Humor-International Journal of Humor Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Humor-International Journal of Humor Research is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Cartoons on trial: a case study integrating discursive, legal and empirical perspectives12
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure11
Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity8
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Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change8
Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice’s Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody8
How ethnic groups and clan systems influence humor styles: evidence from indigenous students in Taiwan7
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic5
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement5
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“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek4
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy4
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy3
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism3
What makes Mormons laugh3
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion3
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The demise of the joke3
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century2
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Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor2
Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons2
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries2
Banter as transformative practice: linguistic play and joking relationships in a UK swimming club2
The power of memes: personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine2
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor2
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere2
Sabrina Fuchs Abrams: New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century2
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”2
Self-deprecating humor and task persistence: the moderating role of self-defeating humor style2
The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor2
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates2
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Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population1
Afterword: on words and disciplines in studying humor1
Let’s entertain others: the relationship between comic styles and the histrionic self-presentation style in Polish, British, and Canadian samples1
The role of humor in social, psychological, and physical well-being1
The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor1
Apples versus oranges, normative claims, and other things we did not mention: a response to Purser and Harper (2023)1
Elisa Gironzetti: The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
Children’s perceptions of others’ humor: does context matter?1
Satire and the law: an interview with German lawyer Gabriele Rittig1
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples1
Humor as a source for collaborative storytelling: perspectives on dynamic and static stories1
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’1
Dog tales: second-generation joke parties on the horizon1
Elliott Oring: The consolations of humor and other folklore essays1
Humor styles influence the perception of depression-related internet memes in depression1
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality1
Stand-up for integration: stand-up comedy and its effects on social integration of expats and other migrants1
Differential effects of affective arousal and valence on humor appreciation in female university students1
William V. Costanzo: When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West1
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Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest1
Category-activity puzzles as resources for humor in L2 classrooms1
Sexist jokes don’t appear to increase rape proclivity among men high in hostile sexism: Evidence from two pre-registered direct replications of Thomae and Viki (2013)1
Raúl Pérez: The souls of white jokes: how racist humor fuels white supremacy1
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
Conners, Carrie: Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry1
From I to we in humor research: a systematic review of the antecedents and consequences of humor in groups1
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