Public Relations Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Relations Review is 23. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board82
A case for the plausibility of public relations licensing: The carrot of privileged communication48
Effects of AI versus human source attribution on trust and forgiveness in the identical corporate apology statement for a data breach scandal45
Why go the extra mile? Re-engaging quiet quitters through dialogic communication and community building in the workplace43
Examining message framing in a higher education crisis: A qualitative analysis of organizational perspectives and media portrayals40
The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations36
Social media advocacy and gun violence: Applying the engagement model to nonprofit organizations’ communication efforts35
Identity resilience in times of mediatization: Comparing employees’ with citizens’ perceptions of a public organization34
Framing, agency, and athlete activism: The case of simone biles at the 2020 olympics32
Plain old Bess in a different dress? Disruptions of public relations in the digital age30
Editorial Board30
It is all in the name: Toward a typology of public relations professionals’ ethical dilemmas28
Spotlight on a complex crisis spillover: A multi-organisational perspective on rebuilding trust and reducing distrust in the Australian banking industry28
The impact of diversity communication on employee organizational identification and employee voice behaviors: A moderated mediation model27
Using corporate social responsibility to enhance media reputation following a firm crisis: Evidence from China27
Key issue operatives in an issue-driven network: Public relations as a “pocket of strength” in campus sexual assault awareness and prevention26
Protecting organizational reputation during a para-crisis: The effectiveness of conversational human voice on social media and the roles of construal level, social presence, and organizational listeni25
Social media theory in public relations: A curation of a neglected topic in public relations research25
Communicating and managing aspirational talk-action tensions: An integrated approach of CSR discourse analysis24
Social media in public relations scholarship: A database-based systematic review of published articles from 2015 to 202023
Relationship cultivation strategies in the metaverse23
How does it depend?: A systematic review of the contingency theory of accommodation in communication scholarship23
A quiver full of arrows: An examination of tactics employed by CEO activists in Ghana23
A cross-disciplinary review of crisis spillover research: Spillover types, risk factors, and response strategies23
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