OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Science Journal 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
College student interpersonal and institutional relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative exploratory study	22
Risk perception and COVID-19 preventive behaviors: application of the integrative model of behavioral prediction	21
True colors: Grayscale setting reduces screen time in college students	17
TikTok: an exploratory study of young adults’ uses and gratifications	17
The role of social support and its influence on exercise participation: The perspective of self-determination theory and the theory of planned behavior	15
Blame, then shame? Psychological predictors in cancel culture behavior	15
‘The left is right’: Left and right political orientation across Eastern and Western Europe	15
Representations of Native Americans in U.S. culture? A case of omissions and commissions	14
Sofalizing and its relationship with social media addiction and psychosocial factors: A new phenomenon among emerging adults	12
Perceptual differences between expatriate faculty and senior managers regarding acculturation at a Korean university	10
Adolescents’ use of influence tactics with parents in family travel decision making: A cross-societal comparison in Eastern Europe	10
Differentiation of self, emotion management skills, and nomophobia among smartphone users: The mediating and moderating roles of intolerance of uncertainty	10
Optimistic but tired of hearing about COVID: optimism as a predictor of COVID-19 information and behavioral fatigue among Filipino youth	10
Sustainability of social economy organizations (SEOs): An analysis of the conditions for surviving and thriving	10
Developing contemporary factors of political participation	10
Understanding residents’ green purchasing behavior from a perspective of the ecological personality traits: the moderating role of gender	10
Effects of victimization experience, gender, and empathic distress on bystanders’ intervening behavior in cyberbullying	9
The well-being of gamers, video game players, and non-players	9
Gender and climate change views in context: a cross-national multilevel analysis	9
Influences on medical app adoption by patients: the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model and the moderating effects of technology readiness	8
Attitudes toward fetal development-based abortion bans in the United States	8
Promoting SMEs friendly public procurement (SFPP) practice in developing country: The regulation and policy motivator and beyond	8
Land-use conflict identification in urban fringe areas using the theory of leading functional space partition	8
The performance of local government, social capital and participation of villagers in sustainable rural development	8
Linking determinants of the youth’s intentions to dispose of portable e-waste with the proper disposal behavior in Malaysia	8

Beyond vaccination: messaging from religious leaders can help increase adherence to COVID-19 mitigation guidelines following vaccination. A research note	8
Examining the role of perceived risk and benefit, shared concern for nuclear stigmatization, and trust in governments in shaping citizen risk acceptability of a nuclear power plant	7
Touchdown together: Social TV viewing and social presence in a physical co-viewing context	7
Understanding spontaneous volunteering in crisis: towards a needs-based approach of explanation	7
Man vs. machine: Human responses to an AI newscaster and the role of social presence	7
Trust, personality, and belief as determinants of the organic reach of political disinformation on social media	7
Knowledge–intention–behavior associations and spillovers of domestic and workplace recycling	7
COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in the United States: A mixed-methods study on lived experiences and well-being	6
Gender gap in housework time: how much do individual resources actually matter?	6
Are sexist beliefs related to mental health problems?	6
The nexus between moral licensing and behavioral consistency: Is organic consumption a door-opener for commitment to climate protection?	6
Keep calm and conceal carry: opinions about campus carry on a nontraditional university campus in Texas	6
So much more than cheap labor! Volunteers engage in emotional labor	6
Testing political knowledge as a mediator of the relationship between news use and affective polarization	5
Cooling down the future: A discourse analysis of climate change skepticism	5
Gender, LGB status, and attitudes toward traditional wedding practices	5
The effects of popularity metrics in news comments on the formation of public opinion: Evidence from an internet portal site	5
Generational differences in urban settlement intentions of rural-to-urban migrants in China: Exploring the role of farmland holding	5
How does perceived parental rejection influence cyberbullying by children? A serial mediation model of children’s depression and smartphone addiction	5
Predictors of cellphone-related distracted walking among college students	5
Opinions about immigration, patriotism, and welfare policies during the coronavirus emergency: The role of political orientation and anxiety	5
Youth online activity and distress: The role of social media rumination	5
A critical review of voluntary simplicity: Definitional inconsistencies, movement identity and direction for future research	5
Applied pedagogies for higher education: Real-world learning and innovation across the curriculum	4
A global assessment of the relationship between religiosity and financial satisfaction	4
You’ve lost that trusting feeling: Diminishing trust in the news media in rural versus urban US communities	4
Christian universities as moral communities: Drinking, sex, and drug use among university students in the United States	4
We’re new to this. Diversity agendas in public Spanish universities according to their leaders	4
Assessing the effects of intergroup contact on immigration attitudes	4
Prejudice and work discrimination: Exploring the effects of employers’ work experience, contact and attitudes on the intention to hire people with mental illness	4
Sitting pretty: satisfaction with physical appearance, division of household chores, and satisfaction with housework	4
How do social class position and party preference influence support for fossil fuel taxation in Nordic countries?	4
Fostering compliance with COVID-19 guidelines: insights for risk communication strategies during a pandemic	4
Economic anxiety or ethnocentrism? An evaluation of attitudes toward immigration in the U.S. from 1992 to 2017	4
Climate change, general strain and illegal fishing: An empirical test of Agnew’s criminology of climate change theory in Iran	4
The role of knowledge in water resource management: An assessment of the Oregon general public	4
Classical and modern prejudice towards individuals with intellectual disabilities: A study on a sample of Italian university students	4
Local existential threat, authoritarianism, and support for right-wing populism	4
A cross-stressor adaptation perspective on challenge stressors, dietary behavior, and exercise of college students	4
Shut up and dribble? How popularity, activism, and real-world events shape attitudes towards LeBron James and race	4
Exploring smallholders’ cultural beliefs and their implication for adaptation to climate change in North-Western Nigeria	4
Facilitating or inhibiting charitable giving? Exploring the dual role of compulsory donations in China	4
Does insight lead to happiness through providing satisfaction in romantic relationships?	3
Partisanship and generalized trust in response to the 2016 U.S. presidential election	3
The asymmetric effects of school facilities on academic achievement: Evidence from Texas bond votes	3
Race discrimination and segregation in manufacturing jobs: Evidence from matched-pair testing of staffing agencies	3
Examining the roles of marital status and sex on communication with backburners on social media	3
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states?	3
Social norms as anchor points for trust	3
Social determinants of chronic ill-health in contemporary South Africa: a social disadvantage approach	3

The spatial diffusion of covid-19 in Texas	3
Rally around your fellows: Information and social trust in a real-world experiment during the corona crisis	3
What factors determine college students’ green purchase behavior? An empirical investigation of the modified model of goal-directed behavior	3
I choose to be powerful: Economic inequality encourages preferences of power over status positions	3
Local government growth from a tri-sector perspective	3
News consumption and affective polarization in Taiwan: The mediating roles of like-minded discussion and relative hostile media perception	3
Testing the forms and consequences of collaboration risk in emergency management networks	3
Race, inequality, and social capital in the U.S. counties	3
The relationships between smartphone distraction, problematic smartphone use and mental health issues amongst a Chinese sample	3
Rights, institutions, and Chinese investment abroad	3
How terrorism cues affect attitude polarization over undocumented immigrants via negative emotions and information avoidance: A terror management theory perspective	3
Ratemyprofessors.com evaluations affect academically entitled intentions and expectations	3
Research note: authoritarianism, racial resentment, and attitudes on the Colin Kaepernick protests	3
Does mobile payment adoption affect the level and inequality of food expenditure?	3
“Enthusiasm” toward the other side matters: Emotion and willingness to express disagreement in social media political conversation	3
#Cancelled: A qualitative content analysis of cancel culture in the YouTube beauty community	3
Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides in Mainland China	3
Cognitive function, co-residence, and social participation among older persons in Thailand	3
Divided government and the bias against presidential restraint	3
Failed coups, political survival, and civil liberties restrictions in nondemocratic regimes	3
Gender and race gaps in voting and over-reporting: An intersectional comparison of CCES with ANES data	3
Childhood adversity, depression, and digital self-harm	2
It takes a village: examining social capital effects of parental and community agency involvement on school delinquency	2
Pocketbook versus identity? Farmers’ attitudes towards international trade	2
Landownership as a socio-psychological phenomenon: Exploration of the owner-land relationship	2
Chinese people’s explicit and implicit attitudes toward rural left-behind elderly in the context of traditional-modern culture conflicts	2
Innovation vs. normalization: Politicians’ Twitter use at the early majority stage of its diffusion in the Korean assembly	2
Dating attitudes and behaviors of American and Chinese college students: A partial replication	2
Overnight work-travel, work-to-family conflict, and psychological distress	2
Multi-ethnicity as a moderator of contextual effects on tolerance: The case of Hong Kong	2
An exploratory factor analysis of the Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale in a sample of self-identified nerds/geeks	2
Exploring how Instagram addiction is associated with women’s body image and drive for thinness	2
Concentration and dispersion: school-to-work linkages and their impact on occupational assortative mating	2
The power of gossip: contextual talk in tourism communication	2
Not swinging together: Partisan defection in the age of political polarization	2
Does publicness matter in job satisfaction? A three-dimensional analysis of publicness	2
Not risky business? Nationalism and foreign direct investment	2
Why is greater income inequality associated with lower life satisfaction and poorer health? Evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey, 2012	2
Schools and neighborhood crime: The effects of dropouts and high-performing schools on juvenile crime	2
Women’s well-being and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: A longitudinal mixed-methods approach	2
Gender differences in environmentalism among students at a Southern university: The impact of gender role attitudes and university experience	2
Responses to perceived terrorism risk by self-identified survivalists: An exploratory study	2
Spatial segregation of Chinese immigrants in Seoul, South Korea, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from population data derived from mobile phone signals	2
Emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress: a cross-sectional study of allied mental health professionals in the UK	2
Investigating the negative-cognitive-triad-hypothesis of news choice in Germany and South Korea: does depression predict selective exposure to negative news?	2
A textual analysis of the effect of short-term volunteering on attitudes toward refugees in Malaysia	2
The social value of social representations: Replication of previous findings and test of novel hypotheses	2