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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Self-Esteem: Heading for a Person-Specific Media Effects Paradigm	75
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	62
The Extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping: Understanding the Properties and Functionality of Communal Coping	62
“Anything that Causes Chaos”: The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT)	59
Instagram Inspiration: How Upward Comparison on Social Network Sites Can Contribute to Well-Being	59
Critical Media Effects Framework: Bridging Critical Cultural Communication and Media Effects through Power, Intersectionality, Context, and Agency	45
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	44
Antecedents and Effects of Parasocial Relationships: A Meta-Analysis	41
Long-term Persuasive Effects in Narrative Communication Research: A Meta-Analysis	41
Specificity, Conflict, and Focal Point: A Systematic Investigation into Social Media Censorship in China	33
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale	31
The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics	29
Learning from Incidental Exposure to Political Information in Online Environments	27
The Value of Not Knowing: Partisan Cue-Taking and Belief Updating of the Uninformed, the Ambiguous, and the Misinformed	26
Media Prescriptions: Exploring the Therapeutic Effects of Entertainment Media on Stress Relief, Illness Symptoms, and Goal Attainment	25
Marr’s Tri-Level Framework Integrates Biological Explanation Across Communication Subfields	24
Thematic Co-occurrence Analysis: Advancing a Theory and Qualitative Method to Illuminate Ambivalent Experiences	24
Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities: Finnish Anti-Immigration Video Practices on YouTube	23
Less Fragmented Than We Thought? Toward Clarification of a Subdisciplinary Linkage in Communication Science, 2010–2019	23
When Counterarguing Becomes the Primary Task: Examination of Dogmatic Anti-Vaping Messages on Psychological Reactance, Available Cognitive Resources, and Memory	23
Past Debates, Fresh Impact on Nano-Enabled Food: A Multigroup Comparison of Presumed Media Influence Model Based on Spillover Effects of Attitude Toward Genetically Modified Food	21
Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017	20
How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics: Comparing Longitudinal Statistical Approaches in Order to Analyze Within- and Between-Person Effects	19
Stories Collectively Engage Listeners’ Brains: Enhanced Intersubject Correlations during Reception of Personal Narratives	18
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	18

Postcolonial Reflexivity in the News Industry: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in Kenya and South Africa	18
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	17
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	17
Interdependence of Narrative Characters: Implications for Media Theories	16
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	16
Do people learn about politics on social media? A meta-analysis of 76 studies	16
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	16
Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging	15
A Collaborative Way of Knowing: Bridging Computational Communication Research and Grounded Theory Ethnography	15
Television, Continuity, and Change: A Meta-Analysis of Five Decades of Cultivation Research	14
Intellectuals Debate #MeToo in China: Legitimizing Feminist Activism, Challenging Gendered Myths, and Reclaiming Feminism	13
Just a Glance, or More? Pathways from Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure to Attitude (De)Polarization Through Response Behaviors and Cognitive Elaboration	12
Populist attitudes and politicians’ disinformation accusations: effects on perceptions of media and politicians	12
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages	12
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	12
Shattering Populists’ Rhetoric with Satire at Elections Times: The Effect of Humorously Holding Populists Accountable for Their Lack of Solutions	12
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	12
Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics	12
Generational Change in Chinese Journalism: Developing Mannheim’s Theory of Generations for Contemporary Social Conditions	12
To Misspecify Is Common, to Probe Misspecification Scientific: Common “Confounds” in Pornography Research May Actually Be Predictors	11
A Source Like Any Other? Field and Survey Experiment Evidence on How Interest Groups Shape Public Opinion	10
Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis	10
Celebrating YourCircle of Life: Eudaimonic Responses to Nostalgic Entertainment Experiences	10
Meaning Multiplicity Across Communication Subfields: Bridging the Gaps	10
Video Game Violence and Interactivity: Effect or Equivalence?	9
Speaking Across Communication Subfields	9
Visual misinformation on Facebook	9
Relational Uncertainty Within Relational Turbulence Theory: The Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Model	9
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication	9
Mapping Exposure Diversity: The Divergent Effects of Algorithmic Curation on News Consumption	8
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	8
Dynamic Transactions Between News Frames and Sociopolitical Events: An Integrative, Hidden Markov Model Approach	8
Effects of the news finds me perception on algorithmic news attitudes and social media political homophily	8
After All This Time? The Impact of Media and Authoritarian History on Political News Coverage in Twelve Western Countries	8
Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach	7
Seeing Red Through Rose-Colored Glasses: Subjective Hope as a Moderator of the Persuasive Influence of Anger	7
Casual Resistance: A Longitudinal Case Study of Video Gaming’s Gendered Construction and Related Audience Perceptions	7
A Content Analysis of American Primetime Television: A 20-Year Update of the National Television Violence Studies	6
Organizational and Individual Innovation Decisions in an Interorganizational System: Social Influence and Decision-Making Authority	6
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	6
Toward Open Research: A Narrative Review of the Challenges and Opportunities for Open Humanities	6
The Effects of Person-Centered Social Support Messages on Recipient Distress Over Time within a Conversation	6
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	6
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*	6
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions	6
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	6
The Science of Open (Communication) Science: Toward an Evidence-Driven Understanding of Quality Criteria in Communication Research	6
Camera Point-of-View Exacerbates Racial Bias in Viewers of Police Use of Force Videos	6
Processing Ambiguous Social Identity: Disclosure of Identity and Phenotypic Prototypicality Affect Processing and Evaluation of Persuasive Messages	6
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values	6

The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes	6
Persuasive Message Pretesting Using Non-Behavioral Outcomes: Differences in Attitudinal and Intention Effects as Diagnostic of Differences in Behavioral Effects	5
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	5
The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors	5
Gendered times: how gendered contexts shape campaign messages of female candidates	5
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform: Considering Issue Homophily in Interorganizational Relationships	5
A Methodological Framework for Analyzing the Appearance and Duration of Media Effects	5
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	4
Copaganda and post-Floyd TVPD: broadcast television’s response to policing in 2020	4
A Latent Profile Analysis of Undocumented College Students’ Protection-Oriented Family Communication and Strengths-Based Psychological Coping	4
Gender differences and similarities in news media effects on political candidate evaluations: a meta-analysis	4
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	4
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	4
Time and Meaning-Making in the “Hybrid” Media: Evidence From the 2016 U.S. Election	3
Examining the Effect of Message Style in Esteem Support Interactions: A Laboratory Investigation*	3
Dual Process Models and Information Engagement: Testing Effects of Seeking, Scanning, and Trust in Sources on Attitudes Toward Marijuana	3
The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates	3
Large-Scale Communication is More Complex and Unpredictable with Automated Bots	3
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	3
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	3
Reconsidering communication visibility in politically restrictive contexts: organizational social media use in China	3
Network activated frames: content sharing and perceived polarization in social media	3
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	3
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	3
“Dando las Gracias a Mis Papás”: Analyzing the Enactment of Callings across Generations of Latinx Immigrants	3
Emerging hybrid networks of verification, accountability, and institutional resilience: the U.S. Capitol Riot and the work of open-source investigation	3
Understanding News Coverage of Religious-based Violence: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from Media Representations of Boko Haram in Nigeria	3