OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Communication is 9. 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
The Impact of Political Sophistication and Motivated Reasoning on Misinformation	39
Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility	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
Sorting the News: How Ranking by Popularity Polarizes Our Politics	22
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
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities	20
Media Coverage of Campaign Promises Throughout the Electoral Cycle	17
How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting	17
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy	16
Framing Refugees: The Impact of Religious Frames on U.S. Partisans and Consumers of Cable News Media	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
When Do Partisans Stop Following the Leader?	14

Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Voting Advice Applications	14
Politicians’ Self-depiction and Their News Portrayal: Evidence from 28 Countries Using Visual Computational Analysis	13
From the Living Room to the Meeting Hall? Citizens’ Political Talk in the Deliberative System	13
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
How News Feels: Anticipated Anxiety as a Factor in News Avoidance and a Barrier to Political Engagement	12
Testing Inequality and Identity Accounts of Racial Gaps in Political Expression on Social Media	11
Listening During Political Conversations: Traits and Situations	11
Correcting the Misinformed: The Effectiveness of Fact-checking Messages in Changing False Beliefs	11
Dictionaries, Supervised Learning, and Media Coverage of Public Policy	11
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
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
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
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