OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 1. 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
Depersonalize and attack: facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections	43
Correction	28
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	26
Patterns of Negative Campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political Parties’ Facebook Posts and Users’ Sharing Behaviour across Twelve Countries	24
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates	23
Lenin, Putin, and Rage Guy: Internet memes in the discourse of a Russian far-right community	20
Interactive Election Campaigns on Social Media? Flow of Political Information Among Journalists and Politicians as an Element of the Communication Strategy of Political Actors	20
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	19
Trusting tech firms’ big data for political microtargeting? A qualitative analysis of parties’ communication managers risk and trust perceptions	16
Learning from YouTube? The role of exposure to partisan YouTube channels and news literacy in political learning during the South Korean general election campaign	15
Public “agendamelding” in the United States: assessing the relative influence of different types of online news on partisan agendas from 2015 to 2020	15
Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat	15
A tale of heroes and villains: Russia’s strategic narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
The impact of moral framing in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates on moral judgments and self-transcendent emotions in tweets	13
Cookies and content moderation: affective chilling effects of internet surveillance and censorship	12
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	11
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge	10
Constituent connections: senators’ reputation building in the age of social media	9
Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	9
How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages	9
The politics of AI: democracy and authoritarianism in developing countries	7
Explaining digital campaign expenses: The case of the 2018 legislative elections in Colombia	6
A market of black boxes: The political economy of Internet surveillance and censorship in Russia	6
News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge	6
Attack or Block? Repertoires of Digital Censorship in Autocracies	6

The right to stay offline? Not during the pandemic	6
How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy	6
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	5
The effect of traffic light veracity labels on perceptions of political advertising source and message credibility on social media	5
The role of sources of fake political news in corrective intentions on Facebook: investigating a moderated mediating model of perceived news fakeness and candidate preference in the 2022 Korean presid	5
A platform penalty for news? How social media context can alter information credibility online	5
Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention	5
Recognizing fake news spreading in social networks using ensemble learning	5
Between analogue and digital: A critical exploration of strategic social media use in Greek election campaigns	5
Far-right conspiracies and online engagement: how #StopTheSteal leveraged moral appeals, group identity, and #BlackLivesMatter to capture audience attention on Parler	5
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	4
Designing algorithms against corruption: a conjoint study on communicative features to encourage intentions for collective action	4
China’s digital diplomacy agenda and public engagement: an analysis in Africa on twitter (X)	4
When war narratives encounter populist audiences: a case of the Russia-Ukraine War on Chinese social media	4
Blue bird in a coal mine: How 2020 Democratic presidential candidates framed climate change on Twitter	4
Complaining and sharing personal concerns as political acts: how everyday talk about childcare and parenting on online forums increases public deliberation and civic engagement in China	4
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	4
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	4
Political institutions and the gendered use of social media among political candidates: evidence from Tunisia	4
The Impact of Political Memes: a Longitudinal Field Experiment	4
Correction	4
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	3
America’s decoupling from China narrative: development, determinants, and policy implications	3
How do parties use political advertising in election campaigns? Examining issue competition in advertising campaigns on Facebook and Instagram for the 2021 federal election in Germany	3
One way or another? Discussion disagreement and attitudinal homogeneity on social networking sites as pathways to polarization in Czechia	3
Understanding the democratic role of perceived online political micro-targeting: longitudinal effects on trust in democracy and political interest	3
Pill epistemology	3
Manufacturing conflict or advocating peace? A study of social bots agenda building in the Twitter discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Can information literacy increase political accountability? Linking information evaluation with obstinate partisanship via social media political homophily	3
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	3
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	3
Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa	3
The composition and amplification of mainstream political memes: evidence from 4 U.S. election cycles	3
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	3
Wrapped in a veil: how social media and risk perception shape political trust in emergency organizations in Anhui, China	3
Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news	3
Aimed emotions in American presidential politics	2
Civic and political volunteering: the mobilizing role of websites and social media in four countries	2
Exploring digital campaign competence: the role of knowledge in data-driven election campaigns	2
Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement	2
The phantom effect of social media: the impact of no “likes” on politicians’ responsiveness to public opinion	2
White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements	2
Much Ado About Facebook? Evidence from 80 Congressional Campaigns in Chile	2
Challenges of and approaches to data collection across platforms and time: Conspiracy-related digital traces as examples of political contention	2
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	2
Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election	2
Toward geopolitical gaming: exploring the tension between Blizzard Entertainment and political forces	2
When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy	2
Public responses to COVID-19 information from the public health office on Twitter and YouTube: implications for research practice	2
Effects of online user comments on public opinion perception, personal opinion, and willingness to speak out: A cross-cultural comparison between Germany and South Korea	2

The bad citizen? Framing non-voting on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. election	2
Neural blockchain technology for a new anticorruption token: towards a novel governance model	2
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	2
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	1
Correction	1
Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion	1
Searching for cyberspace: the colonial pipeline ransomware attack through the lens of search engines	1
Belief bias and censorship of religious extremism on digital media in 15 EU states: exploring individual and country-level moderators, a cross-country multilevel analysis	1
Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions	1
The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition	1
The hidden threat of cyber-attacks – undermining public confidence in government	1
Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?	1
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	1
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	1
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand	1
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	1
Living with COVID-19 conspiracies on Chinese TikTok (Douyin): unpacking multimodal features, national identity, and user engagement	1
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	1
How influences of external actors affect Information and Communication Technology policy formation in developing countries: case of Malawi	1
Measuring the impact of candidates’ tweets on their electoral results	1
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	1
True believers, entertainers, and skeptical scholars: claims and frames on conspiracy TikTok	1
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	1