OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Communication is 8. 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
Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media	180
Social Media and Political Agenda Setting	97
Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News: How Social Media Conditions Individuals to Be Less Critical of Political Misinformation	61
Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility	44
Why Don’t We Learn from Social Media? Studying Effects of and Mechanisms behind Social Media News Use on General Surveillance Political Knowledge	38
Collective Civic Moderation for Deliberation? Exploring the Links between Citizens’ Organized Engagement in Comment Sections and the Deliberative Quality of Online Discussions	32
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication	28
Allies or Agitators? How Partisan Identity Shapes Public Opinion about Violent or Nonviolent Protests	26
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities	24
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries	23
Cross-Platform Emotions and Audience Engagement in Social Media Political Campaigning: Comparing Candidates’ Facebook and Instagram Images in the 2020 US Election	21
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting	21
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	20
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy	19
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	18
The Impact of News Consumption on Anti-immigration Attitudes and Populist Party Support in a Changing Media Ecology	18
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	15
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble	14
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Voting Advice Applications	14
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies	14
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	14
Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment	13
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking	13
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs	13
Testing Inequality and Identity Accounts of Racial Gaps in Political Expression on Social Media	12

Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	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	11
Corrective Actions in the Information Disorder. The Role of Presumed Media Influence and Hostile Media Perceptions for the Countering of Distorted User-Generated Content	11
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts	11
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication	11
Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government	10
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences	10
Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach	10
How the Politicization of Everyday Activities Affects the Public Sphere: The Effects of Partisan Stereotypes on Cross-Cutting Interactions	10
An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence	10
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	10
Facing the Electorate: Computational Approaches to the Study of Nonverbal Communication and Voter Impression Formation	9
Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? The Joint Effect of Party Identity, Gender Identity and Elections	9
Strategy News Is Good News: How Journalistic Coverage of Politics Reduces Affective Polarization	9
The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse	8
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	8
The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark	8
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	8
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	8
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	8