OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mobile Media & Communication 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps: Parallel platformization of Douyin and TikTok	150
Digital detox: An effective solution in the smartphone era? A systematic literature review	83
Mobile data donations: Assessing self-report accuracy and sample biases with the iOS Screen Time function	64
Studying problems, not problematic usage: Do mobile checking habits increase procrastination and decrease well-being?	29
‘Just checking’: Vulnerable and grandiose narcissism subtypes as predictors of phubbing	28
Re-domesticating social media when it becomes disruptive: Evidence from China’s “super app” WeChat	25
Caught in the moment: Are there person-specific associations between momentary procrastination and passively measured smartphone use?	23
How and when do mobile media demands impact well-being? Explicating the Integrative Model of Mobile Media Use and Need Experiences (IM³UNE)	22
Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue	22
Explicating self-phones: Dimensions and correlates of smartphone self-extension	21
You are not alone: Smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis	20
The (other) two percent also matter: The construction of mobile phone refusers	19
Always available via WhatsApp: Mapping everyday boundary work practices and privacy negotiations	18
From waifus to whales: The evolution of discourse in a mobile game-based competitive community of practice	15
User engagement with smart wearables: Four defining factors and a process model	13
What determines instant messaging communication? Examining the impact of person- and situation-level factors on IM responsiveness	12
The state of wearable health technologies: a transdisciplinary literature review	12
Imagining 5G: Public sense-making through advertising in China and the US	12
Smartphone mothering and mediated family display: Transnational family practices in a polymedia environment among Indonesian mothers in Hong Kong	11
Disciplining the Akratic user: Constructing digital (un) wellness	11
Who shares news on mobile messaging applications, why and in what ways? A cross-national analysis	11
The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go	10
Family technoference: Exploring parent mobile device distraction from children’s perspectives	10
The erosion of nongambling spheres by smartphone gambling: A qualitative study on workplace and domestic disordered gambling	10
Mobilizing care? WeChat for older adults’ digital kinship and informal care in Wuhan households	10

Dance the Night Away: How Automatic TikTok Use Creates Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal and Daytime Fatigue	10
The Tinder Games: Collective mobile dating app use and gender conforming behavior	9
Oh, no, Pokémon GO! Media panic and fear of mobility in news coverage of an augmented reality phenomenon	9
Weak ties matter: Social network dynamics of mobile media multiplexity and their impact on the social support and psychological well-being experienced by migrant workers	9
A meta-analysis of the overall effect of mHealth physical activity interventions for weight loss and the moderating effect of behavioral change theories, techniques, and mobile technologies	9
Your phone ruins our lunch: Attitudes, norms, and valuing the interaction predict phone use and phubbing in dyadic social interactions	9
Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong	8
Situational boundary conditions of digital stress: Goal conflict and autonomy frustration make smartphone use more stressful	8
Cellphone relevance in face-to-face interactions: The effects of cellphone use on conversational satisfaction	7
(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Reducing parent-adolescent conflicts about mobile phone use: The role of parenting styles	7
Where horizontal and vertical surveillances meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact-tracing apps during a health crisis	6
The role of motivation in the digital divide: The moderating effect of device access	6
COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control	6
Datafied mobile markets: Measuring control over apps, data accesses, and third-party services	6
Mobile communication research in 15 top-tier journals, 2006–2020: An updated review of trends, advances, and characteristics	6
Overestimating or underestimating communication findings? Comparing self-reported with log mobile data by data donation method	6
Testing relationships between smartphone engagement, romantic partner communication, and relationship satisfaction	5
The second-level smartphone divide: A typology of smartphone use based on frequency of use, skills, and types of activities	5
Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites	5
Looking back to look forward: 5G/COVID-19 conspiracies and the long history of infrastructural fears	5
The smartphone between the present and the future: Five changes	5
Hybrid spaces 2.0: Connecting networked urbanism, uneven mobilities, and creativity, in a (post) pandemic world	5
Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield, and Crystal Abidin, Instagram: Visual social media cultures	5
Connected solitude: Mobile phone use by Spanish transhumant livestock farmers	5
Managing everyday communication with strong, weak, and latent ties via WeChat: Availability, visibility, and reciprocal engagement	4
COVID-19 now and then: Reflections on mobile communication and the pandemic	4
Parental surveillance and parenting styles: Toward a model of familial surveillance climates	4
Book readers in the digital age: Reading practices and media technologies	4
Failed hybrids: The death and life of Bluetooth proximity marketing	4
Evolving mobile media: Changing technology and transforming behavior	3
Psychological perspectives on mobile media: A flyover review	3
Selectively localized: Temporal and visual structure of smartphone screen activity across media environments	3
Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South: The faith in state and collective objective	3
Playing with place: Location-based mobile games in post-pandemic public spaces	3
Software presentation: MeTag Analyze and MeTag App media diary software	3
Software presentation: Rtoot: Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data	3
Predicting the next decade of mobile communication studies research: More mobile media, fewer mobile phones	2
Who “phubs”? A systematic meta-analytic review of phubbing predictors	2
The relational ontology of mobile touchscreens and the body: Ambient proprioception and risk during COVID-19	2
W(h)ither the device divide? Changing relationships between personal computer or mobile device with online activities	2
The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay	2
Going above and beyond? How parent–daycare mobile communication reconfigures the time and space dimensions of parenting	2
Influence of professional mobile device usage on Work/Family Border Theory	2
Book review: Gabriele Balbi and Paolo Magaudda, A history of digital media: An intermedia and global perspective	2
Google Maps’ COVID-19 layer as an interface for pandemic life	2
Mobile phones in the spread of unreliable information on Twitter: evidence from the 2017 French presidential campaign	2
Technologies of inclusion and marginalization: Mobile phones and multiple exclusion homeless women	2
Mechanisms of maternal and paternal phubbing on adolescents’ self-control: The attenuating effect of having a sibling	2
On the becoming of an academic home for research into the intersection of mobile devices and news	2

Reluctant mobilism: Forced displacement	2
Mobile social media: The challenges and opportunities continue	2
Tethered compliance: Exploring the role of the smartphone in online civic engagement among low-income US young people through two pandemic-era case studies	1
WhatsApp group as a shared resource for coping with political violence: The case of mothers living in an ongoing conflict area	1
Mobile phone use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic – a panel study of older adults in seven countries	1
Book Review: The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life by Lee Humphreys	1
Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being	1
Repurposing a WhatsApp group: How a fantasy cricket group transformed into a site of care and support during India's second wave of Covid-19	1
The R package rtoot	1
Mobile work, mobility, and mobile devices: Responding to a societal shift	1
Observations on mobile communication and well-being research	1
Does parental smartphone use predict parents’ perceptions of family life? An examination of momentary associations between parental smartphone use, parental experiences of quality time, and parental p	1
Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao	1
What we do in the shadows: The consumption of mobile messaging by social media mobile apps in the twilight of the social networking era	1
Celebrating 10 years of Mobile Media & Communication	1
Mundane citizenship on the move: A counter-public response to inbound shopping tourism via mobile social media applications use	1
Playing remotely: The COVID-19 pandemic and mobile locative gaming in Northeast Brazil	1
Doing Mobile Media and Communication scholarship in different keys: Sounding out structure and integration in the field	1
Networks in motion: The alliances of information communication technologies and mobility technologies during the 1918 influenza pandemic	1