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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	89
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	78
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	69
Approaching evolutionary communication	68
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	53
What is the history of communication?	52
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	41
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	33
Answer engines and other communication partners	28
Logics and levels of ecology theory: organizing Chicago School ecological approaches for journalism studies	26
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	24
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	23
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	22
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	15
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	14
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	13
Communicative relationality meets Deleuzian techniques and forces: materializations of power in communicatively constituting a fluid social movement	12
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	11
Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations	11
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	11
Curation as a communicative act: conceptualizing personal curation within curated flows on social media	11
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	9
Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	9
Communication skills as generic objects: a relational view	9

The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	9
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	9
Dynamic age-group dissociation: older adults’ engagement with age stereotypes in hybrid media environments	8
Identifying fake experts: a conceptual framework and case study of illegitimate expertise in climate change and COVID-19 misinformation and its implications for communication theory	8
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	8
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	7
Expression and reality: a dialogue on communication, constitution, and process philosophy	7
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	6
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	6
The problem of popular culture	6
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	6
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	6
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	5
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	5
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	5
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	5
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	5
Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies	4
Why journalism needs a generalist epistemology	4
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	4
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	3
Hybrid stakeholders and processes in social impact organizing: a constitutive approach to hybridity	3
Correction to: Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	3
The public sphere as a dynamic network	3
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	3
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	3
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	3
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	3