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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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	78
Drawing boundaries of pursuit and response of digital rise: TikTok as a friction space of techplomacy	35
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	34
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	27
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	25
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	23
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	21
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	20
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	16
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	15
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	15
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	14
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	13
Correction	13
Resistant gratification? National identity and political reactance in TikTok use across Korea and China	13
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	12
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	11
Digital transformation and contested sovereignty in humanitarian action	10
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	10
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	10
Does political efficacy reduce self-censorship? A quantitative analysis of perceived ideological diversity and fear of isolation in Thailand’s digital sphere	9
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	9
Uncertainty, agency, and the future context of internet governance: a foresightful conversation	9
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	9

Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	9
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	9
An experiment in forecasting out-of-sample coup events with artificial intelligence	8
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	8
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	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	7
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	7
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	7
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	6
The anti-democratic prism: democratic values and political use of social media in six European countries	6
Youth political information seeking and political participation from the perspective of platform swinging: observations from China	6
Correction	6
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
Search engines in polarized media environment: auditing political information curation on Google and Bing prior to 2024 US elections	6
When the political becomes private: longitudinal dynamics between privacy concerns, cost–benefit calculations, and political expression in social media	5
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Angry tweets: How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	5
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	5
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	5
Book review: technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful	5
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	5
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	5
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	5
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	5
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	5
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	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
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	4
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
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	4
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	4
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	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
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	4
Beyond partisan leaning: a comparative analysis of political bias in large language models	4
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	4