OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism is 29. 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
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	97
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	82
Digital News Business Models in the Age of Industry 4.0: Digital Brazilian News Players Find in Technology New Ways to Bring Revenue and Competitive Advantage	79
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	77
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	75
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	63
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	63
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	55
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	53
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	53
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	49
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	48
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	46
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	44
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	41
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	41
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	40
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	39
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	39
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	37
Normalizing Instagram	36
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	35
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment	34
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies	33
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	32

What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter	31
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	30
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	30
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	30
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests	29
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	29