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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Twitter Communication Among Democracy Actors: How Interacting With Journalists and Elected Officials Influence People’s Government Performance Assessment and Trust	825428274
Changes in Digital Communication During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Implications for Digital Inequality and Future Research	156
Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics	97
COVID-19 and Health Code: How Digital Platforms Tackle the Pandemic in China	92
Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media	84
Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok	83
Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy	75
The Effects of Instagram Use, Social Comparison, and Self-Esteem on Social Anxiety: A Survey Study in Singapore	73
Boosting Health Campaign Reach and Engagement Through Use of Social Media Influencers and Memes	71
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom	61
Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media	56
Older Adults, Social Technologies, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Challenges, Strengths, and Strategies for Support	53
Social Media and Trust in Scientific Expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands	51
“You Need At Least One Picture Daily, if Not, You’re Dead”: Content Creators and Platform Evolution in the Social Media Ecology	49
The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media	46
Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture	46
Locating Power in Platformization: Music Streaming Playlists and Curatorial Power	43
Fighting the ‘Infodemic’: Legal Responses to COVID-19 Disinformation	42
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement	40
More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies	39
Mindfully Scrolling: Rethinking Facebook After Time Deactivated	38
Persuasion Through Bitter Humor: Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Rhetoric in Internet Memes of Two Far-Right Groups in Finland	37
LINE as Super App: Platformization in East Asia	36
Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy	35
Social Media and Fear of Missing Out in Adolescents: The Role of Family Characteristics	35

Misinformation on Instagram: The Impact of Trusted Endorsements on Message Credibility	34
Do Not Recommend? Reduction as a Form of Content Moderation	34
A Second-Order Disaster? Digital Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic	34
Who to Trust on Social Media: How Opinion Leaders and Seekers Avoid Disinformation and Echo Chambers	34
Teens’ Motivations to Spread Fake News on WhatsApp	33
The Rise of the Data Poor: The COVID-19 Pandemic Seen From the Margins	33
Polarization Over Vaccination: Ideological Differences in Twitter Expression About COVID-19 Vaccine Favorability and Specific Hesitancy Concerns	33
From “Networked Publics” to “Refracted Publics”: A Companion Framework for Researching “Below the Radar” Studies	32