OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computer-Mediated 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Using time travel in virtual reality (VR) to increase efficacy perceptions of influenza vaccination	127
Active social media use and its impact on well-being — an experimental study on the effects of posting pictures on Instagram	102
Transparency, openness and privacy among software professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use of the digital calendar	77
Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online	68
Pre-framing an emerging technology before it is deployed at work: the case of artificial intelligence and radiology	60
Inaccuracies andIzzat: Channel Affordances for the Consideration of Face in Misinformation Correction	58
First-level fundamentals: computer ownership is more important for internet benefits than in-home internet service	54
How cognitive elaboration fosters knowledge acquisition on social media—a field experiment	42
Subtle momentary effects of social media experiences: an experience sampling study of posting and social comparisons on connectedness and self-esteem	37
Does ostracism/rejection impact self-disclosures? Examining the appeal of perceived social affordances after social threat	35
To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment	28
A cross-national examination of the effects of accuracy nudges and content veracity labels on belief in and sharing of misleading news	27
Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures	24
It matters how you google it? Using agent-based testing to assess the impact of user choices in search queries and algorithmic personalization on political Google Search results	22
Accumulative cartography: a visual semiotic analysis of online mobile maps	21
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents	21
Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”	21
Rules for Mediated Romance: A Digital Exploration of How Couples Negotiate Expectations	21
Are active and passive social media use related to mental health, wellbeing, and social support outcomes? A meta-analysis of 141 studies	21
When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust	20
Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval?	18
Learning about climate change with algorithmic news? A two-wave panel study examining the role of “news-finds-me” perception	18
Longitudinal Social Grooming Transition Patterns on Facebook, Social Capital, and Well-Being	18
The Fake One is the Real One: Finstas, Authenticity, and Context Collapse in Teen Friend Groups	17
Do mindsets really matter? A second look at how perceptions of social media experiences relate to well-being	17

The lonely algorithm problem: the relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok	17
Correction to: Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	17
Disconnectivity synced with identity cultivation: adolescent narratives of digital disconnection	16
Finding love in algorithms: deciphering the emotional contexts of close encounters with AI chatbots	15
The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations	15
Digital disconnection, digital inequality, and subjective well-being: a mobile experience sampling study	14
Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of autonomous vehicles	14
Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children	14
Correction to: Gay employees on social media: Strategies to portray professionalism	13
Signaling outrage is a signal about the sender: moral perceptions of online flaming	13
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance	12
Walled cosmopolitanization: how China’s Great Firewall mediates young urban gay men’s lives	12
Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of algorithmic awareness among German and U.S. social media users	12
Beyond Anonymity: Network Affordances, Under Deindividuation, Improve Social Media Discussion Quality	11
The value affordances of social media engagement features	11
Machine heuristic: concept explication and development of a measurement scale	10
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an introduction to the special issue	10
AI-mediated social support: the prospect of human–AI collaboration	10
Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities	9
A typology of social media rituals	9
Reinvention mediates impacts of skin tone bias in algorithms: implications for technology diffusion	9
“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband	9
Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities	9
The gendered lens of AI: examining news imagery across digital spaces	9
Liking without borders? Authenticity and the evaluation of Instagram photo genres	9
Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI	8
Under-the-radar engagement: how and why news users limit their public expression	8
Correction by distraction: how high-tempo music enhances medical experts’ debunking TikTok videos	8
Mediating social support through sensor-based technologies for children’s health behavior change	8
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability	7
Humor Reduces Online Incivility	7
A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality	7
Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	7
Enabling and constraining factors of remote informal communication: a socio-technical systems perspective	7
Understanding screenshot collection and sharing on messaging platforms: a privacy perspective	7
Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood: an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths’ performances of the masculine self	6
Surveillance and the future of work: exploring employees’ attitudes toward monitoring in a post-COVID workplace	6
Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior	6
Momentary motivations for digital disconnection: an experience sampling study	6
Navigating the empty shell: the role of articulation work in platform structures	6
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021	6
Positioning in a collaboration network and performance in competitions: a case study of Kaggle	6
Liking versus commenting on online news: effects of expression affordances on political attitudes	6
Confronting whiteness through virtual humans: a review of 20 years of research in prejudice and racial bias using virtual environments	6
Digitally mediated (dis)empowerment paradox in women-led group-buying during the Shanghai COVID lockdown	5
Corrigendum to: Understanding the Effects of Personalization as a Privacy Calculus: Analyzing Self-Disclosure Across Health, News, and Commerce Contexts	5
Language use in online support provision: the impact of others’ supportive messages, support-seeking strategy, and channel publicness	5
Digital parenting divides: the role of parental capital and digital parenting readiness in parental digital mediation	5
Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to Technology and the Future of Work special issue	5
Tailoring generative AI chatbots for multiethnic communities in disaster preparedness communication: extending the CASA paradigm	5

AI agency vs. human agency: understanding human–AI interactions on TikTok and their implications for user engagement