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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can conspiracy theories ever be plausible? The role of narrative rationality in the assessment of online conspiracy theories52
Revisiting Attribution Theory: Toward a Critical Feminist Approach for Understanding Attributions of Blame44
The situational self-orientation model of digital publics39
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising38
The shift to authenticity: a framework for analysis of political truth claims37
Situational privacy: theorizing privacy as communication and media practice29
Embodied schema information processing theory: an underlying mechanism of embodied cognition in communication28
Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work26
The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline24
Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model17
Understanding news media trust through the lens of phenomenological sociology16
Decolonizing the public sphere(s)?: A historical trajectory of justice-seeking subaltern public communication in the Middle East14
The public sphere as a dynamic network14
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences13
Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–194113
Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Context11
Communication Theory at a Time of Racial Reckoning10
Social Media Information Environments and Their Implications for the Uses and Effects of News: The PINGS Framework10
Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting9
Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted9
Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research8
Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia8
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism8
Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion8
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