OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers in Human Behavior is 77. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Personality and susceptibility to political microtargeting: A comparison between a machine-learning and self-report approach	557
Editorial Board	520
Editorial Board	518
Positive mental health mediates the association between insomnia symptoms and addictive social media use in Germany and Poland	351
Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year	296
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect	242
Longitudinal relations between gaming, physical activity, and athletic self-esteem	235
Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review	234
Third-party punishment and its neural mechanisms in the digital age: An fNIRS investigation of subjective social class and moral orientation	193
Craving and attentional bias in gaming: Comparing esports, casual, and high-risk gamers using eye-tracking	192
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective	189
Editorial Board	189
What drives older adults’ acceptance of virtual humans? A conjoint and latent class analysis on virtual exercise coach attributes for a community-based exercise program	186
Robomorphism: Examining the effects of telepresence robots on between-student cooperation	183
Effects of social skills on lexical alignment in human-human interaction and human-computer interaction	178
Illusion of diffusion: A percolation perspective on social structure and segregation in Twitter networks	177
The trajectories of online mental health information seeking: Modeling search behavior before and after completion of self-report screens	162
Institutional behavior mechanism: Exploring the impacts of macro-environmental stimuli on continued digital payment adoption behavior	162
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks	151
How do depression, duration of internet use and social connection in adolescence influence each other over time? An extension of the RI-CLPM including contextual factors	147
Long-term effect of cybervictimization on displaced aggressive behavior across two years: Mutually predicting mediators of hostile emotion and moral disengagement	144
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams	143
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud	142
Might insecurity and use of ICT enhance internet addiction and exhaust people? A study in two European countries during emergency remote working	141
The roles of stress, non-digital hobbies, and gaming time in adolescent problematic game use: A focus on sex differences	140

Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes	140
Talking to a bot or a wall? How chatbots vs. human agents affect anticipated communication quality	140
AI or human: How endorser shapes online purchase intention?	139
Adults still can't resist: A social robot can induce normative conformity	137
Diamonds are a TikTokers’ best friend: Unwrapping the motivations behind UK gifting on TikTok Live	135
Problematic gaming, social withdrawal, and Escapism: The Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming (C-DOG) model	133
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology	131
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings	127
Experiencing the body as play: Cultivating older adults’ exergame experiences using embodied metaphors and multimodal feedback	125
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.	123
Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating	121
Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography	118
Exploring user-avatar bond profiles: Longitudinal impacts on internet gaming disorder	115
Emotions in the time of coronavirus: Antecedents of digital and social media use among Millennials	112
Investigating 4D movie audiences’ emotional responses to motion effects and empathy	103
Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective	103
Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance	103
Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context	102
Influencing driving safety by matching AI assistant's verbal emotions to driver: A randomized controlled trial on performance, attention, and emotion	99
The influence of gestures and visuospatial ability during learning about movements with dynamic visualizations – An fNIRS study	99
The search suggestion effect (SSE): A quantification of how autocomplete search suggestions could be used to impact opinions and votes	98
Social media addiction among Hong Kong adolescents before and after the pandemic: The effects of parenting behaviors	98
Secure software design evaluation and decision making model for ubiquitous computing: A two-stage ANN-Fuzzy AHP approach	98
Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media	97
Speed and symmetry: Developing effective organisational responses to social media criticism of CSR	97
Analysis of individual characteristics influencing user polarization in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.	96
An individual adaptive ubiquitous learning paradigm: Focusing on the collection and utilization of academic emotions	96
What matters most in the responses to political campaign posts on social media: The candidate, message frame, or message format?	95
Not so funny after all! Humor, parents, peers, and their link with cyberbullying experiences	94
The relationship between problematic internet use and anxiety disorder symptoms in youth: Specificity of the type of application and gender	93
Sensation seeking and cyberbullying among Chinese adolescents: Examining the mediating roles of boredom experience and antisocial media exposure	93
What affects the usage of artificial conversational agents? An agent personality and love theory perspective	93
Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth	92
Would you rather come to a tango concert in theater or in VR? Aesthetic emotions & social presence in musical experiences, either live, 2D or 3D	92
Three Strikes and you are out!: The impacts of multiple human–robot trust violations and repairs on robot trustworthiness	91
Retraction notice to “Predicting the change trajectory of employee robot-phobia in the workplace: The role of perceived robot advantageousness and anthropomorphism” [Computers in Human Behavior 135 (2	90
Editorial Board	89
Dating apps and their relationship with body image, mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review	89
Cognitive effort in virtual worlds in the metaverse versus instant messaging: Disruptive impacts on team performance and strategies for recovery	88
Not all consumer-generated images are attractive and persuasive: A heuristic cue perspective	88
Profiling proclivity for technology-facilitated sexual violence through Dark Tetrad traits	88
Relationships between use of geosocial mobile dating application “the L″ and self-objectification among Chinese female sexual minorities	84
Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism	83
Smartphone and the brain: Stress and self-control mediate the association between the connectome-based predictive modeling of fMRI brain network and problematic smartphone use	82
Restrictive deterrence and the scope of hackers’ reoffending: Findings from two randomized field trials	82
Online communities as a risk factor for gambling and gaming problems: A five-wave longitudinal study	81
What is the reported relationship between self-esteem and gaming disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis	81
BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents' appearance-related prosocial tendencies	81
The link between flow and performance is moderated by task experience	79
A whole new ball game: Fan perceptions of augmented reality enhanced sport broadcasts	79

Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children's screen time in early childhood	78
Evaluating and eliciting design requirements for an improved user experience in live-streaming commerce interfaces	78
Associations between problematic internet use and substance misuse among US college students	77