OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 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
Book Review: Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems, by Daniela V. Dimitrova (Ed.)	73
Book Review: Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept (Journalism in Perspective), by Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson	53
Special Issue Introductory Essay	42
Book Review: Podcast Journalism: The Promises and Perils of Audio Reporting., by David O. Dowling	28
Book Review: Parasocial Romantic Relationships: Falling in Love With Media Figures, by Riva Tukachinsky Forster	25
Book Review: Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing, by John B. Thompson	24
Book Review: Journalistic Translation Research Goes Global, by Roberto A. Valdeón (Ed.)	24
Boundary Work, Journalism Education, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938	23
News #foryou on TikTok: A Digital Methods-Based Study	18
To Disclose or Not to Disclose: A Comprehensive Analysis Into the Article Transparency of News Websites	18
Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality	17
“We Want Entire Freedom:” The New Orleans Tribune and the Formation of Counterpublics Through Affective Discourse	17
The Role of Channel Selection and Communication Transparency in Enhancing Employee Commitment to Change	16
How the Engagement Journalism Movement Is Changing Political News Content: An Applied-Research Study	15
Book Review: Media Analytics: Understanding Media, Audiences, and Consumers in the 21st Century by C. Ann Hollifield and Amy Jo Coffey	15
Mainstream News Media Trust, Countermedia Attendance, and Political Learning	12
Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status	12
Examining the Role of Political Party Predispositions and Polarized Media on Network Agenda Setting: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Türkiye	12
Guarding the Firewall: How Political Journalists Distance Themselves From the Editorial Endorsement Process	11
Book Review: Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time, by by Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris (Eds.)	11
Countering Algorithmic Bias and Disinformation and Effectively Harnessing the Power of AI in Media	11
The Versatility of Intersectionality in Journalism and Mass Communication Research	11
Black Audiences’ Identity-Focused Social Media Use, Group Vitality, and Consideration of Collective Action	11
Book Review: News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture, by Matt Carlson, Sue Robinson, and Seth Lewis	11
Book Review: The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinx Public, by Christopher Chávez	10

Book Review: Journalism Research That Matters, by Valérie Bélair-Gagnon and Nikki Usher (Eds.)	10
Book Review: Anti-Racist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News by Andrea Wenzel	10
Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”	10
Book Review: The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education, by Nolan Higdon and The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation, by Rainer G	10
Book Review: The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives, by Jessica Maddox	9
The Impact of the 2020 BLM Resurgence on the Racial Representations of Ads and Ad Evaluations: Analysis of Super Bowl Ads	9
Book Review: O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South by Berkeley Hudson	9
Asian American Influencer Cultural Identity Portrayal on Instagram	9
Book Review: Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology, by Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisayo Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana and Shanade	9
Book Review: Information at War: Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern Warfare, by Philip Seib	9
The Many Shades of Sexism: Female Journalists in Leadership Positions Reflect on Barriers to Career Advancement in Journalism	9
Do You See What I See? Perceptions and Effects of Image–Text Congruency in Online Climate Change News	9
Reinforcing Influence of Ideology on News Selection and Societal Perceptions: The COVID Pandemic in Sweden	9
The Silencing of Rape Victims in Readers’ Comments on Serbian News Websites	8
Who Covers the Qualifications of Female Candidates? Examining Gender Bias in News Coverage Across National and Local Newspapers	8
Book Review: Bioware’s Mass Effect, by Jerome Winter	8
Between Innovation and Standardization: Best Practices and Inclusive Guidelines in Computational Communication Science	8
Fact-Checking Journalism: A Palliative Against the COVID-19 Infodemic in Ibero-America	8
The Conditional Relationship Between Active (Topical) News Avoidance and News Consumption Under Democratic Backsliding	7
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study	7
From Advocacy to Activism: A Multi-Dimensional Scale of Communicative, Collective, and Combative Behaviors	7
Editorial Essay	7
Believing the Untrue: How Social Media, Sexism, and Structural Gender Inequality Influence Misinformation About Women Politicians	7
“Where’s the Outrage??”: An Analysis of #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackTransLivesMatter Twitter Counterpublics	6
Measuring Gaze: Women’s Visual Processing of Empowerment and Objectification Messages in Empowerment-Themed Advertisements	6
Conceptualizing and Testing Public Expectations for Corporate Social Advocacy: A Strategic Issue Management Approach	6
Treasuring the Past and Anticipating the Future: Adopting New Tools and Practices in Journal Publishing	6
Verification Behaviors and Countermeasures in the Age of Misinformation	6
Book Review: Russian Regional Journalism: Struggle and Survival in the Heartland, by Elina Erzikova and Wilson Lowrey	6
Where Is Local News Dying Off?: Mechanisms Behind the Formation of Local News Deserts in the United States	6
Rehistoricizing Black Masculinity in The Wonder Years Reboot	6
How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective	5
How to Reconcile Water and Fire: Social Media Logic and Journalistic Independence	5
A Century of JMCQ Legal Issues in Media: Scholarly Commitment to Free Press, Free Speech, and More	5
Signaling News Outlet Credibility in a Google Search	5
Book Review: Who Let Them in? Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism, by Joanne Lannin	5
Journalism in the Quarterly: A Century of Change in the Industry and the Academy	5
Book Review: Political Communication, Culture, and Society. by Patricia Moy and Rico Neumann (Eds.)	5
Mapping Media Developments and Issues: Topics, Clusters, and Content of JMCQ Articles on Communication Technology/Media Channels, 1935–2017	5
Book Review: Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity by Michelle J. Manno	4
Amplified News Framing of Social Disturbance and Its Impact on Authoritarian Attitudes: An Experimental Study of Main Effects and Activation of Predispositions	4
Collaborative Journalism Around the Globe: A Systematic Review	4
Book Review: Strategic Communications in Russia; Public Relations and Advertising, by Katerina Tsetsura and Dean Kruckeberg, eds.	4
Influencers, Amplifiers, and Icons: A Systematic Approach to Understanding the Roles of Islamophobic Actors on Twitter	4
The American Peace Movement’s Use of Religious Influence and “The Pulpit” as a Public Relations Strategy in the Early 1800s	4
Book Review: The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession by Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano	4
Framing a Movement: Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests on Twitter	4
Book Review: Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as Proxy Profession, by Sandra Ristovska	4
Good Guys Became Bad Guys? Changing Representations of Asians and Other Races in Crime News During COVID-19	4
Book Review: Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking About TV and the Movies, by Erika Engstrom and Ralph Beliveau	4

Book Review: Conservative Political Communication: How Right-Wing Media and Messaging (Re)Made American Politics, by Sharon E. Jarvis (Ed.) and News on the Right: Studying Conservative News	4
Book Review: You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, by Elizabeth Becker	4
Book Review: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt	3
Centennial Editorial Essay	3
Book Review: The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers by Karen Yin	3
How Do Moral Values and Crisis Response Strategies Influence Individuals’ Evaluations and Support of Sports Organizations Post-Crisis?	3
Media Systems and Attention Cycles: Volume and Topics of News Coverage on COVID-19 in the United States and China	3
COVID-19 and the Fourth Estate: Asian American Journalists’ Gendered Racial Harms and Racial Activation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Highlighting Incivility: How the News Media’s Focus on Political Incivility Affects Political Trust and News Credibility	3
Broadcasting Solutions: A Textual Analysis of Philadelphia Local Television News Coverage of Remedies for Gun Violence	3
After the Killing of Atatiana Jefferson: Black Stakeholder Experiences Within a Municipal Listening Structure	3
Watching the Watchdogs: Examining the Adoption and Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication on Diversity in News Organizations	3
Book Review: All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists, by Caitlin Petre	3
Book Review: Non-Verbal Neutrality of Broadcasters Covering Crisis, Not What You Say, But How You Say It , by Danielle Deavours Non-Verbal Neutrality of Broadcasters Cov	3
Book Review: The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society, by Elaine J. Yuan	3
Newly Released	3
The Reciprocal Effects of Perceived Accuracy and Trust in News Media: A Two-Wave Online Panel Study in the Context of the 2021 German Federal Election	3
Exploring an Alternative Computational Approach for News Framing Analysis Through Community Detection in Framing Element Networks	3
Information Literacy in the Age of Disinformation	2
Visually Framing Disasters: Humanitarian Aid Organizations’ Use of Visuals on Social Media	2
Balancing Artificial Intelligence and Human Expertise: Ideal Fact-Checking Strategies for Hard and Soft News	2
Engaging With Vilifying Stereotypes: The Role of YouTube Algorithmic Use in Perpetuating Misinformation About Muslim Congresswomen	2
Book Review: Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media: Quieting the Madness, by Malynnda Johnson and Christopher J. Olson (Eds.)	2
Communicating Scientific Norms in the Hybrid Media Environment: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Social Media Engagement With Watchdog Science Journalism	2
The Value of Independence: Making the Connection Between Quality Journalism and Editorial Control in Rwanda	2
Book Review: Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions, by Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.)	2
Book Review: Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality, by Elia Powers	2
Mapping Journalistic Role Performance Across Five Arab Countries	2
Book Review: The Mediation of Financial Crises: Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Canaries in the Coal Mine?, by Sophie Knowles	2
Book Review: Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective by Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Yi-Hui Huang, Dong Dong, Hai Liang, Guanxiong Huang, and Sibo Wang	2
Book Review: Living With Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance by Ariane Ollier-Malaterre	2
Do the Gender and Reporting Experience Make a Difference? A News Byline Analysis on Trans Issues	2
Book Review: Journalism and Crime , by Bethany Usher Journalism and Crime. UsherBethany. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 304 pp.	2
Book Review: It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette and John Koblin	2
Book Review: An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I, by Chris Dubbs	2