OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Media + Society is 28. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics	163
Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media	129
Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok	99
Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media	98
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom	70
The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media	64
Do Not Recommend? Reduction as a Form of Content Moderation	58
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement	58
Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges	56
From “Networked Publics” to “Refracted Publics”: A Companion Framework for Researching “Below the Radar” Studies	49
Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy	45
Can Social Media Participation Enhance LGBTQ+ Youth Well-Being? Development of the Social Media Benefits Scale	42
Black Squares for Black Lives? Performative Allyship as Credibility Maintenance for Social Media Influencers on Instagram	39
Loneliness and Its Association With Social Media Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak	39
From “Nasa Lies” to “Reptilian Eyes”: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter	36
Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns	36
Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19	35
How Popular Culture Prompts Youth Collective Political Expression and Cross-Cutting Political Talk on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis	34
Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes	34
Who Consumes New Media Content More Wisely? Examining Personality Factors, SNS Use, and New Media Literacy in the Era of Misinformation	34
Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States	33
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	33
Fostering Dialogic Engagement: Toward an Architecture of Social Media for Social Change	33
Hunting Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Influencer Management Tools: Algorithmic Cultures, Brand Safety, and Bias	30

Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age	28
Online Engagement Between Opposing Political Protest Groups via Social Media is Linked to Physical Violence of Offline Encounters	28
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges	28