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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	33
Social Media Information Environments and Their Implications for the Uses and Effects of News: The PINGS Framework	32
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	30
Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	24
Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination	23
Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization	20
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	19
A Negotiative Theory of Journalistic Roles	15
From “the” public sphere to a network of publics: towards an empirically founded model of contemporary public communication spaces	14
Toward a Theoretical Framework of Relational Maintenance in Computer-Mediated Communication	14
Rethinking the Public Sphere in an Age of Radical-Right Populism: A Case for Building an Empathetic Public Sphere	12
An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Misinformation Rejection and Deception in Mediated Communication Contexts	11
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting	10
Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics	9
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	9
Artificial intelligence and the public arena	8
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	8
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld: reconstruction in the context of systemic crises	7
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	6
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	6
Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work	5
Editorial: Reconceptualizing public sphere(s) in the digital age? On the role and future of public sphere theory	5
Civic Learning and Self-Determination: A Model of User-Generated Content and Civic Readiness Among Actualizing Citizens	5
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	5
Communication Theory at a Time of Racial Reckoning	4

Populism in an Identity Framework: A Feedback Model	4
Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection	4
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	4
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism	4
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	4
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	3
Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection	3
Embracing Intersectionality in Co-Cultural and Dominant Group Theorizing: Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy	3
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	3
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	3
Revisiting Attribution Theory: Toward a Critical Feminist Approach for Understanding Attributions of Blame	3
In search of the (Black) international: The Black Scholar and the challenge to communication and media studies	2
A right to memory and communication policy: safeguarding the capability of remembrance	2
Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture	2
Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds	2
Decolonizing Digital Methods	2
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	2
Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities1	2
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	2
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	2