OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mass Communication and Society is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Crowds and Smiles: Visual Opportunity Structures and the Communication of European Political Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic	41
Why People Became Hostile during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Social Media Use, Blame Attribution, and Collective Efficacy	26
Misinformation and Digital Inequalities: Comparing How Different Demographic Groups Get Exposed to and Engage with False Information	24
Investigating the Longitudinal Relationships Between Active Parental and Peer Mediation and Adolescents’ Social Media Literacy on the Positivity Bias	23
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies	23
The Influence of Motivation and Engagement on Knowledge and Behavioral Intentions: Information Learning on Social Media During Early COVID-19 Outbreak in China	21
Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data	20
Self-Consistency and Self-Enhancement Motivation Impacts on Selective Exposure to Politics — A SESAM Model Application	20
Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic	19
The Third-Person Effect in Election Campaigns: Individual Voter Campaign Stability and Perceptions of Campaign Influence	19
“Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive	18
A Vicious Cycle? Threat of Terror, Perceived Media Bias, and Support for Surveillance Policies	17
The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power	17
Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy	17
Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning	17
Moral Comments in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Ideology-Matching Moral Framing and Impression Motivation in the Persuasive Effect of User Comments on YouTube	16
A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Data News: A Systemic Functional Approach	15
Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?	14
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences	13
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research	13
Communicating Science, Climate Change, and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths	12
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes: A 40-Year Comparison	12
The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media	12
Unequal Framing in Times of Hardship? How Newspapers from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Portray Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees – Evidence from a Deductive and Inductive Automated C	11
A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulations on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views	10

How Can We Fight Partisan Biases in the COVID-19 Pandemic? AI Source Labels on Fact-checking Messages Reduce Motivated Reasoning	10
Does Exposure to Online News Media Depend on Individuals’ Political Attitudes and Trust in These Media? A Comparison Between Declarative and Behavioral Data	10
Pragmatics OnlineKate Scott. Pragmatics Online . New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 178 pp., ISBN No. 9781138368590, £130.00 (hardback).	9
How It Ends: Exploring How Narrative Closure and Character Outcomes in Series Finales Relate to Viewer Responses and Coping Behaviors	9
User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues	9
Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism	9
Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective	9
Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions	9
“Truth Sandwich” To Dispel Crisis Misinformation: Exploring the Separate and Combined Impacts of Inoculation, Narratives, and Stealing Thunder on Correcting Crisis Misinformation on Social Media	8
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users	8
Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs	8
The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement among Rural White Underclass Men	8
Newspaper Salience and Majority Members’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Ethno-Racial Minority Discrimination in the Netherlands	7
Understanding the Impact of Anger-Evoking and Efficacy-Eliciting Tweets in White Support for the BLM Movement	7
When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports	7
Political Identity and News Media Choice: The Polarizing Logic of Selective Exposure During the Catalan Independence Conflict	7
Society Frowns Upon Spinning and So Do the Alleged Spin Doctors: Tests of Present and Future Crisis Communicators Responding to Spin in the Media	7
A Repertoire Approach to Studying Inequalities in Political Social Media Use	6
Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?	6
Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television	6
The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety	6
Developing A Model of News Literacy in Early Adolescents: A Survey Study	6
Desert Work: Life and Labor in a News and Broadband Desert	6
News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology	6
On the Road to Sustainability: Themes and Strategies Used by Greenfluencers on Instagram and Their Impact on User Engagement	6
The Representation of Public Opinion in Routine U.S. Network News	6
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements	6
Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs	5
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters	5
Advancing Communication Infrastructure Theory: The Moderating Roles of Citizen Journalism Practice and Political Trust on Online Civic Participation	5
Does Creativity Make Even Cruel Prank TV Shows Funny? Exploring the double-Edged Sword Effects of Creativity	5
Support of Restricting—and Specific Presumed Effects of—Violent Media Content Primarily Reflect the Motive to Protect Oneself from Physical Threats	5
Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives	5
“Media Pressure is What Makes Law Enforcement Move”: Insights from Co-victims About the Positive Impacts of True Crime Media Attention	5
Humor in Satirical News Headlines: Analyzing Humor Form and Content, and Their Relations with Audience Engagement	5
The Power of Populist Discourses: The Effect of Populist Radical Left and Right Rhetoric on Political Preferences	5
When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection	5
Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters	5