OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication Theory is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	56
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	52
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	50
What is the history of communication?	47
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	43
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	40
Approaching evolutionary communication	39
Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities1	30
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	29
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	26
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	22
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	22
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	17
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	16
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	13
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	13
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	12
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting	11
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	11
Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus	10
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	9
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	9
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	8
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	8

Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	7
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	6
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	6
Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication”	6
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	5
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	5
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941	5
The problem of popular culture	4
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	4
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	4
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	4
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	4
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	4
Decolonizing Digital Methods	3
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	3
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	3
Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework	3
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	3
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	3
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	2
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	2
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	2
Theory of affective bonding: a framework to explain how people may relate to social robots and artificial others	2
Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization	2
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	2
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda	2
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	2
The public sphere as a dynamic network	2
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	2
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism	2