OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Communication Research is 8. 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

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 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
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
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