OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Public Relations Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Employee coping with organizational change in the face of a pandemic: The role of transparent internal communication	83
Polarized public opinion responding to corporate social advocacy: Social network analysis of boycotters and advocators	78
Examining the effects of internal social media usage on employee engagement	62
Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and the politicization of sports: Examining perceived organizational motives and public responses	60
Toward a normative social media theory for public relations	54
Status of internal communication research in public relations: An analysis of published articles in nine scholarly journals from 1970 to 2019	49
Effects of Issue Ownership, Perceived Fit, and Authenticity in Corporate Social Advocacy on Corporate Reputation	46
Does the medium matter? A meta-analysis on using social media vs. traditional media in crisis communication	43
Engaging for a social licence to operate (SLO)	42
“Vision, passion, and care:” The impact of charismatic executive leadership communication on employee trust and support for organizational change	40
Developing a multi-level organization-public dialogic communication framework to assess social media-mediated disaster communication and engagement outcomes	39
Cultivating employee creativity through strategic internal communication: The role of leadership, symmetry, and feedback seeking behaviors	39
Corporate social advocacy as engagement: Nike's social justice communication	39
Managing internal communication: How the choice of channels affects internal communication satisfaction	38
The effects of CSR communication in corporate crises: Examining the role of dispositional and situational CSR skepticism in context	37
The impact of employee engagement, organisational support and employer branding on internal communication satisfaction	36
The social-mediated crisis communication research: Revisiting dialogue between organizations and publics in crises of China	35
The Effects of Corrective Communication and Employee Backup on the Effectiveness of Fighting Crisis Misinformation	34
Responding to a Health Crisis on Facebook: The Effects of Response Timing and Message Appeal	33
Information vetting as a key component in social-mediated crisis communication: An exploratory study to examine the initial conceptualization	32
The interplay between post-crisis response strategy and pre-crisis corporate associations in the context of CSR crises	32
Internal communicators’ understanding of the definition and importance of employee advocacy	30
When public relations meets social media: A systematic review of social media related public relations research from 2006 to 2020	29
The challenge of new gatekeepers for public relations. A comparative analysis of the role of social media influencers for European and Latin American professionals	28
Managing strategic influencer communication: A systematic overview on emerging planning, organization, and controlling routines	28

The dialogic ladder: Toward a framework of dialogue	28
Employees as information influencers of organization’s CSR practices: The impacts of employee words on public perceptions of CSR	27
The paradoxical effects of communicating CSR activities: Why CSR communication has both positive and negative effects on the perception of a company’s social responsibility	27