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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	53
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	47
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	45
What is the history of communication?	40
Approaching evolutionary communication	39
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	37
Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture	33
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	29
Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities1	27
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	18
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	17
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	16
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	15
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	14
Rethinking the Public Sphere in an Age of Radical-Right Populism: A Case for Building an Empathetic Public Sphere	13
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	13
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	11
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting	11
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	9
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	9
Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus	9
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	8
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	8
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	7

Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	7
Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	7
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	6
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	6
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	6
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	5
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	5
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
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941	4
The problem of popular culture	4
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	3
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	3
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	3
Decolonizing Digital Methods	3
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	3
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism	2
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	2
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	2
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda	2
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	2
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	2
The public sphere as a dynamic network	2
Corrigendum to: “Embracing Intersectionality in Co-Cultural and Dominant Group Theorizing: Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy”	2
Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization	2
Embracing Intersectionality in Co-Cultural and Dominant Group Theorizing: Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy	2
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	2
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	2