OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mobile Media & 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps: Parallel platformization of Douyin and TikTok	134
Digital detox: An effective solution in the smartphone era? A systematic literature review	62
How psychosocial well-being and usage amount predict inaccuracies in retrospective estimates of digital technology use	61
Mobile data donations: Assessing self-report accuracy and sample biases with the iOS Screen Time function	54
Instagram use frequency is associated with problematic smartphone use, but not with depression and anxiety symptom severity	27
‘Just checking’: Vulnerable and grandiose narcissism subtypes as predictors of phubbing	26
Re-domesticating social media when it becomes disruptive: Evidence from China’s “super app” WeChat	24
Studying problems, not problematic usage: Do mobile checking habits increase procrastination and decrease well-being?	23
Caught in the moment: Are there person-specific associations between momentary procrastination and passively measured smartphone use?	18
You are not alone: Smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis	18
Explicating self-phones: Dimensions and correlates of smartphone self-extension	17
Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue	16
How and when do mobile media demands impact well-being? Explicating the Integrative Model of Mobile Media Use and Need Experiences (IM³UNE)	16
Always available via WhatsApp: Mapping everyday boundary work practices and privacy negotiations	15
The (other) two percent also matter: The construction of mobile phone refusers	15
From waifus to whales: The evolution of discourse in a mobile game-based competitive community of practice	13
The power divide: Mobile communication in Los Angeles’ Skid Row	12
The state of wearable health technologies: a transdisciplinary literature review	11
Imagining 5G: Public sense-making through advertising in China and the US	11
Smartphones, youth and moral panics: Exploring print and online media narratives in India	11
What determines instant messaging communication? Examining the impact of person- and situation-level factors on IM responsiveness	11
Disciplining the Akratic user: Constructing digital (un) wellness	10
Smartphone mothering and mediated family display: Transnational family practices in a polymedia environment among Indonesian mothers in Hong Kong	10
Who shares news on mobile messaging applications, why and in what ways? A cross-national analysis	9
The erosion of nongambling spheres by smartphone gambling: A qualitative study on workplace and domestic disordered gambling	9

The Tinder Games: Collective mobile dating app use and gender conforming behavior	9
User engagement with smart wearables: Four defining factors and a process model	9
A meta-analysis of the overall effect of mHealth physical activity interventions for weight loss and the moderating effect of behavioral change theories, techniques, and mobile technologies	8
Your phone ruins our lunch: Attitudes, norms, and valuing the interaction predict phone use and phubbing in dyadic social interactions	8
Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era	8
The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go	8
Weak ties matter: Social network dynamics of mobile media multiplexity and their impact on the social support and psychological well-being experienced by migrant workers	8
Oh, no, Pokémon GO! Media panic and fear of mobility in news coverage of an augmented reality phenomenon	7
Augmented criminality: How people process in situ augmented reality crime information in relation to space/place	7
Dance the Night Away: How Automatic TikTok Use Creates Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal and Daytime Fatigue	7
Cellphone relevance in face-to-face interactions: The effects of cellphone use on conversational satisfaction	7
(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Family technoference: Exploring parent mobile device distraction from children’s perspectives	7
Mobile communicating place and place-inscribed communicative mobilities: Shaping alternative consumer cultures in mobile media communication	6
Where horizontal and vertical surveillances meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact-tracing apps during a health crisis	6
Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield, and Crystal Abidin, Instagram: Visual social media cultures	5
Overestimating or underestimating communication findings? Comparing self-reported with log mobile data by data donation method	5
COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control	5
Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device use, and task-acknowledgment	5
Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong	5
Testing relationships between smartphone engagement, romantic partner communication, and relationship satisfaction	5
Ephemerality as Data Prevention: Values for an Ethics of Ephemeral Mobile Media	5
Connected solitude: Mobile phone use by Spanish transhumant livestock farmers	5