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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media	162
Social Media and Political Agenda Setting	74
Can Interparty Contact Reduce Affective Polarization? A Systematic Test of Different Forms of Intergroup Contact	70
Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign	62
Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News: How Social Media Conditions Individuals to Be Less Critical of Political Misinformation	48
In Validations We Trust? The Impact of Imperfect Human Annotations as a Gold Standard on the Quality of Validation of Automated Content Analysis	40
Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility	39
The Impact of Political Sophistication and Motivated Reasoning on Misinformation	39
Why Don’t We Learn from Social Media? Studying Effects of and Mechanisms behind Social Media News Use on General Surveillance Political Knowledge	36
Uncivil Communication and Simplistic Argumentation: Decreasing Political Trust, Increasing Persuasive Power?	29
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication	27
Collective Civic Moderation for Deliberation? Exploring the Links between Citizens’ Organized Engagement in Comment Sections and the Deliberative Quality of Online Discussions	26
Allies or Agitators? How Partisan Identity Shapes Public Opinion about Violent or Nonviolent Protests	24
Dynamics of Campaign Reporting and Press-Party Parallelism: Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism and the Media System in Turkey	23
Asymmetry of Partisan Media Effects?: Examining the Reinforcing Process of Conservative and Liberal Media with Political Beliefs	22
Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media	22
Sorting the News: How Ranking by Popularity Polarizes Our Politics	22
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities	20
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting	17
Media Coverage of Campaign Promises Throughout the Electoral Cycle	17
Framing Refugees: The Impact of Religious Frames on U.S. Partisans and Consumers of Cable News Media	16
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy	16
The Impact of News Consumption on Anti-immigration Attitudes and Populist Party Support in a Changing Media Ecology	15
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis	15
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Voting Advice Applications	14

When Do Partisans Stop Following the Leader?	14
From the Living Room to the Meeting Hall? Citizens’ Political Talk in the Deliberative System	13
Politicians’ Self-depiction and Their News Portrayal: Evidence from 28 Countries Using Visual Computational Analysis	13
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	12
Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries	12
Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment	12
Cross-Platform Emotions and Audience Engagement in Social Media Political Campaigning: Comparing Candidates’ Facebook and Instagram Images in the 2020 US Election	12
Mobile News Learning — Investigating Political Knowledge Gains in a Social Media Newsfeed with Mobile Eye Tracking	12
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs	11
Dictionaries, Supervised Learning, and Media Coverage of Public Policy	11
Testing Inequality and Identity Accounts of Racial Gaps in Political Expression on Social Media	11
Listening During Political Conversations: Traits and Situations	11
Does Talking to the Other Side Reduce Inter-party Hostility? Evidence from Three Studies	10
An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation	10
When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble	10
Corrective Actions in the Information Disorder. The Role of Presumed Media Influence and Hostile Media Perceptions for the Countering of Distorted User-Generated Content	10
How Propaganda Techniques Leverage Their Advantages: A Cross-national Study of the Effects of Chinese International Propaganda on the U.S. and South Korean Audiences	10
Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016	10
An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence	9
Widening the Divide between Them and Us? The Effects of Populist Communication on Cognitive and Affective Stereotyping in a Comparative European Setting	9
Muslims Take Action. How Exposure to Anti-Islamic Populist Political Messages Affects Young Muslims’ Support for Collective Action: A Longitudinal Experiment	9
What’s Not to Like? Facebook Page Likes Reveal Limited Polarization in Lifestyle Preferences	9
Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter	9
Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government	9
How the Politicization of Everyday Activities Affects the Public Sphere: The Effects of Partisan Stereotypes on Cross-Cutting Interactions	9
Facing the Electorate: Computational Approaches to the Study of Nonverbal Communication and Voter Impression Formation	8
The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election	8
The Effect of Associative Racial Cues in Elections	8
Strategy Framing in News Coverage and Electoral Success: An Analysis of Topic Model Networks Approach	8
The Automatic Analysis of Emotion in Political Speech Based on Transcripts	8
Beyond Policy: The Use of Social Group Appeals in Party Communication	8
Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China	7
Raising the Floor or Closing the Gap? How Media Choice and Media Content Impact Political Knowledge	7
Strategy News Is Good News: How Journalistic Coverage of Politics Reduces Affective Polarization	7
Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications	7
The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse	7
Increased Media Choice and Political Knowledge Gaps: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of 18 Established Democracies 1995-2015	7
Negatively Affecting Voters’ Issue Considerations. An Experimental Study of Parties’ Attack Communication	6
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	6
Nothing More than Feelings? How Emotions Affect Attitude Change during the 2016 General Election Debates	6
Moral Conviction, Emotion, and the Influence of Episodic versus Thematic Frames	6
The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark	6
When “Following” the Leader Inspires Action: Individuals’ Receptivity to Discursive Frame Elements on Social Media	6
Advancing Interdisciplinary Work in Computational Communication Science	6
Editor’s Note	6
Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?	5
In-House Vs. Outsourced Trolls: How Digital Mercenaries Shape State Influence Strategies	5
No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests	5
Mobilization vs. Demobilization Discourses on Social Media	5
Explaining Media Coverage of Constitutional Court Decisions in Germany: The Role of Case Characteristics	5

The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	5
New Conflicts in the Briefing Room: Using Sentiment Analysis to Evaluate Administration-press Relations from Clinton through Trump	5
Biased Representation of Politicians in Google and Wikipedia Search? The Joint Effect of Party Identity, Gender Identity and Elections	5
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	5
The Trouble with Sharing Your Privates: Pursuing Ethical Open Science and Collaborative Research across National Jurisdictions Using Sensitive Data	4
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth	4
Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships	4
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism	4
“Stick to Sports”: Evidence from Sports Media on the Origins and Consequences of Newly Politicized Attitudes	3
The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Selective Exposure: Evidence from 17 Countries	3
Commercial Companies in Party Networks: Digital Advertising Firms in US Elections from 2006-2016	3
Politicization of Science in COVID-19 Vaccine Communication: Comparing US Politicians, Medical Experts, and Government Agencies	3
Abating Dissonant Public Spheres: Exploring the Effects of Affective, Ideological and Perceived Societal Political Polarization on Social Media Political Persuasion	3
Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries	3
Predicting Vote Choice and Election Outcomes from Ballot Wording: The Role of Processing Fluency in Low Information Direct Democracy Elections	3
Media Effects in the Viewer’s Choice Era: Testing Revised Agenda-Setting and Priming Hypotheses	3
Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries	3
Recognition Crisis: Coming to Terms with Identity, Attention and Political Communication in the Twenty-First Century	3
Issue Importance and the Correction of Misinformation	3
Don’t Make My Entertainment Political! Social Media Responses to Narratives of Racial Duty on Competitive Reality Television Series	3
How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison	3
Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns	3
Do Gender Cues from Images Supersede Partisan Cues Conveyed via Text? Eye Movements Reveal Political Stereotyping in Multimodal Information Environments	3
Media-centric and Politics-centric Views of Media and Democracy: A Longitudinal Analysis ofPolitical Communicationand theInternational Journal of Press/Politics	3