OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Technology & Politics is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

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	60
Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates	33
Echoes of exile: social media’s influence on emotions and governmental attitudes toward Afghan refugee expulsion	32
Imagineering a new way of governing: the blockchain and res publica	30
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks: how the internet reaches and activates the politically disengaged	30
Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?	25
Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election	23
Navigating participation: how website design impacts the digital divide in political engagement	22
Does following or engaging in online discussions trigger political participation? Results of two online experiments	19
Subversion: the strategic weaponization of narratives	17
Localizing the digital: implementation frictions and digital governance in inland China	16
AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections	15
Exposure to counter-attitudinal information on Twitter/X and political activity	14
Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication	13
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism: How social media news use predicts disinformation beliefs and support for political violence	12
Subtle divergence, distinct paths: partisan variations in verification approaches	12
Online coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Anglo-American democracies: internet news coverage and pandemic politics in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand	11
Correction	11
Broadcasting together. The biographical trajectories of YouTube conspiracy theory micro-celebrities	11
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories: content differences and implications associated with increased scrollability of news	10
You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums	10
Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena	10
In cyber we trust? Understanding election legitimacy in the age of electronic election systems	10
Civic learning and self-determination as pathways for transforming voice into instrumental engagement: an empirical test	9
Covering online protest: what changes and what remains the same? Examples from the protest for justice for Roman Zadorov	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
“The scandal that shocked the world”: conspirituality and online scam ads	8
Digital Repression Beyond the Masses: How Autocrats Use Online Disinformation to Counter Elite Challenges	7
Uncertainty, agency, and the future context of internet governance: a foresightful conversation	7
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies	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
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
Copycats? Do right-wing groups emulate left-wing digital advocacy organizations?	6
Conspiracy beliefs old and new, U.S. media old and new	6
Correction	6
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations	6
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
How does social media content go viral across platforms? Modelling the spread of Kamala is brat across X, TikTok, and Instagram	5
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research	5
French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship	4
Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content	4
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data	4
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood	4
The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?	4
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe	4
The role of the media in conspiracy thinking: trust in journalists is key for the politically distrustful	4
Personalized Facebook campaigning and the quest for personal votes in Taiwan	4
How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling	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
The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China	4