OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asian Journal of Communication is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Minority ethnic media: challenges for the future	24
Judgments of honest and deceptive communication in art forgery controversies: two field studies testing truth-default theory’s projected motive model in Korea	19
Impact of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media messages: the moderating effect of civic online reasoning	17
Understanding religious influence through elevation on green advertising effectiveness among Muslims: an examination from the UAE and the USA	12
Theory and practice of agenda setting: understanding media, bot, and public agendas in the South Korean presidential election	12
The social presence of online education: how MOOC platforms in China cope with collective trauma during COVID-19	10
From tsunami through terror attacks to Covid-19: crisis communication strategies and recovery campaigns to combat Thailand’s tourism crises	10
The impacts of new propaganda media use on youth's political socialization	10
A supporting hand: effects of party participation in corporate governance on media companies’ performance in China	10
Exporting soft power of entertainment: cultural mechanisms for Chinese TV talent show formats remade overseas	9
The multifaceted impact of social media on risk, behavior, and negative emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea	9
Civic engagement in anti-Asian violence activism: a comparative view between Asians and non-Asian ethnic groups in the United States	8
Characterizing Asians in violence: a comparative analysis of English- and Chinese-language media’s crime news coverage during the pandemic	8
Do political elite endorsements influence online mobilization? A study of Twitter behavior in Narendra Modi’s 2019 election campaigns	8
Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism: understanding Chinese fanquan girls’ personifications of the nation-state	8
The effect of cross-cutting exposure on attitude change: examining the mediating role of response behaviors and the moderating role of openness to diversity and social network homogeneity	8
Military’s public relations practice in the social media era: exploring the Chinese military’s use of WeChat and public engagement	7
Innovations in communication theories: the man is the message	7
Countering online ‘regional blackening': interventions for province-targeted hate speech in the Chinese digital sphere	7
Perceptions of the media's role and job satisfaction: a survey of journalists in Xinjiang	7
Fostering opinion leaders’ pro-environmental behaviour: examining the mediating role of social media expression and the moderating role of mianzi	6
New perspectives on geography of media New perspectives on geography of media , by Shao Pei-ren, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University Press, October 2021, 236 pages, ¥50 (paper	6
Assessing the universality of face needs across China, Japan, Korea, and the U.S. using an inductive approach of face needs measurement	6
Traditional norms and political inequality: assessing gender disparities in online political participation across 51 countries	5
A replication and extension of the prosocial effect of online social interactions among Chinese and American emerging adults	5

Explaining change in independence–unification views in Taiwan: a within-between model	5
The dynamics of social media influencer-driven CSR advertising: The role of sponsorship disclosure and perceived similarity	5
Parental mediation of children’s digital media use in high digital penetration countries: perspectives from Singapore and Australia	5
Praxis, hashtag activism, and social justice: a content analysis of #StopAsianHate narratives	5
Do viewers really talk about ads during commercial breaks? Findings from a South Korean social TV platform	5
Communications in contemporary China: orchestrating thinking	4
Stringent censorship and relaxed co-governance: understanding platform governance and user practices of queer social and dating apps	4
Examining the Indonesian government’s social media use for disaster risk communication	4
Channeling engagement into action: the role of empowerment in Asian Americans’ social media use in combating anti-Asian discrimination	4
Cross-Cutting exposure, perceived realism, and online political engagement in the age of algorithms	4
COVID-racism on social media and its impact on young Asians in Australia	4
Examining public perceptions of cultivated meat in Singapore: food neophobia and neophilia as precursors to the influence of presumed media influence model	4
Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability	4
Facebook populism: mediatized narratives of exclusionary nationalism in the Philippines	3
One-sided portrayal: Singapore media discourse of social scientists’ roles	3
Image, issue, and affective priming effects of candidates’ Facebook posts on voters’ trait perceptions and overall evaluations	3
‘We are citizens, not fans’: frictions and negotiations in idolizing the nation in state propaganda	3
News credibility revisited: the roles of news comment engagement and news literacy on news portal credibility in South Korea	3
Hiding in the echo chamber: fact-Checking failures and individual tactics of accuracy determination on WhatsApp in India	3
Online opinions, sentiments and news framing of the first nuclear referendum in Taiwan: a mix-method approach	3
Branded webtoon, the rise of the digital comic industry in South Korea	2
Netflix’s effects on the Korean Wave: power relations between local cultural industries and global OTT platforms	2
Communicating stakeholder engagement and its quality: analyzing the CSR reports of the leading Chinese companies	2
The soft power of the Korean wave: parasite, BTS and drama	2
Digital reading of net generation in China	2
Media freedom in Asia: challenges from below	2
The effect of dialogic competencies in internal communication and D&I-oriented leadership on relational outcomes with minority employees: focusing on the perspectives of Asian employees	2
Exploring the climate change discourse on Chinese social media and the role of social bots	2
Zoning China: online video, popular culture, and the state	2
South Korean newspaper coverage of Yemeni refugees: analysis of topics and sentiments using machine learning techniques	2
Leveraging moral foundations for corporate social advocacy combating anti-Asian racism: A computational approach	2
Exploring the effects of the first-hand experience of deliberative practice: the case of the Shin-Gori Nuclear Reactor Nos. 5 and 6 in South Korea	1
Media and climate change: making sense of press narratives	1
Blaming Asians for coronavirus: the role of valenced framing and discrete emotions in hostile media effect	1
Islamic communication as an invention of modern-western knowledge: critical analysis toward Islamic communication in Indonesia	1
Multimodal Chinese discourse: Understanding communication and society in contemporary China	1
The effects of message attributes and source characteristics of news posts on audience engagement on social media	1
Wiki warriors: language editors counter knowledge hierarchies during the pandemic	1
Politically engaged but unwilling to protest: analyzing the role of authoritarian orientations and internet use on protest participation behavior	1
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: discourse, strategy and impact	1
Fact-checking in China: normative and strategic transparency of Chinese journalists in fact-checking reports	1
Book review of rethinking media studies: media, meditation and communication	1
Covid-19 and xenophobia in America: media exposure, anti-Asian stigmatization, and deservingness of Asian immigrants	1
Communication strategies for promoting sports participation for health: an examination of goal-framing effects in South Korea	1
Islamic communication research: this is just the start	1
Make the invisible visible: communicative response to anti-Asian racism	1
Cyber-troops, digital attacks, and media freedom in Indonesia	1
Polymedia, de-territorialization, and cultural transformation: Pakistani students’ digitally mediated acculturation journeys in China	1
The role of digital devices in chronic disease management during the Covid-19 pandemic—a study of senior citizens in Wuhan	1
China, media, and international conflicts	0

News framing through English-Chinese translation	0
Analyzing the meaning of sexual violence in Tamil movies: a mixed method approach	0
Complexity thinking in translation studies methodological considerations	0
A quantitative analysis of doctoral dissertations in communication in mainland China	0
Taking stock of social-political polarization in Asia: political communication, social media and digital governance	0
Reframing Islam in bollywood cinema: a study on the construction of the Islamic identity in Indian cinema	0
Chinese films abroad: distribution and translation	0
‘I’m not a virus’: Asian hate in Donald Trump’s rhetoric	0
Biology and technology: guarding, nurturing, and governing life	0
Islamic fashion in Malaysia: the commodification of religious values on Instagram	0
A cognitive mechanism for democratic norms: testing a hypothesized model of news literacy, cross-cutting discussion, and elaboration	0
The filter bubble generated by artificial intelligence algorithms and the network dynamics of collective polarization on YouTube: the case of South Korea	0
Ulama and terrorism in media: phenomenology research about the perceptions of ulama to terrorism news in Indonesia mass media	0
Which dimensions of regional diversity facilitate media cluster formation?	0
Modernizing propaganda in Republican China under a foreign gaze	0
What’s the matter?: The meaning of halal culture for Indonesian Muslims	0
Looking after the elderly, looking after the nation: Red (Xiao Hongshu) and China’s biopolitical governance of ageing	0
Empowering the religious minority: examining the mobilizing role of social media for online political participation in an Asian democracy	0
The “Funny Line Veil” and the mediated political subjectivity of Muslim women in Indonesia	0
Reflexive racialization and discursive affect with the #VeryAsian Hashtag	0
Linking incidental corrective information exposure to health misinformation correction intention: testing an extended cognitive mediation model	0
Examining public perception and cognitive biases in the presumed influence of deepfakes threat: empirical evidence of third person perception from three studies	0
The postcolonial route of WeChat: technological mimicry, excess, and orientalism	0
The mediating role of social recommendation in the relationship between concern over expression and social media news participation: a comparative study of six Asian societies	0
Queer recognition and politics on YouTube: the circulation of Filipino Miss Universe fans’ reaction videos	0
In Memoriam	0
Social media, gendered anxiety and disease-related misinformation: discourses in contemporary China’s online anti-African sentiments	0
Restoration of mobility through mobile health: the digital health code as a technology of governance	0
Actual and perceived polarization on independence-unification views in Taiwan	0
Living with digital platforms in Asia-Pacific: editorial note	0
Deradicalization communication model through preaching in the province of Yala South Thailand	0
The skepticism equation in influencer marketing: the interplay of influencer–product fit and content style in shaping ad skepticism and purchase intention	0
Commodification of instrumental Islamic piety in Indonesian political contestation 2019	0
Cognitive reasoning, risk targets and behavioral responses to COVID-19 outbreaks among Wuhan residents during lockdown	0
Impact of multi-platform social media news use on civic participation: the mediating role of news engagement and the moderated mediation effect of news trust	0
Online intercultural education and study abroad: theory into practice	0
Two sides of a coin: understanding social media use and its relationships to online perceived discrimination and life satisfaction	0
From visual pleasure to global imagination: Chinese youth’s reception of Hollywood films	0
Communication and capitalism: a critical theory	0
The role of social media in empowering activism: testing the integrative model of activism to anti-Asian hate crimes	0
Evaluating state-led social mobilization in public health crises: agenda dynamics in China’s COVID-19 response	0
From the eyes of censorship supporters: Chinese attitudes regarding two types of online censorship	0
Do we always cast our votes with accurate information? The mediating role of misperception in the relationship between partisan media use and retrospective voting	0
Parenting in a media-saturated family: monitoring children’s media use throughout their lives	0
Stage-emotion compatibility and the effectiveness of antismoking campaigns in South Korea: tailoring guilt and shame appeals to individuals in different stages of change	0
Chinese news discourse from perspectives of communication, linguistics and pedagogy	0
Tracing the introduction and diffusion of communication in mainland China: Evidence from invisible college of overseas Chinese scholars	0
Exploring influence attempts, wishful identification, parasocial relationships, and behavioral loyalty among Thai game live-streamers and their viewers	0
Charting new horizons: a bibliometric analysis of the landscape of grounded theory in Indonesian communication studies	0
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in Urban China	0
CSR-company fit in the sin industry: addressing negative contributions, NFC, and perceived motives	0
Effects of narratives and information valence in digital headlines on user responses	0
The view from the hinterland: caste, gender and press freedom in Hindi news reporting	0
Demystifying disinformation shadow economies: fake news work models in Indonesia and the Philippines	0
Bitter or sweet? The interactive impact of message framing and environmental attitude on the effectiveness of green advertising	0
Development communication for youth empowerment in Indonesia’s renewable energy projects	0
Doxing, regulation, and privacy protection: expanding the behavioral consequences of the third-person effect	0
How do social media affect people’s compassion and civic action? The case of the Sewol Ferry disaster in Korea	0
Rethinking Asian values in journalism: the case of the pressroom in the South Korean presidential office	0
Translation strategies in global news: what Sarkozy said in the suburbs	0
Islamic communication in Asia has a distinctive colour, style, and practice	0
Green advertising: examining the effects of appeal arrangement on young Indonesian consumers’ Green attitudes and buying intention	0
Two Wikipedias in Bhutan: problems and solutions for knowledge equity in the digital age	0
Understanding PM2.5 risk information seeking and processing among South Koreans: evidence of desensitization?	0
Facebook interfaith contact and social distance toward religious minorities	0
From alternative health media to vaccine misbeliefs: the roles of medical folk wisdom and institutional trust	0
Engender tolerance and participation in polarized gender issues: the mediating role of discussion in cross-cutting exposure	0
Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio	0
The Islamophobia controversy in Nussa dan Rarra cartoon film: an insight into Indonesian netizens’ tweets	0
(Im)mobile homes: family life at a distance in the age of mobile media	0
The interweaving of network nationalism and transnational cultural consumption: the role conflict of K-pop fans	0
The role of English Wikipedia in mediating East Asian historical disputes: the case of Balhae	0
China’s mediated public diplomacy towards Japan: a text-as-data approach	0
Reimagining a glocal framework: the search for academic legitimacy in Chinese public relations discipline from 1985 to 2018	0
Social media intergroup expression and White Americans’ attitudes toward ethnic Chinese during COVID-19	0