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Beatriz Jordá, Ph.D.


Department of English
Communication

Education

B.A. Journalism, Carlos III University, Madrid, 2020
M.A. Applied Research to Mass Media, Carlos III University, Madrid, 2021
Ph.D. Media Research, Carlos III University, Madrid, 2025

Research Interests

Beatriz Jordá is a communication researcher and member of MITCOM Research Group. Her research focuses on the influence of social media on citizens' opinions and behaviors, particularly in relation to political and social issues. Her broader interests lie at the intersection of political communication, media effects, and digital media. Her studies have appeared in journals such as Journalism, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, PLOS One, or Communications.

Publications and Media Placements

Journal Articles

Goyanes, M., Domínguez-Díaz, A., Jordá, B., de-Marcos, L. (2025). Gender gap in citations, h-index, and representation: Examining the highly cited authors across continents and disciplines in Google Scholar. PLoS One 20(11): e0334690.

Jordá, B., and Goyanes, M. (2025). Accidentally persuaded: a moderated mediation model of incidental news exposure and political persuasion in social media. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 1-16.

Jordá, B., Goyanes, M. and González-Manzano, L. (2025). Curtailing the Spread of Fake News: Antecedents of Citizens' Intention to Correct Misinformation on Social Media. Communications. 

Goyanes, M., Lopezosa, C., and Jordá, B. (2025). Thematic analysis of interview data with ChatGPT: Designing and testing a reliable research protocol for qualitative research. Quality & Quantity, 1-20. 

Goyanes, M., Jordá, B., and de Fuentes, J. M. (2025). From Lack of Concerns to Complicity: How Misinformation Concerns Influences Fake News Sharing on WhatsApp via the Partisan Legitimation of Fake News. Social Science Quarterly, 106(4), e70039. 

Goyanes, M., Jordá, B., and Háló, G. (2024). The Impact of Methodological Diversity on Productivity, Views, and Citations: An Empirical Examination of Communication and its Most Productive Scholars. International Journal of Communication, 18, 20.

Jordá, B., Goyanes, M., Borah, P., and Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2024). Social media symbiosis: Understanding the dynamics of online political persuasion in social media ecologies. Journalism, (Online first).

Jordá, B., and Goyanes, M. (2022). The Rear Window Effect: How Users Respond to Political Discussions and Persuasive Discourses in Social Media. International Journal of Communication, 16, 19.

Goyanes, M., De-Marcos, L., Demeter, M., Toth, T.,and Jordá, B. (2022). Editorial board interlocking across the social sciences: Modelling the geographic, gender, and institutional representation within and between six academic fields. PloS one, 17(9), e0273552.

Jordá, B., Cañedo, A., Bene, M., and Goyanes, M. (2021). Out-of-Place content: how repetitive, offensive, and opinion-challenging social media posts shape users' unfriending strategies in Spain. Social Sciences, 10(12), 460.

Book Chapters

Jordá, B., and Holbert, R. L. (2024). From Mass Media to Social Media: Political Persuasion in the Field of Communication. In M. Goyanes and A. Cañedo (Eds.), Media Influence on Opinion Change and Democracy (pp. 181-196). Palgrave Macmillan Springer Nature Switzerland.