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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Wellbeing as a Dynamic Construct	129
Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects	36
Theorizing From the Global South: Dismantling, Resisting, and Transforming Communication Theory	32
Social Media Information Environments and Their Implications for the Uses and Effects of News: The PINGS Framework	31
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	28
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	28
BLINDED BY THE LIES? Toward an integrated definition of conspiracy theories	25
Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	22
From Counterpublics to Contentious Publicness: Tracing the Temporal, Spatial, and Material Articulations of Popular Protest Through Social Media	21
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective	17
Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination	15
A Negotiative Theory of Journalistic Roles	15
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	15
Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization	14
Toward Intersectional Ecofeminist Communication Studies	14
Toward a Theoretical Framework of Relational Maintenance in Computer-Mediated Communication	13
The Other Side of Mediatization: Expanding the Concept to Defensive Strategies	13
Rethinking the Public Sphere in an Age of Radical-Right Populism: A Case for Building an Empathetic Public Sphere	11
Socio-Mediated Scandals: Theorizing Political Scandals in a Digital Media Environment	10
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	9
An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Misinformation Rejection and Deception in Mediated Communication Contexts	9
From “the” public sphere to a network of publics: towards an empirically founded model of contemporary public communication spaces	8
Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics	8
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting	7
The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld: reconstruction in the context of systemic crises	7

A Theory of Professional Identity in Journalism: Connecting Discursive Institutionalism, Socialization, and Psychological Resilience Theory