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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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The demise of the joke16
Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy12
Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity9
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Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality8
Marsh, Huw: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?7
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”7
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks5
Claire Schmidt: If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers5
Are more humorous children more intelligent? A case from Turkish culture5
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south5
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian5
Humor in ASD: a differentiation between text comprehension difficulties and humor appreciation4
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease4
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study3
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19393
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism3
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic3
Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion3
Interpretive challenges with American presidential discourse described as joking2
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Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor2
The variable of gender and its interplay with mother tongue in the humor and laughter of bilingual couples2
Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies2
Identities are no joke (or are they?): humor and identity in Vivek Mahbubani’s stand-up2
Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers2
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings2
Marx, Nick: Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television2
The fat bride and the foolish messengers: humorizing the love theme in an early Islamic poem2
Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change2
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction2
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage2
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic2
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic2
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The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online2
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates2
Failed humor in conversation: disalignment and (dis)affiliation as a type of interactional failure2
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’2
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera2
Party games and prejudice: are these Cards Against Humanity?1
Lanita Jacobs: To Be Real: Truth and Recial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy1
Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism1
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Waterlow, Jonathan: It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin1
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy1
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Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, and Jaroslav Švelch: Video Games and Comedy1
Reliability and validity of the sense of humor scale1
Semantic components of laughter behavior: a lexical field study of 14 translations ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest1
Danielle Fuentes Morgan: Laughing to keep from dying: African American satire in the twenty-first century1
Humor styles in the classroom: students’ perceptions of lecturer humor1
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere1
The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles1
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm1
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!”: tipping behavior in restaurants as a function of food servers’ humor, opinion conformity, and other-enhancement1
Villy Tsakona: Recontextualizing humor. Rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor1
Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism1
It’s all fun and games until…: unintentional (?) direct fire amid the playful humor of Miguel Mihura’s Codorniz1
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Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population1
Humor and hierarchy: an experimental study of the effects of humor production on male dominance, prestige and attractiveness1
“Laughing with” or “laughing at” people with disabilities? Love on the Spectrum and Derek1
Psychometric adaptation of the Comic Style Markers in a Polish sample1
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes1
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change1
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety1
William V. Costanzo: When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West1
A leader or a comedian? Perceptions of politicians based on their use of humor on Twitter1
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication1
Santa Banta jokes: the intersection between humor, religion and the law1
Humor styles and well-being of women with endometriosis during the COVID-19 pandemic1
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