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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	52
Revisiting Attribution Theory: Toward a Critical Feminist Approach for Understanding Attributions of Blame	44
The situational self-orientation model of digital publics	39
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	38
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	37
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	29
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	28
Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work	26
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	24
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	17
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	16
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	14
The public sphere as a dynamic network	14
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	13
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941	13
Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Context	11
Communication Theory at a Time of Racial Reckoning	10
Social Media Information Environments and Their Implications for the Uses and Effects of News: The PINGS Framework	10
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting	9
Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted	9
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	8
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	8
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism	8
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	8
What is the history of communication?	6

Artificial intelligence and the public arena	6
Internationalizing communication theory: finding ways forward	6
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	5
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	5
Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection	4
Identity Driven Information Ecosystems	4
Public connection repertoires and communicative figurations of publics: conceptualizing individuals’ contribution to public spheres	4
Approaching evolutionary communication	4
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	3
Corrigendum to: “Embracing Intersectionality in Co-Cultural and Dominant Group Theorizing: Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy”	3
The problem of popular culture	3
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	3
Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus	3
Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics	2
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values	2
Refreshing the positive: bridging positive organizational communication and critical scholarship with Buddhist philosophies	2
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication	2
Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World: On the Phone	2
Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture	2
Outside the bubble: Social media and political participation in Western democracies	2
On the Construction of Indigenous Chinese Communication Theories: An Analysis of the Cultural Roots	2
An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Misinformation Rejection and Deception in Mediated Communication Contexts	2
Avoidance, fear, helplessness: young Africans contemplate a future shaped by climate change	2
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	2
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	2
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2