Journal of African Media Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of African Media Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nigerian government and management of news and information on the coronavirus pandemic22
Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience20
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots12
Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance and Paradox, Emeka Umejei (2020)9
Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction8
COVID-19 containment and control: Information source credibility and adoption of prevention strategies among residents in South West Nigeria8
Borrowing lenses from the West: Analysis of an African media representation of western nations7
From COVID-19 to COVID-666: Quasi-religious mentality and ideologies in Nigerian coronavirus pandemic discourse7
COVID-19 and the constructions of Africa in African news media6
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation6
Status of women in the Ghanaian media: Are women conscious of their own inequalities?6
Viral giggles: Internet memes and COVID-19 in Malawi6
Safety and security of journalists in Ghana: Policies and journalists’ perception of stakeholders, issues and practices6
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe6
Deadly serious: Pandemic humour, media and critical perspectives5
Racism and the post-apartheid media: Problematizing the racist Clicks advert as a manifestation of token transformation5
Perception and practice of the watchdog role among journalists in Nigeria5
Reporting on the shadow pandemic in Nigeria: An analysis of five media organizations’ coverage of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media4
Welket Bungué, a Balanta griot in transit4
Suffering and smiling: Nigerians’ humorous response to the coronavirus pandemic4
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process4
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies3
A systematic review of the spread of information during pandemics: A case of the 2020 COVID-19 virus3
Television in Ghana: History, policy, culture and prospects in a globalized media ecology3
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa3
God and COVID-19 in Burundian social media: The political fight for the control of the narrative3
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-193
In Nigeria, it is all about entertainment: A functional analysis of the 2019 presidential campaign commercials of APC and PDP3
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public relations roles: Perspectives of Malawian practitioners3
Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria3
Political participation and the social media network of young Nigerians3
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