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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Harming and the Helping: Perceived Organizational Effects on Mental Health in the Newsroom	101
Envisioning Epistemological Encounters in an Era Dominated by Disinformation and Deep Distrust of Journalism	87
What Makes News Shared on Facebook? Social Media Logic and Content-Related Factors of Shareability	83
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies	80
Google News and Machine Gatekeepers: Algorithmic Personalisation and News Diversity in Online News Search	77
New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment	67
What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance	65
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	58
Effects of A High-Person-Centered Response to Commenters Who Disagree on Readers’ Positive Attitudes toward A News Outlet’s Facebook Page	55
‘Information Pressures’ and the Facebook Files: Navigating Questions around Leaked Platform Data	55
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care	51
“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance	48
Dissecting Non-Use of Online News – Systematic Evidence from Combining Tracking and Automated Text Classification	44
Normalizing Instagram	44
Deconstructing or Reinforcing Binaries? How Scholars Position Non-Journalists in Global Conflict Reporting	44
Comparing Frame Repertoires of Mainstream and Right-Wing Alternative Media	42
European French-Speaking Local Media’s Relationship with Audiences. A Strategic Challenge between Diluted and Integrated Organizational Modalities	41
Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology	39
Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism	36
Vivid and Engaging: Effects of Interactive Data Visualization on Perceptions and Attitudes about Social Issues	36
The Irony of Sophisticated Citizens and Misinformation: Explaining How People with High Need for Cognition Become Politically Cynical	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	32
Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests	31

Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future	31
Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World	31
The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	31
The Impact of Public Transparency Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative Analysis between Information-Rich and Information-Poor Countries	30
Trustable News from China? How Chinese Journalists Negotiate Epistemic Authority in Transnational Digital News Production	30
Opening up Data, Tools, and Practices: Collaborating with the Future	29
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers	28
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists	27
Designing for Trust: How Online News Consumers View and Interpret Informational Transparency Boxes	27
“We Were Facebook before Facebook”: The Existential (Not Only Economic) Threat to Community Weekly Newspapers in the US	27
Mobilities, Immobilities and News Work: The New Normal of Award-Winning Journalists	26
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms	26
Understanding Peripheral Journalism from the Boundary: A Conceptual Framework	25
The Institution of Journalism: Conceptualizing the Press in a Hybrid Media System	25
Social Media as Commodifier or Homogenizer? Journalists’ Social Media Use in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures and Its Implications for Epistemologies of News Production	24
The State Deputizing Citizens to Discipline Digital News Media: The Case of the IT Rules 2021 in India	24
Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media	24
Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’	24
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults	24
A Balancing Act: How Media Professionals Perceive the Implementation of News Recommender Systems	24
Avoid or Authenticate? A Multilevel Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Fake News Concern and News Fatigue on News Avoidance and Authentication	23
Local Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Entrepreneurial Journalism	23
“We Need to Think about Their Real Needs”: Examining the Auxiliary Work of Audience-Oriented Intralopers in News Organizations	22
How the Trick is Done – Conditions of Success in Entrepreneurial Digital Journalism	22
Alternative News Media and Critique of Mainstream Journalism in India: The Case of OpIndia	22
Social Media Metrics in the Digital Marketplace of Attention: Does Journalistic Capital Matter for Social Media Capital?	22
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations	22
Exploring Communicative AI: Reflections from a Swedish Newsroom	22
Digitalizing the Journalistic Field: Journalists’ Views on Changes in Journalistic Autonomy, Capital and Habitus	21
Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic	21
Feeling the News? The Differential Effects of Immersive Journalism on Emotional Response	21
The Boy, Who Wanted Broccoli: Alternative News and Acts of Citizenship within New Mediascapes	21
The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet	20
Postulating the Post-Arab Spring Dynamics of Social Media & Digital Journalism in the Middle East	20
The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram	20
Shifting Power Dynamics: Media Capture and Platform Dominance in Journalism	19
Visual War Journalism	18
Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Traditional and Social Media News Use on Media Trust and Journalism Error Tolerance	18
The Mob, the State and Harassment of Journalists via Twitter in India	18
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces	18
Alternative Media & Mainstream Politics: The Case of Mediated Political Fusion	18
AI ‘Everywhere and Nowhere’: Addressing the AI Intelligibility Problem in Public Service Journalism	18
“I Resist”. A Study of Individual Attitudes Towards Generative AI in Journalism and Acts of Resistance, Risk Perceptions, Trust and Credibility	18
Is Social Media Killing Local News? An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook	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
You Are Fake News! Factors Impacting Journalists’ Debunking Behaviors on Social Media	17
Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of the 2022 Kenyan Election	17
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer	17
Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy	17
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies	17

Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok	17
Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Professional Community of Computational Journalism	16
Media Startups Are Behaving More like Tech Startups—Iterative, Multi-Skilled and Journalists That “Hustle”	16
Studying Absence: The Ephemerality of Digital News Contexts	16
Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research	16
Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media	15
From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice	15
Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains	15
Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines	15
Excluding and Including: News Tailoring Strategies in an Era of News Overload	15
Proposing an Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data	15
Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures	15
“Saving Journalism from Facebook’s Death Grip”? The Implications of Content-Recommendation Platforms on Publishers and Their Audiences	15
Noise Pollution: A Multi-Step Approach to Assessing the Consequences of (Not) Validating Search Terms on Automated Content Analyses	15
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework	14
Decoding Algorithms: Exploring End-Users’ Mental Models of the Inner Workings of Algorithmic News Recommenders	14
Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment	14
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom	14
Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies	14
Network Histories: Methods and Measures for Studying Interdependence and Interconnectedness Within Digital Journalism	14
Trust through Transparency? How Journalistic Reactions to Media-Critical User Comments Affect Quality Perceptions and Behavior Intentions	13
Digital Journalism: The Journal and the Path that Brought us Here	13
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices	13
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies	13
Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future	13
#MainBhiChowkidar (I Am Also a Watchman): Indian Journalists Responding to a Populist Campaign Challenging Their Watchdog Role in Society	13
The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services	13