Mass Communication and Society

Papers
(The H4-Index of Mass Communication and Society is 16. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic57
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China36
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies34
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias31
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance31
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information28
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence28
The Perils of Social Media: Cyberbullying Shame and Fame27
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive24
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic24
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data24
News from Every Angle: On the Potential of Implementing Virtual Reality Technology in Journalistic Contexts22
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power21
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach19
Threat Level Midnight: Examining the Relationship Between Threatening Language and Engagement with Non-Partisan, Partisan, and Hyper-Partisan Media on Facebook18
Unmasking Media Narratives: Shaping Public Perspectives on China–U.S. Relations Amid the Pandemic16
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?16
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences16
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