Public Relations Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Relations Review is 11. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A quiver full of arrows: An examination of tactics employed by CEO activists in Ghana97
Examining message framing in a higher education crisis: A qualitative analysis of organizational perspectives and media portrayals58
Social media in public relations scholarship: A database-based systematic review of published articles from 2015 to 202054
The impact of diversity communication on employee organizational identification and employee voice behaviors: A moderated mediation model53
Business-centered versus socially responsible corporate diversity communication. An assessment of stakeholder (dis)agreement on Twitter52
Corporate social advocacy or social issues management? Examining state flagship universities’ responses to the killing of George Floyd47
Editorial Board40
Plain old Bess in a different dress? Disruptions of public relations in the digital age38
Spotlight on a complex crisis spillover: A multi-organisational perspective on rebuilding trust and reducing distrust in the Australian banking industry38
Social media advocacy and gun violence: Applying the engagement model to nonprofit organizations’ communication efforts37
The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations36
Commentary is free: Issue management and gaining capital with thought leadership34
Relationship cultivation strategies in the metaverse32
The role of public relations in a counterhegemony: A case study of the 1968 poor people’s campaign31
Editorial Board31
Enhancing Employee Engagement via Leaders’ Motivational Language in times of crisis: Perspectives from the COVID-19 outbreak31
Public relations in the new millennium: Towards a synoptic view of fifteen years of research in Public Relations Review in the 21st century (2000–2014)30
Emotional intelligence and public relations: An empirical review30
A two-path model of the impact of LGBTQ+ diversity CSR levels on public response28
Editorial Board28
Public expectations of crisis outcomes in the social media era in China: A communication-mediated psychological mechanism28
Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions27
Integrated financial communication: Insights on the coordination and integration among investor relations and public relations departments of listed corporations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland27
A blame narrative approach to apologetic crisis management: The serial apologiae of United Airlines27
Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience26
Editorial Board26
Culture and internal communication in Chile: Linking ethical organizational culture, transparent communication, and employee advocacy26
The ethical dimension of public relations in Europe: Digital channels, moral challenges, resources, and training26
“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 invasion26
Crisis response strategy manipulation: A systematic review and a test of nuances25
Who’s missing out? The impact of digital networking behavior & social identity on PR job search outcomes24
Perceptions about corporate positioning on controversial sociopolitical issues: Examining big pharma engagement with patient advocacy24
Computational strategic communication in a data-driven world23
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication: FEMA’s Twitter use during the 2017 hurricane season23
Black-owned business and passionate brand publics: A netnography of The Honey Pot Company PR crisis22
A conceptual update to image restoration theory (IRT) via an analysis of the vice-presidential campaign of Kamala Harris22
Examining characteristics of prebunking strategies to overcome PR disinformation attacks21
Unpacking publics’ disengagement and information behaviors: Roles of psychological distance, feasibility and desirability in an environmental sustainability issue21
When public relations meets social media: A systematic review of social media related public relations research from 2006 to 202020
Convergence or divergence? A cross-platform analysis of climate change visual content categories, features, and social media engagement on Twitter and Instagram20
Making space for activism studies in public relations curricula19
Should business have ‘a sense of morality’?: Company director views on corporate engagement with socio-political issues19
Empathy in public relations practice of South Korea19
A social influence perspective toward employee-organization relationships: The role of relationship norms in employee peer networks19
The evolution of digital public relations research19
Legitimacy, issue management, and gun debate19
“Rogue machines” and crisis communication: When AI fails, how do companies publicly respond?18
Situating deep learning in a relating management approach: Examining the dynamics and outcomes of contingent organization-public relationships (COPRs) in crisis18
The change process to agile public relations18
Elaborating the concept of threat in contingency theory: An integration with moral outrage and situational crisis communication theory17
Building “foundational” linkages between development communication and public relations: A collaborative communication approach to development17
Women’s activism as public relations in a patriarchal society: The case of Kuwait17
Public relations and place branding: Friend, foe or just ignored? A systematic review17
Editorial Board17
Clarifying covenants and delineating devotion: Explicating religious public relations relationship frameworks16
Negative spaces as a strategic decision: The case of the Israeli Security Agency16
Understanding organizational and socio-cultural contexts: A communicative constitutive approach to social license to operate among top Hong Kong companies16
Porous boundaries, contentious boundaries: “Public relations” and “propaganda” within the discourse of Italian PR professionals after 194516
The National Association of Manufacturers World War II campaign: A historical case study on power, ideology, and discourse15
Is public relations a Tragedy of the Commons (TOTC) for the public sphere?The need of an ecology of content15
Asking for trouble with pure accommodation: Paracrises as rhetorical situations15
The complicity of corporate sustainability on social issues: Investigating the mediating roles of valence and perceived authenticity15
How political ideology affects the communication of organizational relations: A social network approach15
Incorporating competition and comparisons into crisis communication: How competing organizations respond to industry crises15
The Delphi Panel investigation of artificial intelligence in investor relations15
When transparent leadership communication motivates employee advocacy: Testing the mediator roles of employee attributions in CEO activism15
Value creation through organizational storytelling: Strategic narratives in foreign government public relations15
The effects of consideration of future consequences and CSR fit in stigmatized industries: Perceived CSR motives as mediators15
The constant report: Everything, everywhere, all at once?14
Can strategic message framing mitigate the negative effects of skeptical comments against corporate-social-responsibility communication on social networking sites?14
Validation of country-of-origin effects on crisis spillovers: A meta-analysis14
Different shades of green deception. Greenwashing’s adverse effects on corporate image and credibility14
A bibliometric analysis of relationship management as a scholarly field from 1997 to 202214
Unpack the relational and behavioral outcomes of internal CSR: Highlighting dialogic communication and managerial facilitation13
Exploring differences in crisis literacy and efficacy on behavioral responses during infectious disease outbreaks13
Networks of international public relations production: The case of Latin American organizations’ connections to U.S. agents13
Crisis narrative and the paradox of erasure: Making room for dialectic tension in a cancel culture13
A Delphi study on the state and future of hispanic public relations in the United States13
Editorial Board13
When non-CSR-themed social media influencers endorse corporate CSR initiatives: Effects of publics’ perceived influencer characteristics and leadership13
Mapping social networks: A qualitative approach to networked public relations scholarship13
The status of public relations research addressing Latin America: A content analysis of published articles from 1980 to 202013
How individuals use nonprofit organizations’ social media pages: Understanding functions of and networks from individual posts for social change13
It is all in the name: Toward a typology of public relations professionals’ ethical dilemmas12
Managing multi-stakeholder relationships in nonprofit organizations through multiple channels: A systematic review and research agenda for enhancing stakeholder relationship marketing12
Crime has a PR component: Public relations in U.S. mystery novels12
What constitutes great IDEA? An examination of corporate diversity communication on facebook and external and internal stakeholder reactions12
Navigating change in the era of COVID-19: The role of top leaders’ charismatic rhetoric and employees’ organizational identification12
Political public relations, leadership, and COVID-19: A comparative assessment of Prime Ministers Ardern and Morrison on Facebook and Twitter12
Arts promotion and Black urban displacement: Exploring the paradox of the positive in government public relations and urban renewal discourse12
Stakeholder influence, government power, and new opportunities for Chinese Internet companies: A multilevel network analysis of cross-sector networks12
A cross-disciplinary review of crisis spillover research: Spillover types, risk factors, and response strategies12
The reputational benefits of instructing information: The first test of the revised model of reputation repair12
Virtual community engagement: Engaging virtual communities for nation branding through sports12
Confronting controversial content: Examining online narratives and frames in #CancelSpotify and #NetflixWalkout12
The dual-continuum approach: An extension of the contingency theory of strategic conflict management12
Timeliness, responsiveness and the human voice: The effects of dialogic strategies and the mediating role of perceived communication ethicality on social media relationship building11
Pragmatic optimism, crisis leadership, and contingency theory: A view from the C-suite11
Presidential crisis: An analysis of Biden & Trump’s crisis communications strategies in response to allegations of sexual misconduct11
The role of the corporate purpose and how investor relations officers make sense of it11
Pushing hands and buttons: The effects of corporate social issue stance communication and online comment (in)civility on publics’ responses11
Managing spillover: Response strategies to another Charity’s crisis11
Revisiting the SMCC model: How Chinese public relations practitioners handle social-mediated crises11
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