OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Digital Journalism is 30. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mob Censorship: Online Harassment of US Journalists in Times of Digital Hate and Populism	120
Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist–Audience Relationship	92
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries	74
The Political Power of Platforms: How Current Attempts to Regulate Misinformation Amplify Opinion Power	73
Dimensions of Social Media Logics: Mapping Forms of Journalistic Norms and Practices on Twitter and Instagram	61
Communal News Work: COVID-19 Calls for Collective Funding of Journalism	60
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload	57
What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist	57
The Unified Framework of Media Diversity: A Systematic Literature Review	56
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram	54
Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era	45
Content for Free? Drivers of Past Payment, Paying Intent and Willingness to Pay for Digital Journalism – A Systematic Literature Review	43
Digital Press Criticism: The Symbolic Dimensions of Donald Trump’s Assault on U.S. Journalists as the “Enemy of the People”	43
Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab	42
Combating Disinformation on Social Media: Multilevel Governance and Distributed Accountability in Europe	42
The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Critical Moment for Digital Journalism	40
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	40
The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond	39
Man vs. Machine? The Impact of Algorithm Authorship on News Credibility	39
China’s “Fake News” Problem: Exploring the Spread of Online Rumors in the Government-Controlled News Media	39
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	37
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media	36
Journalism as Usual? Managing Disruption in Virtual Newsrooms during the COVID-19 Crisis	35
Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, and “News Finds Me” Perception	33
Tackling Disinformation and Infodemics Demands Media Policy Changes	33

Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, Research, and Future Directions in Examining Harassment of Journalists	33
Online News User Journeys: The Role of Social Media, News Websites, and Topics	32
User Perspectives on the News Personalisation Process: Agency, Trust and Utility as Building Blocks	31
Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America	31
‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis	30