OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 37. 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
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue	244
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research	237
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time	212
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	99
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol	95
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	87
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	82
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network	81
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms	75
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown	67
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels	64
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source	59
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls	58
Managing multiple accounts for identity construction on Instagram: A privacy management framework	54
Perceived realism in VR as a multifaceted concept: Insights from interviews and focus groups with experts and non-experts	54
Birds of a feather flock even closer together in the digital era: The role of China’s parallel digital realm in the lives of migrant students in Hong Kong	53
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter	52
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum	51
Between anger and love: A multi-level study on the impact of policy issues on user reactions in national election campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway	47
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	47
Data mirroring: A methodological framework for data-donation-based interviews in media use research	46
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	46
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter	45
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition	45
Media cultivation of public outlooks on artificial general intelligence: Diverging cognitive and emotional pathways of news and entertainment media	44

Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains	41
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020	39
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms	39
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	39
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	39
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning	39
“He will always love me”: Authentic romance and reciprocal love in otome games	38
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure	38
From moderation to chaos: Meta’s fact-checking and the battle over truth and free speech	37
Book Review: Social Media and Hate	37
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms	37
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview	37
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment	37