OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from YouTube? The role of exposure to partisan YouTube channels and news literacy in political learning during the South Korean general election campaign	58
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates	33
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	29
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	29
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	26
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	23
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	21
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	21
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	16
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	16
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	15
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	15
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	14
Correction	12
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	11
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	10
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	10
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	10
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	10
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand	10
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	9
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	9
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	8
Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention	8
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	8

“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	7
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	7
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	7
Correction	6
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	6
Angry tweets. How uncivil and intolerant elite communication affects political distrust and political participation intentions	6
Amplifying the regime: identifying coordinated activity of pro-government Telegram channels in Russia and Belarus	6
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies	6
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
This is why we can’t have nice things: examining the relationship between frequency of disagreeable political discussion, content moderation, re-platforming, and affective polarization	6
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	5
An Intelligent system for the categorization of question time official documents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies	5
Mapping discursive regimes of transnational dynamics of conspiracy theories as an emergent process: revisiting network approaches and new research avenues	5
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	5
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	5
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	4
Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election	4
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	4
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	4
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	4
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	4
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	4
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	4
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	4
Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK	3
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	3
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram	3
From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum	3
AI chatbots and political learning	3
When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms	3
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	3
Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election	3
Social media diplomacy for social visibility and social approval: strategic communication of the Taliban de facto government on Twitter	3
Effects of state-sponsored political posts on perceived credibility and persuasion	3
How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches	3
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign	3
Digital protest and transnational mediation: exploring key mediators and narratives in the #StepDownHasina hashtivism in social media	3
Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers	3