OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism 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
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries	95
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload	71
What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist	67
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram	62
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era	61
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	53
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	53
Digital Press Criticism: The Symbolic Dimensions of Donald Trump’s Assault on U.S. Journalists as the “Enemy of the People”	52
Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab	51
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism	50
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis	46
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media	42
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception	41
Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry	38
Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists	38
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	37
Nudging Away False News: Evidence from a Social Norms Experiment	35
Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism	35
Safeguarding the Journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the Role of Professional Values in Algorithmic News Recommender Designs	34
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets	34
Adapting to Affordances and Audiences? A Cross-Platform, Multi-Modal Analysis of the Platformization of News on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter	34
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study	31
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis	30
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values	29
Do Small Streams Make a Big River? Detailing the Diversification of Revenue Streams in Newspapers’ Transition to Digital Journalism Businesses	29

News as They Know It: Young Adults’ Information Repertoires in the Digital Media Landscape	29
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News	28
Shared Emotion: The Social Amplification of Partisan News on Twitter	28
Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure	28