OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Theory is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model	90
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising	81
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories	72
Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit	72
What is the history of communication?	57
Encoding and decoding in the human–machine discourse	56
Answer engines and other communication partners	42
Approaching evolutionary communication	36
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East	30
Logics and levels of ecology theory: organizing Chicago School ecological approaches for journalism studies	28
Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework	27
Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda	25
A mental models approach to communication: integrating the features, functions, and mechanisms of mental modeling	23
Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations	15
Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory	15
How are worlds communicatively constituted?	14
Curation as a communicative act: conceptualizing personal curation within curated flows on social media	13
Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies	12
Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution	12
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication	11
Communicative relationality meets Deleuzian techniques and forces: materializations of power in communicatively constituting a fluid social movement	11
Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence	11
Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective?	10
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences	10
A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects	10

Visioning a two-level human–machine communication framework: initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication	9
Communication skills as generic objects: a relational view	9