OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Theory is 11. 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
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	18
Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations	18
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	15
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
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