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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of pro-white identity cues in American political candidate communication	151
Reviewer Acknowledgement	39
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	36
La inclusión relacional: examining neoliberal tensions, relational opportunities, and fixed understandings in diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the Global South	35
Reflecting on 50 years of theory inHuman Communication Research: where do we go from here	35
Is more patient empowerment always better? Examining the moderating role of perceived physician’s argument quality	33
Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion	33
End-of-life topic avoidance among gender-diverse young adults: the importance of normalizing gender-affirming end-of-life conversations	31
Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments	31
A framework of moderators in social norm-based message persuasiveness based on a systematic review	22
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis	21
Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research	19
“It strikes a chord within me”: a mixed-method exploration of existential resonance in eudaimonic entertainment experiences	18
Fifty-years of theory-driven research in HCR: prominence, progress, and opportunities	18
Discounting constituent attitudes: motivated reasoning, ambiguity, and policymaker perceptions of constituent characteristics	14
The separate and combined effects of (in)accessible and (un)sophisticated political communication on citizens’ reasoning and attitudes toward politicians	14
Will political disagreement silence political expression? The role of information repertoire filtration and discussion network heterogeneity	12
Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004)	12
Immersive and Interactive Awe: Evoking Awe via Presence in Virtual Reality and Online Videos to Prompt Prosocial Behavior	12
Partisan YouTube use and evaluation of knowledge in Korea and the United States: a fresh perspective via the Dunning–Kruger effect	11
Beliefs as causal mediators in the design of communication interventions: exploring semantic and affective priming in parallel encouragement designs	11
Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures	11
Psychological insight as an effect of inspiring narratives: validating the psychological insight self-report scale	11
Tuning out tenderness: the influence of gender and friends on U.S. adolescents’ emotional self-socialization via film selection and avoidance	10
Rethinking Communication in the Era of Artificial Intelligence	10

Communication Interdependence and Cohabitation: The Role of Interpersonal Technologies in Satisfaction and Disillusionment among Couples in Transition	10
Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research	10
Can’t stop thinking aboutStar WarsandThe Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement	10
Emotional Appeals, Climate Change, and Young Adults: A Direct Replication of Skurka et al. (2018)	10
Communication and the self: past, present, and future	9
Is news media sharing an active framing process? Examining whether individual tweets retain news media frames about climate change	9
An extension of advice response theory over time	9
Deliberating alone: deliberative bias and giving up on political talk	9
Getting socialized but trying not to get stuck: early career professionals’ liminality in dual socialization processes	8
Do Audiences Judge the Morality of Characters Relativistically? How Interdependence Affects Perceptions of Characters’ Temporal Moral Descent	8
The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K.	8
From serial reproduction to serial communication: transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality	7
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete: Understanding Users’ Response to Conflicting AI and Crowdsourced Fact-Checking	7
Correction to: Resilience in Interracial–Interethnic Relationships in the United States: Assessing Relationship Maintenance and Communal Orientation as Protection Against Network Stigma	7
How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views? Evidence from a Content Analysis of Stormfront	7
Local government engagement practices and Indigenous interventions: Learning to listen to Indigenous voices	6
Belief maintenance as a media effect: a conceptualization and empirical approach	6
The CODE^SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation	6
Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations’ ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: a network approach	5
The (mis)uses of community: a critical analysis of public health communication for COVID-19 vaccination in the United States	5
Second screening and trust in professional and alternative media: the mediating role of media efficacy	5
Trust but verify? A social epistemology framework of knowledge acquisition and verification practices for fictional entertainment	5
Trolls without borders: a comparative analysis of six foreign countries’ online propaganda campaigns	5
Consider the time dimension: theorizing and formalizing sequential media selection	5
Quantitative criticalism for social justice and equity-oriented communication research	5
Conceptualizing other-resilience: exploring how hearing parents enact resilience for themselves and their children who use cochlear implants	5
Staying-at-Home with Tragedy: Self-expansion Through Narratives Promotes Positive Coping with Identity Threat	5
Artificial Intelligence and Impression Management: Consequences of Autonomous Conversational Agents Communicating on One’s Behalf	5
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction	4
Individuals’ perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage and its impact on communal orientation, relational load, and ability to flourish	4
Effects of social comparison framing of racial health disparities and behaviors	4
The Effects of Political Incivility on Political Trust and Political Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Research	4
Difference-managing and difference-reducing community storytelling in urban neighborhoods: a communication infrastructure theory perspective	4
Affective forecasting in elections: A socio-communicative perspective	4
Replication Note: What is Political Incivility?	4
Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory	4
Challenges to correcting pluralistic ignorance: false consensus effects, competing information environments, and anticipated social conflict	4
Using media to navigate identity? U.S. Black parents’ encouragement and selection of content for their children	3
Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions	3
Buy me: the effect of leaders’ perceived personality abroad on consumption of their national products	3
Message fatigue beyond the health message context: a replication and further extension of So et al. (2017)	3
Resilience in Interracial–Interethnic Relationships in the United States: Assessing Relationship Maintenance and Communal Orientation as Protection Against Network Stigma	3
Do you love your phone more than your child? The consequences of norms and guilt around maternal smartphone use	3
Conspiracy theories and self-worth: can self-affirmation help explain the adoption of conspiracy theories?	3
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
Why do individuals create posts on organizations’ social media pages? Identifications, functions, and audiences beyond the organizational boundary for social change	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
The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition	3

Interpersonal Discussion and Political Knowledge: Unpacking the Black Box via a Combined Experimental and Content-Analytic Approach	3
Intellectual humility’s effects on political polarization and engagement	3
The mirror of the metaverse: an exploration of reciprocal effects between self-views and avatar-based self-presentation	3
Embodied Cognition and Media Engagement: When the Loneliness of the Protagonist Makes the Reader Sense Coldness (and Vice Versa)	3
Assessing the Russian Troll Efforts to Sow Discord on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Election	3
Relational maintenance among separated Latina/o/x/e immigrant families: exploring the lived experiences of parents and children	3