OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Communication is 10. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets	116
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News	75
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	65
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention	59
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship	55
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	52
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media	51
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	51
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	41
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	38
Elected officials’ Online Sharing of Misinformation: Institutional and Ideological Checks	35
Correction	34
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	34
Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms	29
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
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	26
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	24
Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories	23
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	22
Claims of Victimhood Shield Politicians from Political Scandals	22
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter	21
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	20
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates	19
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks	19

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