OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journalism Studies is 6. 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
Supporting Activism in Latin America: The Role of Science Communication, Science Journalism, and NGOs in Socio-environmental Conflicts	92
How Journalists Perceive News Avoidance: Reactions and Solutions to the Missing Audience as Boundary Work	40
Intertwining Science Journalism with (Post)Development	40
Beyond Journalism About Journalism?: Assessing the Impact of Metajournalistic Discourse on Journalism Studies	37
Community-First Criticism: Reviewing Art and Culture in Local Newspapers	35
Who is to Blame? Analysis of Government and News Media Frames During the 2014 Earthquake in Chile	34
A Field Analysis of Immersive Technologies and Their Impact on Journalism: Technologist Perspectives on the Potential Transformation of the Journalistic Field	34
Ripped from the Headlines: Contemporary Practices in the Adaptation of Journalism as Screen Fiction	33
“It was a Real Town Newspaper”: Creating Community-Centered News Myths Through Newspaper Closure Statements	29
Reconsidering Innovation: Situating and Evaluating Change in Journalism	28
Feigning Indignance, Reinstating Power: Paradigm Repair and the Publishing of Ingrid Escamilla’s Murdered Body in the Mexican Press	27
The Pandemic in Our Country, the Pandemic in Their Countries: News Values and Media Representation of the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Reporting Through Patriotic Lenses: How Journalists and Political Actors Understand and Assess the Community Role of Local Journalism	25
Service Innovation and Value Creation in Local Journalism During Times of Crisis	24
Why Do Social Media Users Accept, Doubt or Resist Corrective Information? A Qualitative Analysis of Comments in Response to Corrective Information on Social Media	24
The Forces Shaping Journalism and Journalism Studies: A Reply to Vos, Craft, and Witschge and Sabbah	24
Portrayal of China in Online News Headlines: A Framing and Syntactic Analysis	23
News Coping and Resistance: An Examination of Entertainment as Self-Care in the Digital Black Press	23
Covering a Complicated Legacy with a Sledgehammer: Metajournalistic and Audience Discourse After Kobe Bryant’s Death	23
How News Organizations Sell Native Advertising: Discourses of Integration and Separation on In-House Content Studio Web Sites	22
Introduction: Journalism Studies and the Global South- Theory, Practice and Pedagogy	22
Journalism and the Politics of Mobility	21
Mitigating Risks to Journalists in the 2014 Gaza War	21
How News Organizations Coordinate, Select, and Edit Content for Social Media Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review	21
Where Do Politicians End, and Journalists Begin? Mediating Political Intentions Through the Eyes of Journalists	20

“I Feel It in My Body, in My Soul, in My Mind”: Journalism, Racist News and Immigrants’ Experience of Belonging	20
The Spanish Civil War from Exile: Testimony and Fiction in Heroes and Beasts of Spain by Manuel Chaves Nogales	20
Transparency in the News: The Impact of Self-Disclosure and Process Disclosure on the Perceived Credibility of the Journalist, the Story, and the Organization	19
The “major mea culpa:” Journalistic Discursive Techniques When Professional Norms are Broken	19
Quantifying Community Interest: A Study on the Role of Audience Metrics in Hyperlocal Journalism	18
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism	18
The Humanitarian Crisis in the Media: Framing Analysis of Rohingya-Related International News Using BERTopic	18
German Political Journalists and the Normalization of Twitter	17
Mapping Peace Journalism: Toward a Shared Understanding of Success	17
Platform Configuration and Digital Materiality: How News Publishers Innovate Their Practices Amid Entanglements with the Evolving Technological Infrastructure of Platforms	16
At the Extremes: Assessing Readability, Grade Level, Sentiment, and Tone in US Media Outlets	16
Using Panel Data to Study Political Interest, News Media Trust, and News Media use in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Beyond Cheerleading: Navigating the Boundaries of Science Journalism in South Africa	16
Blurred Boundaries of Journalism to Guarantee Safety: Approaches of Resistance and Resilience for Investigative Journalism in Latin America	15
Boundary Work in the Nordic Media Model: Metajournalistic Discourse on Alternative Media in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden	15
Assessing News Content Diversity in Flanders: An Empirical Study at DPG Media	15
Individual Evaluation vs Fact-checking in the Recognition and Willingness to Share Fake News About Covid-19 via Whatsapp	14
Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News: A Regional Qualitative Case Study	14
News Agenda in European Minority Language Online Media: Balanced Coverage, Limited World	13
Seeing the Whole Picture. Towards a Multi-perspective Approach to News Content Diversity based on Liberal and Deliberative Models of Democracy	13
New Guests Crashing the Party: A Typology of Journalistic Collaboration	13
Journalistic Passion as Commodity: A Managerial Perspective	13
Journalism Studies for Realists: Decentering Journalism While Keeping Journalism Studies	13
No More Market-Driven Than Hard News: Lifestyle Journalists' Market Drive and Perceived Audience Obligations	12
Preparing for Risks and Building Resilience	12
What is Popular Gets More Popular? Exploring Over-Time Dynamics in Article Readership Using Real-World Log Data	12
Running up Against a Brick Wall: U.S. Metajournalistic Discourse of Gender Equality in Newsrooms	12
Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy and Tech Ideology in Metajournalistic Discourse	12
Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US Election Campaigns	12
A Servant of the Authorities or an Ally of Civil Society? The Role Perceptions and Role Performance of Local Interloper Media	12
Fact-Checking as Mobilization and Counter-Mobilization: The Case of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong	12
In Search of the Global South: Assessing Attitudes of Latin American Journalists to Artificial Intelligence in Journalism	12
Journalism Education as Scientific Education: Research University Students’ Engagement with Knowledge	12
Still a Boy’s Club: Women Journalists & Political News Coverage	12
African Journalists at Crossroads: Examining the Impact of China, US, and the UK’s Short-Journalism Training Programs Offered to African Journalists	11
Chinese Journalists’ Witnessing Practice in Health Disasters	11
A Virtuous Circle: Explaining News Deserts and Their Relationships with Social Capital	11
Back to Normal? Journalistic Paradigm Repair on the Fall of Oppositional Media in Post-National Security Law Hong Kong	11
Conceptualizations, Contentions and Systemic Conditions: A Response to Competing for Cultural Authority	11
The Influence of News Coverage on Humanitarian Aid: The Bureaucrats’ Perspective	11
On Being a Good Worker, a Good Mother, a Good Carer: Women Journalists, Motherhood, and Caregiving	11
Journalism Versus Churnalism: How News Factors in Press Releases Affect Journalistic Processing of Ocean Plastic Research in Newspapers Globally	11
Examining Assumptions Around How News Avoidance Gets Defined: The Importance of Overall News Consumption, Intention, and Structural Inequalities	11
Trust Through Relationships in Journalism	11
Indifferent About Online Traffic: The Posting Strategies of Five News Outlets During Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter	10
Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility	10
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims	10
Fact-Checking Misinformation: Eight Notes on Consensus Reality	10
Introduction: What We (Don’t) Know About News Avoidance	10
Professional Ideals of Data Journalists Around the Globe: Congruencies and Divergences Between Role Conceptions and Narrated Role Performances	10

Recommended for You: How Newspapers Normalise Algorithmic News Recommendation to Fit Their Gatekeeping Role	10
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society: Transformation of Journalist-Source Relationships in Hong Kong	10
Laboring in Journalism’s Crowded, Precarious Entryway: Perceptions of Journalism Interns	10
A Little of that Human Touch: How Regular Journalists Redefine Their Expertise in the Face of Artificial Intelligence	10
Understanding Audience Emotional Needs in Crisis Journalism: The Boston Globe’s Social Media Coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing	9
Journalistic Product Personnel as Cultural Entrepreneurs: An Exploration of Background, Tenureship, and Knowledge Skills	9
Industrial Production of Post-industrial Products: How Interactive Visualizations Miss Their Potential as a Journalistic Form of Knowledge	9
Right-Wing News Cultures and the Future of Journalism Studies: A Reply to Juarez Miro, Figenschou and Ihlebæk, and Chadha	9
Break a Story: Examining the Effects of Instagram Stories from News Accounts on Adolescents’ Political Learning	9
Bound by Exile: Exploring Kinship Dynamics and Role Perceptions among Diaspora Journalists	9
British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit	9
Asian Newsrooms in Transition: A Study of Data Journalism Forms and Functions in Singapore’s State-Mediated Press System	9
Effects of Emotional Labor Engagement on Job Burnout: A Study of Chinese Frontline Reporters	9
First-hand Accounts? Walter Duranty, William Henry Chamberlin and Eugene Lyons as Moscow Correspondents in the 1930s	9
De-colonizing Global News-flows: A Historical Perspective	9
Speaking of Africa: Sociology and the Study of Media in Majority World countries	9
Morphology of Journalism Culture in the Context of Local Culture	9
Playful Citizens: How Children Develop and Integrate News-Related Practices in Their Daily Lives	8
Sourcing Dis/Information: How Swedish and Ukrainian Journalists Source, Verify, and Mediate Journalistic Truth During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict	8
Suicide, a Topic that Opens a Debate on What Journalism is for: A Study on Portuguese Journalists’ Perceptions	8
Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy	8
“Listening Literacies” as Keys to Rebuilding Trust in Journalism: A Typology for a Changing News Audience	8
“It’s a Battle You Are Never Going to Win”: Perspectives from Journalists in Four Countries on How Digital Media Platforms Undermine Trust in News	8
News Sourcing Practices in Climate Reporting in Indonesia	8
Risks and Resilience in the Case of Brazilian Female Journalists: How Women Perceive Violence Against Media Professionals and Cope with its Effects	8
Journalists’ Apprehension of Being Politically Correct: A Source of Racial Stereotyping of Street Harassment Perpetrators in the Press	7
Worsening Safety Conditions for Women Journalists in Turkey’s Alternative News Media	7
Fake News in Metajournalistic Discourse	7
The Hierarchy of News Values – A Corpus-Based Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison of News Reporting on Epidemics	7
“Cross-editing”: Comparing News Output Through Journalists’ Re-working of Their Rivals’ Scripts	7
News for (Me and) You: Exploring the Reporting Practices of Citizen Journalists on TikTok	7
News Production and the People of Silence: Pseudo-professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility	7
Examining Journalists’ Adoption of Social Media Tools in Contexts of Precarity	7
The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism	7
The Aftertaste you Cannot Erase. Career Histories, Emotions and Emotional Management in Local Newsrooms	7
The Precarity Trap: Modelling Non-Democratic Journalistic Practices Beyond Media Capture	7
How Do Public Service Media Innovate? An Analysis of Product Development by European PSM	7
Abusive Metajournalistic Discourse Towards Journalists on Social Media	6
“In the Beginning Were the Data”: Economic Journalism as/and Data Journalism	6
Managing Difficult Relationships: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in Nigeria, State Officials, and Senior Editors in Overseas Media	6
What’s (The) News? Reassessing “News Values” as a Concept and Methodology in the Digital Age	6
Correction	6
Disruptions in Normalization: Reflexive Monitoring in Journalism Adaptation and Audience Collaboration	6
Pointing Fingers in the Disinformation Era: How Journalists and Politicians Perceive Each Other’s Role in Spreading Disinformation and Its Impact on their Relationship	6
Science Journalism in the Arab Region: Perennial Problems and Potential Solutions	6
Transregional News Media Coverage in Multilingual Countries: The Impact of Market Size, Source, and Media Type in Switzerland	6
“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	6
Sports News Media and Coming Out of Lesbian Athletes: Perspective from Non-Western News Outlets	6
The Psychological Empowerment Potential of Solutions Journalism: Perspectives from Pandemic News Users in the UK	6
Using Facebook to Discuss Aspects of Industry Safety: How Women Journalists Enact Ethics of Care in Online Professional Space	6
Commercial News as Cultural Form	6
Parrhesia as Journalism: Learning from the Truth- and Justice-seeking Women Journalists of twentieth Century Turkey	6
Twitter’s Technological Affordances and Science Journalism in the Global South: A Media Richness Approach from South Africa	6
Empowered Narratives: How BLK Magazine Used Advocacy Journalism to Represent Black LGBTQ People	6