Political Communication

Papers
(The H4-Index of Political Communication is 22. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter146
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News78
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media67
Elected officials’ Online Sharing of Misinformation: Institutional and Ideological Checks63
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets59
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention59
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora58
Vengeance or Hope? A Role-Based Analysis of Hashtag Activism for the War in Gaza43
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research43
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?40
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina39
Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms36
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals35
Correction33
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia30
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition30
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility30
Claims of Victimhood Shield Politicians from Political Scandals29
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study26
Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories25
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates24
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns22
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks22
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