OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Media + Society is 27. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	198
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	118
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	95
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	73
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	64
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	61
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	59
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	50
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	48
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	47
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	45
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	42
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	39
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	38
A Self-Critical Public: Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests	37
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies	37
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	36
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	36
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	35
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	32
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	30
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	29
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	29
Gigs North and South	28
The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	27

Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	27
Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach	27
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	27
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	27
The Extended Reach of Game Engine Companies: How Companies Like Epic Games and Unity Technologies Provide Platforms for Extended Reality Applications and the Metaverse	27