OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	124
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	102
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	58
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	44
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	44
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	39
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	37
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	36
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts	33
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	33
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	33
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	31
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	30
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	27
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	26
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland	24
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	24
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	23
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	23
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	19
Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	17
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	17
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	17
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	16

Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	16
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	16
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (eds.)	16
Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research	15
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	15
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	15
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	14
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	13
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being	13
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	12
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address	12
The social factors and functions of media use	12
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	12
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	12
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	11
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	11
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	11
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	11
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	11
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research	11
Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories	10
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	10
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	10
The Ubiquitous President: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times	9
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	9
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	9
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	9
Organizational communication for social change on social media: NPOs’ social media strategies based on their perception of three stakeholder networks in collective and connective action	8
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	8
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski	8
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities	8
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	8
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	8
A forum for books	8
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture	7
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	7
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex	7
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform: Considering Issue Homophily in Interorganizational Relationships	7
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers	7
Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis	6
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	6
Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not	6
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children	6
An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust	6
A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements	6
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: a social identity perspective	6
Response to “Gender Diversity at Academic Conferences—The Case of the International Communication Association (ICA)”	5
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families	5
Streaming users as temporal publics: recalibrating platform power in Latin America	5
When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment	5

Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns	5
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes	5
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	5
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	5
An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States	5
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse	4
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates	4
Science fiction and self-transcendence: evidence from retrospective, experimental, and longitudinal studies	4
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal	4
Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)	4
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	4
Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate	4
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	4
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–2023	4
On digital media history	4
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents	4
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy	4
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	4
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector	4
Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	4
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism, Melissa Aronczyk & Maria I. Espinoza	4
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system	4
Media consolidation and news content quality	3
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 pandemic	3
Leveraging digital spaces and datafication in communication research: contributions of digital qualitative fluidity to ethnographic interviewing	3
Struggles for believability: from rape victims to senators, dictators, and news brands	3
The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism	3
Networked privacy and its broader implications	3
Meta-theorizing framing in communication research (1992–2022): toward academic silos or professionalized specialization?	3
“What do you want to do?”: expertise tension and authority negotiation in emergency nurse–physician interactions	3
Identity construction through talk of difference and similarity: blocking and threading analysis	3
Diffusion as translation: transediting and the diffusion of social movement discourses across linguistic borders in the age of globalization	3