OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health Communication is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Hesitant or Not? The Association of Age, Gender, and Education with Potential Acceptance of a COVID-19 Vaccine: A Country-level Analysis	168
Feeling angry: the effects of vaccine misinformation and refutational messages on negative emotions and vaccination attitude	65
The Persistence of Vaccine Hesitancy: COVID-19 Vaccination Intention in New Zealand	65
Preparing for A COVID-19 Vaccine: A Mixed Methods Study of Vaccine Hesitant Parents	63
COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse on Twitter: A Content Analysis of Persuasion Techniques, Sentiment and Mis/Disinformation	61
An Investigation of Low COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions among Black Americans: The Role of Behavioral Beliefs and Trust in COVID-19 Information Sources	60
An Assessment of the Rapid Decline of Trust in US Sources of Public Information about COVID-19	54
How Media Literacy and Science Media Literacy Predicted the Adoption of Protective Behaviors Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	46
Health Information Sources and the Influenza Vaccination: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Vaccine Efficacy and Safety	46
Community-based Strategies to Engage Pastors Can Help Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Health Disparities in Black Communities	42
COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and Intention: Message Framing and the Moderating Role of Perceived Vaccine Benefits	37
The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and Its Relationship with Community Mobility: A Mixed-Method Approach	33
Evaluating Crisis Communication. A 30-item Checklist for Assessing Performance during COVID-19 and Other Pandemics	32
What Do Social Media Influencers Say about Health? A Theory-Driven Content Analysis of Top Ten Health Influencers’ Posts on Sina Weibo	31
Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	30
Which Beliefs Predict Intention to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19? A Mixed-Methods Reasoned Action Approach Applied to Health Communication	29
Using Social Media for Health: National Data from HINTS 2019	28
The Power of Celebrity Health Events: Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Audience Involvement and Behavioral Intentions	28
Communication, Health Literacy and a Systems Approach for Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Massive Vaccine Roll-out in Israel	27
The Impact of Emotion and Government Trust on Individuals’ Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-country Comparison	26
COVID-19 News and Misinformation: Do They Matter for Public Health Prevention?	26
Preliminary Insights from a U.S. Probability Sample on Adolescents’ Pornography Exposure, Media Psychology, and Sexual Aggression	25
Vaccine Literacy—helping Everyone Decide to Accept Vaccination	25
Comparison of COVID-19 Information Seeking, Trust of Information Sources, and Protective Behaviors in China and the US	25
Determinants of eHealth Literacy among Adults in China	24

Health Information Seeking Behaviors and Source Preferences between Chinese and U.S. Populations	24
The Role of Temporal Distance Perception in Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Persuasion Related to E-Cigarettes	24
The Association between Health Literacy and Self-Rated Health Amongst Australian University Students	21
Algorithms and Health Misinformation: A Case Study of Vaccine Books on Amazon	20
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Positive Psychology: The Role of News and Trust in News on Mental Health and Well-Being	19
Vaccine Hesitancy and Demand for Immunization in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Implications for the Region and Beyond	19
The Effects of Perceived Threat and Efficacy on College Students’ Social Distancing Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Face Masks: Their History and the Values They Communicate	19
Development of a Scale to Measure Trust in Public Health Authorities: Prevalence of Trust and Association with Vaccination	18
Visual Attention to the Use of #ad versus #sponsored on e-Cigarette Influencer Posts on Social Media: A Randomized Experiment	18
Anti-Vaxxers, Politicization of Science, and the Need for Trust in Pandemic Response	18
Fact-Checking of Health Information: The Effect of Media Literacy, Metacognition and Health Information Exposure	17
Uncertainty and Negative Emotions in Parental Decision-making on Childhood Vaccinations: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior to the Context of Conflicting Health Information	16
Emotional and Cognitive Responses to COVID-19 Information Overload under Lockdown Predict Media Attention and Risk Perceptions of COVID-19	16
Media Complementarity and Health Information Acquisition: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the 2017 HINTS-China Survey	15
Cancer Survivors’ Emotional Well-being: Roles of Internet Information Seeking, Patient-centered Communication, and Social Support	14
How Viewing Alcohol Posts of Friends on Social Networking Sites Influences Predictors of Alcohol Use	14
Promoting Sexual Health in High School: A Feasibility Study of A Web-based Media Literacy Education Program	14
A Systematic Review of Responsibility Frames and Their Effects in the Health Context	14
Perceived Active Control over Online Health Information: Underlying Mechanisms of Mode Tailoring Effects on Website Attitude and Information Recall	14
COVID-19: An Urgent Call for Coordinated, Trusted Sources to Tell Everyone What They Need to Know and Do	13
A Meta-analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance	13
Expanding the Health Information National Trends Survey Research Program Internationally to Examine Global Health Communication Trends: Comparing Health Information Seeking Behaviors in the U.S. and G	13
SNS Usage and Third-person Effects in the Risk Perception of Zika Virus among Singaporean Women	13
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Patient-Provider Communication and the Role of E-Health Use	13
Adapting Online Patient Decision Aids: Effects of Modality and Narration Style on Patients’ Satisfaction, Information Recall and Informed Decision Making	12
The dynamics of trust and communication in COVID-19 vaccine decision making: A qualitative inquiry	12
Social Capital and Health Communication in Singapore: An Examination of the Relationships between Community Participation, Perceived Neighborliness and Health Communication Behaviors	12
From Risk Butterflies to Citizens Engaged in Risk Prevention in the Zika Virus Crisis: Focusing on Personal, Societal and Global Risk Perceptions	12
Social Media Use in the Context of Drinking Onset: The Mutual Influences of Social Media Effects and Selectivity	12
Predictors of Patient-Centered Communication among U.S. Adults: Analysis of the 2017-2018 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)	11
Patient-Provider Communication and Online Health Information Seeking among a Sample of US Older Adults	11
Targeting Perceptions of Risk from Injudicious Antibiotic Use: An Application of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model	11
Discussions of Potential Mammography Benefits and Harms among Patients with Limited Health Literacy and Providers: “Oh, There are Harms?”	10
Disabilities and the Digital Divide: Assessing Web Accessibility, Readability, and Mobility of Popular Health Websites	10
Information Seeking and Scanning about Colorectal Cancer Screening among Black and White Americans, Ages 45–74: Comparing Information Sources and Screening Behaviors	10
Interventions to Mitigate Vaping Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis	9
What Is the World Doing about COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance?	9
Youth’s Proximity to Marijuana Retailers and Advertisements: Factors Associated with Washington State Adolescents’ Intentions to Use Marijuana	9
Information Seeking as A Predictor of Risk Behavior: Testing A Behavior and Risk Information Engagement Model (BRIE)	9
Health Communication and Decision Making about Vaccine Clinical Trials during a Pandemic	9
Integrating Reasoned Action Approach and Message Sidedness in the Era of Misinformation: The Case of HPV Vaccination Promotion	8
Promoting Smoking Cessation in China: Using an Expansion of the EPPM with Other-oriented Threat	8
Fifteen Years after a 10-year Retrospective: The State of Health Mass Mediated Campaigns	8
When Social Media Images and Messages Don’t Match: Attention to Text versus Imagery to Effectively Convey Safety Information on Social Media	8
When Media Health Stories Conflict: Test of the Contradictory Health Information Processing (CHIP) Model	8
Evaluating a Health Literacy Communication Training for Medical Students: Using Plain Language	8
Building Confidence to CONVINCE	8
Ideology and COVID-19 Vaccination Intention: Perceptual Mediators and Communication Moderators	8
Moral Foundations Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from a National Survey of Black Americans	7

Moving Oral Contraceptives over the Counter: Theory-based Formative Research to Design Communication Strategy	7
First-Person, Third-Person, or Bystander? Exploring the Persuasive Influence of Perspective in Mental Health Narratives	7
Relationships of Family History-related Factors and Causal Beliefs to Cancer Risk Perception and Mammography Screening Adherence Among Medically Underserved Women	7
African American Parents’ Perceived Vaccine Efficacy Moderates the Effect of Message Framing on Psychological Reactance to HPV Vaccine Advocacy	7
Recalled Exposure to COVID-19 Public Education Campaign Advertisements Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence	7
Ashamed Caregivers: Self-Stigma, Information, and Coping among Dementia Patient Families	7
Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings	7
Pornography and Women’s Experience of Mixed-Gender Sexual Choking/Strangulation: Eroticization Mediates, Perceived Similarity Moderates	7
Effect of Patient-Centered Communication on Physician-Patient Conflicts from the Physicians’ Perspective: A Moderated Mediation Model	7
Tailoring Temporal Message Frames to Individuals’ Time Orientation Strengthens the Relationship between Risk Perception and Behavioral Intention	7
Impact of Graphic Warning Messages on Intentions to Use Alternate Tobacco Products	7
Navigating Uncertain Times: Information Management about Pregnancy and Breastfeeding during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
The Interplay between Message Framing and Message Recipients’ Regulatory Focus in Promoting HPV Prevention Strategies	6
Death Narratives, Negative Emotion, and Counterarguing: Testing Fear, Anger, and Sadness as Mechanisms of Effect	6
Misperceptions of the Prevalence of Health Conditions and Behaviors	6
“Vaccine Communication in a Pandemic: Improving Vaccine Literacy to Reduce Hesitancy, Restore Trust and Immunize Communities”: Editor’s Introduction	6
Empowering Parents to Protect Children during COVID-19 with Message Strategy Based on Efficacy, Threat Levels, and Channel Preferences	6
Investigating Disparities by Sex and LGBTQ Identity: A Content Analysis of Sexual Health Information on College Student Health Center Websites	6
Show Me a Photo of the Character: Exploring the Interaction between Text and Visuals in Narrative Persuasion	6
Double Vision on Social Media: How Self-Generated Alcohol-Related Content Posts Moderate the Link between Viewing Others’ Posts and Drinking	6
Vaccine Videos and Information Sharing: The Effects of Framing, Evidence Type, and Speaker Expertise	6
Self-reported Exposure to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information among American Indian Youth: Implications for Technology Based Intervention	6
A Health Crisis in the Age of Misinformation: How Social Media and Mass Media Influenced Misperceptions about COVID-19 and Compliance Behavior	6
Sophocles’Philoctetesand Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic	6