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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals	41
Applied communication, witnessing, and decolonizing futures	16
The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)	15
Documenting the mundane in quarantine	15
Determinants of STI/HIV stigma and communication management among heterosexual couples in Kenya	15
Intimate partner violence disclosure among Muslim-Americans: a survey study of disclosure likelihood to varying networks and the roles of relational context, religiosity, and marginalization	13
‘Chemical jail’: culture-centered theorizing of carcerality in methadone maintenance treatment and addiction recovery in the United States	12
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the U.S. foster parent perspective	10
Decolonizing internationalization initiatives in Brazilian universities	9
‘He never hit me #WhyIStayed’: countering the U.S. domestic violence master narrative	9
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals	8
Intervention orientations in communication research	8
Pandemic communication as transformation	8
The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications	8
Seafood stories: the effect of video message type on U.S. support for sustainable aquaculture	7
Communication as raced practice	7
Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	6
Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication	6
A flow that comes when we’re talking: water metaphors for exploring intercultural communication during early childhood assessment interactions in a Yolŋu (First Nations Australian) community	6
Children’s perceptions of race and ethnicity in media: a 25-year update to children now	6
Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky	6
Building organizational resilience through strategic internal communication and organization–employee relationships	6
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico	5
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	5
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	5

Far-right memespheres and platform affordances: the effects of environmental opacity on the spread of extremist memes on Twitter and WhatsApp	5
Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China	5
Practicing entertainment for social change in the United States: comparing the influences of U.S.-based documentary storytelling and print campaign resources in a univision prosocial media campaign	4
Character, contact, and stigma reduction: investigating mediated contact and U.S. digital stories of opioid use disorder	4
Work–life-imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring social support and health outcomes in the United States	4
Social media trolls as faux third-party agents of image repair: China’s disinformation campaign and statecraft in the Daryl Morey affair	4
Applied communication research as a discipline of crisis and care: meeting the moment	4
Overcoming disaster linguicism: using autoethnography during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark to explore how community translators can provide multilingual disaster communication	4
Correction	4
Communication and decision-making of cesarean sections in China: an exploration of both obstetricians’ and patients’ perspectives	4
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States	4
Disclosure of intimate partner violence experiences during COVID-19: patient-provider communication in a Southern United States emergency department	4
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	4
Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online	4
From recovery to preparedness: an examination of resources, individual disaster communication, and anticipatory resilience capacity during the 2023 U.S. tornado season	4
Social processes of participatory engagement effects: a longitudinal examination with a sample of young women in the United States	3
Frequency and importance of interpersonal communication about a school-based intervention with parents, peers, and teachers: application of social interface model	3
How political consultants can leverage partisan media combativeness in the U.S.	3
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	3
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	3
‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers	3
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting	3
Post-disaster communities on social media: citizen participation in crisis communication after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	3
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	3
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative	3
Motivating neighborhood-focused health activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and neighborhood activism	3
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	3
Navigating connectivity expectations and work–life boundaries through sensemaking in global teams	3
Politics of the plate: How an Indian food blog explored issues of identity, community, and food politics during the pandemic	3
Applying structurational divergence theory to climate change adaptation in a localized context: understanding adaptive potential of coffee producers in Risaralda, Colombia	3
Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military	3
Student understandings of career and gainful employment: a critique of US educational policy using structurating activity theory	3
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies	3
Life interrupted instead of disrupted: triggers and resilient communication processes revealed in POZ.com online narratives by men with HIV who have sex with men	3
Resilient communication using art in applied contexts	3
‘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
Welfare recipients communicated pathways to resilience during stigma and material hardship in the heartland of America	2
Masks across borders: etiquette, threat and prevention	2
A preliminary investigation of the use of racial/ethnic categories in emergency telephone calls in the United States	2
Correction	2
Body politics, reproductive rights, and digital media advocacy within stigmatized contexts: a critical discourse analysis of Weibo discussions on IUDs in modern-day China	2
Transforming authoritative discourse: mediating cogenerative dialogues between scientists and high school students	2
A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines	2
Decisions to react after mass shootings: exploring negative affect, relational trust, and public behavioral intentions toward the National Rifle Association	2
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers	2
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	2
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	2
High-reliability organizing and communication during naturalistic decision making: U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasting teams’ use of ‘floating’	2
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers	2
(Un)masking self in the ivory tower: An African herstory	2

Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies	2
Organizational practices leading to closeting: the interactional construction of ‘closets’	2
User experiences, usability, and social presence of a peer-to-peer support app: survey of young adults affected by cancer	2
Graduate students’ resilience and resistance: exploring adaptive-transformative possibilities in higher education	2
Being an alien in times of coronavirus: three narrative snapshots	1
Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions	1
Faith and race: how African American pastors navigate dialectical tensions in collaboration	1
Do you hear the people sign?: A critical discourse analysis of comments on a 2015 online petition opposing North Carolina’s ag-gag law	1
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	1
A latent profile analysis of U.S. undocumented college students’ advocacy communication strategies and its relationship with health	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
‘Everybody Else in That Room’: support dilemmas and benefits of supportive communication in batterer intervention	1
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	1
Engaged learning: lessons learned by subject-matter experts from COVID-19 in the U.S. swine industry	1
The enactment of relational maintenance when Guatemalan parents are forcibly separated from their families due to deportation	1
The Washington Climate Assembly: note-taking modalities as deliberative guidance in an online citizens’ assembly	1
Racialized scripts of silence: how whiteness organizes silence as a response to social protest about racism in the United States	1
Community relations under pressure: Local residents’ perceptions of corporate crisis communication	1
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming	1
Using cultural discourse analysis and storytelling to design an applied intervention for U.S. English language education	1
The meanings of heart health among low-income Malay women in Singapore: narratives of food insecurity, caregiving stressors, and shame	1
Rethinking (LGBT) empowerment: exploring the potential of community-based participatory research project among human rights NGOs in Ghana	1
‘Had I gone into the office, they would have caught it a little bit sooner’: narrative problematics in U.S. pandemic birth stories	1
Race-making of the COVID-19 outbreak in early mainstream frames: the production of the epidemic(ed) transnational citizen	1
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Body as disease	1
Pushing the boundaries: an evaluation of the Photographs of Meaning (POM) program for pediatric palliative caregivers (PPCGs)	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
Communication dilemmas and race in an Asian American Chamber of Commerce	1
High reliability organizing through an extended crisis: a case study of a U.S. university during COVID-19	1