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The International Journal of Press/Politics is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication, Media Influence and Politics.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The International Journal of Press/Politics, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSocial Media and Politics Media Studies and Communication Media Influence and Politics Electoral Systems and Political Participation Misinformation and Its Impacts
ISSN1040-1620
Citation impact (2-yr)4
h-index91
i10-index455
Total citations31,228
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Amsterdam
Journal websitehij.sagepub.com
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Papers published in The International Journal of Press/Politics per year

38
2014
35
2015
45
2016
34
2017
40
2018
42
2019
75
2020
70
2021
67
2022
42
2023
62
2024
61
2025

Citation impact of The International Journal of Press/Politics by publication year

1.3K
2014
793
2015
1.7K
2016
1.7K
2017
2.2K
2018
1.4K
2019
4.1K
2020
1.9K
2021
1.3K
2022
430
2023
432
2024
112
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The International Journal of Press/Politics

Four Phases of Mediatization: An Analysis of the Mediatization of Politics

Jesper Strömbäck · 25 Jun 2008

Two concepts that have been used to describe the changes with regards to media and politics during the last fifty years are the concepts of mediation and mediatization . However, both these concepts are used more often than they are properly defined. Moreover, there is a lack of analysis of the process of mediatization, although…

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Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on #Egypt

Sharon Meraz, Zizi Papacharissi · 27 Jan 2013

Using prior seminal work that places emphasis on news framing and its relevance to sociocultural context, this study describes, maps, and explains evolving patterns of communication on Twitter through the events of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings, which led to the resignation of President Mubarak. Using a multimethodological approach, we conducted a network, content, and discourse…

Populism as an Expression of Political Communication Content and Style: A New Perspective

Claes H. de Vreese, Frank Esser, Toril Aalberg et al. · 2 Aug 2018

In this article, the introduction to a special International Journal of Press/Politics ( IJPP ) issue on populism, we articulate and define populism as a communication phenomenon. We provide an overview of populist political communication research and its current foci. We offer a framework for ongoing research and set the boundary conditions for a new…

Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First

Gadi Wolfsfeld, Elad Segev, Tamir Sheafer · 16 Jan 2013

The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The article presents two broad theoretical principles. The first is that one cannot understand the role of social media in collective…

Caught in the Nexus: A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis of Public Trust in the Press

Thomas Hanitzsch, Arjen van Dalen, Nina Steindl · 15 Nov 2017

Despite signs of declining press trust in many western countries, we know little about trends in press trust across the world. Based on comparative survey data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and European Values Study (EVS), this study looks into national levels of trust in the press and identifies factors that drive differences across…

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The International Journal of Press/Politics uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The International Journal of Press/Politics, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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