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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the Evolving Online Learning Landscape: The Case of Science and Religion	206
Digital Rage: Testing “the Obama Effect” on Internet-Based Expressions of Racism	123
Transgressive Play and the Inherent Limits of Business Growth for China’s LGBTQ Platforms: The Case of a Social Game in Aloha	96
Mobilization and Latency Dynamics in the #StopLine3 Discourse	75
The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram	67
Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems	67
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters	65
Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience	54
“The Future Is Bright! Is It?”: Investigating Effects of Hopeful Mental Health Content and Endorsement Cues on Social Media	50
Digital Skills and Digital Knowledge as Buffers Against Online Mis/Disinformation? Findings from a Survey Study Among Young People in Europe	50
“An Archipelago of Signifiers”: Caribbean Genetic Test Reveal Videos and the Resistance of the Creole Imagination	46
Valuating Words: Semantic Practices in Web Search Advertising	45
Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags	40
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach	40
Gigs North and South	39
Cyber Activism in Iran: A Case Study	39
Inhabitants of a National “Walled Garden”: Everyday Digital Nationalism in China	39
The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil	37
Protecting Privacy on Social Media: Mitigating Cyberbullying and Data Heist Through Regulated Use and Detox, with a Mediating Role of Privacy Safety Motivations	36
Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies	35
Affective Participation From the In-Between: The Platformization of K-Pop Fandom	34
A Self-Critical Public: Cumulation of Opinion on Belarusian Oppositional YouTube before the 2020 Protests	33
Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture	30
TikTok’s Queer Potential: Identity, Methods, Movements	30
Making the Car “Platform Ready”: How Big Tech Is Driving the Platformization of Automobility	29

The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization	28
Does Social Media Use Polarize or Depolarize Political Opinion in China? Explaining Opinion Polarization Within an Extended Communication Mediation Model	27
#StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women’s Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community	27
(Social) Media Logics and Visualizing Climate Change: 10 Years of #climatechange Images on Twitter	27
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok	27
Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study	27
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework	27