OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Communication is 7. 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
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy	22
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting	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
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
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	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
Testing Inequality and Identity Accounts of Racial Gaps in Political Expression on Social Media	13
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	13
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
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
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication	11
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts	11

Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach	11
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
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
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
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	9
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
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
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
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	7