OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Communication is 4. 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
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	146
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News	78
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media	67
Elected officials’ Online Sharing of Misinformation: Institutional and Ideological Checks	63
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets	59
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention	59
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	58
Vengeance or Hope? A Role-Based Analysis of Hashtag Activism for the War in Gaza	43
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	43
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	40
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	39
Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms	36
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	35
Correction	33
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	30
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition	30
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	30
Claims of Victimhood Shield Politicians from Political Scandals	29
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	26
Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories	25
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates	24
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	22
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks	22
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter	21
Effects of Over-Time Exposure to Partisan Media and Coverage of Polarization on Perceived Polarization	21

The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians	20
Moralization of Rationality Can Stimulate Sharing of Hostile and False News on Social Media, but Intellectual Humility Inhibits it	20
Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean Constitutional Reform	20
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	19
Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation	19
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers	18
Political Fact-Checking Efforts are Constrained by Deficiencies in Coverage, Speed, and Reach	18
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes	18
Editor’s Note Jan 2025	18
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–2020	17
Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for the Importance of Listening in Democracy	17
A Credible Change: How Parties Use Election Promises to Counteract The Loss of Reputation When They Dilute Their Policy Positions	17
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda	17
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation	16
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives	16
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	16
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies	16
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together	16
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	16
Common Identities and Political Talk: Evaluating Cross-Cutting Political Discussions in Sports Communities on Reddit	15
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions	15
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–2023	15
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–2022	15
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction	14
“The People” Imagined , Felt , and Experienced by Populist	14
Watching a Show versus Being There: Embodied Gatekeeping and Visual Perspective in Congress	13
What Did We Learn About Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership?	13
Correction	12
Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media	12
Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election	12
Correction	12
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison	11
Platform Collective Behavior as Democratic Infrastructure: Beyond Causal Effects in the DSA Era	11
Right-Wing Authoritarian Attitudes, Fast-Paced Decision-Making, and the Spread of Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines	11
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	11
Artificial Intelligence in Election Campaigns: Perceptions, Penalties, and Implications	11
A Scholarly Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advancing AI as a Conceptual Framework in Communication Research	11
Correction	11
Performative Propaganda Engagement: How Celebrity Fans Engage with State Propaganda on Weibo	11
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	11
#DictatorErdogan: How Social Media Bans Trigger Backlash	10
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries	10
The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation	10
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11	10
The Contemporary Far Right fromContrato Control	10
The Joe Rogan Experience: Epistemic Style Over Ideological Extremity in the Manosphere	10
The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics	10
Does the Method Affect the Outcome? How Measures of Partisan Slant of Media Outlets and Affective Polarization Drive Results About Polarization in the United States	10
The Evidentiary Basis for Political Listening: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Feeling Heard	9
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	9

Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	9
Depolarizing within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops	9
Editor’s Note	9
Do Politicians’ Genders Influence Voter Persuasion?	9
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	8
Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter	8
Toxicity and Moral Rhetoric in Video- and Text-Based Digital Platforms: A Multimethod Study of Political Talk Shows and News Articles in Taiwan	8
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress	8
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	8
From Diplomacy to Disrespect: Conversational Polarization in the Oval Office	8
Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime	7
The Limits of Computational Propaganda: Investigating Underexplored Platforms and Contexts	7
Multi-Platform Referrers of Misinformation: A Comparative Analysis of Misinformation Visits Referred by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok	7
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level	7
Misperceptions of Public Opinion During Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
“Everything for the Front, Everything for Victory”? Elite Incentives and Rhetorical Adaptation of Russia’s Members of Parliament on Social Media	7
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy	7
Listening, Race, Partisanship, and Politics: How Socio-Demographics, Conversational Topics, and Dyadic Properties Affect Listening	7
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth	6
Scholarly Solidarity: Building an Inclusive Field for Junior and Minority Researchers	6
Studying Propaganda as a Social Process	6
“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?” Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings	6
Media Coverage, Advertising, and Electoral Volatility: The Crucial Role of Party Competence	6
Correction	6
Motivating Future Voters: Comparing the Effects of ‘I Voted’ and ‘I Will Vote’ Stickers on Intention to Vote	6
Can the Communication Style of Social Media Videos Affect Listening Quality and Opinion Change?	6
Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar	6
What the DSA Means Outside Europe: Research Access and Its Limits	6
The Local News Crisis and Political Scandal	6
How National Cues Polarize Perceptions of Political Figures	5
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance	5
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool	5
Propagandization of Relative Gratification: How Chinese State Media Portray the International Pandemic	5
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage	5
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege	5
Talking Past Each Other on Twitter: Thematic, Event, and Temporal Divergences in Polarized Partisan Expression on Immigration	5
Happiness in Political Communication by Men and Women Members of the US Congress	5
Editor’s Note	5
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres	4
Correction	4
Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand	4
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts	4
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads	4
“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event	4
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	4
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	4
Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research	4
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse	4
Does the Losing Side Lose the Democratic Faith? Partisan Media Flow and Democratic Values During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	4