Irina Lock

2.0k total citations
39 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Irina Lock is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Communication and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Irina Lock has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Strategy and Management, 19 papers in Communication and 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Irina Lock's work include Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (15 papers), Public Relations and Crisis Communication (14 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (10 papers). Irina Lock is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (15 papers), Public Relations and Crisis Communication (14 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (10 papers). Irina Lock collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Irina Lock's co-authors include Peter Seele, Theo Araujo, Georg von Schnurbein, Ramona Ludolph, Robert L. Heath, Bob van de Velde, Anke Wonneberger, Piet Verhoeven, Iina Hellsten and Albert Ali Salah and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Business Ethics.

In The Last Decade

Irina Lock

34 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Irina Lock Netherlands 19 739 384 231 217 138 39 1.2k
Agostino Vollero Italy 20 777 1.1× 715 1.9× 322 1.4× 137 0.6× 113 0.8× 71 1.4k
Marco Bellucci Italy 18 605 0.8× 313 0.8× 342 1.5× 207 1.0× 145 1.1× 42 1.3k
Göksel Yalcinkaya United States 16 788 1.1× 385 1.0× 244 1.1× 86 0.4× 91 0.7× 27 1.2k
Kent Walker Canada 14 1.3k 1.8× 876 2.3× 194 0.8× 144 0.7× 272 2.0× 21 1.8k
Yi-chen Lan Australia 15 737 1.0× 579 1.5× 136 0.6× 76 0.4× 175 1.3× 44 1.2k
Isabel Martinez-Conesa Spain 6 934 1.3× 438 1.1× 137 0.6× 190 0.9× 89 0.6× 6 1.4k
Jan Hohberger Australia 14 700 0.9× 335 0.9× 269 1.2× 110 0.5× 119 0.9× 20 1.4k
Fernando J. Garrigós‐Simón Spain 18 350 0.5× 209 0.5× 488 2.1× 157 0.7× 53 0.4× 54 1.3k
Flore Bridoux Netherlands 14 706 1.0× 319 0.8× 265 1.1× 47 0.2× 138 1.0× 28 1.2k
Juelin Yin China 21 940 1.3× 650 1.7× 261 1.1× 51 0.2× 269 1.9× 40 1.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Lock, Irina, et al.. (2025). Types, methods, and evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) in public communication research in the early phases of adoption: a systematic review. Annals of the International Communication Association. 49(2). 122–145.
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Lock, Irina, et al.. (2024). Argumentation strategies in lobbying: the discursive struggle over proposals to regulate Big Tech. Journal of Communication Management. 29(2). 186–199.
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Lock, Irina, et al.. (2024). Stepping on Toes? Role Dynamics between Journalists and Lobbyists Regarding Big Tech’s Accountability Agenda. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 30(3). 705–726.
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Lock, Irina, et al.. (2024). Automated Communication’s Impact on Strategic Communication: Implications from a Systematic Review. International Journal of Strategic Communication. 19(1). 13–34. 3 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina, et al.. (2024). Divergent Views and Common Values: Comparing Sustainability Understandings Across News Media, Businesses, and Consumers. Environmental Communication. 18(7). 891–911. 5 indexed citations
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Meer, Toni G.L.A. van der, et al.. (2023). The watchdog role in the age of Big Tech – how news media in the United States and Germany hold Big Tech corporations accountable. Information Communication & Society. 27(6). 1073–1094. 6 indexed citations
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Lu, Guang, et al.. (2022). Agenda-Setting for COVID-19: A Study of Large-Scale Economic News Coverage Using Natural Language Processing. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. 15(3). 291–312. 5 indexed citations
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Araujo, Theo, Irina Lock, & Bob van de Velde. (2020). Automated Visual Content Analysis (AVCA) in Communication Research: A Protocol for Large Scale Image Classification with Pre-Trained Computer Vision Models. Communication Methods and Measures. 14(4). 239–265. 21 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Theo Araujo. (2020). Visualizing the triple bottom line: A large‐scale automated visual content analysis of European corporations' website and social media images. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 27(6). 2631–2641. 35 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina. (2019). Explicating communicative organization-stakeholder relationships in the digital age: A systematic review and research agenda. Public Relations Review. 45(4). 101829–101829. 46 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Ramona Ludolph. (2019). Organizational Propaganda on the Internet: A Systematic Review. Public Relations Inquiry. 9(1). 103–127. 2 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Peter Seele. (2018). Gauging the Rigor of Qualitative Case Studies in Comparative Lobbying Research. A Framework and Guideline for Research and Analysis. Journal of Public Affairs. 18(4). 5 indexed citations
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Ihlen, Øyvind, et al.. (2018). Framing “the Public Interest”: Comparing Public Lobbying Campaigns in Four European States. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 107–107. 19 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Peter Seele. (2017). Politicized CSR: How corporate political activity (mis‐)uses political CSR. Journal of Public Affairs. 18(3). 29 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Peter Seele. (2017). The Consequences of Astroturf Lobbying for Trust and Authenticity. Findings and Implications from an Experiment. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 2(1). 30–52. 4 indexed citations
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Seele, Peter & Irina Lock. (2017). The game-changing potential of digitalization for sustainability: possibilities, perils, and pathways. Sustainability Science. 12(2). 183–185. 125 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina, Peter Seele, & Robert L. Heath. (2016). Where Grass Has No Roots: The Concept of ‘Shared Strategic Communication’ as an Answer to Unethical Astroturf Lobbying. International Journal of Strategic Communication. 10(2). 87–100. 28 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina. (2015). Credibility in CSR communication: concepts, methods, analyses. reroDoc Digital Library.
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Lock, Irina & Peter Seele. (2015). Quantitative content analysis as a method for business ethics research. Business Ethics A European Review. 24(S1). 51 indexed citations

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