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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	90
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	81
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	72
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	72
What is the history of communication?	57
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	56
Answer engines and other communication partners	42
Approaching evolutionary communication	36
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	30
Logics and levels of ecology theory: organizing Chicago School ecological approaches for journalism studies	28
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	27
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	25
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	23
Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations	15
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	15
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	14
Curation as a communicative act: conceptualizing personal curation within curated flows on social media	13
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	12
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	12
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	11
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	11
Communicative relationality meets Deleuzian techniques and forces: materializations of power in communicatively constituting a fluid social movement	11
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	10
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	10
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	10

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
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	8
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	8
Expression and reality: a dialogue on communication, constitution, and process philosophy	8
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
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	7
The problem of popular culture	6
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	6
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	6
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	6
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	6
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	6
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	6
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	5
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	5
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	5
Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies	5
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	4
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	4
Why journalism needs a generalist epistemology	4
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	3
Hybrid stakeholders and processes in social impact organizing: a constitutive approach to hybridity	3
Theory of affective bonding: a framework to explain how people may relate to social robots and artificial others	3
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	3
Correction to: Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	3
The public sphere as a dynamic network	3
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	3
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda	3