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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic51
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy33
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias30
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China28
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies27
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information26
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance25
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data25
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence25
The Perils of Social Media: Cyberbullying Shame and Fame23
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic23
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive22
News from Every Angle: On the Potential of Implementing Virtual Reality Technology in Journalistic Contexts21
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power21
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach20
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube20
Threat Level Midnight: Examining the Relationship Between Threatening Language and Engagement with Non-Partisan, Partisan, and Hyper-Partisan Media on Facebook16
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