Journal of Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Communication is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”114
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries69
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media56
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity56
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence52
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic45
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama43
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–201943
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity42
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation38
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships33
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association30
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework30
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts28
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries28
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age26
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers25
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue24
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling23
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States23
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health22
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis21
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-1920
Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation20
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China18
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being17
Undocumented college students’ career-related communication with their parents and the ecological vocational anticipatory socialization model17
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States17
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history17
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-1917
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands16
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research15
The social factors and functions of media use14
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory14
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms13
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening13
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity13
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars12
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT12
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions12
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–202012
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news12
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity11
Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories11
A forum for books11
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action11
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse10
Organizational communication for social change on social media: NPOs’ social media strategies based on their perception of three stakeholder networks in collective and connective action10
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook10
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 202010
Temporal dynamics of media and communication processes: a review of theories and meta-analysis of empirical studies10
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture9
Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not9
A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements8
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex8
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: a social identity perspective8
Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis8
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows8
An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust8
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform: Considering Issue Homophily in Interorganizational Relationships8
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers8
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities8
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework8
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data7
Response to “Gender Diversity at Academic Conferences—The Case of the International Communication Association (ICA)”7
Streaming users as temporal publics: recalibrating platform power in Latin America7
When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment7
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children7
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows7
Memory inception through gaze-contingent message exposure: using virtual reality to study media influence7
Are partisan, unreliable, digital-born, and mass-oriented media more likely to thrive on social media? Comparing four information ecosystems6
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families6
Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns6
Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence6
An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States6
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates6
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media6
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes5
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media5
On digital media history5
Science fiction and self-transcendence: evidence from retrospective, experimental, and longitudinal studies5
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal5
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis5
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system5
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy5
Material intelligence, or, knowing by hand5
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents4
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate4
“What do you want to do?”: expertise tension and authority negotiation in emergency nurse–physician interactions4
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse4
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–20234
Struggles for believability: from rape victims to senators, dictators, and news brands4
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism, Melissa Aronczyk & Maria I. Espinoza4
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector4
The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism4
The cosmopolitan imagination: a call for global communication studies3
Networked privacy and its broader implications3
Diffusion as translation: transediting and the diffusion of social movement discourses across linguistic borders in the age of globalization3
What is a trend?3
Motivations underlying Latino Americans’ group-based social media engagement3
Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)3
Identity construction through talk of difference and similarity: blocking and threading analysis3
How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic3
Correction to: How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic3
Meta-theorizing framing in communication research (1992–2022): toward academic silos or professionalized specialization?3
Media consolidation and news content quality3
Leveraging digital spaces and datafication in communication research: contributions of digital qualitative fluidity to ethnographic interviewing3
Creating Understanding: How Communicating Aligns Minds Jessica Gasiorek and R. Kelly Aune3
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