OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Communication Research is 1. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)	23
Communication as raced practice	18
Intercultural disaster communication and community resilience: examining post-hurricane communication in communities with limited English-speaking proficiency	16
Pandemic communication as transformation	14
Work–life-imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring social support and health outcomes in the United States	14
Transparency in action: iterative engagement with the UNGC and Mistra Environmental Communication Program	13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals	12
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	12
Forum on public scholarship	11
Motivating neighborhood-focused health activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and neighborhood activism	10
From global crisis to local impact: evaluating feminist and human rights pedagogies in human trafficking awareness MOOCs	9
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming	8
Resilient communication using art in applied contexts	8
I’m just trying to fill my kids up: parents’ pre-emptive (re)construction of identities amidst rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States	8
Do you hear the people sign?: A critical discourse analysis of comments on a 2015 online petition opposing North Carolina’s ag-gag law	8
‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers	8
‘Everybody Else in That Room’: support dilemmas and benefits of supportive communication in batterer intervention	7
Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China	7
Body as disease	7
‘The balance is a forever moving one’: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control	7
How did New Zealanders decide to get vaccinated against COVID-19? Developing a novel comprehensive model of vaccination intention	6
Challenging color-evasion in democratic dialogue: using critical race discourse analysis to generate practical theory for facilitators	6
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	6
All joking aside? Comparing the effects of a humorous vs. a non-humorous message strategy in building organization–public relationships and community resilience	5
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism	5

Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy	5
Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication	5
The influence of follower reactions on political leaders’ environmental policy communication: toward a social-mediated dynamic influence framework	5
‘It's a roller coaster of emotions!’: investigating the paradoxes of childcare app use and work engagement	5
Making and breaking boundaries	5
Communication scholar-activism: conceptualizing key dimensions and practices based on interviews with scholar-activists	5
‘Better safe than sorry’: examining trauma as an obstacle to empowerment and social change in a U.S. intimate partner violence intervention	5
‘But I don’t know if I want to talk to you’: strategies to foster conversational receptiveness across the United States’ political divide	5
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	5
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	4
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	4
Student understandings of career and gainful employment: a critique of US educational policy using structurating activity theory	4
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers	4
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting	4
Character, contact, and stigma reduction: investigating mediated contact and U.S. digital stories of opioid use disorder	4
E-sisters and the case of the Essure coil: power, representation, and voice in women’s public docket accounts to the FDA of medical device adverse events	4
The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications	4
User experiences, usability, and social presence of a peer-to-peer support app: survey of young adults affected by cancer	4
A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines	4
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies	4
Writing for the masses: translating communication research with praxis in mind	4
How political consultants can leverage partisan media combativeness in the U.S.	4
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative	4
Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military	4
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	4
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States	4
The Cincinnati Project	3
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	3
The ‘think-and-do tank’ model of the Center for Climate Change Communication	3
Body politics, reproductive rights, and digital media advocacy within stigmatized contexts: a critical discourse analysis of Weibo discussions on IUDs in modern-day China	3
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions	3
Development of evidence-based tools using human-centered design to promote PrEP uptake for young men who have sex with men of color	3
Race-making of the COVID-19 outbreak in early mainstream frames: the production of the epidemic(ed) transnational citizen	3
Community relations under pressure: Local residents’ perceptions of corporate crisis communication	3
Coalitional possibilities and the making of GRIDS	3
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’: narrative problematics in U.S. pandemic birth stories	3
Exploring public-sector YouTube influencer PR strategies: a mixed-methods field study	2
Bridging communication research and practice: scholarly partnerships with translational organizations	2
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	2
Applying structurational divergence theory to climate change adaptation in a localized context: understanding adaptive potential of coffee producers in Risaralda, Colombia	2
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers	2
Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online	2
Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach	2
Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity	2
‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future	2
Correction	2
‘Naturally, it's me taking care’: filial piety as anticipatory resilience in the temporal flow and stressors of Chinese only children caring for parents with cancer	2
When web add-on correction comes with fear-arousing misinformation in public health crisis: focusing on the role of risk perception in belief in misinformation	2
Indigenous communication in Latin America for social re-existence: communicative experiences in the Colombian Cauca	2

Ready to detox from neoliberal publishing? Let’s write for ‘translation’ together	2
Post-disaster communities on social media: citizen participation in crisis communication after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	2
I can still be their mom from a distance: understanding the experiences of incarcerated mothers in a faith-based parenting program in a United States prison	2
Masks across borders: etiquette, threat and prevention	2
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals	1
Quarantined across borders: theorizing embodied transnationalism, precarious citizenship, and resilience for collective healing	1
The Washington Climate Assembly: note-taking modalities as deliberative guidance in an online citizens’ assembly	1
Developing and validating a novel health literacy needs assessment tool for people with HIV in the United States	1
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies	1
Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors	1
Planting justice: co-constructing knowledge with Black women farmers for translatable research	1
Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky	1
Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China	1
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory	1
Racialized scripts of silence: how whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States	1
Explicating the effects of narrative source and causal attribution on nulliparous Chinese women’s childbirth injury-related risk perceptions and information-seeking intentions	1
We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation	1
Health pandemic in the era of (mis)information: examining the utility of using victim narrative and social endorsement of user-generated content to reduce panic buying in the U.S.	1
Translating LGBT research into politics	1
Unimagined communities in a time of global crisis	1
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico	1
Straight from the horse’s mouth: communicating the gist of mRNA vaccines	1
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	1
JACR special issue reviewers, 2021–2022	1
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: the work of Mistra Environmental Communication	1
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the U.S. foster parent perspective	1
Welfare recipients communicated pathways to resilience during stigma and material hardship in the heartland of America	1