OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Theory is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	58
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	56
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	55
What is the history of communication?	49
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	35
Approaching evolutionary communication	35
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	32
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	29
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	21
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	21
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	17
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	13
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	13
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	13
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	12
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	11
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	10
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	9
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	9
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	8
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	8
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	7
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	7
Dynamic age-group dissociation: older adults’ engagement with age stereotypes in hybrid media environments	7

Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication