OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Communication Research is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Telling the tale: the role of narratives in helping people respond to crises	35
Building organizational resilience through strategic internal communication and organization–employee relationships	27
Boundary communication: how smartphone use after hours is associated with work-life conflict and organizational identification	26
Testing the viability of emotions and issue involvement as predictors of CSA response behaviors	24
Reducing political polarization through narrative writing	17
Post-truth propaganda: heuristic processing of political fake news on Facebook during the 2016 U.S. presidential election	17
Support and barriers in long-term recovery after Hurricane Sandy: improvisation as a communicative process of resilience	15
The power of empathy: the dual impacts of an emotional voice in organizational crisis communication	14
Romanians’ willingness to comply with restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from an online survey	13
Post-disaster communities on social media: citizen participation in crisis communication after the Nepal earthquake, 2015	12
The perception of crisis, the existence of crisis: navigating the social construction of crisis	12
Communication scholar-activism: conceptualizing key dimensions and practices based on interviews with scholar-activists	12
Disaster communication behaviors in the U.S. and China: which channels do you use and with whom?	11
Queering communication studies: aJournal of Applied Communication Researchforum	10
‘As resilient as an ironweed:' narrative resilience in nonprofit organizing	9
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19	9
Exploring workplace bullying from diverse perspectives: A Journal of Applied Communication Research forum	8
Perceptions of police use of force among U.S. adults and the role of communication accommodation in improving police–civilian interactions	8
Work–life-imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring social support and health outcomes in the United States	8
‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future	8
Publics’ communication on controversial sociopolitical issues: extending the situational theory of problem solving	8
Predictors and outcomes of LGB individuals’ sexual orientation disclosure to heterosexual romantic partners	7
High-reliability organizing and communication during naturalistic decision making: U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasting teams’ use of ‘floating’	7
Spanning communication boundaries to address health inequalities: the role of community connectors and social media	7
Employer reviews may say as much about the employee as they do the employer: online disclosures, organizational attachments, and unethical behavior	7

Can scientists communicate interpersonal warmth? Testing warmth messages in the context of science communication	6
Discovering One’s Undocumented Immigration Status through Family Disclosures: The Perspectives of U.S. College Students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)	6
Expanding feminist resilience theorizing: conceptualizing embodied resilience as a material-discursive process during infertility	6
Seafood stories: the effect of video message type on U.S. support for sustainable aquaculture	6
Welfare recipients communicated pathways to resilience during stigma and material hardship in the heartland of America	6
‘Picture me heart disease free’: understanding African Americans’ cardiovascular disease experiences through a culture-centered approach	5
The dialectical experience of the fear of missing out for U.S. American iGen emerging adult college students	5
Everyone’s ‘uncomfortable’ but only some people report: privacy management, threshold levels, and reporting decisions stemming from coworker online sexual harassment	5
‘Eligible to be heard’ in transportation planning	5
What I resist persists: the Protect LDS Children movement as a narrative space of dissent	5
Providing support to friends experiencing a sexual health uncertainty	5
Uncertainty and support-seeking in US-based online diabetes forums	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
Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy	4
Technological capital within aging United States-based populations: challenges and recommendations for online intervention uptake	4
Communication, carcerality, and neoliberal stigma: the case of hunger and food assistance in the United States	4
‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico	4
Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism	4
Can we create the ‘being’ of leadership? A mixed-methods study of two leadership pedagogies at a southwestern, U.S. university	4
Applying structurational divergence theory to climate change adaptation in a localized context: understanding adaptive potential of coffee producers in Risaralda, Colombia	4
‘Better safe than sorry’: examining trauma as an obstacle to empowerment and social change in a U.S. intimate partner violence intervention	4
‘Anything is helpful’: examining tensions and barriers towards a more LGBT-inclusive healthcare organization in the United States	4
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.	4
Exploring the discursive construction of subgroups in global virtual teams	4
‘Health literacy for all’: exploring the feasibility of an intervention to reduce health disparities among rural children	3
Rushing to respond: image reparation and dialectical tension in crisis communication in academia	3
Bridging trauma-informed care and organizational accommodations: an ethnographic analysis of tensional knots in an anti-violence nonprofit	3
The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Dialogues for equity: precarious parent-scholars in times of crisis	3
Examining and evaluating multilevel communication within a mixed-methods, community-based participatory research project in a rural, minority–majority U.S. Town	3
Overcoming disaster linguicism: using autoethnography during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark to explore how community translators can provide multilingual disaster communication	3
Information seeking behavior about obesity among South Koreans: applying the risk information seeking and processing model	3
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	3
Climbing the ‘scaffolded city’: tactics used by homeless young adults to navigate employment barriers	3
Agricultural workers’ participation in certification as a mechanism for improving working conditions: The Equitable Food Initiative	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
The meanings of heart health among low-income Malay women in Singapore: narratives of food insecurity, caregiving stressors, and shame	3
De-centering the whiteness of applied communication research: some editorial strategies	3
‘I can tell you right now, EHR does not improve communication. It does not improve healthcare’: understanding how providers make sense of advanced information technology workarounds	3
The effects of perceived stigma and neighborhood storytelling networks on future outlook: mixed-method research in Fukushima, Japan	3
The long walk home: India’s migrant labor, livelihood, and lockdown amid COVID-19	3
The relationship between the disaster communication action context and citizen intent to shape climate-related disaster policy across California wildfire seasons	3
Communicative institutionalization of CSR: a content analysis of firms’ motivations in social reports from three market economies	3
Positive portrayals of ‘living with HIV’ to reduce HIV stigma: do they work in reality?	3
Student understandings of career and gainful employment: a critique of US educational policy using structurating activity theory	3
Frequency and importance of interpersonal communication about a school-based intervention with parents, peers, and teachers: application of social interface model	3
#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment	2
Decisions to react after mass shootings: exploring negative affect, relational trust, and public behavioral intentions toward the National Rifle Association	2
Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic	2
Communication and decision-making of cesarean sections in China: an exploration of both obstetricians’ and patients’ perspectives	2

‘He never hit me #WhyIStayed’: countering the U.S. domestic violence master narrative	2
The labor of diversity in the 2020–2021 U.S. communication job market	2
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	2
The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	2
Constructing barriers to Employee Assistance Program use by federal correctional officers	2
‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers	2
An employee-centered framework for healthy workplaces: implementing a critically holistic, participative, and structural model through the Equitable Food Initiative	2
Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual orientation disclosure and post-disclosure depression among U.S. LGBQ individuals	2
Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors	2
The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory	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
Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media	2
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting	2
Combating the ills of involuntary intake: a critical rhetorical analysis of Colorado’s state psychiatric policies for suicidal patients	2
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	2
Working-class wisdom: how relationality and responsibility shape working-class youth’s meaning-making on social media	2
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms	2
Promoting six-month exclusive breastfeeding: an examination of social norms messaging and outcome expectations	2
Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China	2
A preliminary investigation of the use of racial/ethnic categories in emergency telephone calls in the United States	2