OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journalism Studies is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Spanish Civil War from Exile: Testimony and Fiction in Heroes and Beasts of Spain by Manuel Chaves Nogales	73
Journalism Versus Churnalism: How News Factors in Press Releases Affect Journalistic Processing of Ocean Plastic Research in Newspapers Globally	56
Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US Election Campaigns	41
Lost in Translation? How Structural, Individual, and Professional Factors Hinder AI Adoption in Investigative Journalism	38
The Humanitarian Crisis in the Media: Framing Analysis of Rohingya-Related International News Using BERTopic	38
Mitigating Risks to Journalists in the 2014 Gaza War	35
Feigning Indignance, Reinstating Power: Paradigm Repair and the Publishing of Ingrid Escamilla’s Murdered Body in the Mexican Press	33
How News Organizations Sell Native Advertising: Discourses of Integration and Separation on In-House Content Studio Web Sites	33
Examining Assumptions Around How News Avoidance Gets Defined: The Importance of Overall News Consumption, Intention, and Structural Inequalities	32
The Pandemic in Our Country, the Pandemic in Their Countries: News Values and Media Representation of the COVID-19 Pandemic	29
How News Organizations Coordinate, Select, and Edit Content for Social Media Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review	26
Reflecting, Regulating, Adapting: Metacognition’s Role in Journalism Practices	26
Recommended for You: How Newspapers Normalise Algorithmic News Recommendation to Fit Their Gatekeeping Role	24
Preparing for Risks and Building Resilience	24
Science Journalism in the Arab Region: Perennial Problems and Potential Solutions	23
The Ida B. Wells Effect: A Novel Computational Analysis of US Newspaper Lynching Coverage, 1805–1963	23
Journalistic Discourse on Disruptive News Ventures Launched by Media Insiders	23
News Sourcing Practices in Climate Reporting in Indonesia	23
Gatekeeping, News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes	21
Trans News Matters: Media Coverage and Trans Minors’ Social Transitions in the Basque Country	21
Making Sense of Climate Change: The Challenges and Promises of Embodied Climate Journalism	21
Journalists’ Apprehension of Being Politically Correct: A Source of Racial Stereotyping of Street Harassment Perpetrators in the Press	21
Break a Story: Examining the Effects of Instagram Stories from News Accounts on Adolescents’ Political Learning	20
“Not the Whole Story”: The On Being Podcast and Journalism as a Healing Art	20
Covering Environment and Climate Change in Turkey: Transformative Journalisms Face Competitive Authoritarianism	20

Social Media Policies as Social Control in the Newsroom: A Case Study of the New York Times on Twitter	19
Correction	18
Frames and Journalistic Roles in Chinese Reporting on HIV: Insights from a Content Analysis and Interviews Focused on Verbal and Visual Modalities*	18
“Let’s Not Tank the Reputation of This Organization.” How Newsroom Social Media Policies Exacerbate Journalism’s Labor Crisis	18
How Journalists Deal with Inclusion and Objectivity: Three Models of Social Justice Coverage	18
Survival Games: Understanding Journalistic and Extra-Journalistic Practices and Pursuits of Small-Town Stringers in South India	17
Unpacking Algorithmic News Engagement: How News Values Shape Audience Behaviors on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)	17
Patterns of News Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: A 2.5 Year Longitudinal Study in the Netherlands	17
Unprecedented Times in Journalism: Emotional Stress and Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Is Press Freedom Better Protected in Democracies? Internet Shutdown and Journalism in India	16
When Journalists are Voiceless: How Lifestyle Journalists Cover Hate and Mitigate Harassment	16
The Direction and Demographics of Journalists’ Trajectories: Evidence from One American City, 2015–2021	16
Bodying the War Correspondent: Deploying Creative Practice to Explore the Reporter's Body as a Sense-Making Tool	16
Recentering News in Journalism Studies: A Response to Journalism Studies for Realists	16
The Quality of COVID-19 Coverage: Investigating Relevance and Viewpoint Diversity in German Mainstream and Alternative Media	16
The Messenger (not the Medium) Is the Message? Uncovering Journalists’ Perceptions of Digital Disinformation in Conflict Countries	16
Authoritarian Influences: Interactivity Within the Hierarchy of Influences Model	16
Navigating Connections and Disconnections: The (Re)making of Russian Exiled Journalism in the Digital Age	15
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil Media: Influence of Online Comments on Media Trust	15
Re-centring Community, Care, and Curiosity in a Decentred Journalism Studies: A Response to Journalism Studies for Realists	15
How Safe Is Journalism? Unpacking Risks and Implications for the Profession in Romania	15
News Automation and Algorithmic Transparency in the Newsroom: The Case of the Washington Post	14
Identifying Major Components of Solutions-Oriented Journalism: A Review to Guide Future Research	14
From Precariously Managing Risks to Building Social Resilience: The Safety of Women Journalists in Brazil	13
Journalistic Careers and Gender in Brazil: Impasses and Inequalities between Men and Women in the Profession	13
Solutions-oriented Framing and Responsibility Attribution in Urban Youth Crime: Effects on Policy Support and the Mediating Role of Emotions and Social Inequality Perception	13
Harassed for Their Job: Exploring Factors That Render Journalists Prone to Harassment and Intimidation	13
The Gap Between What They Say and What They Do: Journalists’ Role Conception and Role Performance in Socialist-Communist Context	12
Media Capture and Journalism as Emotional Labor: How Do Media Professionals Manage Bureaucratic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq?	12
Patterns of Persistence: Studying News Repertoires Before, During, and After Covid-19	12
Supporting National Science Journalism through International Organization: The Creation of the Ibero-American Association of Science Journalism	12
An Intersectional Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand Journalists’ Online and Offline Experiences of Abuse, Threats and Violence	11
Factors Influencing the Journalistic Circulation of Traumatic Images: The Case of Alan Kurdi	11
Is a Brand Journalist Just Another Journalist? Examining Differences and Similarities in the Self-Perceptions of Their Professional Roles and Ethical Orientations	11
News Translation as Media Work in Agency Journalism? Evidence from United News of India Urdu	11
Networks of War/Peace Journalism on Twitter. Comparing Inter-Individual Differences in German Political Journalists’ Framing of the Russian-Ukrainian War	11
Correcting False Information: Journalistic Coverage During the 2016 and 2020 US Elections	11
Boundaries in Motion? Finnish Political Journalists’ External and Internal Boundary Work in a Time of Change	11
Trend Journalism: Definition, History, and Critique	11
Scandinavian Hyperpartisans Prevail? News Use on Facebook During the Covid-19 Pandemic	10
Professional Ideals of Data Journalists Around the Globe: Congruencies and Divergences Between Role Conceptions and Narrated Role Performances	10
Trust Through Relationships in Journalism	10
The Ritual of Objectivity vs. the Ritual of Emotionality: Emotion Display and the Credibility of Virtual Newscasters	10
Asian Newsrooms in Transition: A Study of Data Journalism Forms and Functions in Singapore’s State-Mediated Press System	10
Chinese Journalists’ Witnessing Practice in Health Disasters	10
The People’s Advocate: Exploring Journalistic Roles in Socialist Bulgaria	10
Conceptualizations, Contentions and Systemic Conditions: A Response to Competing for Cultural Authority	10
Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review	10
A Game Worth the Candle? French Journalists and Their Illusio in the Face of Disinformation	10
From Delegitimisation to Conditional Legitimacy: Media Slant and Multimodal Framing of Quran-Burning Protests	10

Using Panel Data to Study Political Interest, News Media Trust, and News Media use in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
“It’s the Economy, Stupid!”, Is it not? The Relationship between Press Freedom and the Status of the Economy in Western Media Systems	10
Why Do Social Media Users Accept, Doubt or Resist Corrective Information? A Qualitative Analysis of Comments in Response to Corrective Information on Social Media	10
Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States: An Assessment of Local News Census Research	10
“I do not Feel Like Watching the News”: News Avoidance among Economically Disadvantaged Girls and Young Women in India	10
News Coping and Resistance: An Examination of Entertainment as Self-Care in the Digital Black Press	10
“I can’t be neutral or centrist in a debate over my own humanity”: A Study of Disagreements Between Journalists and Editors, and What They Tell Us About Objectivity	9
The Psychological Empowerment Potential of Solutions Journalism: Perspectives from Pandemic News Users in the UK	9
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims	9
Commercial News as Cultural Form	9
True Crime Podcasting as Journalistic Heterodoxy: Boundary Practices and Journalistic Epistemology of a Heretic Interloper	9
Parrhesia as Journalism: Learning from the Truth- and Justice-seeking Women Journalists of twentieth Century Turkey	9
Quantifying Community Interest: A Study on the Role of Audience Metrics in Hyperlocal Journalism	9
Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility	9
Rethinking Food Media: Food Journalism as an Invitation to Identity, Democratic Worldmaking, and Food Sovereignty	9
“In the Beginning Were the Data”: Economic Journalism as/and Data Journalism	9
Blurred Boundaries of Journalism to Guarantee Safety: Approaches of Resistance and Resilience for Investigative Journalism in Latin America	9
Worsening Safety Conditions for Women Journalists in Turkey’s Alternative News Media	8
Bound by Exile: Exploring Kinship Dynamics and Role Perceptions among Diaspora Journalists	8
Science Journalism in Pakistan: The Challenges Faced by Environmental Reporters	8
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Journalism and the Coronavirus Pandemic	8
Media, Democracy and Pluralism: Exploring a Radical Response to the Crisis of Journalism	8
Risks and Resilience in the Case of Brazilian Female Journalists: How Women Perceive Violence Against Media Professionals and Cope with its Effects	8
Serving the Public Interest? A Computational Analysis of the Topics of UK National Newspaper Coverage Using Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests Between 2005 and 2023	8
Chickens, Inc.: Was UK Newspapers’ Framing of the Chicken Meat Production Industry Compatible with Holding Corporate Power to Account?	8
The Legacy of the Sociology of News Paradigm: Continuities, Changes, and Ironies	8
Housing News and the Enrolment of Publics into the Asset Economy in Aotearoa New Zealand	8
Demarcation and Refugee Hate: Framing of Refugees in News and its Impact on Hate Speech in Public Comments	8
Converting Online News Visitors to Subscribers: Exploring the Effectiveness of Paywall Strategies Using Behavioural Data	8
Beech Trees, Springtime, Cultures and Climates – Seasonal Journalism in Danish News Media from 1849 to 2023	8
Framing the U.S. and Russia Coverage: The Limited Agency of Foreign Correspondents and the Reproduction of Bias in the News	7
Complicity and Revictimization: Discursive Violence in Mexican and U.S. Press Coverage of Mexican Journalist Killings	7
Engagement as Revenue in Journalism: Turning Community, Comments, and Access into Economic Viability	7
“I Hope my Partner Will Keep me up-to-date”: How Couples Navigate News Consumption and Avoidance	7
Sports Journalism’s Uncertain Future: Navigating the Current Media Ecosystem in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Mediatized Voices of Science: News Media Narratives of Science and Populism in the Philippines	7
Consumers’ Paying Intent for Public Service Media in Spain: The Effect of RTVE Service Quality, Citizens’ Expenditure, and the Moderating Role of Age	7
Election Promise Tracking: Extending the Shelf Life of Democracy in Digital Journalism Practice and Scholarship	7
Indian Journalism’s Rightward Turn: A Response to Competing for Cultural Authority	7
Rectifying Harm Through Care-Based Practices: How Journalists Might Tend to Disengaged Communities	7
Competing for Cultural Authority: Journalism Studies Must Account for the Right	7
The Impact of Testimony Journalism on Audience Engagement: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Point of View	7
Local Journalists as Brokers: Conceptualizing Information Relationships in Rural Communities	7
Social Actors and Storylines in the Coverage of Russian-Ukrainian War in English and Polish-Language Tabloids	7
Trust and Fear in the Newsroom: How Emotions Drive the Exchange of Innovative Ideas	7
Navigating Platform Dependency: Four Strategic Approaches for Social Media News Publishing	7
Shifting Sources, Shifting Views: How Public Opinion Sources Influence Journalists’ Audience Perceptions	7
An Audience Turn in Right-wing Media Studies: A Response to Competing for Cultural Authority	7
More Than Justifications an Analysis of Information Needs in Explanations and Motivations to Disable Personalization	7