OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Communication is 9. 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
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
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
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	13
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
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	12
The social factors and functions of media use	12
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address	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