OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quarterly Journal of Speech is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anaerobic rhetoric	43
Affect and melodramatic resistance	12
Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era: Concepts and Case Studies	11
The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers	10
Framing the activists: gender, race, and rhetorical disability in contested illnesses	8
The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes?	7
So you choose to “Lie Flat?” “Sang-ness,” affective economies, and the “Lying Flat” movement	7
Memes we live by: visual rhetoric on justice	7
“An Empire for Liberty”: Reassessing US Presidential Foreign Policy Rhetoric	7
The evolution of mathematics: a rhetorical approach	6
Rhetorical strategies for retrieving abortion rights	6
How liberals lost the public: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and the critique of “traditional democratic theory”	6
The Dual Containment metaphor: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and linking the Cold War to the War on Terror	6
Storytelling and worldmaking climate justice futures: Indigenous climate advocacy and transnational solidarity in UN climate conferences	6
The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO	6
Rejecting Latinidad, embracing Améfrica Ladina	6
“This is America”: repurposing the white gaze through imitation	5
The painter of right: Jon McNaughton and the conservative challenge to visual culture	5
Gore empowerment: patriarchal appetites and white feminist delights in Showtime’s Yellowjackets	5
Creating a Latine imaginary via radionovela in the Republic of Ecuador	5
De-whitening consent amidst COVID-19 rhetoric	5
No going back: The struggle for a post- Roe reproductive justice	5
A market for civil rights: whiteness as property, colorblindness, and the rhetoric of school choice	4
Toward reproductive justice rhetorics of care: state senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of Georgia’s heartbeat bill	4
Refusing Capitulation: A Roundtable Dialogue on Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: Critical Communication Pedagogy, Otherwise	4

Imagining heteroglossic and polyvocal rhetoric in the Americas: from acknowledgment to legitimation	3
Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment	3
President Wonder Woman and Congresswoman Batgirl: the authoritarian Überfrau and democratic resilience in superheroine comics	3
The center cannot hold: decolonial possibility in the collapse of a Tanzanian NGO	3
Derailing the capitalist engine: theorizing relations of mujō through Mugen Train	3
Expanding Latine imaginaries: a forum on critical possibilities within and beyond Latinidad	3
“Except for brahmins”: caste, epideictic, and rhetorical world-making	3
Alienizing logics and rhetoric at the end of the world	3
Stripped: reading the erotic body	3
Infraconstitutive rhetoric: insurgent abolition and the Black radical imagination	2
Nuclear zelus: climate-oriented imaginaries among nuclear energy professionals	2
Caste-attentiveness	2
Black (rhetorics of) migration and laying claim to space	2
Caste/ism as a planetary threat	2
I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States , by Paul Elliott Johns	2
“You smell sulfur in the sky”: embodied knowledge, smell, and expertise	2
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	2
We are future ancestors: on authoritarian politics and the deepening of our radical roots	2
Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: Critical Communication Pedagogy, Otherwise	2
“Greater than fear”: theorizing affective blockage in social movement rhetoric	2
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance	2
Editorial: on the necessity of rhetorical theory	2
Cultivating radical care and otherwise possibilities at the end of the world	2
Homeland maternity: US security culture and the new reproductive regime Homeland maternity: US security culture and the new reproductive regime , by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz	1
Suffering and the edges of melodrama	1
Mediated quinceañeras as resistive embodied performance: the continuum of quinceañeridad and the public sphere	1
Special Issue Introduction: Abolition Rhetorics	1
Transantagonisms and the symbolic “woman” in U.S. settler reproductive rhetorics	1
“Outstanding”: early Schwarze and the seeds of melodrama	1
Global Rhetorical Traditions forum	1
Deliberating Ghana: Postcolonial Rhetorics, Culture, and Democracy	1
Anti-caste thinking and living	1
Global Rhetorical Traditions	1
From blues to Beyoncé: a century of Black women’s generational sonic Rhetorics	1
Sought out, kept out: Transantagonistic, anti-queer, and racist rhetoric in liberal academia	1
Beyond Nyaya rhetoric: the relevance of anti-caste rhetoric in communication studies	1
Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound	1
Framing memories of the dead: the rhetorical work of the memory picture in the deathcare industry	1
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants , by Adam Goodman, Prince	1
The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO	1
Beyond participation, toward disparticipation	1
Bone as an anti-rhetorical device in reactionary discourses	1
Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy	1
Sitting with the Uncanny and the Choices we Make: Experiential Consciousness, Forced Friction, and Grounded Politics	1
Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right: Barack Obama and the War on Terror Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right: Barack Obama and the War on Terror	1
Rhetorics of white preservation: racial violence and the Johnson–Reed Act	1
Landships, landship politics, and placing rhetorics	1
Beer farmers: cultivating an agribusiness atmosphere and consuming agrarian myth	1
The Reliant (2019) and the rhetoric of necropolitical Christianity	1
US American empire and the telos of US immigration law from 1924 to 2024	1

Census as obituary	1
“Their eyes are empty so their soul can come in”: empathy and responsibility for the Children of the Whitney	1
Privacy, precarity, and political change: Connecting gendered violence to reproductive injustice	1