OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Theory is 5. 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
Toward a Theoretical Framework of Relational Maintenance in Computer-Mediated Communication	14
From “the” public sphere to a network of publics: towards an empirically founded model of contemporary public communication spaces	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
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	8
Artificial intelligence and the public arena	8
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld: reconstruction in the context of systemic crises	7
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	6
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	6
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
Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work	5