OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication Theory is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	101
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	91
What is the history of communication?	85
Answer engines and other communication partners	79
Approaching evolutionary communication	65
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	64
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	51
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	43
Logics and levels of ecology theory: organizing Chicago School ecological approaches for journalism studies	39
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	34
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	29
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	28
Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations	18
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	18
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	15
Curation as a communicative act: conceptualizing personal curation within curated flows on social media	15
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	15
Communicative relationality meets Deleuzian techniques and forces: materializations of power in communicatively constituting a fluid social movement	14
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	13
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	13
Communication skills as generic objects: a relational view	12
Beyond mediatization: platformization and the hyper-mediatization of politics	12
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	12
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	12
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	12

Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	11
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	11
Dynamic age-group dissociation: older adults’ engagement with age stereotypes in hybrid media environments	11
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	11
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	10
Theorizing media experience: a cartography of approaches	10
Expression and reality: a dialogue on communication, constitution, and process philosophy	9
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	8
Videoconferencing as a social process: an explication of its multimodal, adaptable, virtual, and interactive dimensions	8
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	8
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	8
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	7
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	7
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	6
Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies	6
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	6
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	6
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	6
The Communicative Constitution of Organizations: The Four Flows Model by Robert D. McPhee, Karen K. Myers, and Joel O. Iverson	6
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	5
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	5
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	5
Hybrid stakeholders and processes in social impact organizing: a constitutive approach to hybridity	5
Why journalism needs a generalist epistemology	5
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	4
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	4
The public sphere as a dynamic network	4
Correction to: Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	4
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	4