Journal of Communication

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Communication is 22. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”77
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence74
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama68
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity56
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic56
Dataveillance inhibits legitimate communication: causal evidence for chilling effects42
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation37
Modes of dialogic communication, modes of reality36
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity35
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–201934
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media33
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships31
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association31
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts30
Techno-refusal as a generative orientation to the future29
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework29
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling28
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis26
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age25
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers23
Response to the 2025 ICA Presidential Address: Whose cosmopolitan imagination? African reflections on Silvio Waisbord’s call for global communication studies23
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue22
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health22
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