Public Relations Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of Public Relations Review is 24. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board61
Commentary is free: Issue management and gaining capital with thought leadership57
Social media advocacy and gun violence: Applying the engagement model to nonprofit organizations’ communication efforts55
Spotlight on a complex crisis spillover: A multi-organisational perspective on rebuilding trust and reducing distrust in the Australian banking industry45
Plain old Bess in a different dress? Disruptions of public relations in the digital age44
Examining message framing in a higher education crisis: A qualitative analysis of organizational perspectives and media portrayals41
A quiver full of arrows: An examination of tactics employed by CEO activists in Ghana41
Corporate social advocacy or social issues management? Examining state flagship universities’ responses to the killing of George Floyd39
Relationship cultivation strategies in the metaverse39
Social media in public relations scholarship: A database-based systematic review of published articles from 2015 to 202038
The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations35
The impact of diversity communication on employee organizational identification and employee voice behaviors: A moderated mediation model34
Editorial Board32
Editorial essay: Artificial Intelligence and public relations31
Public relations in the new millennium: Towards a synoptic view of fifteen years of research in Public Relations Review in the 21st century (2000–2014)30
“Don’t Mess with Ukrainian Farmers”: An examination of Ukraine and Kyiv’s official Twitter accounts as crisis communication, public diplomacy, and nation building during Russian invasion30
Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions30
The role of public relations in a counterhegemony: A case study of the 1968 poor people’s campaign28
Emotional intelligence and public relations: An empirical review28
Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience27
“My body, my choice”: Discursive brandjacking and the strategic reframing of protest language26
Social impact taxonomy: A definitional framework25
A two-path model of the impact of LGBTQ+ diversity CSR levels on public response25
Black-owned business and passionate brand publics: A netnography of The Honey Pot Company PR crisis25
Editorial Board24
Situational dependence of internal communication channels24
Mapping stakeholder expectations along organizational outcomes: How familiarity and sentiment shape core and peripheral issue priorities24
Who’s missing out? The impact of digital networking behavior & social identity on PR job search outcomes24
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