OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Analysis of the Social Context of Video Games, Pathological Gaming, and Depressive Symptoms	116
Aggression and Consistency of Self in Cybertrolling Behavior	112
Book Review: Recent Advances in Technologies for Inclusive Well-Being: Virtual Patients, Gamification, and Simulation	109
Cyberchondria and Chinese Adolescent Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic	101
Instagram Stories Unveiled: Exploring Links with Psychological Distress, Personality, and Gender	80
Building and Investigating Digital Health Technologies to Promote Health Equity	78
Can Stress Put Digital Privacy at Risk? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment Examining the Impact of Acute Stress on Privacy Decisions on a Simulated Social Network Site	77
The Association between Problematic Instagram Use, Psychological Distress, and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	76
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2023 Award Recipient for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking	72
Individual Responsibility Around Deepfakes: It's No Laughing Matter	68
Does Self-View Mode Generate More Videoconferencing Fatigue in Women than Men? An Experiment Using EEG Signals	54
Adolescents’ Risky Online Behaviors and Social Desirability Bias in Vietnam: Privacy Disclosure and Pornography Use	51
Eye Movement Patterns Reflecting Cybersickness: Evidence from Different Experience Modes of a Virtual Reality Game	49
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2024	45
Esports Players Are Less Extroverted and Conscientious than Athletes	43
Fear of Missing Out and Irrational Procrastination in the Mobile Social Media Environment: A Moderated Mediation Analysis	43
Enhancing Physical Activity with Immersive Virtual Reality: A Systematic Review	40
Dark Triad Personality Traits and Cyberbullying: The Mediating Role of Emotional Empathy	38
Ultra-Processed Futures: How Digital Life and Food Systems Shape Metabolic Health	36
Social Signal Processing in Affective Virtual Reality: Human-Shaped Agents Increase Electrodermal Activity in an Elicited Negative Environment	36
Can Media Literacy Intervention Improve Fake News Credibility Assessment? A Meta-Analysis	34
Digital Hate Speech Experiences Across Age Groups and Their Impact on Well-Being: A Nationally Representative Survey in Switzerland	32
THOMAS: Robotic Workers with Embedded Cognition for Hybrid Manufacturing Systems	31
Predicting Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goal Contents Pursuit on Social Media	30
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Misinformation Acceptance: An Experimental Test of the Effect of Forewarning About Artificial Intelligence Hallucination	29

How Health-Related Misinformation Spreads Across the Internet: Evidence for the “Typhoon Eye” Effect	29
COVID-19 and Sinophobia: Detecting Warning Signs of Radicalization on Twitter and Reddit	29
Transportation as a Health Concern: How Technology Can Help	28
Virtual Reality in Medical Education	27
Parent–Child Discrepancies in Reports of Exposure to Violence/Pornography on Mobile Devices and the Impact on Children's Psychosocial Adjustment	27
Searching for the Metaverse: Neuroscience of Physical and Digital Communities	27
Machine–Deep–Ensemble Learning Model for Classifying Cybersickness Caused by Virtual Reality Immersion	26
A Serial Mediation of Deceptive Discount Advertising Effects in Online Retailing	26
A Technology-Supported Psychoeducational Intervention for Older Adults and Their Families to Improve Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Intergenerational Connectedness—A Randomized Controlled Study	26
Women Are Perceived to Have More Power Than Men in Domains That Are Viewed As Important in U.S. Tweets	24
Compassionate Goals, Facebook Use, and Subjective Well-Being: Examining the Roles of Relationship Maintenance and Connectedness	24
Waiting for the Boss's Blue Checkmark to Appear: Supervisor's Attentiveness, Negative Emotions, and Work Engagement During Instant Messaging at Work	24
Nonconsensual Sexting: Are the Moral Processes the Same If Boys or Girls Appear in the Forwarded Content?	23
Unmet Needs Discussed on Reddit by Women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder	23
Empathy, Social Self-Efficacy, Problematic Internet Use, and Problematic Online Gaming Between Early and Late Adolescence	23
Cyber Stalking, Cyber Harassment, and Adult Mental Health: A Systematic Review	22
Autistic Traits and Cyberbullying Involvement Mediated by Psychopathologies and School Functions in a Nationally Representative Child Sample	21
Content Moderator Mental Health, Secondary Trauma, and Well-being: A Cross-Sectional Study	21
Click, Buy, Repeat: Understanding the Psychological and Behavioral Mechanisms of Online Shopping Behavior	20
Reinforcing Relationships Between Gaming Disorder and Aggression and Intrusive Parenting Across 4 Years	20
Are Social Media Bans the Solution to the Youth Mental Health Crisis? Some Governments Think So	20
The Effect of Augmented Reality and Privacy Priming in a Fashion-Related App: An Application of Technology Acceptance Model	20
Bridging Tradition and Technology: Soft Skills Training for the Modern Day “House Call”	20
A Dynamic Analysis of Conspiratorial Narratives on Twitter During the Pandemic	19
Mental Health Help-Seeking Behavior of Male Video Game Players: An Online Survey	19
Call for Special Issue Papers: Virtual Consumerism	19
Adolescent Screen Time Associated with Risk Factor of Fear of Missing Out During Pandemic COVID-19	19
“Can I Have More Than This?” The Role of Romantic Relationship Quality, Maximization Style, and Social Media Addiction in Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptoms	18
Patient Perspectives on a Digital Assistant for Medication Reconciliation: An Interview Study Comparing Socioeconomic Groups	17
Feeling Virtually Present Makes Me Happier: The Influence of Immersion, Sense of Presence, and Video Contents on Positive Emotion Induction	16
Follow the Flow: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Achieving Optimal Performance	16
Nostalgia as Self-Care: Embracing the Kidult Culture	16
Does Facebook Use Provide Social Benefits to Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury?	15
Beyond Chronic Pain Exploring Body-Brain Interaction to Understand and Treat Chronic Pain Conditions	15
The e-SaVoR Project: Savoring and Virtual Reality to Enhance Emerging Adults' Well-Being	15
Virtual Reality Distraction for Needle-Related Pain and Distress in Children: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial	15
Robots Are Not All the Same: Young Adults' Expectations, Attitudes, and Mental Attribution to Two Humanoid Social Robots	15
Shadows of Conflict: Addressing Moral Injury in Peacekeeping Missions	15
Whom Does Remote Work Make Happy? The Digital Divide in Remote Workers’ Well-Being	15
Exploring the Relationship Between Attribute Discrepancy and Avatar Embodiment in Immersive Social Virtual Reality	14
Why and How Empathy Matters in Aesthetic Experiences	14
From Cyberspace to Outer Space: How Technology Will Preserve Mental Health in the Final Frontier	14
Feasibility of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in the Treatment of Danish Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed Method Pilot Study	14
Tech Addiction? Take a Break Addressing a Truly Global Phenomenon	13
Supporting Teachers and Students: The Role of AI in Shaping the Future of Education	13
Caregivers' Role in Cybersecurity for Aging Information Technology Users with Intellectual Disabilities	13
Anonymous and Insecure Bullies are Less Depressed than Confident and Identifiable Ones, but Only if Remorseful: Cyberbullying Goals, Identifiability, and Depression	13
SyncWork: Comparison of Brain Synchrony between Agile and Face-to-Face Work Using an EEG Hyperscanning Paradigm	13
Natural Language Content Mediates the Association Between Active Interactions on Social Network Services and Subjective Well-Being	13
The MetaPharmacy: What Happens When Big Pharma Goes Virtual?	13

Exploring Workers' Subjective Experiences of Habit Formation in Cybersecurity: A Qualitative Survey	12
Children's Mental Health in a Pandemic-Altered World: Technology's Evolving Role	12
Loneliness and Social Media Use Among Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders	12
Fear of Missing Out, Reflective Smartphone Disengagement, and Loneliness in Late Adolescents	12
Use and Interest in Virtual Reality for Mental and Physical Health in a U.S. Population-Based Sample of Low-Income Veterans	12
Testing the Proteus Effect in Autistic and Neurotypical Participants	12
Who Am I Inside the Screen? Construction of Virtual Identity in Multiplayer Online Videogames and Its Psychological Functions	12
Characterization of Cyberbullying Victimization and Perpetration Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain	12
The Auxiliary Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing the Effects of Disaster News on Empathy and Fear: The Mediating Role of Presence	11
The Escalating Crisis in Adolescent Mental Health	11
Online Social Connection as a Buffer of Health Anxiety and Isolation During COVID-19	11
Internet Addiction and the Treatment of Depression? A Prospective Naturalistic Outcome Study	11
Association of Phubbing Behavior and Fear of Missing Out: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	11
Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial	11
Parental Phubbing and Internet Gaming Addiction in Children: Mediating Roles of Parent–Child Relationships and Depressive Symptoms	11
Putting the Toothpaste Back in the Tube: Against Online Hate Speech	11
Are You Going to Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress	11
Problematic Social Media Use and Its Relationship with Depression or Anxiety: A Systematic Review	10
VR-MEM: Harnessing Virtual Reality for Autobiographical Memory Enhancement in High School Settings	10
Correction to: How Different Gaming Genres Can Be Described by Required Skills and Motives for Playing by Brandtner, et al. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2022;25(9):613–619; doi: 10.1089/cyber.20	10
Who Is Smart with Their Smartphones? Determinants of Smartphone Security Behavior	10
The BODY-FRIEND Project: Using New Technology to Learn about How People with Anorexia Feel about Their Bodies	10
Digital Technology Use and Adolescent Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Internet Addiction and Digital Competence	10
Correction to: College Students' Motives for In-Person Meetings with Dating Application Matches, by Harrison, et al. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2022;25(2):130–134; doi: 10.1089/cyber.2021.0031	10
Tweets and Reactions: Revealing the Geographies of Cybercrime Perpetrators and the North-South Divide	10
“Standing Up for Earth Rights”: Awe-Inspiring Virtual Nature for Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviors	10
A National Study of Zoom Fatigue and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Future Remote Work	10
INSIDE-OUT: An Innovative Sound Technology for Altering Interoceptive Signals	10
Do We Take a Robot's Needs into Account? The Effect of Humanization on Prosocial Considerations Toward Other Human Beings and Robots	10
(Mental) Healthcare Consumerism in the Metaverse: Is There a Benefit?	9
Negative Affect Following Dating Application Use is Predicted by Social Anxiety Symptoms and Match Rate	9
College Students' Motives for In-Person Meetings with Dating Application Matches	9
Cognitive Rehabilitation in the Metaverse: Insights from the Tele-Neurorehab Project	9
What Is the Draw of the Metaverse? Personality Correlates of Zepeto Use Motives and Their Associations With Psychological Well-Being	9
The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel: Being in Virtual Places	9
Predicting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Response Using Heart Rate Variability to Virtual Reality Environment and Modified Stroop Task: An Exploratory Study	9
Online Hate Speech Victimization and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: The Protective Role of Resilience	9
Disambiguating Between Privacy and Security in the Context of Health Care: New Insights on the Determinants of Health Technologies Use	8
Relationship Development with Humanoid Social Robots: Applying Interpersonal Theories to Human–Robot Interaction	8
Multiple Facets of Rejections in Online Dating: Exploring Types, Reasons, and Impact	8
Applying Engagement Marketing and Human-Centered Design to Cocreate a Digital Decision Support Tool for Research Participation with LGBTQIA+ Community Members	8
Online Group Counseling for Young People Through a Customized Social Networking Platform: Phase 2 of Kids Helpline Circles	8
Something's Fishy About It: How Opinion Congeniality and Explainability Affect Motivated Attribution to Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Comment Moderators	8
Social Media and Mental Health: Weighing the Costs and Benefits	8
Motives of Online Hate Speech: Results from a Quota Sample Online Survey	8
Using Virtual Reality in E-Cigarette and Secondhand Aerosol Prevention Messages: Implications for Emotional Campaign Design	8
Restorative Parental Discipline and Types of Defending Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying: The Mediate Role of Justice Sensitivity	8
Correction to: ‘‘Standing Up for Earth Rights’’: Awe-Inspiring Virtual Nature for Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviors, by Chirico, et al. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2023;26(4):300–308; doi:	8
Harmonizing Emotions: Assessing Implicit and Explicit Emotional Responses in Elderly through Music Therapy Sessions	8
Exploring Alternative Health Facebook Groups in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Automated Content Analysis Through Structural Topic Modeling	8
Primary Schoolers' Response to a Multisensory Serious Game on Cartesian Plane Coordinates in Immersive Virtual Reality	8
Body Dissatisfaction Directs Avatar Perception: Embodiment and Selective Visual Attention in Body Mass-Modified Self-Avatars	8
Facing with Collaborative Robots: The Subjective Experience in Senior and Younger Workers	8
A Message from the Editor-in-Chief	8
The Role of Personality, Self-Disclosure, and Envy in Maladaptive Social Media Engagement	8
Female Users' TikTok Use and Body Image: Active Versus Passive Use and Social Comparison Processes	8
Romance Behind the Screens: Exploring the Role of Technoference on Intimacy	7
In the Mood for Music: Listening to Music and Other Smartphone Uses Improve Adolescent Mood	7
Underlying Mechanisms of Brand Feedback's Mixed Effects in E-Commerce: Roles of Perceived Controllability, Stability, and Brand Trust	7
Cyberbullying and Suicidal Behavior, Self-Harm, and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies	7
Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Narrative Review	7
Decoding Clickbait: The Impact of Clickbait Types and Structures on Cognitive and Emotional Responses in Online Interactions	7
Harnessing Hope in Digital Spaces for Health Equity: How Group Comparison Information and Supportive Comments Influence Bone Marrow Donor Intentions for African Americans	7
Ready (or Not) Player One: Initial Musings on the Metaverse	7
The Interplay Between Health Disparities and Acceptability of Virtual Reality: A Survey Study	7
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	7
Transforming Brain Rehabilitation: Smartphone Solution Underpins Innovative Treatment of Brain Disorders	7
Treading Carefully in the Metaverse: The Evolution of AI Avatars	7
oVeRcomING COPD: Virtual Reality and Savoring to Promote the Well-Being of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	7
Femtech: Digital Help for Women's Health Care Across the Life Span	7
The Relationship Between Hikikomori Risk and Internet Use During COVID-19 Restrictions	7
The Dual Systems Model—Impulsivity and Narcissism as the Reflexive System and Self-Regulation as the Reflective System—of Smartphone Addiction	7
Further Understanding the Correlations Between Sexting and Mental Health: Considerations for Sex and Sexual Identity	7
Intimate Partner Cyberstalking: Exploring Vulnerable Narcissism, Secondary Psychopathy, Borderline Traits, and Rejection Sensitivity	7
Internet-Related Behaviors and Psychological Distress Among Schoolchildren During the COVID-19 School Hiatus	7
Digital Health as a Catalyst for Mental Health Equity	7