OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Communication Research is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of pro-white identity cues in American political candidate communication	68
Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion	50
That’s so immoral! Investigating the effects of moral violations reported in the form of (in)complete moral dyads in news articles on emotions and memory	48
Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments	39
Interparental conflict and parent–child triangulation: a meta-analytical review of children feeling caught between parents	26
La inclusión relacional: examining neoliberal tensions, relational opportunities, and fixed understandings in diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the Global South	26
Reflecting on 50 years of theory inHuman Communication Research: where do we go from here	23
Is more patient empowerment always better? Examining the moderating role of perceived physician’s argument quality	22
End-of-life topic avoidance among gender-diverse young adults: the importance of normalizing gender-affirming end-of-life conversations	22
Relational introspections with machines: a social-cognitive framework of trait perception, relational schemas, and trust in intention to use AI	21
Fifty-years of theory-driven research in HCR: prominence, progress, and opportunities	18
“It strikes a chord within me”: a mixed-method exploration of existential resonance in eudaimonic entertainment experiences	17
A framework of moderators in social norm-based message persuasiveness based on a systematic review	16
Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research	15
The separate and combined effects of (in)accessible and (un)sophisticated political communication on citizens’ reasoning and attitudes toward politicians	15
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis	15
Discounting constituent attitudes: motivated reasoning, ambiguity, and policymaker perceptions of constituent characteristics	14
Beliefs as causal mediators in the design of communication interventions: exploring semantic and affective priming in parallel encouragement designs	14
Will political disagreement silence political expression? The role of information repertoire filtration and discussion network heterogeneity	12
Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures	12
Partisan YouTube use and evaluation of knowledge in Korea and the United States: a fresh perspective via the Dunning–Kruger effect	12
Psychological insight as an effect of inspiring narratives: validating the psychological insight self-report scale	12
Rethinking Communication in the Era of Artificial Intelligence	10
Deliberating alone: deliberative bias and giving up on political talk	10
Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research	10

Tuning out tenderness: the influence of gender and friends on U.S. adolescents’ emotional self-socialization via film selection and avoidance	9
Communication and the self: past, present, and future	9
Correction to: Resilience in Interracial–Interethnic Relationships in the United States: Assessing Relationship Maintenance and Communal Orientation as Protection Against Network Stigma	9
Getting socialized but trying not to get stuck: early career professionals’ liminality in dual socialization processes	9
Can’t stop thinking aboutStar WarsandThe Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement	9
An extension of advice response theory over time	9
From serial reproduction to serial communication: transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality	9
Is news media sharing an active framing process? Examining whether individual tweets retain news media frames about climate change	9
The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K.	9
Organizing expectations: the co-constitutive dynamics of AI imaginaries	8
Local government engagement practices and Indigenous interventions: Learning to listen to Indigenous voices	8
Belief maintenance as a media effect: a conceptualization and empirical approach	8
Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations’ ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: a network approach	8
The CODE^SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation	8
News Finds Me as the illusion of competence: evidence for overconfidence in discernment of political misinformation	8
Conceptualizing other-resilience: exploring how hearing parents enact resilience for themselves and their children who use cochlear implants	7
The (mis)uses of community: a critical analysis of public health communication for COVID-19 vaccination in the United States	7
Trust but verify? A social epistemology framework of knowledge acquisition and verification practices for fictional entertainment	7
Quantitative criticalism for social justice and equity-oriented communication research	7
Incidental and intentional exposure in a mock election setting on social media: effects on subjective and objective political knowledge and aligned voting	7
What do people watch under adversity? Testing interactions of semantic affinity and coping style using Netflix data donations	7
Extending communicated sense-making theorizing to social groups: missionaries’ use of metaphor, personification, and in-group vernacular	7
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction	6
Trolls without borders: a comparative analysis of six foreign countries’ online propaganda campaigns	6
Consider the time dimension: theorizing and formalizing sequential media selection	6
Escaping the digital panopticon? Longitudinal effects of dataveillance salience shocks on privacy attitudes and inhibited behaviors	6
Relationship uncertainty and person-specific dynamics of partner rumination and relational turbulence in day-to-day life	6
Second screening and trust in professional and alternative media: the mediating role of media efficacy	6
Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory	5
Individuals’ perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage and its impact on communal orientation, relational load, and ability to flourish	5
Effects of social comparison framing of racial health disparities and behaviors	5
Difference-managing and difference-reducing community storytelling in urban neighborhoods: a communication infrastructure theory perspective	5
Revisiting the digital jukebox in daily life: applying Mood Management Theory to algorithmically curated music streaming environments	5
Explicit acceptance, gentle challenge: exploring (dis)confirmation in parent–adult child mental health conversations	5
Challenges to correcting pluralistic ignorance: false consensus effects, competing information environments, and anticipated social conflict	5
Conspiracy theories and self-worth: can self-affirmation help explain the adoption of conspiracy theories?	5
Using media to navigate identity? U.S. Black parents’ encouragement and selection of content for their children	4
The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition	4
Relational maintenance among separated Latina/o/x/e immigrant families: exploring the lived experiences of parents and children	4
Message effects on psychological reactance: meta-analyses	4
Do you love your phone more than your child? The consequences of norms and guilt around maternal smartphone use	4
Can fictional stories beat the congeniality bias? Selective exposure to fiction and non-fiction	4
They will hate us for this: effects of media coverage on Islamist terror attacks on Muslims’ perceptions of public opinion, perceived risk of victimization, and behavioral intentions	3
The majority of fact-checking labels in the United States are intense and this decreases engagement intention	3
Buy me: the effect of leaders’ perceived personality abroad on consumption of their national products	3
How repeated exposure to persuasive messaging shapes message responses over time: a longitudinal experiment	3
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users’ weight loss: a computational approach	3
The labor of communicatively coping: toward an Integrative Theory of Communication Work	3
Intellectual humility’s effects on political polarization and engagement	3
Why do individuals create posts on organizations’ social media pages? Identifications, functions, and audiences beyond the organizational boundary for social change	3

Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions	3
A show for us: how racial and partisan cues about television audiences affect exposure intentions	3
The power of context: how choice set size and composition influence overall and cross-cutting news exposure	3
The mirror of the metaverse: an exploration of reciprocal effects between self-views and avatar-based self-presentation	3
Message fatigue beyond the health message context: a replication and further extension of So et al. (2017)	3