OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Internet 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Media, Web, and Panel Surveys: Using Non‐Probability Samples in Social and Policy Research	140
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems	50
Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation	37
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	32
Crowdsourcing: Citizens as coproducers of public services	30
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	26
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	21
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	21
How Online Content Providers Moderate User‐Generated Content to Prevent Harmful Online Communication: An Analysis of Policies and Their Implementation	19
What Drives U.S. Congressional Members’ Policy Attention on Twitter?	19
Regulating the European Data‐Driven Economy: A Case Study on the General Data Protection Regulation	17
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	15
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	14
Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	14
Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States	12
Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order	12
Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	11
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	11
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	11
The Internet and public policy: Future directions	10
Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo‐mercantilism in digital services	10
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	9
Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	9
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	8
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	8

Super‐amplifiers! The role of Twitter extended party networks in political elections	7
Battle for Britain: Analyzing Events as Drivers of Political Tribalism in Twitter Discussions of Brexit	7
The regulation of internet pornography: What a survey of under‐18s tells us about the necessity for and potential efficacy of emerging legislative approaches	7
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	6
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	6
The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification	6
The Social Network: How Friends’ Online Behavior and Belongingness Needs Influence Political Activity	6
Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy	6
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	6
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs	5
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	5
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	5
Credibility in enhanced self‐regulation: The case of the European data protection regime	5
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	5
Moving toward a “middle ground”?—The governance of platforms in the United States and China	5
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	5