OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	113
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	90
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	84
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	81
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	73
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	68
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*	64
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	63
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	62
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	60
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	56
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	54
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	50
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	48
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	47
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	46
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News	46
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	43
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach	42
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	41
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	39
Normalizing Instagram	38
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	38
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	37

Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	37
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests	35
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	34
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter	34
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies	32
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	32
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment	31