OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Business Communication is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Commentary—Film (and Video) as Business Communication: “Will You Come and Join the Dance?”	76
Commentary on the Visual Design Challenges for Cross-Cultural Users of Business Data Visualizations	18
Professionalism and Trustworthiness in AI-Assisted Workplace Writing: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Writing With AI	17
A World of Possibilities: Introducing Positive Communication Scholarship to Inspire Better Business and Organizational Communication Research	16
Methods Showcase—Using PLSF-SEM in Business Communication Research	15
The Balancing Act When Engaging Peers in Constructive Voicing: Uncovering Voicing Tensions and Response Strategies	14
“Doesn’t Really Answer My Question . . .”: Exploring Customer Service Interactions on Twitter	14
Examining the Influence of Algorithmic Message Personalization on Source Credibility and Reputation	14
Do We Burn Ourselves Trying to Save Face? Face Concerns as a Predictor of Subordinate Willingness to Self-Censor and Burnout	14
Bottom-Up Corporate Social Advocacy: Examining the Impact of Employees’ Empowered Engagement on Advocacy Willingness and Mediating Roles of Value Congruency and Moral Elevation	13
Notes From the Editors – Leveraging Effective Altruism: CSR Communication That Pays It Forward	13
From Voice to Action? A Survey on Organizational and Individual Factors Impacting Employee Activism Intentions	12
Recontextualizing Negative Feedback Through Talk and Text in Corporate Performance Appraisal Processes	12
Washing Dirty Laundry: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Fashion Firms’ Webpage Sustainability Discourse	11
“She’s the Anti-Midas, Everything Turns to Crap”: Evocative Metaphors Managers and Employees Use to Describe Managerial Attempts at Enacting Leadership	10
Toward a Gender Equality at Work via Activism The Role of Transparent Internal Communication	10
The Role of Public Relations in an Illiberal State: The Case of Russia	10
The Power of Words: How Does Leader’s Motivating Language Affect Employees’ Organizational Commitment	9
“Presenting Myself With Readers in Texts”: Analyzing Evidentiality in the Credibility-Building Discourse for Chinese State-Owned Enterprises on Twitter/X	8
Expressing Demands or Offers: How to Promote Volunteering Using Visual and Verbal Appeals	8
Pronouns, Positioning, and Persuasion in Top Nonprofits’ Donor Appeals	8
Trust Me: Interpersonal Communication Dominance as a Tool for Influencing Interpersonal Trust Between Coworkers	8
Pride and Prejudice in Intercultural Communication: Uncovering Information (A)symmetry in the Communication Between Chinese EV Companies and German Consumers	7
Employee-Organization Identity Fusion: Connecting Leadership and Symmetrical Internal Communication to Identity- and Engagement-Related Outcomes	7
Perceived Organizational Listening Effectiveness: A Comparison of Consumer Intelligence Provider and Consumer Intelligence User Assessments	7

Organizational Communication Patterns as Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Citizenship Motives	6
The Language of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial and Other Campaigns	6
Poetic Metaphors in Written Leadership Communication: A Qualitative Experiment of Employees’ Sense-Making, Actions, and Emotions	6
The Impact of Organization-Employee Dialogic Communication on Employee Engagement in Remote Work	6
Optimizing AI Social Chatbots for Relational Outcomes: The Effects of Profile Design, Communication Strategies, and Message Framing	6
Book Review: You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters	6
Building Corporate Reputation Resilience in Crises: Exploring the Role of Employees’ CSR Engagement in China	6
New Voice Channel and Voice Endorsement: How the Information Displayed on Online Idea Management Platforms Influences Voice Endorsement?	5
Congruence in Communication and Customer Booking Decision: A Cognitive Heuristic Perspective	5
Spotlight on a Thought Leader in Business Communication: Joanne Yates—Business Communications’ Own Standard-Bearer	5
How Emoji in Company Responses to Online Consumer Complaints Affect Observers: Emoji as Visual Signalling Cues in Webcare	5
Workplace Romance and Career Reputation Effects across Industries	5
Best Practices for Sampling, Saturation, and Storytelling in Interview-Based Research: Findings From Business Communication Research	5
Business Communication Lessons in Agility: Introduction to the Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Notes From the Editors: Spotlight on Social Media	4
Saying the Right Things to the Right Audience: The Influence of Message Strategy and Consumer Demographics on Reactions to Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA) Communications	4
Spotlight on a Thought Leader in Business Communication: Ronald E. Dulek, Ph.D.	4
Authentic Leadership, Motivating Language, Psychological Empowerment, and Work Engagement: A Serial Mediation Model	4
“They Masked our Children”: School District Communication Officers’ Sensemaking of Parent Activists During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Notes From the Editors: Communication for Persuasion, Emotions, and Customers	4
Erratum to Business Communication Lessons in Agility: Introduction to the Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Smiling for Effect? Smiling as a Strategic Tool in Recruiters’ Impression Management in Belgian Job Interviews	4
Communicating the Big Picture With Employees: The Impacts of CEO Vision Communication on Employee Engagement	4
Book Review: Talking for Success. The Secret Codes of Conversation and How to Master Them by Jonathan Clifton	4
Grok Hackspeak? Communicating Cybersecurity With Figurative Language	4
The Role of Supervisory Communication Frequency in Moderating the Impact of Innovation Knowledge Management on Innovation Performance	4
Book Review: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell	4