OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cyberpsychology-Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
No relationships between self-reported Instagram use or type of use and mental well-being: A study using a nationally representative online sample of UK adults	33
Online stress and offline stress: Uniqueness, differences, and cumulative effect on multiple well-being outcomes	20
Online research on COVID-19—The role of content ranking and COVID-19 fear	19
Gaming disorder and depression among chinese left-behind adolescents: Interactions of family, school, and personality factors	18
Motives for using social networks and social network addiction in a time of pandemic	18
“It's just more complicated!”: Experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities when navigating digital sexual fields	17
No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.	17
The selfie production model: Rethinking selfie taking, editing, and posting practices	17
The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females	15
The socially poor get richer, the rich get poorer: The effect of online self-disclosure on social connectedness and well-being is conditional on social anxiety and audience size	15
“He flattered me”. A comprehensive look into online grooming risk factors: Merging voices of victims, offenders and experts through in-depth interviews	13
Romantic myths and cyber dating violence victimization in Spanish adolescents: A moderated mediation model	13
Cyberbullying on Instagram: How adolescents perceive risk in personal selfies?	13
Profiles of bullying, cyberbullying, and disinterest in reading among primary school learners in Spain	12
Understanding the relations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and emerging adults’ mental health during a COVID-19 imposed lockdown	12
Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use	12
Virtual contact hypothesis: Preliminary evidence for intergroup contact hypothesis in interactions with characters in video games	11
How to shop online: The construct and measurement of consumer competency in online shopping	11
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis	11
How public interactions via WeChat moments predict the emotional well-being of Chinese seniors and emerging seniors: The moderating roles of perceived self-network discrepancy and age	11
Are online users influenced by what other users say? Meta-analyzing the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impact of online comment valence	10
Social connections during physical isolation: How a shift to online interaction explains friendship satisfaction and social well-being	10
From restrictions to awareness: Examining the varied relationship between mediation strategies and parental awareness of adolescents online sexual experiences across age groups	10
Trust in algorithmic decision-making systems in health: A comparison between ADA health and IBM Watson.	9
Why do we trust in online reviews? Integrative literature review and future research directions	9

Conditionally helpful? The influence of person-, situation-, and device-specific factors on maternal smartphone use for stress coping and on coping effectiveness	9
Self-disclosure on social networks: More than a rational decision-making process	9
Moral disengagement mechanisms predict cyber aggression among emerging adults	8
Depressive symptomatology is associated with problematic smartphone use severity in adolescents: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies	8
The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (ONNUS)	8
Relationships among selfie-viewing on social media, thin-ideal internalization, and restrained eating in adolescents: The buffering role of media literacy	8
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators: A qualitative study	8
“You want to know that you’re safe”: Experiences of risk, restriction and resilience online among people with an intellectual disability	8
Gender differences in videoed accounts of victim blaming for revenge porn for self-taken and stealth-taken sexually explicit images and videos	8
Do the offline and social media Big Five have the same dimensional structure, mean levels, and predictive validity of social media outcomes?	7
Social media use does not increase individual-based relative deprivation: Evidence from a five-year RI-CLPM	7
The role of personality factors in young adults’ motives for sharing alcohol references on social networking sites	7
Instant messaging and relationship satisfaction across different ages and cultures	6
Identification and validation of grief in Facebook groups on mourning	6
Reducing HIV public stigma through news information engagement on social media: A multi-method study of the role of state empathy	6
Family communication patterns and internet addiction among Iranian female high school students: The mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction	6
Gaming as a coping strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Peer cyber-victimization and addictive phone use: Indirect effects of depression and anxiety among college students	6
Adolescents who are nonusers of fashionable social networking platforms	6