Barbara Pfetsch

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Barbara Pfetsch is a scholar working on Communication, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Pfetsch has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Communication, 18 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Barbara Pfetsch's work include Social Media and Politics (24 papers), Media Studies and Communication (19 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (9 papers). Barbara Pfetsch is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (24 papers), Media Studies and Communication (19 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (9 papers). Barbara Pfetsch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Israel. Barbara Pfetsch's co-authors include W. Lance Bennett, Silke Adam, Annie Waldherr, Peter Miltner, Daniel Maier, Hannah Schmid-Petri, Ueli Reber, Thomas Häußler, Gerhard Heyer and Andreas Niekler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Communication and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Pfetsch

56 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research: Toward a Valid and Reliable Methodology

2018 531 citations Daniel Maier, Annie Waldherr et al. profile →
Rethinking Political Communication in a Time of Disrupted Public Spheres

2018 276 citations Barbara Pfetsch et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Barbara Pfetsch	879	656	331	252	228	59	1.5k
Silke Adam	541 0.6×	562 0.9×	337 1.0×	259 1.0×	183 0.8×	51	1.3k
Andrea Cerón	715 0.8×	677 1.0×	630 1.9×	102 0.4×	351 1.5×	65	1.6k
Luigi Curini	463 0.5×	614 0.9×	657 2.0×	89 0.4×	278 1.2×	66	1.4k
Arjen van Dalen	1.3k 1.5×	773 1.2×	329 1.0×	45 0.2×	127 0.6×	56	1.7k
Chris J. Vargo	1.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	156 0.5×	92 0.4×	286 1.3×	38	1.5k
Rodrigo Zamith	817 0.9×	558 0.9×	78 0.2×	87 0.3×	131 0.6×	26	1.2k
Kasper Welbers	481 0.5×	510 0.8×	65 0.2×	271 1.1×	285 1.3×	34	1.3k
Zvi Reich	1.6k 1.8×	868 1.3×	119 0.4×	43 0.2×	114 0.5×	61	2.0k
Nikki Usher	1.5k 1.7×	862 1.3×	123 0.4×	36 0.1×	87 0.4×	64	2.0k
Neil Thurman	1.4k 1.6×	1.1k 1.6×	75 0.2×	43 0.2×	205 0.9×	65	2.1k

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Heft, Annett, et al.. (2025). Attributing coordinated social media manipulation: A theoretical model and typology. New Media & Society.

Baden, Christian, Annett Heft, Michael Vaughan, & Barbara Pfetsch. (2025). Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements. Communication Theory.

Levi, Darrell E., et al.. (2025). ‘They don’t like us in the global movement’: the experiences of youth activists at the periphery of worldwide Fridays for Future. Information Communication & Society. 1–18.

Pfetsch, Barbara, et al.. (2023). Same but different? Explaining issue agendas of right-wing parties’ Facebook campaigns in the 2019 EP election. Party Politics. 30(5). 838–848. 3 indexed citations

Pfetsch, Barbara. (2023). Conditions of Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres and Crisis of Democracy. Political Communication. 40(3). 346–350. 4 indexed citations

Neumann, Rico, Barbara Pfetsch, Swen Hutter, et al.. (2023). The Rhetoric of Solidarity: Nature and Measurement of Social Cohesion in the Self-representation of Civil Society Organizations. Social Indicators Research. 169(3). 863–882. 1 indexed citations

Waldherr, Annie, et al.. (2023). Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter. New Media & Society. 26(11). 6636–6657. 3 indexed citations

Heft, Annett, et al.. (2022). Transnational issue agendas of the radical right? Parties’ Facebook campaign communication in six countries during the 2019 European Parliament election. European Journal of Communication. 38(1). 22–42. 14 indexed citations

Heft, Annett, et al.. (2022). Mobilization and support structures in radical right party networks. Digital political communication ecologies in the 2019 European parliament elections. Information Communication & Society. 26(15). 2961–2981. 4 indexed citations

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Waldherr, Annie, Ulrike Klinger, & Barbara Pfetsch. (2021). Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres: Exploring Dimensions of the Spatial Turn. Media and Communication. 9(3). 1–4. 6 indexed citations

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Trenz, Hans‐Jörg, Annett Heft, Michael Vaughan, & Barbara Pfetsch. (2021). Resilience of Public Spheres in a Global Health Crisis. Javnost - The Public. 28(2). 111–128. 16 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara, et al.. (2021). Topographies of Local Public Spheres on Social Media: The Scope of Issues and Interactions. International journal of communication. 15. 26. 1 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara. (2020). Democracy and Digital Dissonance: The Co-Occurrence of the Transformation of Political Culture and Communication Infrastructure. Central European Journal of Communication. 13(1). 96–110. 7 indexed citations

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Waldherr, Annie, et al.. (2019). Inductive Codebook Development for Content Analysis: Combining Automated and Manual Methods. Forum qualitative Sozialforschung. 20(1). 3 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara. (2014). Political communication cultures in Europe : attitudes of political actors and journalists in nine countries. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 24 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara & Silke Adam. (2011). Media Agenda Building in Online and Offline Media - Comparing Issues and Countries. ECPR conference, Island, August 2011. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 4 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara. (2011). Guest Editor’s introduction: Political Communication in the Era of New Technologies. Central European Journal of Communication. 4(2). 189–193. 1 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara & Silke Adam. (2008). Massenmedien als politische Akteure - Konzepte und Analysen. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 4 indexed citations

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Pfetsch, Barbara, et al.. (2006). The Voice of the Media in European Public Sphere Agenda Setters, Shapers of Conflicts and Bridges of Cross Border Communication. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations

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Esser, Frank & Barbara Pfetsch. (2003). Politische Kommunikation im internationalen Vergleich : Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Perspektiven. Westdeutscher Verlag eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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