Political Communication

Papers
(The H4-Index of Political Communication is 21. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets116
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News75
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora65
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention59
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship55
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research52
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media51
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?51
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter41
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina38
Elected officials’ Online Sharing of Misinformation: Institutional and Ideological Checks35
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals34
Correction34
Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms29
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition27
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia26
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis26
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility24
Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories23
Claims of Victimhood Shield Politicians from Political Scandals22
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study22
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter21
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