OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 5. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Localized social media and civic life: Motivations, trust, and civic participation in local community contexts	38
Algorithmic social media use and its relationship to attitude reinforcement and issue-specific political participation – The case of the 2015 European immigration movements	34
Do “Good Citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments	26
“Who is gullible to political disinformation?” : predicting susceptibility of university students to fake news	25
The hidden threat of cyber-attacks – undermining public confidence in government	25
Fake news self-efficacy, fake news identification, and content sharing on Facebook	22
Facebook affordances and citizen engagement during elections: European political parties and their benefit from online strategies?	22
Increasing citizen participation in e-participatory budgeting processes	21
Peripheral elaboration model: The impact of incidental news exposure on political participation	19
What explains popular support for government monitoring in China?	17
A market of black boxes: The political economy of Internet surveillance and censorship in Russia	16
Indonesia’s rise in digital democracy and youth’s political participation	14
The Influence of Goals and Timing: How Campaigns Deploy Ads on Facebook	14
What is political expression on social media anyway?: A systematic review	14
The politics of AI: democracy and authoritarianism in developing countries	11
Understanding the online relationship between politicians and citizens. A study on the user engagement of politicians’ Facebook posts in election and routine periods	11
How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook	11
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement	10
Efficient detection of online communities and social bot activity during electoral campaigns	10
Topics to talk about. The effects of political topics and issue ownership on user engagement with politicians’ Facebook posts during the 2018 Hungarian general election	10
Mixing messages: How candidates vary in their use of Twitter	9
Computer-mediated political expression: A conceptual framework of technological affordances and individual tradeoffs	9
Dubious until officially censored: Effects of online censorship exposure on viewers’ attitudes in authoritarian regimes	9
Stephen Colbert takes on Election 2020: #betterknowaballot, voter mobilization, and the return to playful participatory satire	8
Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news	8

Neural blockchain technology for a new anticorruption token: towards a novel governance model	8
Social network matters: The influence of online social capital on youth political participation in Pakistan	8
Tweeting in echo chambers? Analyzing Twitter discourse between American Jewish interest groups	8
Invisible transparency: Visual attention to disclosures and source recognition in Facebook political advertising	8
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge	8
Ideological homophily or political interest: Factors affecting Twitter friendship network between politicians	7
“Unpresidented!” or: What happens when the president attacks the federal judiciary on Twitter	7
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	6
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	6
Race, social media news use, and political participation	6
Understanding the democratic role of perceived online political micro-targeting: longitudinal effects on trust in democracy and political interest	6
FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision	5
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	5
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	5
Attack or Block? Repertoires of Digital Censorship in Autocracies	5
Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election	5