OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Research is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review	149
Beyond Incivility: Understanding Patterns of Uncivil and Intolerant Discourse in Online Political Talk	83
Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues	65
Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review	57
Using a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social Media	54
Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Misinformation on Climate Change	32
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns	27
Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting	25
“Be Nice or Leave Me Alone”: An Intergroup Perspective on Affective Polarization in Online Political Discussions	24
Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries	22
How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as “Terrorism” or “Mental Illness”	20
When Brands (Don’t) Take My Stance: The Ambiguous Effectiveness of Political Brand Communication	19
Trusting Others: A Pareto Distribution of Source and Message Credibility Among News Reporters	18
Casual Condomless Sex, Range of Pornography Exposure, and Perceived Pornography Realism	15
A Meta-Analysis of Factors Related to Health Information Seeking: An Integration from Six Theoretical Frameworks	14
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	12
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
Talking Politics: The Relationship Between Supportive and Opposing Discussion With Partisan Media Credibility and Use	11
Privacy Cynicism and its Role in Privacy Decision-Making	10
There and Back Again? Exploring the Real-Time Cognitive Journey of Narrative Transportation	9
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	9
What People Look at in Multimodal Online Dating Profiles: How Pictorial and Textual Cues Affect Impression Formation	9

The Paradox of Interaction: Communication Network Centralization, Shared Task Experience, and the Wisdom of Crowds in Online Crowdsourcing Communities	9
Media Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Short-Term Trust Changes, Their Ideological Drivers and Consequences in Switzerland	8
To Share or Not to Share? How Emotional Judgments Drive Online Political Expression in High-Risk Contexts	8
The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals	8
Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search	8
Moral Beauty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prosocial Behavior Among Adolescents and the Inspiring Role of the Media	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	6
Understanding the Internal and External Communicative Drivers of Organizational Innovativeness	6
Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction	6
Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level	6
When the Personal Becomes Political: Unpacking the Dynamics of Sexual Violence and Gender Justice Discourses Across Four Social Media Platforms	6
“There’s Always Going to Be Uncertainty”: Exploring Undergraduate Student Parents’ Sources of Uncertainty and Related Management Practices	6
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics	6