OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Digital Journalism is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	113
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	90
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	84
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	81
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	73
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	68
What is Valuable Journalism? Three Key Experiences and Their Challenges for Journalism Scholars and Practitioners*	64
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	63
Visibility, Connectivity, Agency: Journalism’s Prospects in an Age of Automated Social News Sharing	62
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	60
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	56
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	54
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	50
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	48
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	47
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	46
“If This account is True, It is Most Enormously Wonderful”: Interestingness-If-True and the Sharing of True and False News	46
I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions	43
Audience Sensemaking: A Mapping Approach	42
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	41
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	39
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	39
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	38
Normalizing Instagram	38
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	37

Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	37
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests	35
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	34
What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter	34
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	32
What is Holding Us Back? We Should Be Looking Ahead! Considerations about Open Science Practices in Journalism Studies	32
Journalistic Visibility as Celebrity and its Consequences for Harassment	31
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers	30
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	30
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	30
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US	29
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes	28
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future	28
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms	27
Using Directional Cues in Immersive Journalism: The Impact on Information Processing, Narrative Transportation, Presence, News Attitudes, and Credibility	27
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists	27
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists	26
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media	26
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework	26
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production	26
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System	26
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults	26
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems	25
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India	25
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’	25
Towards Diversity in Global Journalism Studies. A Reply to Seth C. Lewis	25
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication	24
“Flatten the Curve”: Data-Driven Projections and the Journalistic Brokering of Knowledge during the COVID-19 Crisis	23
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism	23
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia	23
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet	22
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations	22
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook	22
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes	22
How the Trick is Done – Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism	22
The Creation of Branded Content Teams in Spanish News Organizations and Their Implications for Structures, Professional Roles and Ethics	22
Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility	22
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram	22
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic	21
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East	21
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?	21
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations	20
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus	20
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom	20
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response	20
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces	20
Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram	20
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	20
Actor-Network Theory and Digital Journalism	19
The Crisis of the Institutional Press	19

Visual War Journalism	19
Correction	19
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India	18
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance	18
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility	18
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	18
What Motivates Audiences to Report Fake News?: Uncovering a Framework of Factors That Drive the Community Reporting of Fake News on Social Media	18
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts	17
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism	17
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer	17
Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok	17
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media	16
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice	16
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data	16
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies	16
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload	16
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media	16
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences	16
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”	15
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom	15
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism	15
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research	15
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future	15
Reclaiming Control: How Journalists Embrace Social Media Logics While Defending Journalistic Values	14
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures	14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment	14
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society	14
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services	14
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here	14
Rational-Critical User Discussions: How Argument Strength and the Conditions Set by News Organizations Are Linked to (Reasoned) Disagreement	14
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains	14
Twitter in the News: An Analysis of Embedded Tweets in Political News Coverage	13
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies	13
Making Sense of Pandemic-Induced Changes in Journalism and Beyond	13
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions	13
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework	13
News Diversity Under Algorithms: The Effects of Pre-Selected and Self-Selected Personalization on Chinese TikTok (Douyin)	13
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices	13
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses	13
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders	13
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies	13