OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Media + Society is 34. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	173
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	144
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	131
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	110
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	95
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	91
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	75
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	71
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	67
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	65
Gigs North and South	62
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture	54
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	50
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	49
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	48
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	47
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	47
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	45
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	44
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	44
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	39
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	39
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	38
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	37
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	37

TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	37
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	36
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	36
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	36
Social Media, Psychological Distance, and Environmental Collective Action in Peru	35
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	35
A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry	34
Short Video Activism With and on Douyin: An Innovative Repertoire of Contention for Chinese Consumers	34
A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter	34
Measuring the Effect of Presentational Context and Image Authorship on the Credibility Perceptions of Newsworthy Images	34