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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Deciding What’s News: News-ness As an Audience Concept for the Hybrid Media Environment	52
Online Information Seeking and Disease Prevention Intent During COVID-19 Outbreak	49
Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy	42
Ontologies of Journalism in the Global South	38
Determinants of Technology Acceptance: Two Model-Based Meta-Analytic Reviews	29
Muting or Meddling? Advocacy as a Relational Communication Strategy Affecting Organization–Public Relationships and Stakeholder Response	27
Covering COVID: Journalists’ Stress and Perceived Organizational Support While Reporting on the Pandemic	26
Mediation Analysis and Warranted Inferences in Media and Communication Research: Examining Research Design in Communication Journals From 1996 to 2017	23
Motivated Fake News Perception: The Impact of News Sources and Policy Support on Audiences’ Assessment of News Fakeness	21
The Value of Explaining the Process: How Journalistic Transparency and Perceptions of News Media Importance Can (Sometimes) Foster Message Credibility and Engagement Intentions	17
The Labor of Building Trust: Traditional and Engagement Discourses for Practicing Journalism in a Digital Age	16
Digital Disinformation and the Imaginative Dimension of Communication	16
Engagement in Emotional News on Social Media: Intensity and Type of Emotions	16
The “Price You Pay” and the “Badge of Honor”: Journalists, Gender, and Harassment	15
Chillin’ Effects of Fake News: Changes in Practices Related to Accountability and Transparency in American Newsrooms Under the Influence of Misinformation and Accusations Against the News Media	15
When Journalists See Themselves as Villains: The Power of Negative Discourse	14
Product Management in Journalism and Academia	14
The Role of Storytelling in Crisis Communication: A Test of Crisis Severity, Crisis Responsibility, and Organizational Trust	14
Effects of Exposure to COVID-19 News and Information: A Meta-Analysis of Media Use and Uncertainty-Related Responses During the Pandemic	13
Maintenance and Reformation of News Repertoires: A Latent Transition Analysis	13
Resisting Covert Persuasion in Digital News: Comparing Inoculation and Reactance in the Processing of Native Advertising Disclosures and in Article Engagement Intentions	12
Guilty by Association: Using Word Embeddings to Measure Ethnic Stereotypes in News Coverage	12
Countering Algorithmic Bias and Disinformation and Effectively Harnessing the Power of AI in Media	12
Why People Who Know Less Think They Know about COVID-19: Evidence from US and Singapore	12
On Evolving Nature of Relationship by Perspective Mutuality: Reconceptualizing Relationship Typology Between Organization and Its Publics	11

Perceptions of Minority Discrimination: Perspectives of Jews Living in Germany on News Media Coverage	11
Differentiation and De-differentiation: The Evolving Power Dynamics Between News Industry and Tech Industry	11
Media Systems and Attention Cycles: Volume and Topics of News Coverage on COVID-19 in the United States and China	11
Understanding Customers’ Reactions to Allegations of Corporate Environmental Irresponsibility	11
Voluntary Exposure to Political Fact Checks	11
Protest News and Facebook Engagement: How the Hierarchy of Social Struggle Is Rebuilt on Social Media	10
How Social Media Influence TV Newsrooms Online Engagement and Video Distribution	10
Practice, Interpretation, and Meaning in Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem	10
Examining the Use, Perception, and Motivation of Cord-Cutting: A Consumer Segment Approach	9
From Suspicion to Wonder in Journalism and Communication Research	9
Worth to Share? How Content Characteristics and Article Competitiveness Influence News Sharing on Social Network Sites	9
“Affective News” and Attitudes: A Multi-Topic Experiment of Attitude Impacts From Political News and Fiction	9
Exploring Numerical Framing Effects: The Interaction Effects of Gain/Loss Frames and Numerical Presentation Formats on Message Comprehension, Emotion, and Perceived Issue Seriousness	9
Why Retractions of Numerical Misinformation Fail: The Anchoring Effect of Inaccurate Numbers in the News	9
Researching With Our Hair on Fire: Three Frameworks for Rethinking News in a Postnormative World	8
Mainstream Protest Reporting in the Contemporary Media Environment: Exploring (In)Stability and Adherence to Protest Paradigm From 1998 to 2017	8
U.S. Public Opinion on China and the United States During the U.S.–China Trade Dispute: The Role of Audience Framing and Partisan Media Use	8
Trusting the Facts: The Role of Framing, News Media as a (Trusted) Source, and Opinion Resonance for Perceived Truth in Statistical Statements	8
Engaging With Vilifying Stereotypes: The Role of YouTube Algorithmic Use in Perpetuating Misinformation About Muslim Congresswomen	8
Agreeing to Surveillance: Digital News Privacy Policies	8
How CEO Social Media Disclosure and Gender Affect Perceived CEO Attributes, Relationship Investment, and Engagement Intention	8
The Moderating Role of Emotion: The Combinatory Effects of Positive Emotion and News Framing Techniques on Climate Change Attitudes	7
Understanding the Present Through the Past: A Comparison of Spanish News Coverage of the 1918 Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics	7
Schadenfreude After Watching the News: How Audiences Respond to Media Coverage of Partisans Disclosing Illnesses	7
Understanding the Public’s Animosity Toward News Media: Cynicism and Distrust as Related but Distinct Negative Media Perceptions	7
Influencers, Amplifiers, and Icons: A Systematic Approach to Understanding the Roles of Islamophobic Actors on Twitter	7
Understanding Variations in the Framing of People Living With HIV: A Mixed-Methods Study of Photos in Chinese News	7
Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”	7
Social Movements and Identification: An Examination of How Black Lives Matter and March for Our Lives Use Identification Strategies on Twitter to Build Relationships	6
Fact-Checking Climate Change: An Analysis of Claims and Verification Practices by Fact-Checkers in Four Countries	6
The Impact of Social Media on Civic Engagement in China: The Moderating Role of Citizenship Norms in the Citizen Communication Mediation Model	6
Emotional Framing of News on Sexual Assault and Partisan User Engagement Behaviors	6
Does News Frame Affect Free Movement Attitudes? A Comparative Analysis	6
Effects of Uniqueness, News Valence, and Liking on Personalization of Company News	6
Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations	6
Hybrids Before Nonprofits: Key Challenges, Institutional Logics, and Normative Rules of Behavior of News Media Dedicated to Social Welfare	6
News Flashpoints: Networked Journalism and Waves of Coverage of Social Problems	6
Engaging Employees in CEO Activism: The Role of Transparent Leadership Communication in Making a Social Impact	5
Watching the Watchdogs: Examining the Adoption and Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication on Diversity in News Organizations	5
Nudity of Male and Female Characters in Television Advertising Across 13 Countries	5
Advancing Journalism and Communication Research: New Concepts, Theories, and Pathways	5
Visual Social Media and Black Activism: Exploring How Using Instagram Influences Black Activism Orientation and Racial Identity Ideology Among Black Americans	5
The People’s Champions? Populist Communication as a Contextually Dependent Political Strategy	5
Highlighting Incivility: How the News Media’s Focus on Political Incivility Affects Political Trust and News Credibility	5
Group Consciousness and Corrective Action: The Mediating Role of Perceived Media Bias and of Proattitudinal Selective Exposure	5
Dynamics of Networked Framing: Automated Frame Analysis of Government Media and the Public on Weibo With Pandemic Big Data	5
Design of Communication: Two Contexts for Understanding How Design Shapes Digital Media	5
What’s in a Label? Negative Credibility Labels in Partisan News	5
The Versatility of Intersectionality in Journalism and Mass Communication Research	5
A Spherical Rendering of Deviant Information Resilience	5

A Persistent Gender Bias in Chilean Press: The Influence of Journalist’s Gender and Editor’s Gender	5
Can CEO Activism Be Good for the Organization? The Importance of Authenticity, Morality, and Timeliness	4
“Where’s the Outrage??”: An Analysis of #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackTransLivesMatter Twitter Counterpublics	4
Look Who’s Writing: How Gender Affects News Credibility and Perceptions of News Relevance	4
Signaling News Outlet Credibility in a Google Search	4
Predicting Audience Verification Intention: The Impact of Partisanship, Source, Importance, and Information Familiarity on Willingness to Verify Headlines	4
After the Killing of Atatiana Jefferson: Black Stakeholder Experiences Within a Municipal Listening Structure	4
Factors Affecting Turnover and Turnaway Intention of Journalists in South Korea	4
Online Harassment and Hate Among Media Professionals: Reactions to One’s Own and Others’ Victimization	4
How Misinformation and Rebuttals in Online Comments Affect People’s Intention to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines: The Roles of Psychological Reactance and Misperceptions	4
COVID-19 and the Fourth Estate: Asian American Journalists’ Gendered Racial Harms and Racial Activation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Millennials’ Adoption of Radio Station Apps: The Roles of Functionality, Technology, Media, and Brand Factors	3
Public Trust in State-Run News Media in Rwanda	3
Mapping Media Research Paradigms: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly’s Century of Scientific Evolution	3
In AI We Trust: The Interplay of Media Use, Political Ideology, and Trust in Shaping Emerging AI Attitudes	3
Framing a Movement: Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests on Twitter	3
The Process of Online Keyword Activism in Political Figure’s Crisis: Moderating Roles of Like-Minded Public Opinion and Government Controllability of Crisis Outcomes	3
Who Covers the Qualifications of Female Candidates? Examining Gender Bias in News Coverage Across National and Local Newspapers	3
Alternative Public Spaces in Hybrid Media Environments: Dissent in High Uncertainty	3
Reconceptualizing Arab Media Research: Moving From Centrism Toward Inclusiveness and Balance	3
Copyright, Transformativeness, and Protection for Internet Memes	3
A Matter of Perspective: An Experimental Study on Potentials of Constructive Journalism for Communicating a Crisis	3
Courting Coverage: Rhetorical Newsworthiness Cues and Candidate-Media Agenda Convergence in Presidential Primaries	2
On Commemorating Hrant Dink: Affective Nationalism, Hate Speech, and Digital News Media Users	2
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study	2
Virtual Theme Collection: Journalism and Mass Communication Research in the MENA Region	2
Asian American Influencer Cultural Identity Portrayal on Instagram	2
Thinking, Knowing, or Thinking You Know: The Relationship Between Multiscreening and Political Learning	2
Too Much Information? A Longitudinal Analysis of Information Overload and Avoidance of Referendum Information Prior to Voting Day	2
Toward Hybridity? Nationality, Ownership, and Governance of News Agencies in Europe	2
No Escape From the Media Gates? How Public Support and Issue Salience Shape Interest Groups’ Media Prominence	2
“Stick to Sports”? First Amendment Values and Limitations to Student-Athlete Expression	2
“I Can’t Just Pull a Woman Out of a Hat”: A Mixed-Methods Study on Journalistic Drivers of Women’s Representation in Political News	2
Selection, Trust, and the Effects of Cable News Consumption	2
Visually Framing Disasters: Humanitarian Aid Organizations’ Use of Visuals on Social Media	2
Guarding the Firewall: How Political Journalists Distance Themselves From the Editorial Endorsement Process	2
How Do Moral Values and Crisis Response Strategies Influence Individuals’ Evaluations and Support of Sports Organizations Post-Crisis?	2
Virtual Theme Collection: Representation of Eastern Europe in Media Studies	2
Validation Repertories of Media Audiences in the Digital Age: Examining the Legitimate Authority of Cultural Mediators	2
Journalism’s Change Agents: Black Lives Matter, #BlackoutTuesday, and a Shift Toward Activist Doxa	2
How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective	2
Political Information Use and Its Relationship to Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Among the German Public	2
From Advocacy to Activism: A Multi-Dimensional Scale of Communicative, Collective, and Combative Behaviors	2
Fact-Checking Journalism: A Palliative Against the COVID-19 Infodemic in Ibero-America	2
Consumers’ Trust in Persuasion: Objective Versus Biased Elaboration Likelihood in China’s E-Commerce Advertising	2
What Constitutes Disinformation? Disinformation Judgment, Influence of Partisanship, and Support for Anti-Disinformation Legislation	2
Feeling Connected to the Cause: The Role of Perceived Social Distance on Cause Involvement and Consumer Response to CSR Communication	2
Black Audiences’ Identity-Focused Social Media Use, Group Vitality, and Consideration of Collective Action	2
Will She Win? Gendered Media Coverage of the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries	2
Selling Breonna: Twitter Responses to Breonna Taylor on the Covers of O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair	2
Adolescents’ Objectification of Their Same-Sex Friends: Indirect Relationships With Media Use Through Self-Objectification, Rewarded Appearance Ideals, and Online Appearance Conversations	2