OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Communication is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship	50
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media	49
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	43
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	43
Propaganda during Economic Crises: Reference Point Adjustment in Economic News	39
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	39
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention	35
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants	34
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	32
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	32
Successfully Overcoming the “Double Bind”? A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Self-Presentation of Female Right-wing Populists on Instagram and the Impact on Voter Attitudes	29
Correction	27
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	23
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	23
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	22
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition	22
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter	21
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	21
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates	19
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	19
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	19
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries	18
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks	18
Effects of Over-Time Exposure to Partisan Media and Coverage of Polarization on Perceived Polarization	17
State as Salesman: International Economic Engagement and Foreign News Coverage in China	17

Moralization of Rationality Can Stimulate Sharing of Hostile and False News on Social Media, but Intellectual Humility Inhibits it	16
The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians	15
Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean Constitutional Reform	15
Rooted in White Identity Politics: Tracing the Genealogy of Critical Race Theory Discourse in Identity-Based Disinformation	14
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs	14
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes	13
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers	13
Editor’s Note Jan 2025	13
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	13
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–2020	12
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies	12
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics	12
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives	12
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda	12
Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for the Importance of Listening in Democracy	11
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–2022	11
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	11
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation	11
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–2023	11
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	10
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	10
Correction	10
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together	10
Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media	10
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions	10
Watching a Show versus Being There: Embodied Gatekeeping and Visual Perspective in Congress	9
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction	9
Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election	9
A Scholarly Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advancing AI as a Conceptual Framework in Communication Research	7
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11	7
Right-Wing Authoritarian Attitudes, Fast-Paced Decision-Making, and the Spread of Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines	7
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison	7
#DictatorErdogan: How Social Media Bans Trigger Backlash	7
Correction	7
What Did We Learn About Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership?	7
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	7
An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence	6
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences	6
Editor’s Note	6
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	6
The Contemporary Far Right fromContrato Control	6
Depolarizing within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops	6
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress	6
Correction	6
The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation	6
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	6
Media-centric or Politics-centric Political Communication Research? Some Reflections	6
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	6
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries	6
The Evidentiary Basis for Political Listening: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Feeling Heard	5

Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter	5
Misperceptions of Public Opinion During Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Empowering Effects of Racial Messaging: The Link between Racial Outreach, Descriptive Representation and Black Political Mobilization	5
Listening, Race, Partisanship, and Politics: How Socio-Demographics, Conversational Topics, and Dyadic Properties Affect Listening	5
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level	5
Do Politicians’ Genders Influence Voter Persuasion?	5
Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime	5
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	5
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth	5
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies	5
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	5
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy	5
Media Coverage, Advertising, and Electoral Volatility: The Crucial Role of Party Competence	5
Can the Communication Style of Social Media Videos Affect Listening Quality and Opinion Change?	5
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble	4
Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?	4
The Local News Crisis and Political Scandal	4
Propagandization of Relative Gratification: How Chinese State Media Portray the International Pandemic	4
Motivating Future Voters: Comparing the Effects of ‘I Voted’ and ‘I Will Vote’ Stickers on Intention to Vote	4
“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?” Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings	4
Facebook Usage and Outgroup Intolerance in Myanmar	4
Correction	4
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege	4
Scholarly Solidarity: Building an Inclusive Field for Junior and Minority Researchers	4
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts	4
Talking Past Each Other on Twitter: Thematic, Event, and Temporal Divergences in Polarized Partisan Expression on Immigration	4
Editor’s Note	4
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool	3
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage	3
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts	3
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	3
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres	3
Does the Losing Side Lose the Democratic Faith? Partisan Media Flow and Democratic Values During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	3
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse	3
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads	3
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance	3
Correction	3
The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield	3