OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Communication is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets	116
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News	75
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	65
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention	59
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship	55
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	52
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media	51
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	51
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	41
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	38
Elected officials’ Online Sharing of Misinformation: Institutional and Ideological Checks	35
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	34
Correction	34
Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms	29
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition	27
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	26
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	26
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	24
Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories	23
Claims of Victimhood Shield Politicians from Political Scandals	22
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	22
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter	21
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	20
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates	19
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks	19

The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians	18
Effects of Over-Time Exposure to Partisan Media and Coverage of Polarization on Perceived Polarization	18
Moralization of Rationality Can Stimulate Sharing of Hostile and False News on Social Media, but Intellectual Humility Inhibits it	17
Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation	16
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives	16
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	16
Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean Constitutional Reform	16
A Credible Change: How Parties Use Election Promises to Counteract The Loss of Reputation When They Dilute Their Policy Positions	16
Editor’s Note Jan 2025	15
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	15
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers	15
Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for the Importance of Listening in Democracy	15
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes	14
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–2020	14
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation	13
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–2023	13
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies	13
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions	13
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–2022	13
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda	13
“The People” Imagined , Felt , and Experienced by Populist	13
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together	12
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction	12
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	12
Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media	11
Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election	11
Watching a Show versus Being There: Embodied Gatekeeping and Visual Perspective in Congress	11
Correction	11
What Did We Learn About Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership?	11
Correction	10
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	10
Artificial Intelligence in Election Campaigns: Perceptions, Penalties, and Implications	10
Performative Propaganda Engagement: How Celebrity Fans Engage with State Propaganda on Weibo	10
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison	10
A Scholarly Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advancing AI as a Conceptual Framework in Communication Research	10
Correction	10
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	10
Right-Wing Authoritarian Attitudes, Fast-Paced Decision-Making, and the Spread of Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines	10
The Contemporary Far Right fromContrato Control	9
#DictatorErdogan: How Social Media Bans Trigger Backlash	9
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries	9
Depolarizing within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops	9
The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics	9
The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation	9
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11	9
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	8
Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter	8
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	8
Toxicity and Moral Rhetoric in Video- and Text-Based Digital Platforms: A Multimethod Study of Political Talk Shows and News Articles in Taiwan	8
Editor’s Note	8

The Evidentiary Basis for Political Listening: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Feeling Heard	8
Do Politicians’ Genders Influence Voter Persuasion?	8
From Diplomacy to Disrespect: Conversational Polarization in the Oval Office	8
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress	8
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	7
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy	7
The Empowering Effects of Racial Messaging: The Link between Racial Outreach, Descriptive Representation and Black Political Mobilization	7
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level	7
The Limits of Computational Propaganda: Investigating Underexplored Platforms and Contexts	7
Misperceptions of Public Opinion During Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	7
Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime	7
Listening, Race, Partisanship, and Politics: How Socio-Demographics, Conversational Topics, and Dyadic Properties Affect Listening	6
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth	6
Scholarly Solidarity: Building an Inclusive Field for Junior and Minority Researchers	6
Can the Communication Style of Social Media Videos Affect Listening Quality and Opinion Change?	6
The Local News Crisis and Political Scandal	6
Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar	6
Media Coverage, Advertising, and Electoral Volatility: The Crucial Role of Party Competence	6
“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?” Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings	6
Motivating Future Voters: Comparing the Effects of ‘I Voted’ and ‘I Will Vote’ Stickers on Intention to Vote	6
Talking Past Each Other on Twitter: Thematic, Event, and Temporal Divergences in Polarized Partisan Expression on Immigration	6
Editor’s Note	5
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage	5
Correction	5
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool	5
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance	5
Propagandization of Relative Gratification: How Chinese State Media Portray the International Pandemic	5
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres	5
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads	5
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts	4
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	4
Correction	4
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse	4
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege	4
Does the Losing Side Lose the Democratic Faith? Partisan Media Flow and Democratic Values During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	4
Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand	4
Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research	4
“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event	4
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	4