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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
In the aftertimes, breathe: Rhetorical technologies of suffocation and an abolitionist praxis of (breathing in) relation	32
So you choose to “Lie Flat?” “Sang-ness,” affective economies, and the “Lying Flat” movement	8
Reading the signs: Performative white allyship	7
White pain	7
Justifying abortion: The limits of maternal idealist rhetoric	7
Persona 4.0	6
Precarious publics	6
The impossible woman and sexist realism on NBC’s Parks and Recreation	5
Rhetorics of reproductive justice and injustice in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization	5
No going back: The struggle for a post- Roe reproductive justice	5
Securing the guardrails of democracy? Accountability and presidential communication in the 2020 election	4
Sanitizing racialized grief: Presidential campaign eulogy during “the time of two pandemics”	4
A tale of two presidencies: Trump and Biden on the National Mall	3
Generational chronotopes and accounting for unethical medicine: Bill Clinton’s apologies for radiation research and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study	3
“Whatever happened to our great gay imaginations?”: The invention of safe sex and the visceral imagination	3
Abortion language, nesting dolls theory, and an autoethnographic plea for radical transformation	3
All intersectionality is not the same: Why Kamala Harris is our vice president and not Stacey Abrams	3
Cultivating radical care and otherwise possibilities at the end of the world	3
COVID-19 conspiracy rhetoric and other primal fantasies	3
Form from form: The case for exaptation in rhetorical genre evolution	3
Conspiring Against White Pleasures	2
“Better never means better for everyone”: White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale	2
Decentering whiteness in AIDS memory: Indigent rhetorical criticism and the dead of Hart Island	2
“A grand sisterhood”: Black American women speakers at the 1893 World’s Congress of Representative Women	2
Rhetorical economy: Affect, labor, and capital in transnational digital circulation	2

Channeling the spirit(s) of the age: Irony, dialogism, and “genius” in Sgt. Pepper	2
Rhetorical strategies for retrieving abortion rights	2
Racialized temporalities and rhetorical violence	2
White masculine abjection, victimhood, and disavowal in rape culture: Reconstituting Brock Turner	2
Counterpublics beyond Western imaginaries	2
Performing hope at hopelessness: radical rhetorics, critical states, vulnerable populations	1
Small dick problems: Masculine entitlement as rhetorical strategy	1
The diapered Donald: Comic infantilizations of a U.S. American president	1
Toward reproductive justice rhetorics of care: state senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of Georgia’s heartbeat bill	1
The public screen as contextual field: Visibility and agency in US films about homelessness	1
Privacy, precarity, and political change: Connecting gendered violence to reproductive injustice	1
Disidentifying from the “model minority”: How Indian American women rearticulate dominant racial rhetorics	1
Adoxastic publics: Facebook and the loss of civic strangeness	1
Dispatches from a body on fire: slow death at the intersections of race, gender, and disability	1
Localized ideographs in education rhetoric: Polly Williams and a justice-driven ideology of choice	1
Seeing absence: Asian Americans and heterogeneous time	1
Melodrama, William Barr, and the imperial presidency	1
The Dobbs Leak and Reproductive Justice	1
Pink and blue in a yellow box: National Geographic’s special issue on gender identity	1
The veeps audition—campaign 2020: Disciplining Kamala Harris	1
Race as supplement: Surfaces and crevices of the Asian feminine body	1
Radical rhetorics at/and the world’s end: epistemologies, ontologies, and otherwise possibilities	1
The whiteness of LBJ’s rhetoric: The appointment of Vicente T. Ximenes to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	1
Division, discord, and democracy: A forum on the 2020 U.S. Presidential campaign	1
The “Because Science” meme as virtual commonplace	1
20/20 in 2020?: Refractive vision, 45, and white supremacy	1
On the censoring of Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	1
Storytelling and worldmaking climate justice futures: Indigenous climate advocacy and transnational solidarity in UN climate conferences	1
A monstrous genre—violent “man”	1
The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes?	1