OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication Theory is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Wellbeing as a Dynamic Construct	111
Theorizing News Literacy Behaviors	57
The Social Media Privacy Model: Privacy and Communication in the Light of Social Media Affordances	54
Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects	31
Theorizing From the Global South: Dismantling, Resisting, and Transforming Communication Theory	30
Social Media Information Environments and Their Implications for the Uses and Effects of News: The PINGS Framework	26
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	24
BLINDED BY THE LIES? Toward an integrated definition of conspiracy theories	22
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	21
From Counterpublics to Contentious Publicness: Tracing the Temporal, Spatial, and Material Articulations of Popular Protest Through Social Media	20
Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	18
Communication as Constitutive Transmission? An Encounter with Affect	18
Debunking Eurocentrism in Organizational Communication Theory: Marginality and Liquidities in Postcolonial Contexts	16
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective	15
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	14
A Negotiative Theory of Journalistic Roles	14
Toward Intersectional Ecofeminist Communication Studies	13
Toward a Theoretical Framework of Relational Maintenance in Computer-Mediated Communication	12
The Other Side of Mediatization: Expanding the Concept to Defensive Strategies	12
The Theory of Informative Fictions: A Character-Based Approach to False News and other Misinformation	11
Internalized Orientalism: Toward a Postcolonial Media Theory and De-Westernizing Communication Research from the Global South	10
Rethinking the Public Sphere in an Age of Radical-Right Populism: A Case for Building an Empathetic Public Sphere	9
An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Misinformation Rejection and Deception in Mediated Communication Contexts	9
Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization	8
Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination	8

Embodied Cognition in Communication Science	7
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	7
A Theory of Professional Identity in Journalism: Connecting Discursive Institutionalism, Socialization, and Psychological Resilience Theory	7
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting	7
Socio-Mediated Scandals: Theorizing Political Scandals in a Digital Media Environment	7
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	6
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	6
Communicating Through or Communicating with: Approaching Artificial Intelligence from a Communication and Media Studies Perspective	6
Mediatization and the Absence of the Environment	6
From Limits to Ecocentric Rights and Responsibility: Communication, Globalization, and the Politics of Environmental Transition	5
From “the” public sphere to a network of publics: towards an empirically founded model of contemporary public communication spaces	5
Civic Learning and Self-Determination: A Model of User-Generated Content and Civic Readiness Among Actualizing Citizens	5
The Social Production of Internet Space: Affordance, Programming, and Virtuality	5
Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics	4
Communication Theory at a Time of Racial Reckoning	4
Mobile Networked Creativity: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Creativity as Survival	4
Populism in an Identity Framework: A Feedback Model	4
Advancing a Dual-Process Model to Explain Interpersonal Versus Intergroup Communication in Social Media	4
Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work	3
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld: reconstruction in the context of systemic crises	3
The Malleability Narrative in Entertainment and Social Media: Explaining Pathways to Happiness in Media Content	3
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	3
Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection	3
Ethnic Media and Multi-Dimensional Identity: Pacific Audiences’ Connections With Māori Media	3
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	3
Rethinking the Ethnography of Communication's Conception of Value in the Context of Globalization	3
Mediatization from Within: A Plea for Emic Approaches to Media-Related Social Change	3
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism	3
Theorizing Principled Collaboration	3
What on Earth do Journalists Know? A New Model of Knowledge Brokers’ Expertise	3
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	3
The Communicative Ethics of Racial Identity in Dialogue	3
Artificial intelligence and the public arena	3