate the relationship between being in isolation and quarantine for COVID-19 and loneliness?	3
Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	3
Cyber victimization and cyber aggression among high school students: Emotion regulation as a moderator	3
Moral disengagement mechanisms predict cyber aggression among emerging adults	3
Gender differences in videoed accounts of victim blaming for revenge porn for self-taken and stealth-taken sexually explicit images and videos	2
Digital social multitasking (DSMT), digital stress, and socioemotional wellbeing among adolescents	2

The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	2
Active and passive selfie-related behaviors: Implications for body image, self-esteem and mental health	2
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	2
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	2
Servant by default? How humans perceive their relationship with conversational AI	2
The race to escape: Location-based escapism and physical activity as a motivator in the consumption of the AR game Pokémon Go	2
Body talk on social network sites and body dissatisfaction among college students: The mediating roles of appearance ideals internalization and appearance comparison	2
The impact of video game character viewpoints and task on perceptions of cognitive and similarity identification	2
The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (ONNUS)	2
Virtual contact hypothesis: Preliminary evidence for intergroup contact hypothesis in interactions with characters in video games	2
Technology-facilitated abuse of young adults in the United States: A latent class analysis	2
The relationship between preference for online social interaction and affective well-being via compulsive dating app use: The moderating role of algorithmic beliefs	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
Conditionally helpful? The influence of person-, situation-, and device-specific factors on maternal smartphone use for stress coping and on coping effectiveness	2