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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	98
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	86
The Human Side of (News) Engagement Emotion, Platform and Individual Agency	80
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media	71
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance	63
Young Adults’ Information Needs, Use, and Understanding in the Context of Instagram: A Multi-Method Study	61
Correction	60
Correction	59
“You Have to Do That for Your Own Sanity”: Digital Disconnection as Journalists’ Coping and Preventive Strategy in Managing Work and Well-Being	59
Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism	56
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	54
Facing Fakes: Understanding Tech Platforms’ Responses to Online Falsehoods	53
AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press	50
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	43
The Crisis of the Institutional Press	43
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	42
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	39
Do More with Less: Minimizing Competitive Tensions in Collaborative Local Journalism	38
Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory	38
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	38
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	37
Emotion Mobilisation through the Imagery of People in Finnish-Language Right-Wing Alternative Media	35
Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms	34
Materialising New Forms of Journalism: A Process Model	33
What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism	33

Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands	33
From Transparency to Transactive Memory System: How Do Newsrooms’ GitHub Pages Shape News Outlet Credibility?	32
From Criticism to Anger and Hate: The Vulgarisation of Digital Anti-Press Criticism on News Outlets’ Facebook Pages	31
A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome	30
Networked Flak in CNN and Fox News Memes on Instagram	29
Information Competition in Disruptive Media Markets: Investigating Competition and User Selection on Google	29
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice	29
Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-19	29
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces	29