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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	109
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	89
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	49
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	47
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	39
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	35
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	33
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	33
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	29
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	29
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	29
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	28
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	26
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	25
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	24
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	23
The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication Wm. L. Benoit & Andrew C. Billings	21
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	21
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland	21
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	20
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	20
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	19
Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	19
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	17

Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	17
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	15
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication	14
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	14
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	14
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (eds.)	14
Persuasive Message Pretesting Using Non-Behavioral Outcomes: Differences in Attitudinal and Intention Effects as Diagnostic of Differences in Behavioral Effects	14
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	14
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	13
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	13
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*	13
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	13
The social factors and functions of media use	12
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address	12
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	12
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	11
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research	11
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	11
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	11
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	11
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	10
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	10
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	10
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	10
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	10
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	9
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	9
The Ubiquitous President: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times	9
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski	9
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	9
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	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
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities	7
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	7
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers	7
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	7
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex	7
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	7
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform: Considering Issue Homophily in Interorganizational Relationships	7
Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis	6
Erratum to: Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	6
An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust	6
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: a social identity perspective	6
A Latent Profile Analysis of Undocumented College Students’ Protection-Oriented Family Communication and Strengths-Based Psychological Coping	6
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children	5
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	5
Response to “Gender Diversity at Academic Conferences—The Case of the International Communication Association (ICA)”	5
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	5
When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment	5

Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	5
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	4
Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gate-keeping & Criminalizing Digital Inclusion	4
Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns	4
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system	4
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes	4
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families	4
On digital media history	4
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy	4
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates	4
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	4
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal	4
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	4
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse	3
Science fiction and self-transcendence: evidence from retrospective, experimental, and longitudinal studies	3
Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)	3
Motivations underlying Latino Americans’ group-based social media engagement	3
“What do you want to do?”: expertise tension and authority negotiation in emergency nurse–physician interactions	3
Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research*	3
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector	3
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism, Melissa Aronczyk & Maria I. Espinoza	3
Diffusion as translation: transediting and the diffusion of social movement discourses across linguistic borders in the age of globalization	3
Creating Understanding: How Communicating Aligns Minds Jessica Gasiorek and R. Kelly Aune	3
Networked privacy and its broader implications	3
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents	3
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–2023	3
Media consolidation and news content quality	3
The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism	3
Meta-theorizing framing in communication research (1992–2022): toward academic silos or professionalized specialization?	3
Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach	3