OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective	19
Window on the weather: a case study in multi-platform visual communication design, with a relationship to Design Thinking	14
The agency of computer vision models as optical instruments	11
Typography: the constant vector of dynamic logos	11
The rhetoric of multimodal communication	9
Experiencing multimodal rhetoric and argumentation in political advertisements: a study of how people respond to the rhetoric of multimodal communication	9
Matter, meaning and semiotics	9
From visual rhetoric to multimodal argumentation: exploring the rhetorical and argumentative relevance of multimodal figures on the covers of The Economist	8
Analyzing picturebooks: semiotic, literary, and artistic frameworks	8
Differentiating graffiti in Macao: activity types, multimodality and institutional appropriation	7
Semiotics of destruction: traces on the environment	7
Self-presentation strategies and the visual framing of political leaders on Instagram: evidence from the eventful 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections	6
Tracing The Shapes of Multimodal Rhetoric: Showing the Epistemic Powers of Visualization	5
Politics of visual discourse in China: the corruption cartoon	5
Digitally-mediated parent–baby touch and the formation of subjectivities	5
The Power to See: Visualizing Invisible Disabilities in China	4
Walking through the city soundscape: an audio-visual analysis of sensory experience for people with psychosis	4
‘Foodstagramming’ in early 20th-century postcards: a transhistorical perspective	4
Signs of #self: a Peircean semiotic framework for theorizing self-(re)presentations on Instagram	4
International, innovative, multimodal and representative? The geographies, methods, modes and aims present in two visual communication journals	4
A beautiful and devilish thing: children’s picture books and the 1914 Christmas Truce	4
Visual communication and mental health	4
Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams	4
Michel Pastoureau and the history of visual communication	4
The politics of typographic placemaking: the cases of TilburgsAns and Dubai Font	3

Is there a visual bias in televised debates? Evidence from Germany, 2002–2017	3
Touching heritage: embodied politics in children’s photography	3
Legitimation in documentary: modes of representation and legitimating strategies in The Lockdown: One Month in Wuhan	3
Design timescapes: futuring through visual thinking	3
The epistemological commitments of modes: opportunities and challenges for science learning	3
Opening up semiotic spaces for gender expression: a case study of the construction of gender in Australian award-winning early childhood picture books	3
Saudi women driving: images, stereotyping and digital media	3
‘Seeing’ music from manga: visualizing music with embodied mechanisms of musical experience	3
A chronotopic approach to identity performance in musical numbers: a choreo-musical case study of ‘Rewrite the Stars’ and ‘This Is Me’	2
Resemiotization: tracing the movement of resources in landscape architectural design trajectories	2
From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports	2
Resistance to violence against women on Spanish walls	2
Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study	2
Creative and visual communication of health research: development of a graphic novel to share children’s neighbourhood perspectives of COVID-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
A blind spot in AI-powered logo makers: visual design principles	2
‘Domani a quest’ora potresti essere qui’: multimodal practices for representing temporality in destination advertising	2
Evading Big Brother: Using visual methods to understand children’s perception of sensors and interest in subverting digital surveillance	2
Liquid power: reading the infinity pool as a global semioscape	2
How existing literary translation fits into film adaptations: the subtitling of neologisms in Harry Potter from a multimodal perspective	2
Exploring the distinction between populism through and by the media from a visual perspective: representations of German politicians on magazine covers of Der Spiegel and Compa	1
Typicality effect in data graphs	1
Exploring game grammars: a sociosemiotic account of young people’s game-making practices	1
Taking a knee: Haunted memetic counter-activism	1
Graphical viewing at a distance: graphical analytics as a method for the investigation of illustrated books	1
The operation of différance in a student-produced digital video: insights into differing and deferring signifier operations and relations in multimodal discourse	1
Representing cervical cancer in a government social media health campaign in China: moralizing and abstracting women’s sexual health	1
Book review: Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle	1
Forgive us our Trespasses: Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland	1
The mediatic dimension of images: visual semiotics faced with Gerhard Richter’s artwork	1
Drawn into the future: The epistemic work of visual scenarios in the configuration of human–robot encounters	1
Visual communication and the management of passenger conduct: A visual analysis of transit etiquette posters by Japanese railway companies	1
Computing colorism: skin tone in online retail imagery	1
Visual narratives of environmental change: collective memory and identity at New Zealand heritage sites	1
(Re)locating photojournalism within a transmedia economy: a case study on the meaning-making process with stories of female Boko Haram survivors	1
The rhythms of cancer survivorship	1
Book Review: Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture	1
Rhythm in literary apps	1
Evaluating animentary’s potential as a rhetorical genre	1
Applying health design thinking to uncover actors in the sustenance of health and wellbeing during hotel quarantine in kuwait	1
Logico-semantic relations between spoken text and slides’ visual elements in student presentations conducted online in the English as a Foreign Language context	1
Editorial: Information Is Ugly	1
Sculpting the interpersonal: towards a social semiotic framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in statues	1
The role of rhythm in science-animated videos: construing entities and bridging across different semiotic modes	1
‘Imagine talking about politics in a kids’ game’: Making sense of #BLM in Nintendo’s Splatoon 2	1