Public Relations Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Relations Review is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board76
Commentary is free: Issue management and gaining capital with thought leadership61
Plain old Bess in a different dress? Disruptions of public relations in the digital age55
Social media in public relations scholarship: A database-based systematic review of published articles from 2015 to 202052
Examining message framing in a higher education crisis: A qualitative analysis of organizational perspectives and media portrayals43
A quiver full of arrows: An examination of tactics employed by CEO activists in Ghana42
Corporate social advocacy or social issues management? Examining state flagship universities’ responses to the killing of George Floyd41
The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations41
Spotlight on a complex crisis spillover: A multi-organisational perspective on rebuilding trust and reducing distrust in the Australian banking industry39
The impact of diversity communication on employee organizational identification and employee voice behaviors: A moderated mediation model35
Relationship cultivation strategies in the metaverse35
Editorial Board34
Editorial essay: Artificial Intelligence and public relations34
Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions33
The role of public relations in a counterhegemony: A case study of the 1968 poor people’s campaign31
Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience31
Emotional intelligence and public relations: An empirical review31
A two-path model of the impact of LGBTQ+ diversity CSR levels on public response30
“My body, my choice”: Discursive brandjacking and the strategic reframing of protest language29
“Don’t Mess with Ukrainian Farmers”: An examination of Ukraine and Kyiv’s official Twitter accounts as crisis communication, public diplomacy, and nation building during Russian invasion28
Editorial Board26
Social impact taxonomy: A definitional framework26
Crisis response strategy manipulation: A systematic review and a test of nuances26
Mapping stakeholder expectations along organizational outcomes: How familiarity and sentiment shape core and peripheral issue priorities26
Convergence or divergence? A cross-platform analysis of climate change visual content categories, features, and social media engagement on Twitter and Instagram26
Unpacking publics’ disengagement and information behaviors: Roles of psychological distance, feasibility and desirability in an environmental sustainability issue25
Perceptions about corporate positioning on controversial sociopolitical issues: Examining big pharma engagement with patient advocacy24
Computational strategic communication in a data-driven world24
Legitimacy, issue management, and gun debate24
Building a bridge over troubled water: Exploring the RAPIDS model for effective crisis management from a strategic–behavioral perspective24
Punish or forgive? Exploring the mediating role of perceived CEO attitude on the interaction of emotional crisis communication and crisis type24
Black-owned business and passionate brand publics: A netnography of The Honey Pot Company PR crisis23
A conceptual update to image restoration theory (IRT) via an analysis of the vice-presidential campaign of Kamala Harris23
Situational dependence of internal communication channels23
Who’s missing out? The impact of digital networking behavior & social identity on PR job search outcomes22
Situating deep learning in a relating management approach: Examining the dynamics and outcomes of contingent organization-public relationships (COPRs) in crisis21
A social influence perspective toward employee-organization relationships: The role of relationship norms in employee peer networks21
The evolution of digital public relations research21
Social impact and social value in public relations/communication: An international analysis for a conceptual framework21
Editorial Board21
Empathy in public relations practice of South Korea20
Elaborating the concept of threat in contingency theory: An integration with moral outrage and situational crisis communication theory20
Negative spaces as a strategic decision: The case of the Israeli Security Agency20
Should business have ‘a sense of morality’?: Company director views on corporate engagement with socio-political issues20
How political ideology affects the communication of organizational relations: A social network approach20
Porous boundaries, contentious boundaries: “Public relations” and “propaganda” within the discourse of Italian PR professionals after 194520
Developing effective AI disclosure strategies to maintain AI influencer–follower relationships: The roles of human voice and interactivity20
Value creation through organizational storytelling: Strategic narratives in foreign government public relations19
The Delphi Panel investigation of artificial intelligence in investor relations19
The effects of consideration of future consequences and CSR fit in stigmatized industries: Perceived CSR motives as mediators19
Editorial Board19
When transparent leadership communication motivates employee advocacy: Testing the mediator roles of employee attributions in CEO activism19
Is public relations a Tragedy of the Commons (TOTC) for the public sphere?The need of an ecology of content19
The National Association of Manufacturers World War II campaign: A historical case study on power, ideology, and discourse19
Beyond blame: Extending crisis responsibility through multi-stakeholder responsibility, cause attribution, and solution attribution18
The complicity of corporate sustainability on social issues: Investigating the mediating roles of valence and perceived authenticity18
How consumers’ positive moral emotions can drive their active communication: In the context of corporate responsibility to race campaign18
Long live Darth Vapour! Examining how audiences engage with influencers in an anti-vaping campaign18
Asking for trouble with pure accommodation: Paracrises as rhetorical situations18
Women’s activism as public relations in a patriarchal society: The case of Kuwait18
Clarifying covenants and delineating devotion: Explicating religious public relations relationship frameworks18
Synthesizing advocacy and social license seeking strategies in stakeholder management: A content analysis of corporate responses to Russia-Ukraine war18
Can strategic message framing mitigate the negative effects of skeptical comments against corporate-social-responsibility communication on social networking sites?17
Validation of country-of-origin effects on crisis spillovers: A meta-analysis17
Mapping social networks: A qualitative approach to networked public relations scholarship17
A Delphi study on the state and future of hispanic public relations in the United States17
When non-CSR-themed social media influencers endorse corporate CSR initiatives: Effects of publics’ perceived influencer characteristics and leadership17
Exploring differences in crisis literacy and efficacy on behavioral responses during infectious disease outbreaks17
Incorporating competition and comparisons into crisis communication: How competing organizations respond to industry crises17
The constant report: Everything, everywhere, all at once?17
Nation branding via sportswashing: An exploration of pro-China YouTube influencers and commenters around the 2022 Winter Olympic Games17
A bibliometric analysis of relationship management as a scholarly field from 1997 to 202216
Virtual community engagement: Engaging virtual communities for nation branding through sports16
It is all in the name: Toward a typology of public relations professionals’ ethical dilemmas16
Different shades of green deception. Greenwashing’s adverse effects on corporate image and credibility16
Arts promotion and Black urban displacement: Exploring the paradox of the positive in government public relations and urban renewal discourse16
Behind the Ennui: Reconceptualizing employee disengagement, its drivers and internal communication management strategies in a global context of practice16
The differential impact of crisis types in cybersecurity crises: The moderating role of ESG information16
How individuals use nonprofit organizations’ social media pages: Understanding functions of and networks from individual posts for social change16
Political public relations, leadership, and COVID-19: A comparative assessment of Prime Ministers Ardern and Morrison on Facebook and Twitter15
The reputational benefits of instructing information: The first test of the revised model of reputation repair15
Confronting controversial content: Examining online narratives and frames in #CancelSpotify and #NetflixWalkout14
“A symbol of service and sacrifice, mourning and memory”: Public relations and public memory the 100th year commemoration of the tomb of the unknown soldier14
What constitutes great IDEA? An examination of corporate diversity communication on facebook and external and internal stakeholder reactions14
Advocacy fit and social identity in corporate social advocacy: A multigroup analysis of public responses14
Examining the role of CEO's authentic communication on corporate reputation: Analysis of public opinions regarding Zoom's layoff announcement on social media14
Better than thought? A comparison of the real and perceived performance of the 2030 Agenda in seven European countries14
The role of the corporate purpose and how investor relations officers make sense of it14
Social media and citizen mobilization: How Chinese government agencies use Weibo to advance the 2030 agenda goals on sustainability14
A cross-disciplinary review of crisis spillover research: Spillover types, risk factors, and response strategies14
Pragmatic optimism, crisis leadership, and contingency theory: A view from the C-suite13
Timeliness, responsiveness and the human voice: The effects of dialogic strategies and the mediating role of perceived communication ethicality on social media relationship building13
Crime has a PR component: Public relations in U.S. mystery novels13
Managing spillover: Response strategies to another Charity’s crisis13
Stakeholder influence, government power, and new opportunities for Chinese Internet companies: A multilevel network analysis of cross-sector networks13
Presidential crisis: An analysis of Biden & Trump’s crisis communications strategies in response to allegations of sexual misconduct13
Pushing hands and buttons: The effects of corporate social issue stance communication and online comment (in)civility on publics’ responses13
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