OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health Communication is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor’s Note	65
Opioids in Satirical News Shows: Exploring Topics, Sentiments, and Engagement in Last Week Tonight on YouTube	40
Tweaking the Messages and Approaching the Glass Box: Using AI Chatbots to Promote Help-Seeking for Depressive Symptoms	33
Foreword	32
Using Theater as a Health Promotion Tool: A Scoping Review	31
What Drives Users’ Intention to Discern AI-Generated Health Misinformation? Evidence from a Scenario-Based Experiment and SEM-ANN Analysis	26
Predicting Support for COVID-19 Policies with Partisan Media Use and Negative Emotion: Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea	24
Misinformation About Science is a Systems-Level Dilemma	24
What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021	24
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	23
Sex Education, Public Opinion, and Pornography: Replication and Experiment	23
Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for a Pilot Study to Sample Cancer Survivors for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-SEER 2021	23
Building Quality Health Communication in a Changing Information Environment	22
Testing the Feasibility, User Experiences, and Preliminary Effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents ^© For Behavior Change and Collaborative Go	20
The Impact of Social and Material Resources on Resilience Communication at the Intersection of Race and Gender	20
Optimizing Public Health Crisis Communication: Insights from Technology-Mediated COVID-19 Messaging in Rural Ghana	19
How Do Behavioral Framing, Linguistic Certainty, and Target Specification Impact Responses to Vaping Prevention Messages?	18
“What Do I Say? How Do I Say it?” Twitter as a Knowledge Dissemination Tool for Mental Health Research	18
Health Communication: Creating Tangible Impact in a Tumultuous World: Society for Health Communication Annual National Summit	17
How Systems Mapping Can Be an Important Health Communication Tool	17
Safeguarding Quality in Health and Medical Science Information Today	17
Examining Organ Donor Gratitude Letters as a Novel Approach to Boost Organ Donor Registrations in South Korea	17
Promotion – The 4th P of Social Marketing: A Scoping Review of Efforts from 2010–2022	16
Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment	16
Opinion Leadership and Sharing Positive and Negative Information About Vaccines on Social Media: A Mixed-Methods Approach	16

Reconsidering the Effectiveness of Fear Appeals: An Experimental Study of Interactive Fear Messaging to Promote Positive Actions on Climate Change	16
Does Misinformation Have Spillover Effects on Unrelated Health Behaviors? Promising Null Results from a Longitudinal Study of U.S. Adults	15
Characteristics of Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Exposure to and Engagement with Nicotine and Tobacco Product Content on Social Media	15
Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination – Development and Feasibility of a Decision Support Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Study	15
The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa	15
From Theory to Practice: Mitigating the Harm of Online Harassment in Public Health	15
Shared Decision-Making Experiences of Couples with Inherited Cancer Risk Regarding Family Building	14
A Qualitative Content Analysis of Caregiver Reports of Conversations with Their Children about Vaccinations	14
The Effects of Vaccine Efficacy Information on Vaccination Intentions Through Perceived Response Efficacy and Hope	14
Identifying Provider-Level Barriers to Provision of PrEP Services for Cisgender Women: Application of the Disclosure Decision-Making Model	14
A Six-Month Outcome Evaluation of Media Aware Parent, a Parent-Based Media Mediation and Sexual Health Communication Program to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health	12
Making High-Quality Health Information More Visible – A Proposal for a Set of Criteria to Assess Information Provider Methods	12
A Narrative Persuasion Approach to Promoting COVID-19- Related Policy Support	12
When Provider Contact Does Not Become PrEP Care	11
From Information Seeking and Scanning to the Practice of Healthy Habits: A Longitudinal Test of the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction in the Context of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption	11
Misfluencers, the Human Agents Behind AI-Driven Infodemics	11
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Fear Appeal Elements in Government’s Health Crisis Communication via State-Owned Media	11
Community and Opinion Leadership Effects on Vaping Discourse: A Network Analysis of Online Reddit Threads	11
Scaling the Idea of Opinion Leadership to Address Health Misinformation: The Case for “Health Communication AI”	11
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	11
The Effects of Patient-Centered Communication on Emotional Health: Examining the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Information Seeking Frustration, and Social Media Use	11
Pro- and Anti-Tax Framing in News Articles About California Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Campaigns from 2014-2018	10
Advancing Health Communication, a Call for the Future: 30 Years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives	10
Culturally Responsive Community Mental Health: Successes and Lessons from a Community Mental Health Organization	10
Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter:The Voice and Vaccine Attitude of Cancer Community	10
Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter	10
Development and Pilot Test of an Edutainment-Based Curriculum for Addressing Misinformation in the Healthcare Setting	9
“A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement	9
Communicating without a Shared Language: A Qualitative Study of Language Barriers in Language-Discordant Cancer Communication	9
Shared Values, Shared Responsibility, and Overwhelmingly Positive: Investigating a Targeted COVID-19 Public Health Messaging Approach Using Generative Artificial Intelligence	9
Precious Information: Getting Interpretable, Actionable Health Communications Data	9
Use and Efficacy of Conversational AI in Health Management: An Integrative Review	9
Outcomes of Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors: Insights from a German Longitudinal Study	9
Social Position and Opioid Crisis Information: Patterns of Active Seeking and Passive Exposure Among US Adults	9
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health	9
Examining the Effects of Social Media Warning Labels on Perceived Credibility and Intent to Engage with Health Misinformation: The Moderating Role of Vaccine Hesitancy	8
Research Priorities for Readability Assessment of Health Information: A Modified eDelphi Study	8
Countering Narrative Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Narrative Corrections and Character Trust on Story-Related Knowledge of HPV	8
Framing Nutrition Messages for Audience Engagement: Insights from Institutional Social Media Communication	8
Why People Stayed Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Health Communication Across Four Countries	8
Mapping E-Cigarette Content on Social Media: A Scoping Review of Methods, AI Applications, and Promotional Strategies	8
Key Conversations and Trusted Information Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine	8
What Did We Learn About Pandemic Communication?	8
Section Editor’s Note: AI, Health, and Digital Spaces — Charting a New Agenda for Health Communication	8
Health Controversies: Long-Term Disagreement Management Challenges	8
Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on Engagement with Vaping Cessation Videos	8
An Investigation into Memorable Messages about COVID-19	8
The Association Between the We Can Do This Campaign and Vaccination Beliefs in the United States, January 2021–March 2022	8
Quantitatively Identifying Messaging Topics to Encourage West Virginia nurses’ COVID-19 Vaccination	7
The Importance of Assessing Failure, Unexpected Results, and Lessons Learned for Advancing Health Communication Science	7

Engaging the Next Generation in Communication to Address Information Quality	7
Health Communication in an Era of Disinformation: Perceived Source Credibility Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals	7
Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Why Health Institutions Must Learn from Social Media Influencers. A Paradigm Shift in Health Communication	7
Information Service “My Cancer Navigator” to Support Shared Decision-Making: An Online Survey Among Patients with Cancer and Their Caregivers	7
Clinical AI Applications in the Context of Cancer: Explaining Openness to Information and Consent to Use Through Risk Perceptions and Efficacy Beliefs	7
The lived experience in one of the hardest hit communities in New York City (Harlem), and one of the least vaccinated for COVID-19. Some Lessons Learned.	7
Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer	7
Understanding CDC’s Vaccine Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effectiveness in Promoting Positive Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccine	7
Do Storytelling and Processing Motivation Matter? Comparing Narratives and Exemplars in Promoting Hepatitis C Screening among College Students	7
Climate Communication, Public Health, and Social Media: Examining the Role of Health Agencies in Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health	7
Early COVID-19 Home-Based Care Knowledge and Efficacies: Comparing Ghanaian and US Respondents	7