OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking is 33. 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
How Adolescents Use Social Media to Cope with Feelings of Loneliness and Anxiety During COVID-19 Lockdown	332
How Parents and Their Children Used Social Media and Technology at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Anxiety	231
Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 to 2019	189
Mental Health Care Goes Online: Practitioners' Experiences of Providing Mental Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	146
Ready or Not for Contact Tracing? Investigating the Adoption Intention of COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Technology Using an Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model	98
Relationship Development with Humanoid Social Robots: Applying Interpersonal Theories to Human–Robot Interaction	88
What the Metaverse Is (Really) and Why We Need to Know About It	84
Cyber Stalking, Cyber Harassment, and Adult Mental Health: A Systematic Review	76
Online Social Connection as a Buffer of Health Anxiety and Isolation During COVID-19	70
Discrimination and Well-Being Among Asians/Asian Americans During COVID-19: The Role of Social Media	69
Internet-Related Behaviors and Psychological Distress Among Schoolchildren During the COVID-19 School Hiatus	67
The Social Impact of Deepfakes	67
Facial Appearance Dissatisfaction Explains Differences in Zoom Fatigue	59
Comparing Smartphone, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat: Which Platform Elicits the Greatest Use Disorder Symptoms?	58
Effects of Disinformation Using Deepfake: The Protective Effect of Media Literacy Education	57
Metaverse Games: Game Changer for Healthcare?	56
Digital Disinformation About COVID-19 and the Third-Person Effect: Examining the Channel Differences and Negative Emotional Outcomes	53
Surviving COVID-19: The Neuroscience of Smart Working and Distance Learning	51
Social Media Exposure and College Students' Mental Health During the Outbreak of COVID-19: The Mediating Role of Rumination and the Moderating Role of Mindfulness	49
The Effects of Playing Video Games on Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Loneliness, and Gaming Disorder During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: PRISMA Systematic Review	49
Ready (or Not) Player One: Initial Musings on the Metaverse	48
Loot Boxes, Gambling, and Problem Gambling Among Young People: Results from a Cross-Sectional Online Survey	47
Global Storm of Stress-Related Psychopathological Symptoms: A Brief Overview on the Usefulness of Virtual Reality in Facing the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19	46
Problematic Social Media Use and Its Relationship with Depression or Anxiety: A Systematic Review	45
The Instagram Infodemic: Cobranding of Conspiracy Theories, Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Authority-Questioning Beliefs	42

Whose Tweets on COVID-19 Gain the Most Attention: Celebrities, Political, or Scientific Authorities?	42
Social Media Use and Adolescent Well-Being: A Narrative Review of Longitudinal Studies	40
Cyberbullying in Adolescents: Resilience as a Protective Factor of Mental Health Outcomes	37
Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use	37
Relationship Between Depression Symptoms, Physical Activity, and Addictive Social Media Use	37
Internet Use by People with Intellectual Disability: Exploring Digital Inequality—A Systematic Review	35
Internet Addiction and Attention in Adolescents: A Systematic Review	35
Smoking, Vaping, and Tobacco Industry During COVID-19 Pandemic: Twitter Data Analysis	33