OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism is 30. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	101
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	87
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	83
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	80
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	77
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	67
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	65
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	58
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	55
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	55
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	51
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	48
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	44
Normalizing Instagram	44
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	44
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	42
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	41
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	36
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	36
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical	36
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	35
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment	34
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies	32
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	31

Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	31
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	31
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests	31
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	30
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	30