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

Article	Citations
Selective Avoidance: Understanding How Position and Proportion of Online Incivility Influence News Engagement	67
Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?	59
How Moral Expectancy Violations Influence Audiences’ Affective Dispositions Toward Characters	39
How Political Overconfidence Fuels Affective Polarization in Cross-cutting Discussions	39
“I’ll Change My Beliefs When I See It”: Video Fact Checks Outperform Text Fact Checks in Correcting Misperceptions Among Those Holding False or Uncertain Pre-Existing Beliefs	32
When the Music’s No Good: Rhythms Prompt Interactional Synchrony But Impair Affective Communication Outcomes	32
“Are You Doing What I Think You’re Doing?” Momentary Goal Projection and Goal Contagion in Romantic Conflict	25
Ecological Influences on the Formation of the Hiring Network in the Communication Job Market, 2015 to 2019	22
Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement	20
Expansion and Exploration of the Superdiffuser Model With Agent-Based Modeling	18
How Moral Reframing Enhances Political Persuasion: The Role of Processing Fluency and Self-Affirmation	17
Navigating Multiple Identities for Positive Change Through Organizational Listening	17
New Digital Divide Shaped by Algorithm? Evidence from Agent-Based Testing on Douyin’s Health-Related Video Recommendation	16
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies	16
Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media: The Gun Violence Case	15
Perceived Influence of Partisan News and Online News Participation: Third-person Effect, Hostile Media Phenomenon, and Cognitive Elaboration	14
Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries	13
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use	13
Network Agenda Setting, or Networked Framing? (Non)correspondence Between User and Right-Wing Media Semantic Networks on YouTube	13
When an AI Doctor Gets Personal: The Effects of Social and Medical Individuation in Encounters With Human and AI Doctors	12
Racializing Accents: The Impact of Language and Racial Cues on Intergroup Communicative Outcomes	12
Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation	12
When Disagreement Becomes Uncivil on Social Media: The Role of Passive Receiving and Active Expression of Incivility in Influencing Political Polarization	11
“None of Us Wanted to be at This Party, But What a Guest List”: How Technology Workers Position Themselves on LinkedIn Following Layoffs	11
Acknowledgment 2020	11

How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands	11
Is Partisan Selective Exposure an American Peculiarity? A Comparative Study of News Browsing Behaviors in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong	10
A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)	10
Navigating Social Media News Use: Exploring the Impact of Intentional and Incidental News Consumption on Objective and Subjective Political Knowledge	10
The Enduring Effect of Internet Dating: Meeting Online and the Road to Marriage	9
“Be Nice or Leave Me Alone”: An Intergroup Perspective on Affective Polarization in Online Political Discussions	9
Media Cynicism, Media Skepticism and Automatic Media Trust: Explicating Their Connection with News Processing and Exposure	9
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	9
Conflicting Goals When Seeking Support for Mental Health Concerns: Testing a Stigma Support Activation Model	8
The Privacy Calculus Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Online Privacy Decisions on Between- and Within-Person Levels	8
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns	8
A Meta-Analysis Examining the Role of Character-Recipient Similarity in Narrative Persuasion	8
The Effect of Dynamic Norms Messages and Group Identity on Pro-Environmental Behaviors	7
The Role of Person-Centered Messages, Parallel Disclosures, and Reactance When Communicating Support for Parental Death	7
Toward a More Powerful Experimental Communication Science: An Assessment of Two Decades’ Research (2001–2023)	7
Meta-Analytic Evidence That Message Fatigue is Associated With Unintended Persuasive Outcomes	7
Distinguishing Person-Specific from Situation-Specific Variation in Media Use: A Meta-Analysis	7
Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	7
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	6
Adolescents’ Multi-Layered Media Processing: A Panel Study on Positive and Negative Perceptions Toward Ideals and Adolescents’ Appearance Anxiety	6
Encouraging Replotting to Promote Persuasion: How Imagining Alternative Plotlines Influences Message Processing and Intentions	6
Examining How Sex Appeal Cues and Strength Cues Influence Impressions of Female Video Game Characters	6
Best Prosody for News: A Psychophysiological Study Comparing a Broadcast to a Narrative Speaking Style	6
The Impact of Comparative Moral Superiority on Protagonist Appeal	6
A Longitudinal Dynamic Perspective on Quality in Journalism: Investigating the Long-Term Macro-Level Media Effect of Suicide Reporting on Suicide Rates Across a Century	5
Short but Critical?: How “Fake News” and “Anti-Elitist” Media Attacks Undermine Perceived Message Credibility on Social Media	5
Reviewer Acknowledgment for 2023	5
Needing Space During Lockdown: A Test of Relational Turbulence Theory in the Context of Conversations About Physical and Emotional Space During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Entertainment for Cosmopolitism: Science Fiction Fosters Identification With All Humanity via Awe	5
The Effects of Social Approval Signals on the Production of Online Hate: A Theoretical Explication	4
Developing and Validating a 15-Item True/False Measure of News Literacy Knowledge	4
Spillover Effects of COVID-19 News Coverage on Willingness to Participate in Medical Research in a Diverse Sample of US Older Adults	4
Quality Conversation Can Increase Daily Well-Being	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
Single Episodes of Health Information Seeking, Scanning, and Avoidance: Findings of an Experience Sampling Methods Study of German Residents Suffering From Acute or Chronic Illness	4
Caught Within the Family System: An Examination of Emerging Adults’ Dilemmas in Navigating Sibling Depression	4
Withholding Social Support Because Those in Need Do Not Deserve It: A Thematic Narrative Analysis	3
When a Chatbot Disappoints You: Expectancy Violation in Human-Chatbot Interaction in a Social Support Context	3
The Influence of Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences on Political Information Processing and Engagement	3
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics	3
The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization: A Longitudinal Study	3
Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Misinformation on Climate Change	3
The Impact of Machine Authorship on News Audience Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies	3
Stigma and Supportive Communication in the Context of Mental or Emotional Distress: An Extension of the Paradox of Support Seeking in Close Relationships	3
The Matilda Effect in Communication Research: The Effects of Gender and Geography on Usage and Citations Across 11 Countries	3
Multiple Identities in Faith-based Organizations: Exploring Status and Value Homophily in Idealized Partnerships	2
Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement	2
What Makes Populist Messages Persuasive? Experimental Evidence for How Emotions and Issue Characteristics Moderate Populist Framing Effects	2
Can We Counteract Hate? Effects of Online Hate Speech and Counter Speech on the Perception of Social Groups	2
The Effects of “Media Tech Neck”: The Impact of Spinal Flexion on Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Videos	2

A Longitudinal Examination of Enacted Goal Attention in End-of-Life Communication in Families	2
Psycho-Cardiac Distress Symptoms of Dyadic Communication Apprehension & The Role of Self-Esteem	2
Perceiving Immigrants as a Threat: A Motivational Approach to False Consensus	2
Overcoming Obstacles by Enacting Resilience: How Queer Adolescents Respond to Being Estranged From Their Parents	2
Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search	2
Cancer Fatalism in the Information Age: A Meta-Analysis of Communicative and Behavioral Correlates	2
Mechanisms for Employee Mobility Between Organizations: A Network Analysis of Faculty Turnover in Communication, 2013 to 2022	2
Understanding How Immersive Media Enhance Prosociality: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis	2
A Meta-Analysis of Studies Examining the Effect of Music on Beliefs	2
A Fresh View of the Veracity Effect in Deception Research: Bond and DePaulo Re-examined	2
Is There an Easy Path to Eudaimonia? Novel Insights on the Dual-process Perspective in Media Entertainment	2
Inferring human vision in a human-like way: Key factors influencing the cognitive processing of level-1 visual perspective-taking	2
When the Stakes are Low: How Key Features of Momentary Suspense Contribute to a Global Evaluation of Enjoyment	2
Sexual Minorities’ Uncertainty About Their Romantic Partner’s Communication With Their Family: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management	2
Why Do Journalists Face Varying Degrees of Digital Hostility? Examining the Interplay Between Minority Identity and Celebrity Capital	2
Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload	2
Re-assessing the Dynamics of News Use and Trust: A Multi-Outlet Perspective	2
Education-Based Gap in Misinformation Acceptance: Does the Gap Increase as Misinformation Exposure Increases?	1
Whose Pants Are on Fire? Journalists Correcting False Claims are Distrusted More Than Journalists Confirming Claims	1
News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
Connected Yet Cognitively Drained? A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Whether Online Vigilance and Availability Pressure Promote Mental Fatigue	1
Past Relational Experiences and Social Interaction: Direct, Moderated, and Mediated Associations Between Relational Difficulty, Communication, and Perception in Two Samples	1
Expanding the Boundary Conditions of the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging to Include Communication About Religion	1
Appraising Uncivil Comments in Online Political Discussions: How Do Preceding Incivility and Senders’ Stance Affect the Processing of an Uncivil Comment?	1
Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction	1
Gig Workers and Managing App-Based Surveillance	1
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas	1
Beyond Mere Algorithm Aversion: Are Judgments About Computer Agents More Variable?	1
The Online Privacy Divide: Testing Resource and Identity Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Differences in Privacy Concerns and Privacy Management Behaviors on Social Media	1
Enjoyment of Love-Related Dramas and the Implications of Perspective Taking	1
When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms	1
Disentangling the Effects of Temporal Framing on Risk Perception, Attitude, Behavioral Intention, and Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	1
Promoting Mis/Disinformation Literacy Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Recommendations	1
The Impacts of Code-Mixing in a Cross-Cultural Narrative: How Processing Fluency Impacts Narrative Engagement and Attitudes Toward Out-Groups	1
Reviewer Acknowledgment for 2021	1
A Systematic Review of Attribution Theory Applied to Crisis Events in Communication Journals: Integration and Advancing Insights	1
When Meaningful Movies Invite Fear Transcendence: An Extended Terror Management Account of the Function of Death in Movies	1
Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction	1