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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Profiles of bullying, cyberbullying, and disinterest in reading among primary school learners in Spain	36
Depressive symptomatology is associated with problematic smartphone use severity in adolescents: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies	35
Phubbing and relational evaluation among college students: A longitudinal study	28
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	27
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	25
Convergent and divergent predictors of extensive use time and problematic TikTok use	21
Reducing transphobia with the narratives of transgender YouTubers	15
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	15
The relationship between usage of social networking sites and meaning in life: Anonymous versus identifiable contexts	15
The role of nonverbal communication cues in reducing videoconference fatigue: A comparison of 2D and virtual reality videoconference platforms	14
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	14
To respond or not to respond: The effects of interpersonal goals on responsive Facebook behaviours	14
Adolescents’ ethnic hate speech exposure and ethnic bullying perpetration: The moderating role of tolerance towards diversity and gender	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	13
An initial investigation of the role of depressive and anxious syndromes in Problematic Internet Use in adolescence and young adults	13
Tackling hate speech online: The effect of counter-speech on subsequent bystander behavioral intentions	12
Childhood risks and problematic smartphone use: Dual processes of life history strategy and psychological distress	12
Conceptualizing social media contingent self-esteem: Associations between echo chambers, contingent self-esteem, and problematic social media use	12
Unveiling the depths of Tinder: Decoding the dark tetrad and sociosexuality in motives behind online dating	12
User experience of mixed reality applications for healthy ageing: A systematic review	11
The role of negative and positive urgency in the relationship between craving and symptoms of problematic video game use	11
Profiles of problematic social networking site use: A cross-cultural validation of a scale with Spanish and Mexican adolescents	9
When feeling positive is being “in the zone”: How challenge optimality causes changes in positive affect and flow	9
(Dis)Connected: Finding the link between problematic use of internet, parent-child communication and academic performance in emerging adults	9
Prevalence and impact of Internet Gaming Disorder: A population-based study	9

Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances	8
Technology-facilitated abuse of young adults in the United States: A latent class analysis	8
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	8
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	8
How to shop online: The construct and measurement of consumer competency in online shopping	8
Longitudinal bidirectional relations between parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: The roles of problematic social network use and personality	8
Online stress and offline stress: Uniqueness, differences, and cumulative effect on multiple well-being outcomes	8
What is the post-game depression? A narrative inquiry	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
Can time flow differently if you are a virtual reality newcomer?	8
Unraveling the positive and negative roles of positive body-focused social media interactions in adolescents’ body image	7
Instagram Passive Active Use Measure (iPAUM): Development, validation and relation to self-esteem	7
Unravelling social network usage patterns: A study based on unsupervised learning	7
How it feels to be “left on read”: Social surveillance on Snapchat and young individuals’ mental health	7
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	6
You teach me and I’ll teach you: The role of social interactions on positivity elicited from playing Pokémon GO	6
They shouldn’t be richer than me: How visual wealth exposure on social media increases relative deprivation	6
Problematic use of social media in adolescents or excessive social gratification? The mediating role of nomophobia	6
The association of motives with problematic smartphone use: A systematic review	6
Is undergraduates’ adoption of the Internet of Things rational? The role of risk perception	6
Internalizing personality traits and coping motivations for gaming during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-lagged panel mediation analysis	6
Are you always ignoring attitude-challenging messages? Eye-tracking selective exposure on Chinese’ lowly involved news consumption	6
An exploratory study of selfie motivations and their relation to sociability and shyness among youth	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
Decoding user disclosure intentions in generative AI: Exploring the influence of system attributes on trust and privacy concerns within the extended technology acceptance model	5
Is that Insta worthy? Predicting content sharing behavior on social media through interpersonal goals	5
Factors associated with connectedness to social media influencers among Italian and Dutch young adults	5
The dark triad and cyber aggression: Testing the longitudinal mediation of moral disengagement and toxic online disinhibition	5
Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions	5
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	5
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	5
The longitudinal comorbidity of specific problematic internet use and psychological distress: A cross-lagged panel network analysis	5
“Hang in there mama!” The role of online parenting forums in maternal mental health	5
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	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
Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use	4
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	4
Caught in the daily scroll: How upward social comparison fuels daily anxiety during short video use among Chinese young adults	4
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
Intolerance of uncertainty and emotion dysregulation mediate relations between fear of negative evaluation and problematic social media use severity	4
You can’t judge me! Virtual observers do not influence moral judgments in virtual environments	3
Exploring the dimensionality of Fear of Missing Out: Associations with related constructs	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
The use of artificial intelligence in mental health services in Turkey: What do mental health professionals think?	3

Knowledge benefits through work-related social media use: A preregistered measurement burst study	3
Servant by default? How humans perceive their relationship with conversational AI	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
Until the shaken snowglobe settles: Feeling unsettled when using social media during COVID-19	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
Drivers and social effects of the decision to turn on one’s camera during videoconferencing in groups	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
Digital social multitasking (DSMT), digital stress, and socioemotional wellbeing among adolescents	3
Working conditions and cybersecurity: Time pressure, autonomy and threat appraisal shaping employees’ security behavior	3
Striving for accuracy attenuates the positive relationship between cyberbullying bystanders’ dispositional empathy and tendencies to help victims	3
Dysfunctional risks of the internet and their overlap in the different stages of adolescence	3
Meme-ingful connections: Unleashing the power of memes, GIFs, and emojis in relationship-oriented online communication	3
Fit and fun: Content analysis investigating positive body image dimensions of adolescents’ Facebook images	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
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
From restrictions to awareness: Examining the varied relationship between mediation strategies and parental awareness of adolescents online sexual experiences across age groups	3