OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Media + Society is 32. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	168
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	136
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	124
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	104
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	90
Multi-Platform Social Media Use and Incidental Exposure: A Two-Step Analysis of the Conjoint and Distinct Roles of Network Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Across Platforms	89
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	73
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	67
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	66
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	64
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	61
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	52
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	50
Gigs North and South	48
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture	47
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	45
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	43
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	42
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	41
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	40
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	38
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	38
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	36
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	36
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	35

#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	35
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	35
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	34
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	34
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	33
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	33
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	32
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	32
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	32
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	32
“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok	32