Publications

Peer-Reviewed articles, Indexed Journals

Cardenal, A. S., Terren, L., Hopmann, D., Majó-Vázquez, S., Van Aelst, P., Zoizner, A., 2025 Does online news exposure increase political knowledge? A validity test of exogenous measures of exposure differing in granularity. (Public Opinion Quarterly (Accepted). (JCR IF: 2.9 Communication-Clarivate 39/228, Political Science 50/318 Q1)


Cardenal, A. S., Victoria, M., Majó-Vázquez, S., Lacasa, I., 2022. Assessing the Validity of Survey Measures through Digital Footprints: Evidence from Spain and the UK, Political Communication 39:5, 634-651 (JCR IF: 7.85 Communication 5/94, 3/182 in Political Science SJR Q1)


Majó-Vázquez, S., Congosto, M.L., Nicholls, T., Nielsen, R.K. The Role of Suspended Accounts in Political Discussion on Social Media: Analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German Elections, Social Media + Society 2021. (JCR IF: 2.80 Communication 17/507; SJR: Q1)


Heiberger, R., Majó-Vázquez, S*., Castro, L., Nielsen, R.K., Esser, F.: Don’t blame the media! The role of politicians and parties in fragmenting online political debate. International Journal of Press and Politics (IJPP). April 2021. doi:10.1177/19401612211015122 (JCR IF: 3.11 Communication 17/92; Political Science 38/181. SJR: Q1) *corresponding author


Yang, T., Majó-Vázquez, S., Nielsen, R. K., González-Bailón, S., Exposure to News Grows less Fragmented with Increase in Mobile Access. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), October 2020. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006089117 (JCR IF: 9.14 Multidisciplinary Science 8/71; SJR: Q1)


Majó-Vázquez, S., Cardenal, A.S., Sagarra, O., Colomer, P. (2020) Media Roles in the Online News Domain: Authorities and Emergent Audience Brokers. Media and Communication, Vol. 8, Issue 2. (CiteScore: 85/309, 1.93; SJR: Q1)


Cristancho, C., Anduiza, E., Congosto, M.L., Majó-Vázquez, S*. (2020) Contentious Responses to the Crises in Spain: Emphasis Frames and Public Support of Protest in Twitter and the Press. International Journal of Communication, 14, 3266-3288 (JCR IF: 1.069 Communication 61/88. SJR Q1). *corresponding author


Cardenal, A.S., Aguilar, C., Cristancho, C., Majó-Vázquez, S. (2019), Echo-chambers in online news consumption: Evidence from navigation data in Spain. European Journal of Communication (JCR IF: 2.015 Communication 29/88 SJR Q1)


Majó-Vázquez, S., Nielsen, R. K., González-Bailón, S. (2018), The Backbone Structure of Audience networks: A New Approach to Comparing Online News Consumption across Countries. Political Communication, 36 (2), 227-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1546244 (JCR IF: 5.91 Communication 2/92, 1/180 in Political Science SJR Q1)


Mukerjee, S., Majó-Vázquez, S., & González-Bailón, S. (2018), Networks of Audience Overlap in the Consumption of Digital News. Journal of Communication, 68 (1), 26-50. (JCR IF: 3.753 Communication 5/88. SJR Q1)


Cardenal, A. S., Galais, C. Majó-Vázquez, S. (2018), Is Facebook eroding the public agenda? Evidence from survey and web-tracking data. International Journal of Public Opinion Research doi: 10.193/ijpor/edy025 (JCR IF: 1.484 Communication 45/88 SJR Q1). Top Paper Award World Association Public Opinion Research 2020.


Majó-Vázquez, S., Cardenal, A. S. and González-Bailón, S. (2017), Digital News Consumption and Copyright Intervention: Evidence from Spain Before and After the 2015 “Link Tax”. Journal of Computed-Mediated Communication, 22: 284–301. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12196 (JCR IF: 4.896 Communication 1/88 SJR Q1)


Book Chapters

Castro, L., Gessler T., Majó-Vázquez, S., (2022) “Linkage Analyses”, in Handbook of Standardized Content Analysis: Applied Designs to Research Fields of Communication Science in F. Oehmer, S. H. Kessler, E. Humprecht, K. Sommer, & L. Castro Herrero (eds.), Springer.


Majó-Vázquez, S., González-Bailón, S., (2021). Información y Desinformación durante la Pandemia de la Covid-19 en España. Informe de la Democracia en España 2020. Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.


Majó-Vázquez, S., González-Bailón, S., (2019) “Digital News and the Consumption of Political Information”, in Graham, M., Dutton, W. H., (eds.) Society and the Internet, 2nd edition, Oxford: OUP.


Majó-Vázquez, S., (2019) “Assessing the Structure of the Networks of Digital News Providers in Europe” in Van den Bulck, H., Puppis, M., Donders, K., Van Audenhove, L. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research, London: Palgrave MacMillan.


Majó-Vázquez, S., Cardenal, A.S., Segarra, O., Colomer, P., (2017), “Audience Brokers and News Discoverers: The Role of the New Media in the Digital News Domain”, in Delgado A.M., (ed.) Internet, Derecho y Politica: retos y oportunidades, Barcelona: Huygens Editorial.


Scientifics & Technical Reports

Majó-Vázquez, S., González-Bailón, S., (2022). Polarización y Medios de Comunicación en España. Esade Policy Insights. Esade Law & Business School. Madrid, Spain. https://www.esade.edu/ecpol/es/publicaciones/polarizacion-medios-espana/


Majó-Vázquez, S., Nielsen, R.K., Verdú, J., Rao, N., de Domenico, M., Papaspiliopoulos, O., (2020). Volume and Patterns of Toxicity in Social Media Conversations during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Oxford, UK. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/volume-and-patterns-toxicity-social-media-conversations-during-covid-19-pandemic


Majó-Vázquez, S., González-Bailón, S., (2020). Dietas y Desigualdades Informativas en el Consumo de Noticias en Internet en España. Informe de la Democracia en España 2019. Fundación Alternativas.


Majó-Vázquez, S., Mukerjee, S., Neyazi, T. A., & Nielsen, R. K. (2019). Online Audience Engagement with Legacy and Digital-Born News Media in the 2019 Indian Elections. Oxford, UK. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/online-audience-engagement-legacy-and-digital-born-news-media-2019-indian-elections


Majó-Vázquez, S., Nurse, J. R., Zhao, J., & Nielsen, R. K Fragmentation across media platforms: Mapping Audience behaviour on the web, Facebook and Twitter. Proceeding of the 2nd Data and Computational Journalism Conference. University of Cardiff, June, 2018. pp 5-7. https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/handle/10197/9416


Cardenal, A.S., Galais, C., More, J., Cristancho, C., Majó-Vázquez, S., (2018) The challenge of measuring ideological bias in written digital media. Quaderns del CAC, 44, vol. XI, July. ISSN:2014-2242/www.cac.cat https://www.cac.cat/en/documentacio/fake-news-algorythms-and-filter-bubbles


Majó-Vázquez, S., Nurse, J. R., Simon, F., & Nielsen, R. K. (2017). Digital-Born and Legacy News Media on Twitter during the German Federal Election. Oxford, UK.


Majó-Vázquez, S., Zhao, J., & Nielsen, R. K. (2017). The Digital-Born and Legacy Media News Media on Twitter during the French Presidential Elections. Oxford, UK.


Majó-Vázquez, S., Zhao, J., Nurse, J. R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2017). Digital-born and Legacy News Media on Twitter during the UK General Election. Oxford, UK.


Majo-Vázquez, S., Cardenal, A.S. Sagarra, O. Colomer, P. (2016) “Audience Brokers and News Discoverers: The Role of New Media in the Digital Domain”, Building a European Digital Space Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, July, 2016. pp. 607-632


Majó-Vázquez, S., (2015) “A Network Analysis of Online Audience Behaviour: Towards a Better Comprehension of the Agenda Setting Process”. IDP. Revista de Internet, Derecho y Política. No. 20, pp. 61-74. UOC http://journals.uoc.edu/index.php/idp/article/view/n20-majo/n20-majo-pdf-en