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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	58
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	56
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	55
What is the history of communication?	49
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	35
Approaching evolutionary communication	35
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	32
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	29
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	21
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	21
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	17
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	13
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	13
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	13
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	12
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	10
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	9
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	9
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	8
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	8
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	7
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	7
Dynamic age-group dissociation: older adults’ engagement with age stereotypes in hybrid media environments	7

Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	7
Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	6
Expression and reality: a dialogue on communication, constitution, and process philosophy	6
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	6
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	6
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	5
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	5
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	5
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	5
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	5
The problem of popular culture	4
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	4
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	4
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	4
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	3
Decolonizing Digital Methods	3
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	3
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	3
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	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
The public sphere as a dynamic network	2
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	2
Correction to: Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2