Communication Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Communication Theory is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model57
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising55
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories51
Approaching evolutionary communication48
What is the history of communication?44
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit42
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East41
Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities132
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum30
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework28
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda25
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies23
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling17
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory17
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution14
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication13
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies13
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting11
Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus11
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences11
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values9
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication9
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?9
Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication8
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects8
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization8
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