OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 37. 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
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue	244
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research	237
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time	212
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	99
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol	95
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	87
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	82
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network	81
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms	75
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown	67
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels	64
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source	59
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls	58
Managing multiple accounts for identity construction on Instagram: A privacy management framework	54
Perceived realism in VR as a multifaceted concept: Insights from interviews and focus groups with experts and non-experts	54
Birds of a feather flock even closer together in the digital era: The role of China’s parallel digital realm in the lives of migrant students in Hong Kong	53
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter	52
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum	51
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	47
Between anger and love: A multi-level study on the impact of policy issues on user reactions in national election campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway	47
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	46
Data mirroring: A methodological framework for data-donation-based interviews in media use research	46
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition	45
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter	45
Media cultivation of public outlooks on artificial general intelligence: Diverging cognitive and emotional pathways of news and entertainment media	44

Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains	41
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning	39
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020	39
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms	39
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	39
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	39
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure	38
“He will always love me”: Authentic romance and reciprocal love in otome games	38
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview	37
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment	37
From moderation to chaos: Meta’s fact-checking and the battle over truth and free speech	37
Book Review: Social Media and Hate	37
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms	37