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Impactful Papers from the Journal
‘Political Communication’
1
Altmetric Attention Score: 405
Fact-Checking: A Meta-Analysis of What Works and for Whom
Political Communication2019-10-24
Political Science Communication
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 332
All the News That’s Fit to Click: The Economics of Clickbait Media
Political Communication2019-12-03
Political Science Communication
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 242
Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign
Political Communication2019-10-26
Political Science Communication
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 222
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
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 156
Allies or Agitators? How Partisan Identity Shapes Public Opinion about Violent or Nonviolent Protests
Political Communication2020-08-19
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 156
Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign
Political Communication2020-03-06
Political Science Communication
7
Altmetric Attention Score: 123
Disinformation as Political Communication
Political Communication2020-02-14
Political Science Communication
8
Altmetric Attention Score: 89
When Do Partisans Stop Following the Leader?
Political Communication2020-06-30
Political Science Communication
9
Altmetric Attention Score: 85
Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter
Political Communication2020-02-05
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 85
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
11
Altmetric Attention Score: 78
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences
Political Communication2021-11-25
Political Science Communication
12
Altmetric Attention Score: 71
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
13
Altmetric Attention Score: 58
Hitting a Nerve: Populist News Articles Lead to More Frequent and More Populist Reader Comments
Political Communication2019-08-16
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 58
Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict
Political Communication2022-03-03
Political Science Communication
15
Altmetric Attention Score: 55
Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?
Political Communication2021-12-20
Political Science Communication
16
Altmetric Attention Score: 53
Listening During Political Conversations: Traits and Situations
Political Communication2020-04-06
Political Science Communication
17
Altmetric Attention Score: 46
Seeing Spanish: The Effects of Language-Based Media Choices on Resentment and Belonging
Political Communication2020-02-14
Political Science Communication
18
Altmetric Attention Score: 43
Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict, and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus
Political Communication2020-02-18
Political Science Communication
19
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
20
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes?The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting
Political Communication2021-04-16
Political Science Communication
21
Altmetric Attention Score: 39
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis
Political Communication2022-07-03
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 39
Leader over Policy? The Scope of Elite Influence on Policy Preferences
Political Communication2020-01-11
Political Science Communication
23
Altmetric Attention Score: 38
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking
Political Communication2021-11-29
Political Science Communication
24
Altmetric Attention Score: 36
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication
Political Communication2020-10-21
Political Science Communication
25
Altmetric Attention Score: 35
Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government
Political Communication2020-09-27
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 35
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: 35
A Call to Contextualize Public Opinion-Based Research in Political Communication
Political Communication2019-10-11
Political Science Communication
28
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse
Political Communication2022-05-31
Political Science Communication
29
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
Assessing the Validity of Survey Measures for News Exposure through Digital Footprints: Evidence from Spain and the UK
Political Communication2022-06-18
Political Science Communication
30
Altmetric Attention Score: 32
Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility
Political Communication2020-07-20
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 32
Social Media and Political Agenda Setting
Political Communication2021-05-03
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 32
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Cross-Cutting Exposure on Political Participation
Political Communication2019-07-19
Political Science Communication
33
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication
Political Communication2021-12-21
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
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble
Political Communication2022-01-19
Political Science Communication
37
Altmetric Attention Score: 29
Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach
Political Communication2020-12-29
Political Science Communication
38
Altmetric Attention Score: 28
Defining Misinformation and Understanding its Bounded Nature: Using Expertise and Evidence for Describing Misinformation
Political Communication2020-02-06
Political Science Communication
39
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
40
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
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 26
Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? The Joint Effect of Party Identity, Gender Identity and Elections
Political Communication2020-08-19
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 26
Data Ops, Objectivity, and Outsiders: Journalistic Coverage of Data Campaigning
Political Communication2020-02-18
Political Science Communication
 
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
45
Altmetric Attention Score: 24
State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China
Political Communication2021-11-21
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 24
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies
Political Communication2021-12-20
Political Science Communication
 
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
48
Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Wait, Haven’t We Been Here Before? A Method for Using History to Help Political Communication Scholarship
Political Communication2020-02-06
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 20
The Effect of Associative Racial Cues in Elections
Political Communication2020-03-03
Political Science Communication
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment
Political Communication2020-11-18
Political Science Communication