OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Business Communication is 5. 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
Commentary on the Visual Design Challenges for Cross-Cultural Users of Business Data Visualizations	19
Commentary—Film (and Video) as Business Communication: “Will You Come and Join the Dance?”	18
Professionalism and Trustworthiness in AI-Assisted Workplace Writing: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Writing With AI	18
“Doesn’t Really Answer My Question . . .”: Exploring Customer Service Interactions on Twitter	18
A World of Possibilities: Introducing Positive Communication Scholarship to Inspire Better Business and Organizational Communication Research	18
Strategic Vagueness and Multimodal Meaning-Making in Senior Executive Communication: How Nonverbal Cues Interact with Vague Language to Shape Meaning	17
Methods Showcase—Using PLSF-SEM in Business Communication Research	15
The Balancing Act When Engaging Peers in Constructive Voicing: Uncovering Voicing Tensions and Response Strategies	14
Do We Burn Ourselves Trying to Save Face? Face Concerns as a Predictor of Subordinate Willingness to Self-Censor and Burnout	14
Examining the Influence of Algorithmic Message Personalization on Source Credibility and Reputation	13
Notes From the Editors – Leveraging Effective Altruism: CSR Communication That Pays It Forward	13
Perception of Ethicality of CSA on Employees’ Advocacy and Ethical Behavior: The Role of Positive Emotional Response and Perceptions of Organization Congruence	12
Recontextualizing Negative Feedback Through Talk and Text in Corporate Performance Appraisal Processes	12
Reframing Internal Communication: Cross-Cultural Links to Engagement and Life Satisfaction	12
Bottom-Up Corporate Social Advocacy: Examining the Impact of Employees’ Empowered Engagement on Advocacy Willingness and Mediating Roles of Value Congruency and Moral Elevation	12
From Voice to Action? A Survey on Organizational and Individual Factors Impacting Employee Activism Intentions	11
The Role of Public Relations in an Illiberal State: The Case of Russia	11
The Power of Words: How Does Leader’s Motivating Language Affect Employees’ Organizational Commitment	10
Toward a Gender Equality at Work via Activism The Role of Transparent Internal Communication	10
Expressing Demands or Offers: How to Promote Volunteering Using Visual and Verbal Appeals	10
Washing Dirty Laundry: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Fashion Firms’ Webpage Sustainability Discourse	9
“She’s the Anti-Midas, Everything Turns to Crap”: Evocative Metaphors Managers and Employees Use to Describe Managerial Attempts at Enacting Leadership	9
Pride and Prejudice in Intercultural Communication: Uncovering Information (A)symmetry in the Communication Between Chinese EV Companies and German Consumers	9
A Matrix Approach to Developing a Digital Internal Communication Strategy	8
Can Authentic CEO Activism Motivate Employee Issue Advocacy? Investigating the Mediating Role of Elevation	8

From Letters to LINE to AI: Reframing Organizational Communication Norms in the Digital Era	8
Optimizing AI Social Chatbots for Relational Outcomes: The Effects of Profile Design, Communication Strategies, and Message Framing	8
Book Review: You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters	8
“Presenting Myself With Readers in Texts”: Analyzing Evidentiality in the Credibility-Building Discourse for Chinese State-Owned Enterprises on Twitter/X	8
Building Corporate Reputation Resilience in Crises: Exploring the Role of Employees’ CSR Engagement in China	8
Employee-Organization Identity Fusion: Connecting Leadership and Symmetrical Internal Communication to Identity- and Engagement-Related Outcomes	7
CEO Rhetorical Evolution: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Leadership Discourse Transformation Across Career Trajectories	7
The Impact of Organization-Employee Dialogic Communication on Employee Engagement in Remote Work	7
Perceived Organizational Listening Effectiveness: A Comparison of Consumer Intelligence Provider and Consumer Intelligence User Assessments	7
Poetic Metaphors in Written Leadership Communication: A Qualitative Experiment of Employees’ Sense-Making, Actions, and Emotions	7
Congruence in Communication and Customer Booking Decision: A Cognitive Heuristic Perspective	6
Gen Z and Social Change: Examining the Effect of Corporate Social Advocacy Expectancy Violations on Positive and Negative Behavioral Intentions	6
The Language of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial and Other Campaigns	6
Spotlight on a Thought Leader in Business Communication: Joanne Yates—Business Communications’ Own Standard-Bearer	6
Workplace Romance and Career Reputation Effects across Industries	6
Organizational Communication Patterns as Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Citizenship Motives	6
“They Masked our Children”: School District Communication Officers’ Sensemaking of Parent Activists During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Best Practices for Sampling, Saturation, and Storytelling in Interview-Based Research: Findings From Business Communication Research	5
New Voice Channel and Voice Endorsement: How the Information Displayed on Online Idea Management Platforms Influences Voice Endorsement?	5
When Failure Means “Late”: Cadence Selection, Communication, and Structurational Divergence in a Safety-Critical Software Firm	5
Book Review: Talking for Success. The Secret Codes of Conversation and How to Master Them by Jonathan Clifton	5
When Communications Fail and Values Clash: What Drives Employees to Resist Information Security Compliance?	5
How Emoji in Company Responses to Online Consumer Complaints Affect Observers: Emoji as Visual Signalling Cues in Webcare	5