OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism is 29. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	113
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries	110
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	97
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	93
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	77
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	77
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	62
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	57
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	54
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	52
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	50
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	48
Digital News Business Models in the Age of Industry 4.0: Digital Brazilian News Players Find in Technology New Ways to Bring Revenue and Competitive Advantage	48
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	43
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical	43
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	42
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	39
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	38
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	36
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	34
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	34
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment	34
Normalizing Instagram	34
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies	33

Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	33
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	32
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	30
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	29
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	29
What Makes for a Good News Experience: Developing a UX Perspective to Advance Audience Studies in Journalism	29