OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers in Human Behavior is 76. 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
Psychological factors leading to sextortion: The role of personality, emotional factors and sexual needs in victimisation	461
Gaming disorder: Unraveling the role of problematic affective, cognitive, and executive functioning - A systematic review and meta-analytic structural equation modeling	440
Elevated loss sensitivity in the reward circuit in adolescents with video game but not social media addiction	433
Building resilience against online misinformation: A teacher-led training promoting evaluation strategies among lower secondary students	379
Participant behavior and community response in online mental health communities: Insights from Reddit	266
SBoCF: A deep learning-based sequential bag of convolutional features for human behavior quantification	262
Who is willing to play skill-adapted exergames? Influences of sociodemographic factors and social comparison processes	250
The interrelations of cryptocurrency and gambling: Results from a representative survey	241
Who benefits from directed communication? Communication directionality, network structures, and perceived social capital in an online game	204
Engaging voluntary contributions in online review platforms: The effects of a hierarchical badges system	202
Influence by osmosis: Social media green communities and pro-environmental behavior	201
Effects of real-time analytics-based personalized scaffolds on students’ self-regulated learning	198
Online correlates of cyberhate involvement among young people from ten European countries: An application of the Routine Activity and Problem Behaviour Theory	176
Extracting depressive symptoms and their associations from an online depression community	167
I feel you: Mixed-methods study of social support of loneliness on twitter	165
Working, scrolling, and worrying: Doomscrolling at work and its implications for work engagement	161
How does stress experienced on instagram differ from threads? Comparing social media fatigue based on platform types	159
Associations between online dating platform use and mental and sexual health among a mixed sexuality college student sample	157
Migration, war trauma, mental health, and technology	154
A lightweight security model for ensuring patient privacy and confidentiality in telehealth applications	152
Influence of appearance and motion interaction on emotional state attribution to objects: The example of hugging shimeji mushrooms	152
COVID-19 concerns in cyberspace predict human reduced dispersal in the real world: Meta-regression analysis of time series relationships across American states and 115 countries/territories	151
The effects of the nomophobic behaviors of emergency room nurses on their clinical decision-making perceptions: A cross-sectional study	144
Measuring perspective taking with the “Virtual Class” videogame: A child development study	139
The independent impacts of perceived immediate and future benefits of internet gaming on internet gaming disorder among adolescent internet gamers in China: Mediation via internet gaming time	135

Editorial Board	133
Editorial Board	132
Instruction vs. emergence on r/place: Understanding the growth and control of evolving artifacts in mass collaboration	128
Editorial Board	126
Attachment insecurities and body image self-consciousness among women: The mediating role of pornography use	124
Editorial Board	123
Harm severity in internet gaming disorder and problem gambling: A comparative study	121
Editorial Board	118
Unfriending effects: Testing contrasting indirect-effects relationships between exposure to hate speech on political talk via social media unfriending	115
Is learning analytics applicable and applied to education of students with intellectual/developmental disabilities? A systematic literature review	115
Starting the Discussion	115
Sharing emotion while spectating video game play: Exploring Twitch users' emotional change after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic	115
Screen-play: An observational study of the effect of screen media on Children's play in a museum setting	114
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams	113
Editorial Board	111
Diminishing returns of information quality: Untangling the determinants of best answer selection	110
Who endorses conspiracy theories? A moderated mediation model of Chinese and international social media use, media skepticism, need for cognition, and COVID-19 conspiracy theory endorsement in China	110
Emotions in the time of coronavirus: Antecedents of digital and social media use among Millennials	107
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud	101
Self-presentation in medicine: How language patterns reflect physician impression management goals and affect perceptions	100
I cue you liking me: Causal and spillover effects of technological engagement bait	100
The job demands-resources model as a theoretical lens for the bright and dark side of digitization	98
Assessment of attitudes toward Internet pornography in emerging adults using the Internet Pornography Questionnaire	98
Modeling the interaction between resilience and ability in assessments with allowances for multiple attempts	98
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support analyzing self-regulated learning: A preliminary mixed-methods evaluation from a human-centered perspective	96
Exploring the landscape of learning analytics privacy in fog and edge computing: A systematic literature review	95
Social contagion of cyberbullying via online perpetrator and victim networks	95
Perceived city smartness level and technical information transparency: The acceptance intention of health information technology during a lockdown	94
Facial behaviour and first impressions in computer mediated communication	92
Exploring Weibo users’ attitudes toward lesbians and gays in Mainland China: A natural language processing and machine learning approach	92
Right agent, wrong level of hedonism: How high (vs low) hedonic values in AI-performed tasks lead to decreased perceptions of humanlikeness, warmth, and less consumer support	91
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	90
The processing of emoji-word substitutions: A self-paced-reading study	89
Editorial Board	89
Is Alexa female, male, or neutral? A cross-national and cross-gender comparison of perceptions of Alexa's gender and status as a communicator	88
Just a few more minutes: Longitudinal and cross-national perspectives on the role of online identity bubbles in addictive internet use	87
Do individuals interpret sexting as an indicator of sexual intent and sexual consent?	86
The dialectics of sextech: A content analysis of the perception and emotion statements of erotic webcam viewers	86
Twitter content strategies to maximize engagement: The case of Thai Banks	85
Revealing complexities when adult readers engage in the credibility evaluation of social media posts	84
A meta-analysis of social media fatigue: Drivers and a major consequence	82
Being at the cutting edge of online shopping: Role of recommendations and discounts on privacy perceptions	80
Unique and interactive effects of guilt and sympathy on bystander aggressive defender intervention in cyberbullying: The mediation of self-regulation	80
Nowhere else to go: Help seeking online and maladaptive decisional styles	80
The affective and relational correlates of algorithmic beliefs among U.S. online daters: Extension of two previous studies	79
The impact of problematic Facebook use and Facebook context on empathy for pain processing: An event-related potential study	79
Understanding youth participation in social media challenges: A scoping review of definitions, typologies, and theoretical perspectives	77
Drivers of online social media addiction in the context of public unrest: A sense of virtual community perspective	76
Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings	76
Similarity between perceived selves on social media and offline and its relationship with psychological well-being in early and late adulthood	76

Disentangling the Net of Needs Satisfaction and Gaming Disorder Symptoms in Adult Gamers	76
The effect of different types of TikTok dance challenge videos on young women's body satisfaction	76