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Media Studies and Communication

Media Studies and Communication is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concepts of media framing, agenda setting, and mediatization within the field of communication research. It delves into the influence of news media on public perceptions, the role of journalism culture, and the analysis of content in mass communication. The cluster also examines the impact of digital journalism and cultural production on shaping news narratives and political communication.

  • Media Framing
  • Agenda Setting
  • Journalism Culture
  • Mass Communication
  • Mediatization
  • News Media
  • Content Analysis
  • Political Communication
  • Digital Journalism
  • Cultural Production
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media Studies and Communication

Which countries lead Media Studies and Communication research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (1.6k and 752 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 Germany 752 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 481 works
  4. 4 China 440 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 379 works
  6. 6 Australia 306 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 248 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 235 works
  9. 9 Spain 202 works
  10. 10 Brazil 187 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 33.5%Germany: 15.5%United Kingdom: 9.9%China: 9.1%6 others listed: 32.1%33%largest
United States1,626 · 33.5%Germany752 · 15.5%United Kingdom481 · 9.9%China440 · 9.1%6 others listed1,557 · 32.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Media Studies and Communication research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Amsterdam publishes the most Media Studies and Communication research, followed by University of Vienna and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 41 works
  2. 2 University of ViennaAustria 41 works
  3. 3 Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 35 works
  4. 4 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 35 works
  5. 5 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 31 works
  6. 6 The University of SydneyAustralia 31 works
  7. 7 University of MünsterGermany 30 works
  8. 8 University of ZurichSwitzerland 30 works
  9. 9 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 29 works
  10. 10 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Media Studies and Communication?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Media Studies and Communication include Pierre Bourdıeu and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Media Studies and Communication?

The most cited paper in Media Studies and Communication is "Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm" (Robert M. Entman, 1993), with 16,026 citations. Next come "The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media" (9,297) and "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach" (4,990).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm Robert M. Entman · Journal of Communication Dec 1993 16,026
2 The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media Maxwell McCombs, Donald Lewis Shaw · Public Opinion Quarterly 1972 9,297
3 Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani · American Journal of Sociology Jul 1989 4,990
4 I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience Alice Emily Marwick, danah boyd · New Media & Society 7 Jul 2010 4,584
5 The Silent Language E. T. Hall 1959 3,479
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Media Studies and Communication research done?

The largest centres of Media Studies and Communication research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and Berlin (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Roskilde.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 101 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 94 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 84 works
  4. 4 BerlinGermany 78 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 71 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 68 works
  7. 7 ViennaAustria 66 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 59 works
  9. 9 AnkaraTürkiye 57 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 55 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RoskildeDK · 27.0 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Media Studies and Communication than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Media Studies and Communication?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, University of Vienna and OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Amster…Chinese University o…OsloMet – Oslo Metro…University of Vienna
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of AmsterdamNetherlands 86.237.3%10.0×41 -11.5%
2University of ViennaAustria 80.724.0%11.7×41 +53.5%
3OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNorway 66.827.4%21.4×15 +42.6%
4Chinese University of Hong KongChina 64.731.1%3.2×16 +46.0%
5Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 62.927.7%9.6×22 -3.6%
6Freie Universität BerlinGermany 62.515.3%12.2×35 +13.9%
7Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 62.311.1%13.7×35 +66.8%
8University of GothenburgSweden 62.326.6%5.5×18 -1.4%
9University of ZurichSwitzerland 62.116.4%6.2×30 +1.3%
10University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 60.831.1%5.1×14 +23.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Media Studies and Communication, country by country

Is Media Studies and Communication research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Media Studies and Communication.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Media Studies and Communication as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Media Studies and Communication0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Media Studies and Communication over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Media Studies and Communication10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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