OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Communication Research is 4. 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
‘The balance is a forever moving one’: Chinese women entrepreneurs’ politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control	7
‘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 role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion	6
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
‘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
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
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
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