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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	71
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	64
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	59
Approaching evolutionary communication	54
What is the history of communication?	41
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	41
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	32
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	23
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	22
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum	18
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	14
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies	14
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	13
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	13
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	13
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	13
Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations	12
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	11
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	10
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	10
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	9
Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	8
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization	8
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	8
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	8

Communication skills as generic objects: a relational view	8
Identifying fake experts: a conceptual framework and case study of illegitimate expertise in climate change and COVID-19 misinformation and its implications for communication theory	7
Dynamic age-group dissociation: older adults’ engagement with age stereotypes in hybrid media environments	7
Communicative intersectionality: advocating for equality, diversity, and inclusion in media industries	7
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion	7
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline	7
Expression and reality: a dialogue on communication, constitution, and process philosophy	7
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice	6
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia	6
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model	5
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research	5
Navigating the complexity of visual misinformation: Developing the Visual Misinformation Processing Model for visual-text misinformation dynamics	4
When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication	4
Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation	4
The problem of popular culture	4
Let me be perfectly unclear: strategic ambiguity in political communication	3
Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions	3
Decolonizing Digital Methods	3
Criticism in opposition: review of Epistemology of Communication in Brazil: critical essays on theory of science, by Francisco Rüdiger	3
The public sphere as a dynamic network	3
Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory	3
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness	3
Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize?	3
Hybrid stakeholders and processes in social impact organizing: a constitutive approach to hybridity	2
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda	2
Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization	2
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims	2
Toward an intersectional communicology of stigma	2
Theory of affective bonding: a framework to explain how people may relate to social robots and artificial others	2
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice	2
Correction to: Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology	2