OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asian Journal of Communication 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Minority ethnic media: challenges for the future	22
A supporting hand: effects of party participation in corporate governance on media companies’ performance in China	18
From tsunami through terror attacks to Covid-19: crisis communication strategies and recovery campaigns to combat Thailand’s tourism crises	17
Impact of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media messages: the moderating effect of civic online reasoning	15
Understanding religious influence through elevation on green advertising effectiveness among Muslims: an examination from the UAE and the USA	14
Theory and practice of agenda setting: understanding media, bot, and public agendas in the South Korean presidential election	14
The impacts of new propaganda media use on youth's political socialization	12
Exporting soft power of entertainment: cultural mechanisms for Chinese TV talent show formats remade overseas	12
Do political elite endorsements influence online mobilization? A study of Twitter behavior in Narendra Modi’s 2019 election campaigns	10
Social identity and discourses in Chinese digital communication	10
Civic engagement in anti-Asian violence activism: a comparative view between Asians and non-Asian ethnic groups in the United States	10
Characterizing Asians in violence: a comparative analysis of English- and Chinese-language media’s crime news coverage during the pandemic	9
Nostalgic consumption in digital spaces: understanding youth network identity through GG bonds	9
Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism: understanding Chinese fanquan girls’ personifications of the nation-state	9
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	9
Military’s public relations practice in the social media era: exploring the Chinese military’s use of WeChat and public engagement	8
Assessing the universality of face needs across China, Japan, Korea, and the U.S. using an inductive approach of face needs measurement	8
Innovations in communication theories: the man is the message	8
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	8
Fostering opinion leaders’ pro-environmental behaviour: examining the mediating role of social media expression and the moderating role of mianzi	7
The dynamics of social media influencer-driven CSR advertising: The role of sponsorship disclosure and perceived similarity	7
Praxis, hashtag activism, and social justice: a content analysis of #StopAsianHate narratives	7
Countering online ‘regional blackening': interventions for province-targeted hate speech in the Chinese digital sphere	7
Traditional norms and political inequality: assessing gender disparities in online political participation across 51 countries	7
Explaining change in independence–unification views in Taiwan: a within-between model	6

A replication and extension of the prosocial effect of online social interactions among Chinese and American emerging adults	6
Parental mediation of children’s digital media use in high digital penetration countries: perspectives from Singapore and Australia	6
Examining the Indonesian government’s social media use for disaster risk communication	6
Channeling engagement into action: the role of empowerment in Asian Americans’ social media use in combating anti-Asian discrimination	5
Stringent censorship and relaxed co-governance: understanding platform governance and user practices of queer social and dating apps	5
Communications in contemporary China: orchestrating thinking	5
Examining public perceptions of cultivated meat in Singapore: food neophobia and neophilia as precursors to the influence of presumed media influence model	5
COVID-racism on social media and its impact on young Asians in Australia	5
Cross-Cutting exposure, perceived realism, and online political engagement in the age of algorithms	5
Online opinions, sentiments and news framing of the first nuclear referendum in Taiwan: a mix-method approach	4
‘We are citizens, not fans’: frictions and negotiations in idolizing the nation in state propaganda	4
Hiding in the echo chamber: fact-Checking failures and individual tactics of accuracy determination on WhatsApp in India	4
One-sided portrayal: Singapore media discourse of social scientists’ roles	4
Image, issue, and affective priming effects of candidates’ Facebook posts on voters’ trait perceptions and overall evaluations	4
Facebook populism: mediatized narratives of exclusionary nationalism in the Philippines	4
News credibility revisited: the roles of news comment engagement and news literacy on news portal credibility in South Korea	4
The soft power of the Korean wave: parasite, BTS and drama	4
Exploring the climate change discourse on Chinese social media and the role of social bots	3
Digital reading of net generation in China	3
Leveraging moral foundations for corporate social advocacy combating anti-Asian racism: A computational approach	3
Branded webtoon, the rise of the digital comic industry in South Korea	3
Netflix’s effects on the Korean Wave: power relations between local cultural industries and global OTT platforms	3
Zoning China: online video, popular culture, and the state	3
Islamic communication research: this is just the start	2
Politically engaged but unwilling to protest: analyzing the role of authoritarian orientations and internet use on protest participation behavior	2
Communication strategies for promoting sports participation for health: an examination of goal-framing effects in South Korea	2
Media and climate change: making sense of press narratives	2
Make the invisible visible: communicative response to anti-Asian racism	2
Wiki warriors: language editors counter knowledge hierarchies during the pandemic	2
South Korean newspaper coverage of Yemeni refugees: analysis of topics and sentiments using machine learning techniques	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 effects of the first-hand experience of deliberative practice: the case of the Shin-Gori Nuclear Reactor Nos. 5 and 6 in South Korea	2
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: discourse, strategy and impact	2
Communicating stakeholder engagement and its quality: analyzing the CSR reports of the leading Chinese companies	2
Media freedom in Asia: challenges from below	2
Multimodal Chinese discourse: Understanding communication and society in contemporary China	1
Whose story is prevailing on Twitter? The international discourse battle over Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge	1
Blaming Asians for coronavirus: the role of valenced framing and discrete emotions in hostile media effect	1
The skepticism equation in influencer marketing: the interplay of influencer–product fit and content style in shaping ad skepticism and purchase intention	1
The Islamophobia controversy in Nussa dan Rarra cartoon film: an insight into Indonesian netizens’ tweets	1
Development communication for youth empowerment in Indonesia’s renewable energy projects	1
What’s the matter?: The meaning of halal culture for Indonesian Muslims	1
Fact-checking in China: normative and strategic transparency of Chinese journalists in fact-checking reports	1
The effects of message attributes and source characteristics of news posts on audience engagement on social media	1
Book review of rethinking media studies: media, meditation and communication	1
Taking stock of social-political polarization in Asia: political communication, social media and digital governance	1
How do social media affect people’s compassion and civic action? The case of the Sewol Ferry disaster in Korea	1
Online intercultural education and study abroad: theory into practice	1
Islamic communication as an invention of modern-western knowledge: critical analysis toward Islamic communication in Indonesia	1
Polymedia, de-territorialization, and cultural transformation: Pakistani students’ digitally mediated acculturation journeys in China	1

Cyber-troops, digital attacks, and media freedom in Indonesia	1
Covid-19 and xenophobia in America: media exposure, anti-Asian stigmatization, and deservingness of Asian immigrants	1
Chinese films abroad: distribution and translation	1
Living with digital platforms in Asia-Pacific: editorial note	1
Islamic communication in Asia has a distinctive colour, style, and practice	1