OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Communication Research is 2. 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
Reviewer Acknowledgement	126
Is news media sharing an active framing process? Examining whether individual tweets retain news media frames about climate change	35
“City by city:” reclaiming people of color voices through the Narrative Justice Project	33
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users’ weight loss: a computational approach	32
Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion	32
Is more patient empowerment always better? Examining the moderating role of perceived physician’s argument quality	31
The majority of fact-checking labels in the United States are intense and this decreases engagement intention	30
Reflecting on 50 years of theory inHuman Communication Research: where do we go from here	30
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	29
Can’t stop thinking aboutStar WarsandThe Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement	25
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction	20
La inclusión relacional: examining neoliberal tensions, relational opportunities, and fixed understandings in diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the Global South	19
Practical rationality as a determinant of formality in communicative situations: toward a procedure for causal interpretation in qualitative communication research	17
Trolls without borders: a comparative analysis of six foreign countries’ online propaganda campaigns	17
Consider the time dimension: theorizing and formalizing sequential media selection	14
Deliberating alone: deliberative bias and giving up on political talk	13
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	12
Communication Interdependence and Cohabitation: The Role of Interpersonal Technologies in Satisfaction and Disillusionment among Couples in Transition	11
Stress, relational turbulence, and communal coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The reconstructability of persuasive message variables affects the variability of experimental effect sizes: evidence and implications	10
Replication Note: What is Political Incivility?	10
High-Quality Listening Supports Speakers’ Autonomy and Self-Esteem when Discussing Prejudice	10
Effects of pro-white identity cues in American political candidate communication	10
Tuning out tenderness: the influence of gender and friends on U.S. adolescents’ emotional self-socialization via film selection and avoidance	10
Turbulence, framing, and planning among college daters: testing relational turbulence theory in a dyadic, lab study	10

The Effects of Political Incivility on Political Trust and Political Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Research	9
Algorithms and Organizing	9
Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions	9
Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments	9
Persuasion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theories and Complications of AI-Based Persuasion	9
The mirror of the metaverse: an exploration of reciprocal effects between self-views and avatar-based self-presentation	9
The influence of threat and right-wing authoritarianism on the selection of online (dis)information—a conceptual replication and extension of Lavine et al. (2005)	8
Challenges to correcting pluralistic ignorance: false consensus effects, competing information environments, and anticipated social conflict	8
End-of-life topic avoidance among gender-diverse young adults: the importance of normalizing gender-affirming end-of-life conversations	8
Individuals’ perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage and its impact on communal orientation, relational load, and ability to flourish	8
Embodied Cognition and Media Engagement: When the Loneliness of the Protagonist Makes the Reader Sense Coldness (and Vice Versa)	8
Second screening and trust in professional and alternative media: the mediating role of media efficacy	8
An extension of advice response theory over time	7
Why do individuals create posts on organizations’ social media pages? Identifications, functions, and audiences beyond the organizational boundary for social change	7
How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views? Evidence from a Content Analysis of Stormfront	6
Examining difficult conversations and transitional identities through Relational Liminality Theory	6
Affective forecasting in elections: A socio-communicative perspective	6
Buy me: the effect of leaders’ perceived personality abroad on consumption of their national products	6
Antecedents and consequences of fake news exposure: a two-panel study on how news use and different indicators of fake news exposure affect media trust	5
Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory	5
Public speaking goes to China: cultural discourses of circulation	5
Network dynamics of civil society: a longitudinal study in Malaysia amidst changing political opportunity structures	5
Getting socialized but trying not to get stuck: early career professionals’ liminality in dual socialization processes	5
Do Audiences Judge the Morality of Characters Relativistically? How Interdependence Affects Perceptions of Characters’ Temporal Moral Descent	5
From serial reproduction to serial communication: transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality	4
Correction to: Resilience in Interracial–Interethnic Relationships in the United States: Assessing Relationship Maintenance and Communal Orientation as Protection Against Network Stigma	4
Message fatigue beyond the health message context: a replication and further extension of So et al. (2017)	4
Fifty-years of theory-driven research in HCR: prominence, progress, and opportunities	4
The role of value references in shaping cultures of engagement: evidence from COVID-19 news on Facebook in Romania and the U.K.	4
Difference-managing and difference-reducing community storytelling in urban neighborhoods: a communication infrastructure theory perspective	4
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete: Understanding Users’ Response to Conflicting AI and Crowdsourced Fact-Checking	4
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis	3
Situated socio-material assemblages: assemmethodology in the making	3
A Recipe for Success: The Effect of Dyadic Communication and Cooperative Gameplay on Subsequent Non-gaming Task Performance	3
Effects of social comparison framing of racial health disparities and behaviors	3
Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research	3
Does Information about Bias Attenuate Selective Exposure? The Effects of Implicit Bias Feedback on the Selection of Outgroup-Rich News	3
Belief maintenance as a media effect: a conceptualization and empirical approach	3
The CODE^SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation	3
How Communicating about Discrimination Influences Attributions of Blame and Condemnation	3
Deception detection and question effects: testing truth-default theory predictions in South Korea	3
How repeated exposure to persuasive messaging shapes message responses over time: a longitudinal experiment	3
Partisanship supersedes race: effects of discussant race and partisanship on Whites’ willingness to engage in race-specific conversations	2
The Cultivation of Parent and Child Materialism: A Parent–Child Dyadic Study	2
Local government engagement practices and Indigenous interventions: Learning to listen to Indigenous voices	2
The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition	2
Difficult conversations concerning identity and difference: diverse approaches and perspectives	2
Beliefs as causal mediators in the design of communication interventions: exploring semantic and affective priming in parallel encouragement designs	2
Campaign-induced interpersonal communication following exposure to strong and weak persuasive messages	2
“They didn’t really have key experiences that they thought they could bring to the table”: Perceptions of white racial absolution during cross-racial intergroup dialogues	2

Better Ask Your Neighbor: Renegotiating Media Trust During the Russian–Ukrainian Conflict	2
The role of theory in researching and understanding human communication	2
A framework of moderators in social norm-based message persuasiveness based on a systematic review	2
Audience–campaign planner interaction in social media communication campaigns: how it influences intended campaign responses in the observing audience	2
Atoning vs. evading when caught transgressing: two multi-theory-based experiments investigating strategies for politicians responding to scandal	2
Testimonials as motivators: the case of end-of-life conversations	2
Eudaimonic media for social good: the influence of meaningful media experiences on connectedness and health persuasion	2
Pulling the field out of a “One Variable, One Role” mindset: maximizing the theoretical value of interaction terms in communication’s mediation models	2
Algorithmic Agents in the Hybrid Media System: Social Bots, Selective Amplification, and Partisan News about COVID-19	2
Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations’ ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: a network approach	2