Public Relations Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Public Relations Review is 11. 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.)
ArticleCitations
A quiver full of arrows: An examination of tactics employed by CEO activists in Ghana101
Examining message framing in a higher education crisis: A qualitative analysis of organizational perspectives and media portrayals62
Plain old Bess in a different dress? Disruptions of public relations in the digital age54
Editorial Board54
Social media in public relations scholarship: A database-based systematic review of published articles from 2015 to 202053
Corporate social advocacy or social issues management? Examining state flagship universities’ responses to the killing of George Floyd47
Spotlight on a complex crisis spillover: A multi-organisational perspective on rebuilding trust and reducing distrust in the Australian banking industry40
Commentary is free: Issue management and gaining capital with thought leadership39
Social media advocacy and gun violence: Applying the engagement model to nonprofit organizations’ communication efforts39
Relationship cultivation strategies in the metaverse37
Business-centered versus socially responsible corporate diversity communication. An assessment of stakeholder (dis)agreement on Twitter37
The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations34
Enhancing Employee Engagement via Leaders’ Motivational Language in times of crisis: Perspectives from the COVID-19 outbreak34
Editorial Board34
The impact of diversity communication on employee organizational identification and employee voice behaviors: A moderated mediation model34
The role of public relations in a counterhegemony: A case study of the 1968 poor people’s campaign33
Emotional intelligence and public relations: An empirical review32
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)32
The ethical dimension of public relations in Europe: Digital channels, moral challenges, resources, and training31
Integrated financial communication: Insights on the coordination and integration among investor relations and public relations departments of listed corporations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland30
Editorial Board28
A two-path model of the impact of LGBTQ+ diversity CSR levels on public response28
A blame narrative approach to apologetic crisis management: The serial apologiae of United Airlines28
Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience28
Public expectations of crisis outcomes in the social media era in China: A communication-mediated psychological mechanism27
Culture and internal communication in Chile: Linking ethical organizational culture, transparent communication, and employee advocacy27
“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 invasion26
Social impact taxonomy: A definitional framework26
Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions26
Editorial Board26
Who’s missing out? The impact of digital networking behavior & social identity on PR job search outcomes25
Crisis response strategy manipulation: A systematic review and a test of nuances25
A conceptual update to image restoration theory (IRT) via an analysis of the vice-presidential campaign of Kamala Harris24
Legitimacy, issue management, and gun debate24
Black-owned business and passionate brand publics: A netnography of The Honey Pot Company PR crisis24
Computational strategic communication in a data-driven world24
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication: FEMA’s Twitter use during the 2017 hurricane season23
Perceptions about corporate positioning on controversial sociopolitical issues: Examining big pharma engagement with patient advocacy23
Examining characteristics of prebunking strategies to overcome PR disinformation attacks21
Convergence or divergence? A cross-platform analysis of climate change visual content categories, features, and social media engagement on Twitter and Instagram21
Unpacking publics’ disengagement and information behaviors: Roles of psychological distance, feasibility and desirability in an environmental sustainability issue21
Empathy in public relations practice of South Korea20
When public relations meets social media: A systematic review of social media related public relations research from 2006 to 202020
The change process to agile public relations20
The evolution of digital public relations research20
Making space for activism studies in public relations curricula20
A social influence perspective toward employee-organization relationships: The role of relationship norms in employee peer networks20
Situating deep learning in a relating management approach: Examining the dynamics and outcomes of contingent organization-public relationships (COPRs) in crisis19
Should business have ‘a sense of morality’?: Company director views on corporate engagement with socio-political issues18
Building “foundational” linkages between development communication and public relations: A collaborative communication approach to development18
Public relations and place branding: Friend, foe or just ignored? A systematic review18
Elaborating the concept of threat in contingency theory: An integration with moral outrage and situational crisis communication theory18
Editorial Board17
“Rogue machines” and crisis communication: When AI fails, how do companies publicly respond?17
Women’s activism as public relations in a patriarchal society: The case of Kuwait17
The Delphi Panel investigation of artificial intelligence in investor relations16
Porous boundaries, contentious boundaries: “Public relations” and “propaganda” within the discourse of Italian PR professionals after 194516
The complicity of corporate sustainability on social issues: Investigating the mediating roles of valence and perceived authenticity16
Clarifying covenants and delineating devotion: Explicating religious public relations relationship frameworks16
Negative spaces as a strategic decision: The case of the Israeli Security Agency16
The National Association of Manufacturers World War II campaign: A historical case study on power, ideology, and discourse16
Understanding organizational and socio-cultural contexts: A communicative constitutive approach to social license to operate among top Hong Kong companies16
Value creation through organizational storytelling: Strategic narratives in foreign government public relations15
When transparent leadership communication motivates employee advocacy: Testing the mediator roles of employee attributions in CEO activism15
How political ideology affects the communication of organizational relations: A social network approach15
Is public relations a Tragedy of the Commons (TOTC) for the public sphere?The need of an ecology of content15
Asking for trouble with pure accommodation: Paracrises as rhetorical situations15
The effects of consideration of future consequences and CSR fit in stigmatized industries: Perceived CSR motives as mediators15
Incorporating competition and comparisons into crisis communication: How competing organizations respond to industry crises14
A bibliometric analysis of relationship management as a scholarly field from 1997 to 202214
The constant report: Everything, everywhere, all at once?14
When non-CSR-themed social media influencers endorse corporate CSR initiatives: Effects of publics’ perceived influencer characteristics and leadership14
Can strategic message framing mitigate the negative effects of skeptical comments against corporate-social-responsibility communication on social networking sites?14
Validation of country-of-origin effects on crisis spillovers: A meta-analysis14
Different shades of green deception. Greenwashing’s adverse effects on corporate image and credibility14
The status of public relations research addressing Latin America: A content analysis of published articles from 1980 to 202013
How individuals use nonprofit organizations’ social media pages: Understanding functions of and networks from individual posts for social change13
What constitutes great IDEA? An examination of corporate diversity communication on facebook and external and internal stakeholder reactions13
Navigating change in the era of COVID-19: The role of top leaders’ charismatic rhetoric and employees’ organizational identification13
Unpack the relational and behavioral outcomes of internal CSR: Highlighting dialogic communication and managerial facilitation13
Crisis narrative and the paradox of erasure: Making room for dialectic tension in a cancel culture13
Exploring differences in crisis literacy and efficacy on behavioral responses during infectious disease outbreaks13
Arts promotion and Black urban displacement: Exploring the paradox of the positive in government public relations and urban renewal discourse13
Networks of international public relations production: The case of Latin American organizations’ connections to U.S. agents13
Editorial Board13
A Delphi study on the state and future of hispanic public relations in the United States13
Mapping social networks: A qualitative approach to networked public relations scholarship13
Managing multi-stakeholder relationships in nonprofit organizations through multiple channels: A systematic review and research agenda for enhancing stakeholder relationship marketing13
The dual-continuum approach: An extension of the contingency theory of strategic conflict management13
A cross-disciplinary review of crisis spillover research: Spillover types, risk factors, and response strategies12
It is all in the name: Toward a typology of public relations professionals’ ethical dilemmas12
Stakeholder influence, government power, and new opportunities for Chinese Internet companies: A multilevel network analysis of cross-sector networks12
Crime has a PR component: Public relations in U.S. mystery novels12
Political public relations, leadership, and COVID-19: A comparative assessment of Prime Ministers Ardern and Morrison on Facebook and Twitter12
Virtual community engagement: Engaging virtual communities for nation branding through sports12
Confronting controversial content: Examining online narratives and frames in #CancelSpotify and #NetflixWalkout12
Social media and citizen mobilization: How Chinese government agencies use Weibo to advance the 2030 agenda goals on sustainability12
The reputational benefits of instructing information: The first test of the revised model of reputation repair12
Presidential crisis: An analysis of Biden & Trump’s crisis communications strategies in response to allegations of sexual misconduct12
Pushing hands and buttons: The effects of corporate social issue stance communication and online comment (in)civility on publics’ responses11
Timeliness, responsiveness and the human voice: The effects of dialogic strategies and the mediating role of perceived communication ethicality on social media relationship building11
Revisiting the SMCC model: How Chinese public relations practitioners handle social-mediated crises11
Managing spillover: Response strategies to another Charity’s crisis11
Dynamics between fragmentation and unity: Identity and nonprofit relationship management in the Asian American Community11
“A symbol of service and sacrifice, mourning and memory”: Public relations and public memory the 100th year commemoration of the tomb of the unknown soldier11
Conceptualizing allegiant communication behavior: A cross-national study of employees’ self-orchestration of voice and silence11
The role of the corporate purpose and how investor relations officers make sense of it11
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