| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Perceptions of Internet Information Credibility | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 659 |
| 2 | More Than Just Talk on the Move: Uses and Gratifications of the Cellular Phone | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 582 |
| 3 | Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions of Weblogs Among Blog Users | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2004 | 465 |
| 4 | Agenda Setting and International News: Media Influence on Public Perceptions of Foreign Nations | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2004 | 407 |
| 5 | The Microscope and the Moving Target: The Challenge of Applying Content Analysis to the World Wide Web | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 402 |
| 6 | Cruising is Believing?: Comparing Internet and Traditional Sources on Media Credibility Measures | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1998 | 320 |
| 7 | Candidate Images in Spanish Elections: Second-Level Agenda-Setting Effects | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1997 | 310 |
| 8 | Measuring Message Credibility | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2016 | 307 |
| 9 | The Digital Architectures of Social Media: Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2018 | 298 |
| 10 | Issues and Best Practices in Content Analysis | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2015 | 255 |
| 11 | Accidentally Informed: Incidental News Exposure on the World Wide Web | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2001 | 250 |
| 12 | Individual and Routine Forces in Gatekeeping | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2001 | 245 |
| 13 | How Message Evaluation and Source Attributes May Influence Credibility Assessment and Belief Change | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1996 | 239 |
| 14 | A Longitudinal Study of Agenda Setting for the Issue of Environmental Pollution | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1995 | 227 |
| 15 | The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Characteristics of Personal Home Pages | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2002 | 211 |
| 16 | Multimedia Effects on Processing and Perception of Online News: A Study of Picture, Audio, and Video Downloads | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 210 |
| 17 | From Newsworthiness to Shareworthiness | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2017 | 209 |
| 18 | The Effects of Message Framing on Response to Environmental Communications | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1995 | 189 |
| 19 | Differences in Knowledge Acquisition among Readers of the Paper and Online Versions of a National Newspaper | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 188 |
| 20 | Second-Level Agenda Setting in the New Hampshire Primary: A Comparison of Coverage in Three Newspapers and Public Perceptions of Candidates | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2001 | 186 |
| 21 | An Update on Sex in Magazine Advertising: 1983 to 2003 | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2004 | 186 |
| 22 | Who Do You Think You Are? Personal Home Pages and Self-Presentation on the World Wide Web | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1999 | 185 |
| 23 | The Effect of Narrative News Format on Empathy for Stigmatized Groups | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2012 | 183 |
| 24 | Using Is Believing: The Influence of Reliance on the Credibility of Online Political Information among Politically Interested Internet Users | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 172 |
| 25 | Sampling Error and Selecting Intercoder Reliability Samples for Nominal Content Categories | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1996 | 161 |
| 26 | The Interaction of News and Advocate Frames: Manipulating Audience Perceptions of a Local Public Policy Issue | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 159 |
| 27 | Predicting Dissemination of News Content in Social Media | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2013 | 158 |
| 28 | Latino Representation on Primetime Television | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2005 | 155 |
| 29 | Webelievability: A Path Model Examining How Convenience and Reliance Predict Online Credibility | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2002 | 151 |
| 30 | Social Media Research in Advertising, Communication, Marketing, and Public Relations, 1997–2010 | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2012 | 149 |
| 31 | Using Time Series Analysis to Measure Intermedia Agenda-Setting Influence in Traditional Media and Political Blog Networks | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2011 | 147 |
| 32 | Big Social Data Analytics in Journalism and Mass Communication | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2016 | 144 |
| 33 | Disaster News | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2012 | 142 |
| 34 | Interactivity, Online Journalism, and English-Language Web Newspapers in Asia | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1999 | 141 |
| 35 | Reading between the Photographs: The Influence of Incidental Pictorial Information on Issue Perception | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 141 |
| 36 | Voter Learning in the 2004 Presidential Election: Did the Media Matter? | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2006 | 140 |
| 37 | Women Making News: Gender as a Variable in Source Selection and Use | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1998 | 137 |
| 38 | Effects of Victim Exemplification in Television News on Viewer Perception of Social Issues | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1996 | 134 |
| 39 | Effect of Source Attribution on Perception of Online News Stories | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1998 | 132 |
| 40 | Television Portrayals and African-American Stereotypes: Examination of Television Effects when Direct Contact is Lacking | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1999 | 129 |
| 41 | Forecast 2000: Widening Knowledge Gaps | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1997 | 127 |
| 42 | The Rural-Urban Digital Divide | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 126 |
| 43 | The Economy and Second-Level Agenda Setting: A Time-Series Analysis of Economic News and Public Opinion about the Economy | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2003 | 126 |
| 44 | Compassion Fatigue: Communication and Burnout toward Social Problems | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 1996 | 124 |
| 45 | The Spiral of Silence and Public Opinion on Affirmative Action | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2001 | 124 |
| 46 | Under Surveillance | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2016 | 123 |
| 47 | Media Effects on Political and Social Trust | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 120 |
| 48 | Political Talk as a Catalyst for Online Citizenship | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2004 | 119 |
| 49 | The Mediating Role of Emotions | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2015 | 118 |
| 50 | Talk or Conversation? Dimensions of Interpersonal Discussion and Their Implications for Participatory Democracy | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | 2000 | 115 |
