OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Recent Advances in Technologies for Inclusive Well-Being: Virtual Patients, Gamification, and Simulation	129
Building and Investigating Digital Health Technologies to Promote Health Equity	118
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2023 Award Recipient for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking	108
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2024	87
Instagram Stories Unveiled: Exploring Links with Psychological Distress, Personality, and Gender	72
Enhancing Physical Activity with Immersive Virtual Reality: A Systematic Review	65
Cyberchondria and Chinese Adolescent Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic	64
Digital Hate Speech Experiences Across Age Groups and Their Impact on Well-Being: A Nationally Representative Survey in Switzerland	54
Dark Triad Personality Traits and Cyberbullying: The Mediating Role of Emotional Empathy	53
Individual Responsibility Around Deepfakes: It's No Laughing Matter	48
Adolescents’ Risky Online Behaviors and Social Desirability Bias in Vietnam: Privacy Disclosure and Pornography Use	47
The Association between Problematic Instagram Use, Psychological Distress, and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	45
Can Stress Put Digital Privacy at Risk? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment Examining the Impact of Acute Stress on Privacy Decisions on a Simulated Social Network Site	42
Fear of Missing Out and Irrational Procrastination in the Mobile Social Media Environment: A Moderated Mediation Analysis	41
Does Self-View Mode Generate More Videoconferencing Fatigue in Women than Men? An Experiment Using EEG Signals	37
Ultra-Processed Futures: How Digital Life and Food Systems Shape Metabolic Health	37
An Analysis of the Social Context of Video Games, Pathological Gaming, and Depressive Symptoms	36
Eye Movement Patterns Reflecting Cybersickness: Evidence from Different Experience Modes of a Virtual Reality Game	35
Social Signal Processing in Affective Virtual Reality: Human-Shaped Agents Increase Electrodermal Activity in an Elicited Negative Environment	33
Esports Players Are Less Extroverted and Conscientious than Athletes	33
Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Fundraisers: Evidence That Narrative Perspective and Fundraiser Identity Influence Donation Intentions	32
Can Media Literacy Intervention Improve Fake News Credibility Assessment? A Meta-Analysis	31
Transportation as a Health Concern: How Technology Can Help	30
THOMAS: Robotic Workers with Embedded Cognition for Hybrid Manufacturing Systems	30
Virtual Reality in Medical Education	29

Women Are Perceived to Have More Power Than Men in Domains That Are Viewed As Important in U.S. Tweets	29
Machine–Deep–Ensemble Learning Model for Classifying Cybersickness Caused by Virtual Reality Immersion	28
Predicting Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goal Contents Pursuit on Social Media	28
A Serial Mediation of Deceptive Discount Advertising Effects in Online Retailing	27
How Health-Related Misinformation Spreads Across the Internet: Evidence for the “Typhoon Eye” Effect	27
Waiting for the Boss's Blue Checkmark to Appear: Supervisor's Attentiveness, Negative Emotions, and Work Engagement During Instant Messaging at Work	27
Unmet Needs Discussed on Reddit by Women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder	26
A Technology-Supported Psychoeducational Intervention for Older Adults and Their Families to Improve Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Intergenerational Connectedness—A Randomized Controlled Study	26
Compassionate Goals, Facebook Use, and Subjective Well-Being: Examining the Roles of Relationship Maintenance and Connectedness	23
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Misinformation Acceptance: An Experimental Test of the Effect of Forewarning About Artificial Intelligence Hallucination	22
OVER-LON: Overview Virtual Effect for Relieving LONeliness	22
Searching for the Metaverse: Neuroscience of Physical and Digital Communities	21
COVID-19 and Sinophobia: Detecting Warning Signs of Radicalization on Twitter and Reddit	21
Empathy, Social Self-Efficacy, Problematic Internet Use, and Problematic Online Gaming Between Early and Late Adolescence	21
Nonconsensual Sexting: Are the Moral Processes the Same If Boys or Girls Appear in the Forwarded Content?	21
Content Moderator Mental Health, Secondary Trauma, and Well-being: A Cross-Sectional Study	21
Click, Buy, Repeat: Understanding the Psychological and Behavioral Mechanisms of Online Shopping Behavior	20
Autistic Traits and Cyberbullying Involvement Mediated by Psychopathologies and School Functions in a Nationally Representative Child Sample	20
Humane Artificial Intelligence: Psychological, Social, and Ethical Dimensions	20
Call for Special Issue Papers: Virtual Consumerism	19
Bridging Tradition and Technology: Soft Skills Training for the Modern Day “House Call”	19
Adolescent Screen Time Associated with Risk Factor of Fear of Missing Out During Pandemic COVID-19	19
Feeling Virtually Present Makes Me Happier: The Influence of Immersion, Sense of Presence, and Video Contents on Positive Emotion Induction	19
System 0: Transforming Artificial Intelligence into a Cognitive Extension	19
Patient Perspectives on a Digital Assistant for Medication Reconciliation: An Interview Study Comparing Socioeconomic Groups	19
Mental Health Help-Seeking Behavior of Male Video Game Players: An Online Survey	19
Reinforcing Relationships Between Gaming Disorder and Aggression and Intrusive Parenting Across 4 Years	19
#OCD: A Content Analysis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Stereotype Amplification and Misinformation on TikTok	19
A Dynamic Analysis of Conspiratorial Narratives on Twitter During the Pandemic	18
“Can I Have More Than This?” The Role of Romantic Relationship Quality, Maximization Style, and Social Media Addiction in Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptoms	18
The Effect of Augmented Reality and Privacy Priming in a Fashion-Related App: An Application of Technology Acceptance Model	18
Are Social Media Bans the Solution to the Youth Mental Health Crisis? Some Governments Think So	18
Follow the Flow: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Achieving Optimal Performance	17
Nostalgia as Self-Care: Embracing the Kidult Culture	16
Beyond Chronic Pain Exploring Body-Brain Interaction to Understand and Treat Chronic Pain Conditions	16
Shadows of Conflict: Addressing Moral Injury in Peacekeeping Missions	15
Exploring the Relationship Between Attribute Discrepancy and Avatar Embodiment in Immersive Social Virtual Reality	14
The e-SaVoR Project: Savoring and Virtual Reality to Enhance Emerging Adults' Well-Being	14
Does Facebook Use Provide Social Benefits to Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury?	14
Feasibility of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in the Treatment of Danish Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed Method Pilot Study	14
The Wear and Tear of Being “Always On”: An Allostatic Load Model of Communication Overload in Social Media Use	14
From Cyberspace to Outer Space: How Technology Will Preserve Mental Health in the Final Frontier	14
Virtual Reality Distraction for Needle-Related Pain and Distress in Children: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial	14
Whom Does Remote Work Make Happy? The Digital Divide in Remote Workers’ Well-Being	14
Why and How Empathy Matters in Aesthetic Experiences	13
SyncWork: Comparison of Brain Synchrony between Agile and Face-to-Face Work Using an EEG Hyperscanning Paradigm	13
Testing the Proteus Effect in Autistic and Neurotypical Participants	13
Supporting Teachers and Students: The Role of AI in Shaping the Future of Education	13
Tech Addiction? Take a Break Addressing a Truly Global Phenomenon	13
Supporting Brainstorming with a Collaborative Platform or a Generative Artificial Intelligence Tool: An Exploratory Study	13

Who Am I Inside the Screen? Construction of Virtual Identity in Multiplayer Online Videogames and Its Psychological Functions	13
The MetaPharmacy: What Happens When Big Pharma Goes Virtual?	13
Anonymous and Insecure Bullies are Less Depressed than Confident and Identifiable Ones, but Only if Remorseful: Cyberbullying Goals, Identifiability, and Depression	13
Loneliness and Social Media Use Among Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders	13
Use and Interest in Virtual Reality for Mental and Physical Health in a U.S. Population-Based Sample of Low-Income Veterans	12
Natural Language Content Mediates the Association Between Active Interactions on Social Network Services and Subjective Well-Being	12
Fear of Missing Out, Reflective Smartphone Disengagement, and Loneliness in Late Adolescents	12
Characterization of Cyberbullying Victimization and Perpetration Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain	12
Children's Mental Health in a Pandemic-Altered World: Technology's Evolving Role	11
“Standing Up for Earth Rights”: Awe-Inspiring Virtual Nature for Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviors	11
The Auxiliary Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing the Effects of Disaster News on Empathy and Fear: The Mediating Role of Presence	11
Tweets and Reactions: Revealing the Geographies of Cybercrime Perpetrators and the North-South Divide	11
Feasibility of an App-Supported Monitoring System for Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Fibromyalgia Patients in Public Settings	11
The Escalating Crisis in Adolescent Mental Health	11
Problematic Social Media Use and Its Relationship with Depression or Anxiety: A Systematic Review	11
The BODY-FRIEND Project: Using New Technology to Learn about How People with Anorexia Feel about Their Bodies	11
Digital Technology Use and Adolescent Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Internet Addiction and Digital Competence	11
Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial	11
Parental Phubbing and Internet Gaming Addiction in Children: Mediating Roles of Parent–Child Relationships and Depressive Symptoms	11
Putting the Toothpaste Back in the Tube: Against Online Hate Speech	11
Internet Addiction and the Treatment of Depression? A Prospective Naturalistic Outcome Study	11
Association of Phubbing Behavior and Fear of Missing Out: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	11
Correction to: College Students' Motives for In-Person Meetings with Dating Application Matches, by Harrison, et al. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2022;25(2):130–134; doi: 10.1089/cyber.2021.0031	10
What Is the Draw of the Metaverse? Personality Correlates of Zepeto Use Motives and Their Associations With Psychological Well-Being	10
Negative Affect Following Dating Application Use is Predicted by Social Anxiety Symptoms and Match Rate	10
Online Prosocial Behaviors: A Scoping Review of Definitions, Actions, and Motivators	10
The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel: Being in Virtual Places	10
INSIDE-OUT: An Innovative Sound Technology for Altering Interoceptive Signals	10
Correction to: How Different Gaming Genres Can Be Described by Required Skills and Motives for Playing by Brandtner, et al. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2022;25(9):613–619; doi: 10.1089/cyber.20	10
College Students' Motives for In-Person Meetings with Dating Application Matches	10
A National Study of Zoom Fatigue and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Future Remote Work	10
VR-MEM: Harnessing Virtual Reality for Autobiographical Memory Enhancement in High School Settings	10
(Mental) Healthcare Consumerism in the Metaverse: Is There a Benefit?	10
Multiple Facets of Rejections in Online Dating: Exploring Types, Reasons, and Impact	10
Cognitive Rehabilitation in the Metaverse: Insights from the Tele-Neurorehab Project	9
Predicting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Response Using Heart Rate Variability to Virtual Reality Environment and Modified Stroop Task: An Exploratory Study	9
Social Media and Mental Health: Weighing the Costs and Benefits	9
Harmonizing Emotions: Assessing Implicit and Explicit Emotional Responses in Elderly through Music Therapy Sessions	9
Applying Engagement Marketing and Human-Centered Design to Cocreate a Digital Decision Support Tool for Research Participation with LGBTQIA+ Community Members	9
Using Virtual Reality in E-Cigarette and Secondhand Aerosol Prevention Messages: Implications for Emotional Campaign Design	9
The Effects of Explainability and User Control on Algorithmic Transparency: The Moderating Role of Algorithmic Literacy	9
A Message from the Editor-in-Chief	9
Primary Schoolers' Response to a Multisensory Serious Game on Cartesian Plane Coordinates in Immersive Virtual Reality	9
Body Dissatisfaction Directs Avatar Perception: Embodiment and Selective Visual Attention in Body Mass-Modified Self-Avatars	9
Online Hate Speech Victimization and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: The Protective Role of Resilience	9
Correction to: ‘‘Standing Up for Earth Rights’’: Awe-Inspiring Virtual Nature for Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviors, by Chirico, et al. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2023;26(4):300–308; doi:	9
The Role of Personality, Self-Disclosure, and Envy in Maladaptive Social Media Engagement	9
The Relationship Between Hikikomori Risk and Internet Use During COVID-19 Restrictions	8
Exploring Alternative Health Facebook Groups in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Automated Content Analysis Through Structural Topic Modeling	8
Something's Fishy About It: How Opinion Congeniality and Explainability Affect Motivated Attribution to Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Comment Moderators	8
The Interplay Between Health Disparities and Acceptability of Virtual Reality: A Survey Study	8
Female Users' TikTok Use and Body Image: Active Versus Passive Use and Social Comparison Processes	8
Underlying Mechanisms of Brand Feedback's Mixed Effects in E-Commerce: Roles of Perceived Controllability, Stability, and Brand Trust	8
Femtech: Digital Help for Women's Health Care Across the Life Span	8
Stronger Algorithmic Beliefs Were Associated with More Benign Interpretations in Unideal Online Dating Scenarios	8
Transforming Brain Rehabilitation: Smartphone Solution Underpins Innovative Treatment of Brain Disorders	8
Further Understanding the Correlations Between Sexting and Mental Health: Considerations for Sex and Sexual Identity	8
Restorative Parental Discipline and Types of Defending Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying: The Mediate Role of Justice Sensitivity	8
Network Analysis of Problematic Internet Use and Adolescent Psychological Issues: The Role of Socioeconomic Status	8
Intimate Partner Cyberstalking: Exploring Vulnerable Narcissism, Secondary Psychopathy, Borderline Traits, and Rejection Sensitivity	8
Romance Behind the Screens: Exploring the Role of Technoference on Intimacy	8
The Dual Systems Model—Impulsivity and Narcissism as the Reflexive System and Self-Regulation as the Reflective System—of Smartphone Addiction	8
Ready (or Not) Player One: Initial Musings on the Metaverse	8
The Effects of Playing Video Games on Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Loneliness, and Gaming Disorder During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: PRISMA Systematic Review	8
Online Group Counseling for Young People Through a Customized Social Networking Platform: Phase 2 of Kids Helpline Circles	8
Motives of Online Hate Speech: Results from a Quota Sample Online Survey	8
Detection of Negative Emotions in Short Texts Using Deep Neural Networks	8
Treading Carefully in the Metaverse: The Evolution of AI Avatars	8
In the Mood for Music: Listening to Music and Other Smartphone Uses Improve Adolescent Mood	8