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  1. Public Relations and Death

    Article • November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  2. Bibliometric Analysis of Spanish Doctoral theses on Public Relations (2006-2021)

    Article • Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental, May 2024, RGSA- Revista de Gestao Social e Ambiental

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  3. Reviving Albert Camus: Nonviolence and Pro-Independence PR Activism in Catalonia

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, December 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  4. Comunicación corporativa, relaciones públicas y gestión del riesgo reputacional en tiempos del Covid-19

    Article • Profesional de la información, April 2020, EPI SCP (El Profesional de la Informacion)

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  5. Creatively escaping insularity and encouraging internationalism: British radicalism, history from below, and public relations historiography

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  6. Publicizing atrocity and legitimizing outrage: Picasso’s Guernica

    Article • Public Relations Review, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  7. Recognition, symbolic capital and reputation in the seventeenth century: Thomas Hobbes and the origins of critical public relations historiography

    Article • Public Relations Review, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  8. Buñuel’s Spanish Civil War films

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco-Javier Ruiz-del-Olmo, Professor Jordi Xifra

  9. An (other) ‘story’ in history: Challenging colonialist public relations in novels of resistance

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra, Professor Debashish Munshi

  10. The Sound of Music or the History of Trump and Clinton Family Singers: Music Branding as Communication Strategy in 2016 Presidential Campaign

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  11. Visual-spatial intelligence in propaganda and public relations discourse: The case of Roberto Rossellini’s early and educational-historical films

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  12. Introduction to configuring intelligences for 21C public relations

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  13. Influence and Advocacy

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Núria Almiron, Professor Jordi Xifra

  14. Capturing the recent history of public affairs occupational culture: A comparative case study on the image of lobbying in the early 21st century

    Article • Public Relations Review, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  15. Images of PR special issue and the 2013 Barcelona International PR conference

    Article • Public Relations Review, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  16. Crisis and Interest

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Núria Almiron, Professor Jordi Xifra

  17. Climate Change Deniers and Advocacy

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  18. Peace, sports diplomacy and corporate social responsibility: a case study of Football Club Barcelona Peace Tour 2013

    Article • Soccer and Society, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  19. Reputation, Propaganda, and Hegemony in Assyriology Studies: A Gramscian View of Public Relations Historiography

    Article • Journal of Public Relations Research, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  20. Public relations and memory

    Article • Public Relations Inquiry, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  21. Editorial

    Article • Public Relations Inquiry, January 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  22. Resourcing the next stages in PR history research: The case for historiography

    Article • Public Relations Review, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  23. Medieval propaganda, longue durée and New History: Towards a nonlinear approach to the history of public relations

    Article • Public Relations Review, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  24. Editorial

    Article • Public Relations Inquiry, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  25. International representation strategies for stateless nations: The case of Catalonia’s cultural diplomacy

    Article • Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  26. Framing the Relationship Between Catalonia and Spain

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  27. Propaganda, terrorism and ethics

    Article • Public Relations Inquiry, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  28. Historia de los Lobbies: una forma de escribir la historia.

    Article • Historia y Comunicación Social, February 2014, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  29. Knowledges, reflexivity and power

    Article • Public Relations Inquiry, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  30. Inside Nazi Germany and PR war films in America

    Article • Public Relations Review, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  31. From realpolitik to noopolitik: The public relations of (stateless) nations in an information age

    Article • Public Relations Review, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  32. Public relations anthropologies: French theory, anthropology of morality and ethnographic practices

    Article • Public Relations Review, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  33. Sex, lies, and post-trial publicity: The reputation repair strategies of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

    Article • Public Relations Review, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  34. Frank Capra's Why We Fight and film documentary discourse in public relations

    Article • Public Relations Review, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  35. Subsidios Informativos y Función Documental de las Salas de Prensa Online de Los Ministerios Españoles

    Article • Profesional de la información, May 2011, EPI SCP (El Profesional de la Informacion)

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  36. Americanization, Globalization, or Modernization of Electoral Campaigns? Testing the Situation in Spain

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  37. Zyncro: La Intranet 2.0

    Article • Profesional de la información, March 2011, EPI SCP (El Profesional de la Informacion)

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  38. La dramatización radiofónica de contenidos educativos: Una experiencia universitaria

    Article • Comunicar, October 2010, Grupo Comunicar

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  39. From the “strategy of truth” to the “weapon of truth”: The Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry, 1942

    Article • Public Relations Review, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  40. Linkages Between Public Relations Models and Communication Managers' Roles in Spanish Political Parties

    Article • Journal of Political Marketing, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  41. Nanoblogging PR: The discourse on public relations in Twitter

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  42. Pasado, presente y futuro de la documentación en relaciones públicas: el Institute for Public Relations

    Article • Profesional de la información, March 2010, EPI SCP (El Profesional de la Informacion)

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  43. Managing reputational risk in an economic downturn: The case of Banco Santander

    Article • Public Relations Review, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  44. Journalists’ assessments of public relations subsidies and contact preferences: Exploring the situation in Spain

    Article • Public Relations Review, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  45. Building Sport Countries’ Overseas Identity and Reputation: A Case Study of Public Paradiplomacy

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  46. The Office of Facts and Figures: Archibald MacLeish and the “strategy of truth”

    Article • Public Relations Review, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  47. Recent Mediterranean literature on public relations: France, Italy, and Spain

    Article • Journal of Communication Management, May 2009, Emerald

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  48. Blogging PR: An exploratory analysis of public relations weblogs

    Article • Public Relations Review, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  49. Soccer, civil religion, and public relations: Devotional–promotional communication and Barcelona Football Club

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  50. Undergraduate public relations education in Spain: Endangered species?

    Article • Public Relations Review, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra

  51. Forty years of doctoral public relations research in Spain: A quantitative study of dissertation contribution to theory development

    Article • Public Relations Review, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jordi Xifra