OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Learning from YouTube? The role of exposure to partisan YouTube channels and news literacy in political learning during the South Korean general election campaign	77
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	34
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	32
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	25
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	24
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	21
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	20
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	19
Correction	17
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	14
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	14
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	14
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	14
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	13
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	13
Resistant gratification? National identity and political reactance in TikTok use across Korea and China	12
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	11
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	11
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	11
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	10
Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention	10
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	9
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	8
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	8

Uncertainty, agency, and the future context of internet governance: a foresightful conversation	8
The anti-democratic prism: democratic values and political use of social media in six European countries	8
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	8
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	8
This is why we can’t have nice things: examining the relationship between frequency of disagreeable political discussion, content moderation, re-platforming, and affective polarization	8
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	7
Youth political information seeking and political participation from the perspective of platform swinging: observations from China	7
Correction	7
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	7
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	7
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	6
Angry tweets: How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	6
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	6
Book review: technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful	5
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	5
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	5
When the political becomes private: longitudinal dynamics between privacy concerns, cost–benefit calculations, and political expression in social media	5
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	5
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	5
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	5
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	5
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	5
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	5
Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election	5
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	5
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	5
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	4
Digital protest and transnational mediation: exploring key mediators and narratives in the #StepDownHasina hashtivism in social media	4
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	4
Pakistan’s content moderation paradox: combating violent radicalism in a competitive authoritarian regime	4
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	4
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	4
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	4
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	4
Beyond partisan leaning: a comparative analysis of political bias in large language models	4
TIDEM: measuring political distance and polarization through retweet networks in Spanish regional elections	4