OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking is 8. 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
Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use	37
Relationship Between Depression Symptoms, Physical Activity, and Addictive Social Media Use	37
Cyberbullying in Adolescents: Resilience as a Protective Factor of Mental Health Outcomes	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
How Does It Feel to Be a Woman Victim of Sexual Harassment? The Effect of 360°-Video-Based Virtual Reality on Empathy and Related Variables	32
Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial	31
Insecure Attachment and Technology Addiction Among Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and General Psychological Distress	30
A National Study of Zoom Fatigue and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Future Remote Work	30
Online Hate Speech Victimization and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: The Protective Role of Resilience	28
Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Cognition and Aggressive Behavior	28
Immersive Virtual Reality Therapy as a Support for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Pilot Randomized-Controlled Trial	28
Zoom Fatigue, Psychological Distress, Life Satisfaction, and Academic Well-Being	27
The Real Threat of Deepfake Pornography: A Review of Canadian Policy	26
Face the Uncanny: The Effects of Doppelganger Talking Head Avatars on Affect-Based Trust Toward Artificial Intelligence Technology are Mediated by Uncanny Valley Perceptions	26
The Mediating Role of Impulsivity and the Moderating Role of Gender Between Fear of Missing Out and Gaming Disorder Among a Sample of Chinese University Students	26
Growing Up with Grand Theft Auto: A 10-Year Study of Longitudinal Growth of Violent Video Game Play in Adolescents	26
Parental Phubbing and Internet Gaming Addiction in Children: Mediating Roles of Parent–Child Relationships and Depressive Symptoms	25
Sexual Harassment in the Metaverse	24
Exploring Viewers' Experiences of Parasocial Interactions with Videogame Streamers on Twitch	24
Unique and Cumulative Effects of Intimate Partner Cybervictimization Types on Alcohol Use in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Emerging Adults	23
Taking a Break from Social Media Improves Wellbeing Through Sleep Quality	22
How Avatar Identification Affects Enjoyment in the Metaverse: The Roles of Avatar Customization and Social Engagement	22
Investigating the Role of Health Factors and Psychological Well-Being in Gaming Disorder	22
Deepfakes Unmasked: The Effects of Information Priming and Bullshit Receptivity on Deepfake Recognition and Sharing Intention	22
Effect of Virtual Reality Perspective-Taking on Related and Unrelated Contexts	22
Kids Will Find a Way: The Benefits of Social Video Games	21
Facing with Collaborative Robots: The Subjective Experience in Senior and Younger Workers	21
Fear of Missing Out and Consumer Happiness on Instagram: A Serial Mediation of Social Media Influencer-Related Activities	21
Instagram and TikTok Flow States and Their Association with Psychological Well-Being	21
The Effect of Augmented Reality on Consumer Learning for Search and Experience Products in Mobile Commerce	21
How Does Parental Smartphone Addiction Affect Adolescent Smartphone Addiction?: Testing the Mediating Roles of Parental Rejection and Adolescent Depression	20
How COVID Has Changed Online Dating—And What Lies Ahead	20
A Content Analysis of Coronavirus Tweets in the United States Just Prior to the Pandemic Declaration	20
Effectiveness of Available Treatments for Gaming Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	20
Internet Adoption in Older Adults: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study	20
Deepfakes: Awareness, Concerns, and Platform Accountability	19
Robots Are Not All the Same: Young Adults' Expectations, Attitudes, and Mental Attribution to Two Humanoid Social Robots	19
Psychosocial Correlates of Excessive Social Media Use in a Hispanic College Sample	18
Successful Gamification of Cybersecurity Training	18
The Virtual Cooking Task: A Preliminary Comparison Between Neuropsychological and Ecological Virtual Reality Tests to Assess Executive Functions Alterations in Patients Affected by Alcohol Use Disorde	18
Offline and Online Social Support and Short-Form Video Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotion Suppression and Relatedness Needs	18
Associations Between Social Anxiety, Depression, and Use of Mobile Dating Applications	18
Femtech: Digital Help for Women's Health Care Across the Life Span	18
Examining Associations Between Social Networking Site Alcohol-Specific Social Norms, Posting Behavior, and Drinking to Cope During the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Social Context and Gaming Motives Predict Mental Health Better Than Time Played: An Exploratory Regression Analysis with over 13,000 Video Game Players	18
Presence and Flow in the Context of Virtual Reality Storytelling: What Influences Enjoyment in Virtual Environments?	18

Social Media Use and Its Link to Physical Health Indicators	17
#Coronavirus: Monitoring the Belgian Twitter Discourse on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Pandemic	17
Social Sharing of Emotion During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
The Robot Made Me Do It: Human–Robot Interaction and Risk-Taking Behavior	16
Violent Video Games and Aggression: Stimulation or Catharsis or Both?	16
The Disinhibiting Effects of Anonymity Increase Online Trolling	16
The Relationship Between Hikikomori Risk and Internet Use During COVID-19 Restrictions	16
Free Smiles Are Worth a Lot for Social Media Influencers: The Mediating Roles of Warmth, Competence, and Admiration	15
To Believe or Not to Believe: Framing Analysis of Content and Audience Response of Top 10 Deepfake Videos on YouTube	15
Embodiment Empowers Empathy in Virtual Reality	15
How Augmented Reality Increases Engagement Through Its Impact on Risk and the Decision Process	15
Feasibility of a Computer Role-Playing Game to Promote Empathy in Nursing Students: The Role of Immersiveness and Perspective	15
Aggressive Video Games Are Not a Risk Factor for Mental Health Problems in Youth: A Longitudinal Study	15
Popular Discourse Around Deepfakes and the Interdisciplinary Challenge of Fake Video Distribution	14
The Role of Individual Differences in Cyber Dating Abuse Perpetration	14
Digital Technology Use and Cyberbullying Among Primary School Children: Digital Literacy and Parental Mediation as Moderators	14
Evaluating the Adequacy of Emoji Use in Positive and Negative Messages from Close and Distant Senders	14
A Longitudinal Social Network Perspective on Adolescents' Exposure to Violent Video Games and Aggression	14
Tweets and Reactions: Revealing the Geographies of Cybercrime Perpetrators and the North-South Divide	13
The Space Between: Nature and Machine Heuristics in Evaluations of Organisms, Cyborgs, and Robots	13
Adolescent Screen Time Associated with Risk Factor of Fear of Missing Out During Pandemic COVID-19	13
Group Decision-Making in Multi-User Immersive Virtual Reality	13
A Content Analysis of Reddit Users' Perspectives on Reasons for Not Following Through with a Suicide Attempt	13
“Who Are the Cyka Blyat?” How Empathy, Impulsivity, and Motivations to Play Predict Aggressive Behaviors in Multiplayer Online Games	13
Do We Take a Robot's Needs into Account? The Effect of Humanization on Prosocial Considerations Toward Other Human Beings and Robots	13
The Role of Violent Video Game Exposure, Personality, and Deviant Peers in Aggressive Behaviors Among Adolescents: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study	13
Prevalence of Internet Addiction Among Iranian University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	13
The Use of Virtual Reality for Managing Psychological Distress in Adolescents: Systematic Review	13
The Online Hate Speech Cycle of Violence: Moderating Effects of Moral Disengagement and Empathy in the Victim-to-Perpetrator Relationship	12
Machines Like Us and People Like You: Toward Human–Robot Shared Experience	12
Machine–Deep–Ensemble Learning Model for Classifying Cybersickness Caused by Virtual Reality Immersion	12
Violent Video Games and Aggression Among Young Adults: The Moderating Effects of Adverse Environmental Factors	12
The Impact of Social Endorsement Cues and Manipulability Concerns on Perceptions of News Credibility	12
Associations of Personality Traits with Internet Addiction: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis with a Multilingual Approach	12
Emerging Adults' Expectations About the Next Generation of Robots: Exploring Robotic Needs Through a Latent Profile Analysis	12
Female Users' TikTok Use and Body Image: Active Versus Passive Use and Social Comparison Processes	12
Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis	11
Hypocrisy Induction: Using Chatbots to Promote COVID-19 Social Distancing	11
The BODY-FRIEND Project: Using New Technology to Learn about How People with Anorexia Feel about Their Bodies	11
Is Artificial Intelligence Customer Service Satisfactory? Insights Based on Microblog Data and User Interviews	11
The Study of Perceptual Eye Position Examination and Visual Perceptual Training in Postoperative Intermittent Exotropes	11
Preschoolers' Social Cognitive Development in the Age of Screen Time Ubiquity	11
The Spheres & Shield Maze Task: A Virtual Reality Serious Game for the Assessment of Risk Taking in Decision Making	11
What Is the Draw of the Metaverse? Personality Correlates of Zepeto Use Motives and Their Associations With Psychological Well-Being	11
Effect of Social Anxiety on the Adoption of Robotic Training Partner	10
Adolescent Sexting: The Role of Body Shame, Social Physique Anxiety, and Social Networking Site Addiction	10
Who Is Smart with Their Smartphones? Determinants of Smartphone Security Behavior	10
Do Anthropomorphic Chatbots Increase Counseling Satisfaction and Reuse Intention? The Moderated Mediation of Social Rapport and Social Anxiety	10
Uncivil Reactions to Sexual Assault Online: Linguistic Features of News Reports Predict Discourse Incivility	10
Searching for the Metaverse: Neuroscience of Physical and Digital Communities	10
How Different Gaming Genres Can Be Described by Required Skills and Motives for Playing	10
Is Social Media Use Changing Who We Are? Examining the Bidirectional Relationship Between Personality and Social Media Use	9
The Escalating Crisis in Adolescent Mental Health	9
Problematic Smartphone Use Influences the Relationship Between Experiential Avoidance and Anxiety	9
Adaptation and Psychometric Cross-Cultural Validation of a Workplace Cyberbullying Questionnaire in Spain and Germany	9
Effects of Using Artificial Intelligence on Interpersonal Perceptions of Job Applicants	9
Users' Affective and Cognitive Responses to Humanoid Robots in Different Expertise Service Contexts	9
Self-Reported and Parental Assessments of Internet Gaming Disorder, and Their Accordance with DSM-5 Criteria in a Clinical Relevant Population	9
Linking the Pathway from Exposure to Online Vaccine Information to Cyberchondria During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model	9
An Exploratory Analysis of Different Problematic Internet Use Profiles in Cybervictims, Cyberbullies, and Cyberbully Victims	9
“I Found a More Attractive Deepfaked Self”: The Self-Enhancement Effect in Deepfake Video Exposure	9
Eye Movement Patterns Reflecting Cybersickness: Evidence from Different Experience Modes of a Virtual Reality Game	9
How Real Are Virtual Emotions?	8
User Experience Evaluation in Shared Interactive Virtual Reality	8
Call for Special Issue Papers: HUMANE METAVERSE: Opportunities and Challenges Towards the Development of a Humane-Centered Metaverse	8
Virtual Reality as a Pain Distraction Modality for Experimentally Induced Pain in a Chronic Pain Population: An Exploratory Study	8
Perceived Vulnerability As a Determinant of Increased Risk for Cybersecurity Risk Behavior	8
Affecting Explicit and Implicit Body Image with Thin-Idealized Avatars in Virtual Reality: The Role of Sense of Embodiment	8
The Role of Peer Support in the Growth Trajectory of Pathological Internet Use Among Youth: A Protective Factor	8
Purchasing in a Pandemic? Virtual Consumerism in 2021	8
My Privacy and Control Matter: Understanding Motivations for Using Untact Services	8
How to Be Aggressive from Virtual to Reality? Revisiting the Violent Video Games Exposure-Aggression Association and the Mediating Mechanisms	8
Psychometric Properties of the Nine-Item Korean Internet Gaming Disorder Scale: Short Form	8
Sharing Personal Memories on Ephemeral Social Media Facilitates Autobiographical Memory	8
If the Mask Fits: Psychological Correlates with Online Self-Presentation Experimentation in Adults	8