Humor-International Journal of Humor Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Humor-International Journal of Humor Research is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Patrick Giamario: Laughter as politics: critical theory in an age of hilarity18
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Laughing to love science: contextualizing science comedy10
The demise of the joke9
Wiggins, Bradley: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality8
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”7
Frontmatter6
Conventional metaphorical scenarios of humor in Romanian5
Out-law Stand-up : Testimonial Humor in contemporary women’s stand-up comedy5
Humor as a bourgeois shibboleth? Humor and social boundaries in Schlaraffia associations, 1859–19395
Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south5
Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism5
Humor styles moderate the association between health difficulties and quality of life in individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease5
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings: laughter as an interactional accomplishment during negotiation talks5
Disaffiliative humor in improvised musical interactions: an experimental study5
The effect of instruction on L2 learners’ ability to use verbal irony online4
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Differentiation of dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at in their relationships to self-reported eye contact aversion4
Stylistic techniques to generate humor: an analysis of humorous instructive examples cited in the Gardens of Magic4
Humor in ASD: a differentiation between text comprehension difficulties and humor appreciation4
“That’d be another crisis nearly avoided”: humor and conflict management in hospital handover meetings3
The (Ab)use of freedom of speech and the 1788Ismaël-controversy: the legal limitations and affordances of a parodic periodical in the Dutch Republic3
The difficulty of judging jests: introduction3
Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change3
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Humor style predicts sarcasm use – evidence from Turkish speakers3
The rise in humor scandals: a cross-national comparison of humor-related public controversies in eight European countries (1990–2022)3
Introduction to the special issue: humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’3
Joke synonymy sensitivity among working comedians and the General Theory of Verbal Humor3
Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic3
Just kidding? Exploring the role of traditional versus counter-traditional gender role jokes on gender identity threat3
Lena Straßburger: Humor and Horror – Different Emotions, Similar Linguistic Processing Strategies3
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Parody and disengagement from stigma: mental illness in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend2
Humor and fear of COVID-19 in Polish adults: the mediating role of generalized anxiety2
The fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) in adults and children: testing trait-congruent false memories in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm2
Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou: Transmedial perspectives on humor and translation: from page to screen to stage2
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles2
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Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes2
Humor, emotion, and interpretive communities in the controversy over Jerry Springer: The Opera2
Chukwimah, Ignatius: Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change2
Patrice A. Oppliger and Eric Shouse: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy2
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