OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism is 27. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	98
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	71
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency	62
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media	61
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media	61
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception	57
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology	53
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study	53
The Crisis of the Institutional Press	50
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	50
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	44
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms	44
Funding Intermediaries: Google and Facebook’s Strategy to Capture Journalism	42
Political Alternative Media as a Democratic Challenge	38
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*	38
Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods	37
What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism	36
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model	34
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	34
The Three “Cs” of Digital Local Journalism: Community, Commitment and Continuity	34
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands	32
From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?	31
A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome	30
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages	30
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	29

The Entanglements between Data Journalism, Collaboration and Business Models: A Systematic Literature Review	29
Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-19	28
Information Competition in Disruptive Media Markets: Investigating Competition and User Selection on Google	27