OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review	157
Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk	88
Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues	69
Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review	61
Using a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social Media	55
Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Misinformation on Climate Change	33
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns	27
“Be Nice or Leave Me Alone”: An Intergroup Perspective on Affective Polarization in Online Political Discussions	26
Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting	26
Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries	23
Trusting Others: A Pareto Distribution of Source and Message Credibility Among News Reporters	22
When Brands (Don’t) Take My Stance: The Ambiguous Effectiveness of Political Brand Communication	22
How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as “Terrorism” or “Mental Illness”	21
Casual Condomless Sex, Range of Pornography Exposure, and Perceived Pornography Realism	16
A Meta-Analysis of Factors Related to Health Information Seeking: An Integration from Six Theoretical Frameworks	15
The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement: A Natural Experiment on Weibo	14
“It’s Going to be Out There For a Long Time”: The Influence of Message Persistence on Users’ Political Opinion Expression in Social Media	13
Framing as a Bridging Concept for Climate Change Communication: A Systematic Review Based on 25 Years of Literature	13
How Satirical News Impacts Affective Responses, Learning, and Persuasion: A Three-Level Random-Effects Meta-Analysis	12
13 Reasons Why, Perceived Norms, and Reports of Mental Health-Related Behavior Change among Adolescent and Young Adult Viewers in Four Global Regions	11
Privacy Cynicism and its Role in Privacy Decision-Making	11
Talking Politics: The Relationship Between Supportive and Opposing Discussion With Partisan Media Credibility and Use	11
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	10
There and Back Again? Exploring the Real-Time Cognitive Journey of Narrative Transportation	9
The Paradox of Interaction: Communication Network Centralization, Shared Task Experience, and the Wisdom of Crowds in Online Crowdsourcing Communities	9

What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation	9
Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search	9
Media Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Short-Term Trust Changes, Their Ideological Drivers and Consequences in Switzerland	9
The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals	8
To Share or Not to Share? How Emotional Judgments Drive Online Political Expression in High-Risk Contexts	8
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas	7
Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement	7
A Grounded Theory of Credibility Work and Illness: Explication and Application to the Case of Women on Trial in Health Care	7
Understanding the Internal and External Communicative Drivers of Organizational Innovativeness	7
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms	7
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	7
Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction	6
The Privacy Calculus Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Online Privacy Decisions on Between- and Within-Person Levels	6
Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	6
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics	6
How Contextual Features Shape Incivility Over Time: An Analysis of the Evolution and Determinants of Political Incivility in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019)	5
The Indirect Effects of Thinspiration and Fitspiration Images on Young Women’s Sexual Attitudes	5
Contagious Politics: Tie Strength and the Spread of Political Knowledge	5
Living at the Speed of Mobile: How Users Evaluate Social Media News Posts on Smartphones	5
A Longitudinal Examination of Enacted Goal Attention in End-of-Life Communication in Families	5
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use	5
Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News: How Online Bandwagons and Bots Dictate User Engagement	5
Do Bandwagon Cues Affect Credibility Perceptions? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence	5
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents	5
Multiple Selves and Multitasking: A Dynamic Longitudinal Study	5
The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production	4
Education-Based Gap in Misinformation Acceptance: Does the Gap Increase as Misinformation Exposure Increases?	4
Selective Avoidance: Understanding How Position and Proportion of Online Incivility Influence News Engagement	4
Reaching Science Skeptics: How Adaptive Framing of Climate Change Leads to Positive Responses Via Persuasion Knowledge and Perceived Behavioral Control	4
A Relational Turbulence Model of Sexual Communication in Couples With Depression	4
Disentangling the Effects of Temporal Framing on Risk Perception, Attitude, Behavioral Intention, and Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	4
Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms	4
Why Do Journalists Face Varying Degrees of Digital Hostility? Examining the Interplay Between Minority Identity and Celebrity Capital	3
What Influences Relationship Formation in a Global Civil Society Network? An Examination of Valued Multiplex Relations	3
Ecological Influences on the Formation of the Hiring Network in the Communication Job Market, 2015 to 2019	3
Political Para-Social Relationship as a Predictor of Voting Preferences in the Israeli 2019 Elections	3
Keep Them Apart or Join Them Together? How Identification Processes Shape Orientations to Network Brokerage	3
Predicting Public Cooperation Toward Government Actions in the Early Stages of an Influenza Pandemic in the United States: The Role of Authentic Governmental Communication and Relational Quality	2
Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?	2
The Group Roots of Social Media Politics: Social Sorting Predicts Perceptions of and Engagement in Politics on Social Media	2
Multiple Identities in Faith-based Organizations: Exploring Status and Value Homophily in Idealized Partnerships	2
Active vs. Passive Ambivalent Voters: Implications for Interactive Political Communication and Participation	2
Exploring the Relationship Between Interdisciplinary Ties and Linguistic Familiarity Using Multilevel Network Analysis	2
The Matilda Effect in Communication Research: The Effects of Gender and Geography on Usage and Citations Across 11 Countries	1
Racializing Accents: The Impact of Language and Racial Cues on Intergroup Communicative Outcomes	1
A Meta-Analysis Examining the Role of Character-Recipient Similarity in Narrative Persuasion	1
How Moral Expectancy Violations Influence Audiences’ Affective Dispositions Toward Characters	1
When the Music’s No Good: Rhythms Prompt Interactional Synchrony But Impair Affective Communication Outcomes	1
Examining the Diffusion of Innovations from a Dynamic, Differential-Effects Perspective: A Longitudinal Study on AI Adoption Among Employees	1
Support Seeking Behavior During Supportive Conversations: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and the Communication Medium	1

Entering an Information Era of Parallel Truths? A Qualitative Analysis of Legitimizing and De-legitimizing Truth Claims in Established Versus Alternative Media Outlets	1
When the Stakes are Low: How Key Features of Momentary Suspense Contribute to a Global Evaluation of Enjoyment	1
Encouraging Replotting to Promote Persuasion: How Imagining Alternative Plotlines Influences Message Processing and Intentions	1
Stigma and Supportive Communication in the Context of Mental or Emotional Distress: An Extension of the Paradox of Support Seeking in Close Relationships	1
The Enduring Effect of Internet Dating: Meeting Online and the Road to Marriage	1
A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)	1
“Are You Doing What I Think You’re Doing?” Momentary Goal Projection and Goal Contagion in Romantic Conflict	1
Strategies of Blaming on Social Media: An Experimental Study of Linguistic Framing and Retweetability	1
The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement	1
Expanding the Boundary Conditions of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging to Include Communication About Religion	1
Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload	1
Appraising Uncivil Comments in Online Political Discussions: How Do Preceding Incivility and Senders’ Stance Affect the Processing of an Uncivil Comment?	1
Best Prosody for News: A Psychophysiological Study Comparing a Broadcast to a Narrative Speaking Style	1
Short but Critical?: How “Fake News” and “Anti-Elitist” Media Attacks Undermine Perceived Message Credibility on Social Media	1
Communication Privacy Management in Open Adoption Relationships: Negotiating Co-ownership across In-person and Mediated Communication	1
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies	1
Parental Knowledge of Children’s Screen Time: The Role of Parent-Child Relationship and Communication	1
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Case for the Visual Hostile Media Phenomenon	1
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions	1
Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction	1
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
The Effect of Dynamic Norms Messages and Group Identity on Pro-Environmental Behaviors	1