Review
Open access
Aug 2026
What Do We Mean by Transparency? Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Transparency in Communication
By analyzing 164 articles from communication journals published between 2002 and 2024, this scoping review systematically investigates temporal trends, conceptualizations, and operationalizations of transparency research within communication studies. The analysis identifies three primary conceptual dimensions of transp...
Wen-Jia Yan, Li Crystal Jiang, Yi-Qian Gao et al.
· Communication Research · 0 citations