Communication Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Communication Theory is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model53
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories47
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising45
What is the history of communication?40
Approaching evolutionary communication39
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East37
Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture33
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework29
Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities127
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda18
Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum17
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies16
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory15
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution14
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication13
Rethinking the Public Sphere in an Age of Radical-Right Populism: A Case for Building an Empathetic Public Sphere13
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting11
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences11
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?9
Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus9
Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication9
Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values8
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects8
Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization8
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