OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computer-Mediated 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Transparency, openness and privacy among software professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use of the digital calendar	189
Taking stock of social media privacy: meta-analytic evidence on how control, trust, and concerns are associated with social media use, disclosure, and protection	130
Active social media use and its impact on well-being — an experimental study on the effects of posting pictures on Instagram	123
Using time travel in virtual reality (VR) to increase efficacy perceptions of influenza vaccination	106
Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online	97
Pre-framing an emerging technology before it is deployed at work: the case of artificial intelligence and radiology	95
First-level fundamentals: computer ownership is more important for internet benefits than in-home internet service	76
Subtle momentary effects of social media experiences: an experience sampling study of posting and social comparisons on connectedness and self-esteem	72
How cognitive elaboration fosters knowledge acquisition on social media—a field experiment	52
To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment	47
Does ostracism/rejection impact self-disclosures? Examining the appeal of perceived social affordances after social threat	47
Talking or typing: how interaction modality influences privacy perceptions and actual disclosure behaviors in human–AI interaction	45
Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures	44
A cross-national examination of the effects of accuracy nudges and content veracity labels on belief in and sharing of misleading news	38
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	31
Accumulative cartography: a visual semiotic analysis of online mobile maps	30
Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”	28
Are active and passive social media use related to mental health, wellbeing, and social support outcomes? A meta-analysis of 141 studies	28
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents	28
Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval?	27
Learning about climate change with algorithmic news? A two-wave panel study examining the role of “news-finds-me” perception	27
When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust	27
The lonely algorithm problem: the relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok	26
Algorithmic relational fracture and pseudo-relational accommodation: how users navigate communication breakdowns with relational AI	26
Correction to: Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	22

Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of autonomous vehicles	22
Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews	22
The Fake One is the Real One: Finstas, Authenticity, and Context Collapse in Teen Friend Groups	22
Do mindsets really matter? A second look at how perceptions of social media experiences relate to well-being	22
Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children	21
The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations	21
Finding love in algorithms: deciphering the emotional contexts of close encounters with AI chatbots	19
Digital disconnection, digital inequality, and subjective well-being: a mobile experience sampling study	19
Disconnectivity synced with identity cultivation: adolescent narratives of digital disconnection	19
Correction to: Gay employees on social media: Strategies to portray professionalism	18
Signaling outrage is a signal about the sender: moral perceptions of online flaming	17
Machine heuristic: concept explication and development of a measurement scale	15
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance	15
Walled cosmopolitanization: how China’s Great Firewall mediates young urban gay men’s lives	15
Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of algorithmic awareness among German and U.S. social media users	14
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an introduction to the special issue	13
The value affordances of social media engagement features	13
“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband	12
AI-mediated social support: the prospect of human–AI collaboration	12
Reinvention mediates impacts of skin tone bias in algorithms: implications for technology diffusion	12
Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities	12
The gendered lens of AI: examining news imagery across digital spaces	12
A typology of social media rituals	11
Liking without borders? Authenticity and the evaluation of Instagram photo genres	10
Under-the-radar engagement: how and why news users limit their public expression	10
Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities	10
Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI	9
Mediating social support through sensor-based technologies for children’s health behavior change	9
Human–algorithm interactions in platform governance: how Chinese moderators balance conflicting logics in algorithm-assisted decision-making	9
Social media self-presentation of LGBTQ+ youth in the United States: the role of identity exploration, context collapse, and supportive feedback	9
Correction by distraction: how high-tempo music enhances medical experts’ debunking TikTok videos	8
Momentary motivations for digital disconnection: an experience sampling study	8
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability	8
Enabling and constraining factors of remote informal communication: a socio-technical systems perspective	8
A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality	8
Understanding screenshot collection and sharing on messaging platforms: a privacy perspective	8
Navigating the empty shell: the role of articulation work in platform structures	7
Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood: an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths’ performances of the masculine self	7
Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior	7
Surveillance and the future of work: exploring employees’ attitudes toward monitoring in a post-COVID workplace	7
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021	7
Intergroup contact, contact heterogeneity, and cross-group friendship: evidence from a global prosocial mobile game	7
Liking versus commenting on online news: effects of expression affordances on political attitudes	7
Positioning in a collaboration network and performance in competitions: a case study of Kaggle	7
To Like or Not to Like? An Experimental Study on Relational Closeness, Social Grooming, Reciprocity, and Emotions in Social Media Liking	6
Programmed differently? Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub	6
Tailoring generative AI chatbots for multiethnic communities in disaster preparedness communication: extending the CASA paradigm	6
Digitally mediated (dis)empowerment paradox in women-led group-buying during the Shanghai COVID lockdown	6
Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to Technology and the Future of Work special issue	6
Language use in online support provision: the impact of others’ supportive messages, support-seeking strategy, and channel publicness	6

From screens to sensors: a contextual integrity approach to understanding privacy norms across mobile health contexts	6
Digital parenting divides: the role of parental capital and digital parenting readiness in parental digital mediation	6
AI agency vs. human agency: understanding human–AI interactions on TikTok and their implications for user engagement	6
Sensing technologies, digital inclusion, and disability diversity	6
Retweet for justice? Social media message amplification and Black Lives Matter allyship	6
No judgment: value optimization and the reinvention of reviewing on YouTube	6
Correction to: Liking without borders? Authenticity and the evaluation of Instagram photo genres	6
Confronting whiteness through virtual humans: a review of 20 years of research in prejudice and racial bias using virtual environments	6
How change in sociality over time moderates the association between mobile and social media use and well-being	6