OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers in Human Behavior is 78. 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
Emotions in the time of coronavirus: Antecedents of digital and social media use among Millennials	512
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	480
Editorial Board	472
Editorial Board	390
Positive mental health mediates the association between insomnia symptoms and addictive social media use in Germany and Poland	296
Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year	282
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect	263
The trajectories of online mental health information seeking: Modeling search behavior before and after completion of self-report screens	221
The roles of stress, non-digital hobbies, and gaming time in adolescent problematic game use: A focus on sex differences	218
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	217
Illusion of diffusion: A percolation perspective on social structure and segregation in Twitter networks	185
Institutional behavior mechanism: Exploring the impacts of macro-environmental stimuli on continued digital payment adoption behavior	180
Longitudinal relations between gaming, physical activity, and athletic self-esteem	175
Investigating 4D movie audiences’ emotional responses to motion effects and empathy	175
Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography	173
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks	171
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud	170
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology	160
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective	156
Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance	151
Long-term effect of cybervictimization on displaced aggressive behavior across two years: Mutually predicting mediators of hostile emotion and moral disengagement	143
Might insecurity and use of ICT enhance internet addiction and exhaust people? A study in two European countries during emergency remote working	140
Problematic gaming, social withdrawal, and Escapism: The Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming (C-DOG) model	140
Talking to a bot or a wall? How chatbots vs. human agents affect anticipated communication quality	139
Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating	135

Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context	135
Personality and susceptibility to political microtargeting: A comparison between a machine-learning and self-report approach	135
Effects of social skills on lexical alignment in human-human interaction and human-computer interaction	133
Adults still can't resist: A social robot can induce normative conformity	131
Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes	130
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.	129
Exploring user-avatar bond profiles: Longitudinal impacts on internet gaming disorder	129
AI or human: How endorser shapes online purchase intention?	128
Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective	127
Robomorphism: Examining the effects of telepresence robots on between-student cooperation	125
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams	121
Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review	118
Experiencing the body as play: Cultivating older adults’ exergame experiences using embodied metaphors and multimodal feedback	117
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings	117
The influence of gestures and visuospatial ability during learning about movements with dynamic visualizations – An fNIRS study	116
Dating apps and their relationship with body image, mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review	116
The influence of sensitive health disclosure on liking and likelihood of response in a non-health-related context, Facebook	116
What matters most in the responses to political campaign posts on social media: The candidate, message frame, or message format?	110
The relationship between problematic internet use and anxiety disorder symptoms in youth: Specificity of the type of application and gender	106
The search suggestion effect (SSE): A quantification of how autocomplete search suggestions could be used to impact opinions and votes	105
Secure software design evaluation and decision making model for ubiquitous computing: A two-stage ANN-Fuzzy AHP approach	105
Restrictive deterrence and the scope of hackers’ reoffending: Findings from two randomized field trials	102
Social media addiction among Hong Kong adolescents before and after the pandemic: The effects of parenting behaviors	96
Speed and symmetry: Developing effective organisational responses to social media criticism of CSR	96
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	95
Not so funny after all! Humor, parents, peers, and their link with cyberbullying experiences	95
Editorial Board	92
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	92
Cognitive effort in virtual worlds in the metaverse versus instant messaging: Disruptive impacts on team performance and strategies for recovery	92
An individual adaptive ubiquitous learning paradigm: Focusing on the collection and utilization of academic emotions	91
Do digital competencies and social support boost work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic?	90
The effects of computer-assisted adaptive instruction and elaborated feedback on learning outcomes. A randomized control trial	90
Relationships between use of geosocial mobile dating application “the L″ and self-objectification among Chinese female sexual minorities	88
Evaluating and eliciting design requirements for an improved user experience in live-streaming commerce interfaces	87
Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children's screen time in early childhood	87
The roles of trust, personalization, loss of privacy, and anthropomorphism in public acceptance of smart healthcare services	86
Associations between problematic internet use and substance misuse among US college students	86
Analysis of individual characteristics influencing user polarization in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.	86
Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth	85
How do people learn about politics when inadvertently exposed to news? Incidental news paradoxical Direct and indirect effects on political knowledge	85
Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism	85
Profiling proclivity for technology-facilitated sexual violence through Dark Tetrad traits	84
Not all consumer-generated images are attractive and persuasive: A heuristic cue perspective	84
Online antecedents for young consumers’ impulse buying behavior	83
Mobile gaming and Internet addiction: When is playing no longer just fun and games?	83
Online communities as a risk factor for gambling and gaming problems: A five-wave longitudinal study	82
BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents' appearance-related prosocial tendencies	82
Value co-destruction: The influence of failed interactions on members’ behaviors in online travel communities	82
Where is the human in human-centered AI? Insights from developer priorities and user experiences	82
What is the reported relationship between self-esteem and gaming disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis	82

Sensation seeking and cyberbullying among Chinese adolescents: Examining the mediating roles of boredom experience and antisocial media exposure	81
Three Strikes and you are out!: The impacts of multiple human–robot trust violations and repairs on robot trustworthiness	80
What affects the usage of artificial conversational agents? An agent personality and love theory perspective	79
How social anxiety leads to problematic use of conversational AI: The roles of loneliness, rumination, and mind perception	78
Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media	78