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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotions in the time of coronavirus: Antecedents of digital and social media use among Millennials	534
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings	501
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	501
Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective	322
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective	293
Personality and susceptibility to political microtargeting: A comparison between a machine-learning and self-report approach	272
Editorial Board	232
Positive mental health mediates the association between insomnia symptoms and addictive social media use in Germany and Poland	226
Editorial Board	226
Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year	187
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect	185
Illusion of diffusion: A percolation perspective on social structure and segregation in Twitter networks	182
Third-party punishment and its neural mechanisms in the digital age: An fNIRS investigation of subjective social class and moral orientation	182
Diamonds are a TikTokers’ best friend: Unwrapping the motivations behind UK gifting on TikTok Live	180
Editorial Board	175
Craving and attentional bias in gaming: Comparing esports, casual, and high-risk gamers using eye-tracking	174
Institutional behavior mechanism: Exploring the impacts of macro-environmental stimuli on continued digital payment adoption behavior	172
Investigating 4D movie audiences’ emotional responses to motion effects and empathy	157
Longitudinal relations between gaming, physical activity, and athletic self-esteem	153
Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography	145
The trajectories of online mental health information seeking: Modeling search behavior before and after completion of self-report screens	143
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks	140
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	139
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology	137
Long-term effect of cybervictimization on displaced aggressive behavior across two years: Mutually predicting mediators of hostile emotion and moral disengagement	137

Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes	136
Exploring user-avatar bond profiles: Longitudinal impacts on internet gaming disorder	134
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams	132
Experiencing the body as play: Cultivating older adults’ exergame experiences using embodied metaphors and multimodal feedback	131
Might insecurity and use of ICT enhance internet addiction and exhaust people? A study in two European countries during emergency remote working	131
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud	131
Talking to a bot or a wall? How chatbots vs. human agents affect anticipated communication quality	127
Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating	124
Robomorphism: Examining the effects of telepresence robots on between-student cooperation	122
The roles of stress, non-digital hobbies, and gaming time in adolescent problematic game use: A focus on sex differences	122
Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context	120
Problematic gaming, social withdrawal, and Escapism: The Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming (C-DOG) model	120
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years.	120
Effects of social skills on lexical alignment in human-human interaction and human-computer interaction	112
Adults still can't resist: A social robot can induce normative conformity	109
Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance	103
Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review	99
AI or human: How endorser shapes online purchase intention?	98
The influence of sensitive health disclosure on liking and likelihood of response in a non-health-related context, Facebook	97
The influence of gestures and visuospatial ability during learning about movements with dynamic visualizations – An fNIRS study	97
Secure software design evaluation and decision making model for ubiquitous computing: A two-stage ANN-Fuzzy AHP approach	96
The search suggestion effect (SSE): A quantification of how autocomplete search suggestions could be used to impact opinions and votes	95
Social media addiction among Hong Kong adolescents before and after the pandemic: The effects of parenting behaviors	95
Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media	94
Not so funny after all! Humor, parents, peers, and their link with cyberbullying experiences	94
Speed and symmetry: Developing effective organisational responses to social media criticism of CSR	94
What affects the usage of artificial conversational agents? An agent personality and love theory perspective	93
An individual adaptive ubiquitous learning paradigm: Focusing on the collection and utilization of academic emotions	93
Gender differences in the longitudinal association between cumulative ecological risk and smartphone dependence among early adolescents: A parallel mediation model	92
BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents' appearance-related prosocial tendencies	92
Not all consumer-generated images are attractive and persuasive: A heuristic cue perspective	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	91
Mobile gaming and Internet addiction: When is playing no longer just fun and games?	91
Editorial Board	91
Analysis of individual characteristics influencing user polarization in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.	88
The effects of computer-assisted adaptive instruction and elaborated feedback on learning outcomes. A randomized control trial	88
Online communities as a risk factor for gambling and gaming problems: A five-wave longitudinal study	86
What matters most in the responses to political campaign posts on social media: The candidate, message frame, or message format?	85
Dating apps and their relationship with body image, mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review	85
Cognitive effort in virtual worlds in the metaverse versus instant messaging: Disruptive impacts on team performance and strategies for recovery	84
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	84
Do digital competencies and social support boost work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic?	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	83
Relationships between use of geosocial mobile dating application “the L″ and self-objectification among Chinese female sexual minorities	83
Correcting climate change misinformation on social media: Reciprocal relationships between correcting others, anger, and environmental activism	82
Profiling proclivity for technology-facilitated sexual violence through Dark Tetrad traits	82
Three Strikes and you are out!: The impacts of multiple human–robot trust violations and repairs on robot trustworthiness	81
Are screen media the new pacifiers? The role of parenting stress and parental attitudes for children's screen time in early childhood	80
A whole new ball game: Fan perceptions of augmented reality enhanced sport broadcasts	80
Evaluating and eliciting design requirements for an improved user experience in live-streaming commerce interfaces	79

Online antecedents for young consumers’ impulse buying behavior	78
The relationship between problematic internet use and anxiety disorder symptoms in youth: Specificity of the type of application and gender	77
Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth	77