| The theory of resilience and relational load TD Afifi, AF Merrill, S Davis Personal Relationships 23 (4), 663-683, 2016 | 289 | 2016 |
| The “Strong Black Woman Collective”: A developing theoretical framework for understanding collective communication practices of Black women SM Davis Women's Studies in Communication 38 (1), 20-35, 2015 | 183 | 2015 |
| “You need to stop talking about this!”: Verbal rumination and the costs of social support T Afifi, W Afifi, AF Merrill, A Denes, S Davis Human Communication Research 39 (4), 395-421, 2013 | 102 | 2013 |
| When sistahs support sistahs: A process of supportive communication about racial microaggressions among Black women SM Davis Communication Monographs 86 (2), 133-157, 2019 | 93 | 2019 |
| In the wake of the great recession: Economic uncertainty, communication, and biological stress responses in families T Afifi, S Davis, AF Merrill, S Coveleski, A Denes, W Afifi Human Communication Research 41 (2), 268-302, 2015 | 87 | 2015 |
| Taking back the power: An analysis of Black women’s communicative resistance SM Davis Review of Communication 18 (4), 301-318, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| The strong Black woman collective theory: Determining the prosocial functions of strength regulation in groups of Black women friends SM Davis, TD Afifi Journal of Communication 69 (1), 1-25, 2019 | 76 | 2019 |
| Analyzing divorce from cultural and network approaches TD Afifi, S Davis, A Denes, A Merrill Journal of Family Studies 19 (3), 240-253, 2013 | 75 | 2013 |
| Testing the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) in families with type I diabetes T Afifi, D Granger, A Ersig, E Tsalikian, A Shahnazi, S Davis, K Harrison, ... Health communication, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| Widening the gap: Support gaps in same race versus different race female friendship dyads SM Davis, AC High Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36 (1), 187-213, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| Couples’ communication about financial uncertainty following the great recession and its association with stress, mental health and divorce proneness TD Afifi, S Davis, AF Merrill, S Coveleski, A Denes, AF Shahnazi Journal of Family and Economic Issues 39, 205-219, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Black women at war: A comprehensive framework for research on the strong Black woman SM Davis, MK Jones Women's Studies in Communication 44 (3), 301-322, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| Testing the ideology of openness: The comparative effects of talking, writing, and avoiding a stressor on rumination and health TD Afifi, AF Shahnazi, S Coveleski, S Davis, A Merrill Human Communication Research 43 (1), 76-101, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| The aftermath of# BlackGirlsRock vs.# WhiteGirlsRock: Considering the disrespectability of a Black women’s counterpublic SM Davis Women's Studies in Communication 41 (3), 269-290, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Writing ourselves into existence: Black women researchers’ collaborative autoethnographic reflections on addressing exclusion in academia SM Davis, F Ashun, A Dannett, K Edwards, V Nwaohuocha Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 10 (1), 4-27, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| A partial test of the strong Black woman collective theory: Using structural equation modeling to understand the collective communication practices among Black women groups SM Davis The University of Iowa, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| Communication for successful aging: Empowering individuals across the lifespan H Giles, J Gasiorek, SM Davis, J Giles Routledge, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Parents’ relationship maintenance as a buffer for the stress of their adolescent’s type 1 diabetes. K Harrison, T Afifi, N Zamanzadeh, S Davis, A Ersig, E Tsalikian, ... Journal of Family Psychology 34 (6), 709, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| The impact of a need for closure and support quality on verbal and cognitive brooding TD Afifi, A Merrill, S Davis, A Denes, S Coveleski Communication Research 46 (6), 757-784, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Examining family secrets from a communication perspective TD Afifi, A Merrill, SM Davis The Sage handbook of family communication, 169-183, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
