OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication Theory is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	58
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	56
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	49
Approaching evolutionary communication	45
What is the history of communication?	44
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	43
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	33
Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities1	30
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	29
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	23
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	19
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	16
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	15
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	12
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	11
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	11
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	11
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	9
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	8
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	8
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	8
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	7
Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	7
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	6

Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	6
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	5
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	5
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	5
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	5
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	5
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	4
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	4
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	4
The problem of popular culture	4
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	3
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	3
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	3
Decolonizing Digital Methods	3
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	3
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	3
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	3
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	3
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	3
The public sphere as a dynamic network	2
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	2
Correction to: Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	2
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda	2
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2
Theory of affective bonding: a framework to explain how people may relate to social robots and artificial others	2