Visual Communication

Papers
(The TQCC of Visual Communication is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Visual Communication is proud to announce its second Early Career Research Scholarship30
Design and repair: from object conservation to material transformation22
Book review: Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design17
Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions12
Book review: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media BoukoCatherine, Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media. New Yo10
Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application7
Insights into the black box of multimodal meaning-making: investigating the reception of multimodality empirically7
Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study6
Misconceptions: a multimodal study of Danish contraception information6
‘Foodstagramming’ in early 20th-century postcards: a transhistorical perspective6
Photographic ways of seeing: corporeal defamiliarizations within the mirror medium5
Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis5
Book review: Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena5
Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump5
Book review: tumblr5
Visual representation of the menopause in Iran5
Visual themes and frames of the Rohingya crisis: newspaper content from three countries neighboring Myanmar5
An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts4
Analyzing picturebooks: semiotic, literary, and artistic frameworks4
Book review: Shifts Toward Image-Centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices4
Multimodality and Reception Studies4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of city as text: investigation of meaning metafunctions of Rasht’s Imam Khomeini Street4
The Riverine Archive: Nausea and information loss on the neoliberal ship of fools3
Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement3
‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes3
Going against the grain? Appraising the aesthetic labour of male beauty influencers on Instagram3
Forging New Narratives3
Applying health design thinking to uncover actors in the sustenance of health and wellbeing during hotel quarantine in kuwait3
Book review: Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications PflaegingJanaWildfeuerJaninaBatemanJohn, Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications. Berlin:3
Landcare and landscapes and accidental beauty: failing digital technologies and the gaze of child researchers3
Book review: Flags, Color and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity and Critique3
Typicality effect in data graphs3
Female archetypes in car advertising: the case of Audi3
Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram3
Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy3
Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong2
Politics of visual discourse in China: the corruption cartoon2
‘Imagine talking about politics in a kids’ game’: Making sense of #BLM in Nintendo’s Splatoon 22
In praise of visual representation: an inquiry into text analysis and network visualization for charting scientific communities2
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank2
Michel Pastoureau and the history of visual communication2
Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography2
Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances1
Fictional mapping: the nature of cartography in film production1
Visual communication and mental health1
How existing literary translation fits into film adaptations: the subtitling of neologisms in Harry Potter from a multimodal perspective1
The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal1
Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps1
Representing cervical cancer in a government social media health campaign in China: moralizing and abstracting women’s sexual health1
A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism1
From ‘good for her’ to ‘you in danger, girl’: text–image relationships in GIF reply posts1
Book review: Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s1
Amplification of conventional female gender displays and reinforcement of Asian stereotypes in user-generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) images on social media1
Book review: Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space1
The Rijksmuseum’s Slavery exhibition, 5 June–29 August 20211
Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian1
Visual design for sexual and reproductive health promotion: a global perspective1
Visually informed accounts: instructed achievements during planetarium visits and sky observations1
Exploring the ecosystem of meaning: representation of gesture and its contribution to the visual communication of attitude in South African picture books1
Illustrating Stravinsky: integration of new media design in live Philharmonic Orchestra performance1
Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad: an analysis of British news1
China’s Instagram war on COVID-19: picturing healthcare workers and governance in Xinhua’s photographs1
Book review: Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide1
Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image1
The role of rhythm in science-animated videos: construing entities and bridging across different semiotic modes1
Tailings and tracings: using art and social science to explore the limits of visual methods at mining and industrial ruins1
Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective1
Visualizing invisible information: a scoping review of present findings, challenges and opportunities on tactile graphics design1
Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship1
Book review: Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media1
Literate matterings: young artists creating and talking about photography and meaning1
Artists’ books as a qualitative research methodology in multidisciplinary contexts1
Connecting stars and microcosms: visualization bridging astronomy and polaritonics1
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