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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	55
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	49
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	48
What is the history of communication?	42
Approaching evolutionary communication	41
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	40
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	37
Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture	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	22
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	21
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	13
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	12
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
Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus	10
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	9
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	9
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	9
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	7
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	7

Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	6
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	6
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	6
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	6
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941	5
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	5
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	5
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	4
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	4
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	4
The problem of popular culture	3
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	3
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	3
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	3
Decolonizing Digital Methods	3
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	2
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism	2
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	2
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	2
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	2
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	2
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	2
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	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
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	2
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	2