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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Media and Political Agenda Setting	114
Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News: How Social Media Conditions Individuals to Be Less Critical of Political Misinformation	69
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries	25
Cross-Platform Emotions and Audience Engagement in Social Media Political Campaigning: Comparing Candidates’ Facebook and Instagram Images in the 2020 US Election	25
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	24
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	23
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting	22
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy	22
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	21
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Voting Advice Applications	20
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	18
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs	17
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble	17
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	15
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies	15
Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment	15
The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse	14
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking	14
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	13
Testing Inequality and Identity Accounts of Racial Gaps in Political Expression on Social Media	13
Corrective Actions in the Information Disorder. The Role of Presumed Media Influence and Hostile Media Perceptions for the Countering of Distorted User-Generated Content	12
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	12
A Scholarly Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advancing AI as a Conceptual Framework in Communication Research	12
Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach	11
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication	11

The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts	11
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	10
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	10
An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence	10
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences	10
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	10
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	9
Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China	9
Strategy News Is Good News: How Journalistic Coverage of Politics Reduces Affective Polarization	9
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	9
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth	8
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	8
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies	8
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	8
The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark	8
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	7
When “Following” the Leader Inspires Action: Individuals’ Receptivity to Discursive Frame Elements on Social Media	7
Abating Dissonant Public Spheres: Exploring the Effects of Affective, Ideological and Perceived Societal Political Polarization on Social Media Political Persuasion	7
Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?	7
Increased Media Choice and Political Knowledge Gaps: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of 18 Established Democracies 1995-2015	7
Issue Importance and the Correction of Misinformation	7
The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation	6
#politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991-2021	6
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries	6
Editor’s Note	6
“Stick to Sports”: Evidence from Sports Media on the Origins and Consequences of Newly Politicized Attitudes	6
Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media	6
Predicting Vote Choice and Election Outcomes from Ballot Wording: The Role of Processing Fluency in Low Information Direct Democracy Elections	5
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres	5
Politicization of Science in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Comparing US Politicians, Medical Experts, and Government Agencies	5
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	5
Don’t Make My Entertainment Political! Social Media Responses to Narratives of Racial Duty on Competitive Reality Television Series	5
Journalism and Democratic Backsliding: Critical Realism as a Diagnostic and Prescription for Reform	5
Commercial Companies in Party Networks: Digital Advertising Firms in US Elections from 2006-2016	4
Uninformed or Misinformed in the Digital News Environment? How Social Media News Use Affects Two Dimensions of Political Knowledge	4
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda	4
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	4
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison	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
Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter	4
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants	4
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	4
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	4
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics	4
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	3
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	3
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship	3
Ethnic Campaign Appeals: To Bond, Bridge, or Bypass?	3
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool	3
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives	2

Partisan Differences in the Sharing of Low-Quality News Sources by U.S Political Elites	2
Conditions of Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres and Crisis of Democracy	2
Highlighting Similarities between Political Parties Reduced Perceived Disagreement on Global Warming	2
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation: Nationalist Polarization in the 2020 American Presidential Election and the Threat to Democracy	2
“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event	2
Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict	2
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance	2
Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication: Special Issue Introduction	2
#DictatorErdogan: How Social Media Bans Trigger Backlash	2
Assessing the Validity of Survey Measures for News Exposure through Digital Footprints: Evidence from Spain and the UK	2
Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime	2
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition	2
Fake News for All: How Citizens Discern Disinformation in Autocracies	2
Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination	2
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	2
The Honest Broker versus the Epistocrat: Attenuating Distrust in Science by Disentangling Science from Politics	2
Local Government, Social Media and Management of COVID-19: The Case of Chilean Mayoral Communication	2
Data-Driven Campaigning as a Disruptive Force	2
Misperceptions and Minipublics: Does Endorsement of Expert Information by a Minipublic Influence Misperceptions in the Wider Public?	2
Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait	2
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together	2
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	2
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	2
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	2