Most cited papers in Rhetoric and Communication Studies
What are the most cited papers in Rhetoric and Communication Studies?
The most cited paper in Rhetoric and Communication Studies is "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach" (William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani, 1989), with 4,990 citations. Next come "Genre as social action" (2,878) and "A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s" (2,045).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 379 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 1989 | 4,990 |
| 2 | Genre as social action Carolyn R. Miller · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1984 | 2,878 |
| 3 | A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 25 Nov 1994 | 2,045 |
| 4 | Framing analysis: An approach to news discourse Zhongdang Pan, Gerald M. Kosicki · Political Communication | 1993 | 1,998 |
| 5 | Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument Walter R. Fisher · Communication Monographs | Mar 1984 | 1,794 |
| 6 | What is journalism? Mark Deuze · Journalism | 29 Sep 2005 | 1,758 |
| 7 | The Storytelling Organization: A Study of Story Performance in an Office- Supply Firm David M. Bøje · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1991 | 1,727 |
| 8 | Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology Thomas J. Csordas · Ethos | Mar 1990 | 1,725 |
| 9 | Misunderstood misunderstanding: social identities and public uptake of science Brian Wynne · Public Understanding of Science | Jul 1992 | 1,660 |
| 10 | Communication Theory as a Field Robert T. Craig · Communication Theory | May 1999 | 1,448 |
| 11 | Sexual scripts: Permanence and change William Escudero Simon, John H. Gagnon · Archives of Sexual Behavior | Apr 1986 | 1,428 |
| 12 | Love and knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology Alison M. Jaggar · Inquiry | 1989 | 1,397 |
| 13 | Framing U.S. Coverage of International News: Contrasts in Narratives of the KAL and Iran Air Incidents Robert M. Entman · Journal of Communication | Dec 1991 | 1,389 |
| 14 | Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy Bartholomew H. Sparrow · Perspectives on Politics | Dec 2004 | 1,354 |
| 15 | What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat Ted A. Brader, Nicholas A. Valentino, Elizabeth Suhay · American Journal of Political Science | 29 Sep 2008 | 1,331 |
| 16 | Discourse and manipulation Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society | May 2006 | 1,314 |
| 17 | Media Images and the Social Construction of Reality William A. Gamson, DAVID A. CROTEAU, William Hoynes et al. · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 1992 | 1,274 |
| 18 | Can there be a feminist ethnography? Judith Stacey · Women s Studies International Forum | 1988 | 1,269 |
| 19 | Toward a dialogic theory of public relations Michael L. Kent, Maureen T Taylor · Public Relations Review | Feb 2002 | 1,238 |
| 20 | Goodwill: A reexamination of the construct and its measurement James C. McCroskey, Jason J. Teven · Communication Monographs | Mar 1999 | 1,227 |
| 21 | A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: Achievements, challenges, perspectives Maarten A. Hajer, Wytske Versteeg · Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning | Sep 2005 | 1,173 |
| 22 | Using Narrative Communication as a Tool for Health Behavior Change: A Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Overview Leslie Hinyard, Matthew W. Kreuter · Health Education & Behavior | 15 Dec 2006 | 1,166 |
| 23 | Democracy online: civility, politeness, and the democratic potential of online political discussion groups Zizi Papacharissi · New Media & Society | Apr 2004 | 1,161 |
| 24 | Collective Memory: The Two Cultures Jeffrey K. Olick · Sociological Theory | Nov 1999 | 1,145 |
| 25 | What is News? Tony Harcup, Deirdre O’Neill · Journalism Studies | Mar 2016 | 1,133 |
| 26 | The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act Vytautas Kavolis, Fredric Jameson · Sociological Analysis | 1982 | 1,086 |
| 27 | Cascading Activation: Contesting the White House's Frame After 9/11 Robert M. Entman · Political Communication | Oct 2003 | 982 |
| 28 | Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics Dwight Conquergood · Communication Monographs | Jun 1991 | 938 |
| 29 | Reference Groups as Perspectives Tamotsu Shibutani · American Journal of Sociology | May 1955 | 926 |
| 30 | Humor as a Double-Edged Sword: Four Functions of Humor in Communication John C. Meyer · Communication Theory | Aug 2000 | 881 |
| 31 | Journalists as interpretive communities Barbie Zelizer · Critical Studies in Mass Communication | Sep 1993 | 855 |
| 32 | The Self We Live by: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World Amanda J. Coffey, James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | May 2002 | 849 |
| 33 | The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology Michael McGee · Quarterly Journal of Speech | Feb 1980 | 812 |
| 34 | Seven types of forgetting Paul Connerton · Memory Studies | 14 Dec 2007 | 810 |
| 35 | Is the medium the message? Perceptions of and reactions to crisis communication via twitter, blogs and traditional media Friederike Schultz, Sonja Utz, Anja S. Göritz · Public Relations Review | 27 Jan 2011 | 792 |
| 36 | The Nature of Deference and Demeanor Erving Goffman · American Anthropologist | Jun 1956 | 788 |
| 37 | Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner · Journal of Contemporary Ethnography | 30 Jun 2006 | 750 |
| 38 | Dialogic Engagement: Clarifying Foundational Concepts Maureen T Taylor, Michael L. Kent · Journal of Public Relations Research | 20 Oct 2014 | 709 |
| 39 | The Sociology of Storytelling Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner et al. · Annual Review of Sociology | 2 Mar 2011 | 707 |
| 40 | Whiteness: A strategic rhetoric Thomas K. Nakayama, Robert L. Krizek · Quarterly Journal of Speech | Aug 1995 | 704 |
| 41 | Critical rhetoric: Theory and praxis Raymie E. McKerrow · Communication Monographs | Jun 1989 | 698 |
| 42 | Narratives and Cancer Communication Melanie C. Green · Journal of Communication | Aug 2006 | 686 |
| 43 | The Politics of Talk Alan Irwin · Social Studies of Science | 27 Mar 2006 | 684 |
| 44 | The rhetoric of identification and the study of organizational communication George E. Cheney · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1983 | 666 |
| 45 | Knowledges in Context Brian Wynne · Science Technology & Human Values | 1991 | 662 |
| 46 | The Rise of the Environmental Justice Paradigm Dorceta E. Taylor · American Behavioral Scientist | 2000 | 661 |
| 47 | #CommunicationSoWhite Paula Chakravartty, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Netanus Grubbs et al. · Journal of Communication | Apr 2018 | 649 |
| 48 | Locating Narrative Inquiry Historically: Thematics in the Turn to Narrative Stefinee Pinnegar, J. Gary Daynes | 2007 | 646 |
| 49 | Institutionalization as an Interplay Between Actions, Meanings, and Actors: The Case of a Rape Crisis Center in Israel Tammar B. Zilber · Academy of Management Journal | Feb 2002 | 638 |
| 50 | Truth is What Happens to News Silvio Waisbord · Journalism Studies | 6 Jul 2018 | 630 |
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