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Impactful Papers from the Journal
‘Political Communication’
1
Altmetric Attention Score: 331
All the News That’s Fit to Click: The Economics of Clickbait Media
Political Communication2019-12-03
Political Science Communication
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 247
Who’s Elite and How the Answer Matters to Politics
Political Communication2019-02-11
Political Science Communication
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 223
Coordinating a Multi-Platform Disinformation Campaign: Internet Research Agency Activity on Three U.S. Social Media Platforms, 2015 to 2017
Political Communication2019-10-14
Political Science Communication
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 217
Fact-Checking: A Meta-Analysis of What Works and for Whom
Political Communication2019-10-24
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 217
The “Arbiters of What Our Voters See”: Facebook and Google’s Struggle with Policy, Process, and Enforcement around Political Advertising
Political Communication2019-06-19
Political Science Communication
6
Altmetric Attention Score: 169
Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign
Political Communication2019-10-26
Political Science Communication
7
Altmetric Attention Score: 159
Allies or Agitators? How Partisan Identity Shapes Public Opinion about Violent or Nonviolent Protests
Political Communication2020-08-19
Political Science Communication
8
Altmetric Attention Score: 157
Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign
Political Communication2020-03-06
Political Science Communication
9
Altmetric Attention Score: 131
Mobilizing Millennial Voters with Targeted Internet Advertisements: A Field Experiment
Political Communication2019-01-11
Political Science Communication
10
Altmetric Attention Score: 123
Disinformation as Political Communication
Political Communication2020-02-14
Political Science Communication
11
Altmetric Attention Score: 103
You Break It, You Buy It: The Naiveté of Social Engineering in Tech – And How to Fix It
Political Communication2019-05-22
Political Science Communication
12
Altmetric Attention Score: 93
When Do Partisans Stop Following the Leader?
Political Communication2020-06-30
Political Science Communication
13
Altmetric Attention Score: 84
Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News: How Social Media Conditions Individuals to Be Less Critical of Political Misinformation
Political Communication2021-05-04
Political Science Communication
14
Altmetric Attention Score: 82
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences
Political Communication2021-11-25
Political Science Communication
15
Altmetric Attention Score: 72
Mistrust, Disinforming News, and Vote Choice: A Panel Survey on the Origins and Consequences of Believing Disinformation in the 2017 German Parliamentary Election
Political Communication2020-01-01
Political Science Communication
16
Altmetric Attention Score: 68
Social Bots in Election Campaigns: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Implications
Political Communication2018-11-14
Political Science Communication
17
Altmetric Attention Score: 61
What Can I Do? How to Use Social Media to Improve Democratic Society
Political Communication2019-05-22
Political Science Communication
18
Altmetric Attention Score: 59
Hitting a Nerve: Populist News Articles Lead to More Frequent and More Populist Reader Comments
Political Communication2019-08-16
Political Science Communication
19
Altmetric Attention Score: 56
Listening During Political Conversations: Traits and Situations
Political Communication2020-04-06
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 56
Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016
Political Communication2020-05-23
Political Science Communication
21
Altmetric Attention Score: 53
The Backbone Structure of Audience Networks: A New Approach to Comparing Online News Consumption Across Countries
Political Communication2018-12-15
Political Science Communication
22
Altmetric Attention Score: 50
Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter
Political Communication2020-02-05
Political Science Communication
23
Altmetric Attention Score: 45
Seeing Spanish: The Effects of Language-Based Media Choices on Resentment and Belonging
Political Communication2020-02-14
Political Science Communication
24
Altmetric Attention Score: 44
How Accurate Are Survey Responses on Social Media and Politics?
Political Communication2018-11-06
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 44
Do Online Ads Influence Vote Choice?
Political Communication2019-01-09
Political Science Communication
26
Altmetric Attention Score: 41
Sourcing and Automation of Political News and Information over Social Media in the United States, 2016-2018
Political Communication2019-10-26
Political Science Communication
27
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes?The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting
Political Communication2021-04-16
Political Science Communication
28
Altmetric Attention Score: 39
Uncivil Communication and Simplistic Argumentation: Decreasing Political Trust, Increasing Persuasive Power?
Political Communication2020-05-23
Political Science Communication
29
Altmetric Attention Score: 38
Leader over Policy? The Scope of Elite Influence on Policy Preferences
Political Communication2020-01-11
Political Science Communication
30
Altmetric Attention Score: 36
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication
Political Communication2020-10-21
Political Science Communication
31
Altmetric Attention Score: 35
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking
Political Communication2021-11-29
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 35
Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict, and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus
Political Communication2020-02-18
Political Science Communication
33
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
Stuck in a Nativist Spiral: Content, Selection, and Effects of Right-Wing Populists’ Communication on Facebook
Political Communication2019-10-17
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
Media Coverage of Campaign Promises Throughout the Electoral Cycle
Political Communication2020-05-05
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
A Call to Contextualize Public Opinion-Based Research in Political Communication
Political Communication2019-10-11
Political Science Communication
36
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility
Political Communication2020-07-20
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Cross-Cutting Exposure on Political Participation
Political Communication2019-07-19
Political Science Communication
38
Altmetric Attention Score: 32
Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government
Political Communication2020-09-27
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 32
Blessing or Curse for Advocacy? How News Media Attention Helps Advocacy Groups to Achieve Their Policy Goals
Political Communication2018-11-03
Political Science Communication
40
Altmetric Attention Score: 31
Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach
Political Communication2020-12-29
Political Science Communication
41
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
Opting Out of Political Discussions
Political Communication2019-02-04
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media
Political Communication2020-07-15
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities
Political Communication2020-09-22
Political Science Communication
44
Altmetric Attention Score: 27
Data Ops, Objectivity, and Outsiders: Journalistic Coverage of Data Campaigning
Political Communication2020-02-18
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 27
Explaining Media Coverage of Constitutional Court Decisions in Germany: The Role of Case Characteristics
Political Communication2020-07-16
Political Science Communication
46
Altmetric Attention Score: 26
In Validations We Trust? The Impact of Imperfect Human Annotations as a Gold Standard on the Quality of Validation of Automated Content Analysis
Political Communication2020-03-06
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 26
A Picture Paints a Thousand Lies? The Effects and Mechanisms of Multimodal Disinformation and Rebuttals Disseminated via Social Media
Political Communication2020-02-05
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 26
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies
Political Communication2021-08-09
Political Science Communication
49
Altmetric Attention Score: 24
Facing the Electorate: Computational Approaches to the Study of Nonverbal Communication and Voter Impression Formation
Political Communication2020-10-27
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 24
State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China
Political Communication2021-11-21
Political Science Communication