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 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 Political Overconfidence Fuels Affective Polarization in Cross-cutting Discussions	39
How Moral Expectancy Violations Influence Audiences’ Affective Dispositions Toward Characters	39
When the Music’s No Good: Rhythms Prompt Interactional Synchrony But Impair Affective Communication Outcomes	32
“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
“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
How Can We Increase Privacy Protection Behavior? A Longitudinal Experiment Testing Three Intervention Strategies	16
New Digital Divide Shaped by Algorithm? Evidence from Agent-Based Testing on Douyin’s Health-Related Video Recommendation	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
Network Agenda Setting, or Networked Framing? (Non)correspondence Between User and Right-Wing Media Semantic Networks on YouTube	13
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
Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation	12
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
How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands	11
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
Navigating Social Media News Use: Exploring the Impact of Intentional and Incidental News Consumption on Objective and Subjective Political Knowledge	10
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
Visual Gender Stereotyping in Campaign Communication: Evidence on Female and Male Candidate Imagery in 28 Countries	9
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
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
Conflicting Goals When Seeking Support for Mental Health Concerns: Testing a Stigma Support Activation Model	8
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
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
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
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