OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Communication is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
“We Never Really Talked About politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora	159
Trump Goes to Tulsa on Juneteenth: Placing the Study of Identity, Social Groups, and Power at the Center of Political Communication Research	102
A Virtual Battlefield for Embassies: Longitudinal Network Analysis of Competing Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media	40
Media-Politics Parallelism and Populism/Anti-populism Divides in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina	38
Abating Dissonant Public Spheres: Exploring the Effects of Affective, Ideological and Perceived Societal Political Polarization on Social Media Political Persuasion	35
What’s on and who’s Watching? Combining People-Meter Data and Subtitle Data to Explore Television Exposure to Political News	34
U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes	33
Editor’s Note Jan 2025	31
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool	31
The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress	29
Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–2020	27
Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level	26
Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance	24
Do Online Ads Sway Voters? Understanding the Persuasiveness of Online Political Ads	22
The Impact of New Transparency in Digital Advertising on Media Coverage	21
Reassessing the Role of Inclusion in Political Communication Research	18
Editor’s Note	18
Editor’s Note	18
A Little More Conversation A Little Less Prejudice: The Role of Classroom Political Discussions for Youth’s Attitudes toward Immigrants	17
The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives	15
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies	15
Media-centric or Politics-centric Political Communication Research? Some Reflections	15
Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship	15
Linguistic Choices as Political Participation: The Political Voice of Ukrainian Refugee and Migrant Mothers	15
Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention	14

Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter	13
Unequal Tweets: Black Disadvantage is (Re)tweeted More but Discussed Less Than White Privilege	13
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics	11
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	11
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences	11
The Honest Broker versus the Epistocrat: Attenuating Distrust in Science by Disentangling Science from Politics	10
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	10
Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube: How Do Recommendation Algorithms Pull Users Away from News	10
The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on Twitter	10
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	10
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	9
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation?	9
Correction	8
The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	8
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	8
The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda	8
The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield	7
The Media and Democratization: A Long-Term Macro-Level Perspective on the Role of the Press During a Democratic Transition	7
(Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres	7
Community Matters: Content Analysis of Children in Immigration Media Coverage, 1990-2020	7
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication	7
Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions	6
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts	6
Vladimir Putin on Channel One, 2000–2022	6
Reconceptualizing Cross-Cutting Political Expression on Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook Comments During the 2016 Brexit Referendum	6
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	6
Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict	6
The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980–2023	6
Anti-Woke Publics	5
Does the Losing Side Lose the Democratic Faith? Partisan Media Flow and Democratic Values During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	5
Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China	5
Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination	5
“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event	5
Defending Democracy: Prioritizing the Study of Epistemic Inequalities	5
Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait	5
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse	5
Fake News for All: How Citizens Discern Disinformation in Autocracies	5
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking	4
The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals	4
Correction	4
Damage Control: How Campaign Teams Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility	4
Journalism and Democratic Backsliding: Critical Realism as a Diagnostic and Prescription for Reform	4
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy	4
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies	4
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation: Nationalist Polarization in the 2020 American Presidential Election and the Threat to Democracy	4
Broadcasting Messages via Telegram: Pro-Government Social Media Control During the 2020 Protests in Belarus and 2022 Anti-War Protests in Russia	4
Correction	4
Forum Editor’s Introduction: Artificial Intelligence, Political Ad Libraries, and Transgender Health Misinformation	4
Uninformed or Misinformed in the Digital News Environment? How Social Media News Use Affects Two Dimensions of Political Knowledge	4
The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments	3

Ethnic Campaign Appeals: To Bond, Bridge, or Bypass?	3
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	3
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	3
Prevalence, Presentation, and Popularity of Political Topics in Social Media Influencers’ Content Across Two Countries	3
The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark	3
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	3
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	3
Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks	3
What Did We Learn About Political Communication from the Meta2020 Partnership?	3
Negotiating News: How Cross-Cutting Romantic Partners Select, Consume, and Discuss News Together	3
A Querpolitics Approach to the Far Right? Notes from Germany and India	2
The International and Post-disciplinary Journey of Political Communication: Reflections on “Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Political Commun	2
Attacks and Issue Competition: Do Parties Attack Based on Issue Salience or Issue Ownership?	2
Discourse Networks of the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors Become Mainstream in Public Debates	2
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy	2
The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse	2
The Antecedents and Manifestations of Political Polarization in Visual Media: Key Questions and Future Directions	2
Mediated Representation in the Age of Social Media: How Connection with Politicians Contributes to Citizens’ Feelings of Representation. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study	2
Politicization of Science in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Comparing US Politicians, Medical Experts, and Government Agencies	2
Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context. Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data	2
‘’Reenviado Muchas Veces”: How Platform Warnings Affect WhatsApp Users in Mexico and Colombia	2
The Geopolitics of Deplatforming: A Study of Suspensions of Politically-Interested Iranian Accounts on Twitter	2
Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction	2
Forum Editor’s Farewell: Long Live the Forum	2
Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media	2
Rhetorical Promises: Gender Diversity Among Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Representation on Twitter	2
Correction	2
#politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991-2021	2
How (Gendered) Media Portrayals of Refugees Affect Attitudes Toward Immigration. The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	2
Partisan Memes as a Catalyst for Homophilous Networks	2
Politicians, Newspapers, and Immigration Referendums: Exploring the Boundaries of Media Effects	2