OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health Communication is 5. 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
Understanding Australian Government Risk Communication Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sociodemographics, Risk Attitudes and Media Consumption	93
Establishing and Maintaining Trust: How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Uses Strategic Communications to Build Confidence in and Disseminate Its Evidence-Based Recommendations	71
Making Germs Visible – Assessing the Impact of a School-Based, Low-Cost Intervention on Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Children in Rural India	49
An Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach for the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults	45
A Year of Child Injury Prevention on Instagram	43
Localizing COVID-19 Misinformation: A Case Study of Tracking Twitter Pandemic Narratives in Pennsylvania Using Computational Network Science	40
Egyptian Newspapers Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Theoretically Driven Content Analysis	32
Infodemic Management for Social and Behavior Change: Youth Mobilization for Combating Disinformation During COVID-19	30
Testing Likely Response to Behavioral Nudges and Shoves to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Amongst Segments of the Unvaccinated Population of South Africa	29
PTSD Coverage in the New York Times : Implications for the State of Mental Health in the U.S	27
Narratives and Mental Illness: Understanding the Factors That Impact Stigmatizing Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	27
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	23
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	22
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	21
Examining the Effects of Social Media Warning Labels on Perceived Credibility and Intent to Engage with Health Misinformation: The Moderating Role of Vaccine Hesitancy	20
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	19
Optimizing Health Communication Noticeability with Visual Design and Humor: An Applied Approach for COVID-19 Public Messaging	18
Patient-Centered Communication and Cancer Information Overload Among Adults without a History of Cancer in the United States	18
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	18
How Health Consciousness and Health Literacy Influence Evaluative Responses to Nutrient-Content Claimed Messaging for an Unhealthy Food	18
Sophocles’Philoctetesand Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Tobacco Free Nicotine Vaping Products: A Study of Health Halo Effects Among Middle School Youth	15
Editor’s Note	15
mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review	14
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	14

Maintaining a Fair Balance? Narrative and Non-Narrative Strategies in Televised Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements for Prescription Drugs Aired in the United States, 2003–2016	14
Narrative Vs. Standard of Care Messages: Testing How Communication Can Positively Influence Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes	14
“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	14
Native Americans’ Responses to Obesity Attributions and Message Sources in an Obesity Prevention Campaign	13
Communication Is Not a Virus: COVID-19 Vaccine-Critical Activity on Facebook and Implications for the ‘Infodemic’ Concept	13
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Knowledge, Beliefs, and Trusted Information Sources Among Black Women in Kentucky: Implications for Vaccine Uptake	13
Impact of an Arts-based Public Health Literacy Program Delivered Online to High School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Drivers of Conversations About Dementia Risk Reduction: A Qualitative Study	12
Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings	11
Mapping Perceptual Differences to Understand COVID-19 Beliefs in Those with Vaccine Hesitancy	11
Characterizing the Communication Networks of Spanish- and English-Speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Their Roles in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake	11
Toward a Recipe for Deep versus Surface Level Tailoring: Mixed-Methods Validation of Message Features to Reduce Sugary Beverage Consumption	11
A comprehensive examination of association between belief in vaccine misinformation and vaccination intention in the COVID-19 context	11
COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention: Message Framing and the Moderating Role of Perceived Vaccine Benefits	11
Media Influence on Bystander Intervention for Health Protective Norms: The Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction Perspective	10
Understanding How Youth Search for Mental Health Information Online: A Qualitative Descriptive Study	10
Examining the Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) in the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	9
Correction	9
Dangling Carrots and Twisting Arms: Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccination for Community Benefit	9
A Media Literacy Education Approach to Sexual Health Promotion: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on the Sexual Health Cognitions of Young Adult Community College Student	9
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	9
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	9
Fifteen Years after a 10-year Retrospective: The State of Health Mass Mediated Campaigns	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
Face Value: Remote facial expression analysis adds predictive power to perceived effectiveness for selecting anti-tobacco PSAs	8
How Message-Evoked Emotions Undermine Persuasion: The Mediating Role of Fear and Anger in Health Message Effects Among Older Adults	8
Evaluation of the “We Can Do This” Campaign Paid Media and COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake, United States, December 2020–January 2022	8
To Tailor or Not to Tailor: An Investigation of Narrative Tailoring for Health Communication	8
An Experimental Test of Pop Music Lyrics Referencing Anxiety on Female College Students’ Audience Involvement and Peer Mental Health Empathy	8
Do Socioeconomic Disparities Matter? Unraveling the Impacts of Online Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China	8
Testing Narrative Persuasion of a Culturally Grounded, School-Based “Dale Se REAL” Entertainment-Education Intervention and Peer Communication on Nicaraguan Adolescent Substance Use	8
Exploring the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Health Communication: How Perceived Food and Media Literacy and Actual Knowledge Drift Apart When Evaluating Misleading Food Advertising	8
A Mobile Health Information Behavior Model: Theoretical Development and Mixed-Method Testing in the Context of Mobile Apps on Child Poisoning Prevention	7
An Analysis of Crisis Communication Delivered by the Chief Health Officer During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Queensland, Australia	7
Pornography Use and Coitus Interruptus: Is There a Link?	7
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	7
Examining the Impact of a Culture-Centric Narrative on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mental Wellness Among Latinos in the Midwest	7
COVID-19 in Portugal: A Pandemic Redesigned by the Media	7
Conservative Media Use and Childhood COVID-19 Vaccine Information: A Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing Model	7
Bridging Culture and Language: Encouraging Bilingual/Multicultural Individuals to Act as Information Navigators for Their Loved-Ones and Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda	6
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	6
US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life”	6
Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults	6
Effects of Health Responsibility Frames: Testing a Mediation Model of Attributions, Emotions, and Social Support Intentions	6
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
A COM-B and Theoretical Domains Framework Mapping of the Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Communication and Help-Seeking Among People With, or Seeking a Diagnosis Of, Endometriosis	6
PFAS Contamination: Pathway from Communication to Behavioral Outcomes	6
Modeling Electronic-Cigarette Users’ Risk Information Avoidance	6

Trust in Mass Media as Sources of Cancer Information: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in Japan	6
Parent-Adolescent Weight Communication: Parental Psychosocial Correlates Among a Diverse National Sample	6
Cancer Survivors’ Emotional Well-being: Roles of Internet Information Seeking, Patient-centered Communication, and Social Support	6
Predicting the U.S. Public’s Prosocial Responses during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Influence of Social Eating Norms on Motivational Responses When Processing Fast Food Advertisements	6
Can Happiness and Sadness Overcome Organ Donation Barriers Following Exposure to Radio Ads?	6
“I Felt Completely Turned off by the Message”: The Effects of Controlling Language, Fear, and Disgust Appeals on Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination Messages	6
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	5
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	5
Examining Antecedents of Factual Knowledge and Perceived Familiarity of COVID-19 Contact Tracing App: A Modified Cognitive Mediation Model	5
COVID-19 Vaccine-related Information Seeking and Scanning: A Test of Mediators between Information Acquisition and Vaccination Intention among Unvaccinated Black Americans	5
Piloting Gain and Loss-Framed PrEP and Childbearing Messaging to Promote HIV Testing in Uganda: Perspectives from Couples and Providers	5
Communicating COVID-19 Risk on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Official Public Health Messaging During the First Year of the Pandemic	5
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	5
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	5
Advancing Community-Based Participatory Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Methods Commentary on the Lessons Learned from Working with Community Data Collectors on a Refugee Health Disparities S	5
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	5
Intentions to Seek Information about E-Cigarettes: Perceived Risk, Efficacy, and Smoking Identity	5
How Trust in Cancer Information Has Changed in the Era of COVID-19: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity	5
Leveraging Emotion for Behavior Change: Lessons from Implementation of the “Emo-Demo” Behavior Change Technique in Rural Mozambique	5
Spit, Disgust, and Parasite Stress Theory: A Message Experiment	5
Development of a Web-Based Alcohol Prevention Program Linking School-Child-Family for Intermediate Elementary Students	5