OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 33. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform	161
Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance	119
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review	104
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19	97
A systematic literature review on disinformation: Toward a unified taxonomical framework	93
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified	78
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation	75
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence	69
Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany	69
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review	67
Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit	64
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited	63
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective	58
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak	57
Temporal arbitrage, fragmented rush, and opportunistic behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy	56
The limits of the imaginary: Challenges to intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithms	56
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective	52
Oculus imaginaries: The promises and perils of Facebook’s virtual reality	51
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors	51
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries	48
Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument	45
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness	43
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	42
Digital well-being theory and research	41
Mediated trust: A theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators	40

Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social media	40
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media	39
Social media literacy: A conceptual framework	39
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’	38
Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem	36
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia	36
Content moderation: Social media’s sexist assemblages	35
Health-related fake news on social media platforms: A systematic literature review	35
The challenges of studying 4chan and the Alt-Right: ‘Come on in the water’s fine’	33