OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Digital Journalism is 14. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	97
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	82
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	79
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	77
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	75
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	63
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	63
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	55
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	53
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	53
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	49
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	48
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	46
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	44
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	41
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	41
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	40
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	39
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	39
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	37
Normalizing Instagram	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	33
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	32

What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter	31
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	30
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	30
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	30
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	29
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests	29
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms	28
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future	28
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists	28
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists	28
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers	28
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes	27
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US	27
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System	26
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework	26
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India	25
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults	25
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia	25
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production	25
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’	25
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication	24
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism	23
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media	23
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems	23
How the Trick is Done – Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism	23
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations	22
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic	22
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram	22
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes	22
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?	22
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom	21
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus	21
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet	21
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism	21
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response	21
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East	21
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility	20
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook	20
The Crisis of the Institutional Press	20
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations	20
Visual War Journalism	20
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces	20
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India	19
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance	19
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	19
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media	19
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer	18
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism	18
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok	18
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies	18

Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	18
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research	17
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts	17
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences	17
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media	17
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”	17
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines	17
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice	17
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data	17
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media	17
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload	17
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism	17
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism	16
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures	16
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom	16
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework	15
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here	15
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices	15
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies	15
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment	15
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services	15
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders	15
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains	15
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions	14
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom	14
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society	14
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies	14
Expanding the Analytical Boundaries of Mob Censorship: How Technology and Infrastructure Enable Novel Threats to Journalists and Strategies for Mitigation	14
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses	14
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future	14
Dominant Disciplinary and Thematic Approaches to Automated Fact-Checking: A Scoping Review and Reflection	14