OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Health Communication is 26. 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
What Encourages Patients to Recommend Their Doctor After an Online Medical Consultation? The Influence of Patient-Centered Communication, Trust, and Negative Health Information Seeking Experiences	111
Social Responsibility Appeal and Cross-Lagged Effects of Perceived Norms on Mask-Wearing Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic	70
Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health through Words and Visuals	68
Pandemic Communication Pandemic Communication , edited by Stephen M. Croucher and Audra Diers-Lawson, London, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, 307 pp., $33.39	51
A Re(Defining) Moment: Eulogizing Good Death in the Face of COVID-19	47
Happier and Healthier? Investigating the Longitudinal Impact of Body-Positive and Fitspirational Influencers on Weight Satisfaction, Healthy Eating, and Physical Activity	43
“If You Don’t Lose Weight, the Government Will Take You Away”: An Analysis of Memorable Messages and Eating Disorders in the LGBTQ+ Community	41
What it Means to Call Your Patient Obese: The Impact of Communicating Weight Stigma in Patient-Provider Conversations	41
Self-Correction or Other-Correction: The Effects of Source Consistency and Ways of Correction on Sharing Intention of Health Misinformation Correction	39
Effects of Exposure to Conflicting Health Information on Topic-Specific Information Sharing and Seeking Intentions	38
Decoding the Discourse: Analyzing the Linguistic Features and Strategies Behind the Querdenken Movement’s COVID-19 Narrative	37
Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model, Second edition	35
Denying and Accepting a Family Member’s Illness: Uncertainty Management as a Process	35
Can We Communicate Autonomy Support and a Mandate? How Motivating Messages Relate to Motivation for Staying at Home across Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic	35
Patient Complaints to the Saudi Medical Call Center: Representative Response Strategies	35
Misinformation Exposure and Acceptance: The Role of Information Seeking and Processing	35
Visual Tailoring and Skin Cancer Prevention: Comparing Personalized, Stock, and Non-Ultraviolet Images	33
Sexual Difficulties in People 50+: A Content Analysis of Sex-related Queries Posted on Professional Counseling Websites	31
Is Sexual Consent Sexy?: Investigating the Effects of a Televised Depiction of Verbal Sexual Consent on College Students’ Sexual Consent Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	31
An Art Exhibition on Creative Activities of Family Members of Persons with Dementia as an Effective Tool for Science Communication: A Qualitative Assessment Study	29
Interpersonal Abortion Conversations: Communication Characteristics Post- Roe	28
Dynamic Relations Between Negative News Media Experiences and Mental Distress? Examining Transactional Effects During Times of Health Crises	27
“Compliant Supporters,” “Anxious Skeptics,” and “Defiant Deniers”: A Latent Profile Analysis of People’s Responses to COVID-19 Communications	26
Thinking Outside of Yourself: The Potential of Awe in Mitigating Psychological Reactance Via Inspiring Self-Transcendence	26
Swapping Insults, Neglecting Policy: How U.S. Presidential Candidates Communicate About Mental Health	26

Prognostication As an Interactionally Delicate Matter: A Conversation Analytic Study of Hospice Multidisciplinary Team Meetings