OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Communication is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	166
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	109
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship	42
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media	38
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	36
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	35
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention	35
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	31
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants	31
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	27
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition	27
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	26
Successfully Overcoming the “Double Bind”? A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Self-Presentation of Female Right-wing Populists on Instagram and the Impact on Voter Attitudes	24
Correction	21
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	21
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	19
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates	19
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	19
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	18
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks	18
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter	18
Moralization of Rationality Can Stimulate Sharing of Hostile and False News on Social Media, but Intellectual Humility Inhibits it	17
State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China	16
Effects of Over-Time Exposure to Partisan Media and Coverage of Polarization on Perceived Polarization	15
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries	15

The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians	13
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	12
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics	11
Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean Constitutional Reform	11
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs	11
Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation	11
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives	10
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	10
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers	10
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–2020	10
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes	10
Editor’s Note Jan 2025	10
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–2023	9
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies	9
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda	9
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions	8
Correction	8
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	8
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation	8
Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media	8
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together	8
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–2022	8
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction	8
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	7
Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election	7
Right-Wing Authoritarian Attitudes, Fast-Paced Decision-Making, and the Spread of Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines	7
What Did We Learn About Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership?	7
Correction	7
The Contemporary Far Right fromContrato Control	6
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries	6
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	6
The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation	6
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison	6
#DictatorErdogan: How Social Media Bans Trigger Backlash	6
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11	6
A Scholarly Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advancing AI as a Conceptual Framework in Communication Research	6
Editor’s Note	5
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences	5
Depolarizing within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops	5
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	5
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress	5
An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence	5
Correction	5
Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter	4
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth	4
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy	4
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	4
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	4
Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime	4
The Empowering Effects of Racial Messaging: The Link between Racial Outreach, Descriptive Representation and Black Political Mobilization	4

Media-centric or Politics-centric Political Communication Research? Some Reflections	4
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level	4
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	4
Media Coverage, Advertising, and Electoral Volatility: The Crucial Role of Party Competence	4
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	4
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies	3
Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar	3
“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?” Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings	3
Propagandization of Relative Gratification: How Chinese State Media Portray the International Pandemic	3
Editor’s Note	3
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble	3
Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?	3
Talking Past Each Other on Twitter: Thematic, Event, and Temporal Divergences in Polarized Partisan Expression on Immigration	3
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool	3
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage	3
Scholarly Solidarity: Building an Inclusive Field for Junior and Minority Researchers	3
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts	3
Motivating Future Voters: Comparing the Effects of ‘I Voted’ and ‘I Will Vote’ Stickers on Intention to Vote	3
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	3
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres	3
Partisan Memes as a Catalyst for Homophilous Networks	2
The Geopolitics of Deplatforming: A Study of Suspensions of Politically-Interested Iranian Accounts on Twitter	2
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies	2
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts	2
Does the Losing Side Lose the Democratic Faith? Partisan Media Flow and Democratic Values During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	2
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking	2
‘’Reenviado Muchas Veces”: How Platform Warnings Affect WhatsApp Users in Mexico and Colombia	2
How (Gendered) Media Portrayals of Refugees Affect Attitudes Toward Immigration. The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	2
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads	2
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse	2
Correction	2
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	2
Forum Editor’s Farewell: Long Live the Forum	2
“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event	2
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege	2
The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield	2
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance	2