OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telecommunications Policy is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
AI governance in the public sector: Three tales from the frontiers of automated decision-making in democratic settings	163
The impact of ICT on economic growth-Comparing rich and poor countries	144
ICT for sustainable development: Global comparative evidence of globalisation thresholds	96
Revisiting Wireless Internet Connectivity: 5G vs Wi-Fi 6	93
Assessment of mobile technology use in the emerging market: Analyzing intention to use m-payment services in India	82
Harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to increase wellbeing for all: The case for a new technology diplomacy	76
Factors influencing TikTok engagement behaviors in China: An examination of gratifications sought, narcissism, and the Big Five personality traits	75
Broadband infrastructure and export growth	74
Internet access and poverty reduction: Evidence from rural and urban Mexico	72
Inequality and gender inclusion: Minimum ICT policy thresholds for promoting female employment in Sub-Saharan Africa	69
Societal and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence: Critical notes on European policy frameworks	68
5G: A new future for Mobile Network Operators, or not?	57
From digital divide to digital inclusion: Challenges for wide-ranging digitalization in Pakistan	56
Reaping digital dividends: Digital inclusive finance and high-quality development of enterprises in China	53
Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa	52
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	52
Forming a 5G strategy for developing countries: A note for policy makers	46
The non-linear relationship between ICT diffusion and financial development	46
Digital infrastructure and employment in services: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	45
Resistance to facial recognition payment in China: The influence of privacy-related factors	44
Effects of the internet, mobile, and land phones on income inequality and The Kuznets curve: Cross country analysis	44
The gap not only closes: Resistance and reverse shifts in the digital divide in Russia	42
An analysis of the impacts of telecommunications technology and innovation on economic growth	41
The impact of literacy on intention to use digital technology for learning: A comparative study of Korea and Finland	40
Can digitization mitigate the economic damage of a pandemic? Evidence from SARS	40

Innovation ecosystems theory revisited: The case of artificial intelligence in China	39
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	39
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	38
Artificial intelligence: From ethics to law	38
ICT and socio-economic development: Evidence from a spatial panel data analysis in China	38
Inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the interaction between ICT diffusion, and financial development	37
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	36
Mobile payment and rural household consumption: Evidence from China	35
Information technology, income inequality and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries	35
Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	34
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	33
ICT, governance and inequality in Africa	31
ICT investment and GDP growth: Causality analysis for the case of Korea	31
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	30
Importance of Internet Exchange Point (IXP) infrastructure for 5G: Estimating the impact of 5G use cases	30
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Telecommunications and other network industries	28
Regulating smart contracts: Legal revolution or simply evolution?	28
Digital divide and financial development in Africa	28
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	28
Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19	27
Platform configurations for local and private 5G networks in complex industrial multi-stakeholder ecosystems	27
The non-linear impact of digitization on remittances inflow: Evidence from the BRICS	27
Determinants of digitalization and digital divide in Sub-Saharan African economies: A spatial Durbin analysis	27
Convergence patterns in global ICT: Fresh insights from a club clustering algorithm	27
ICT adoption, innovation, and SMEs’ access to finance	26
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance	26
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain	26
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	26
Regulation and innovation in 5G markets	26
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	26
Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies	25
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	24
State broadband policy: Impacts on availability	24
Connecting the other half: Exploring options for the 50% of the population unconnected to the internet	24
The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on internet interconnection	22
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	22
Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Demonetization and digitalization: The Indian government's hidden agenda	20
The impact of ICT patents on economic growth: An international evidence	20
Who uses paid over-the-top services and why? Cross-national comparisons of consumer demographics and values	20
Why is South Korea at the forefront of 5G? Insights from technology systems theory	20
Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force	20
Increasing low-income broadband adoption through private incentives	20
E-commerce in Spain: Determining factors and the importance of the e-trust	19
How does broadband infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	19
The evolution of cyber-insurance industry and market: An institutional analysis	19
Demand-side broadband policy in the context of digital transformation: An examination of SME digital advisory policies in Wales	19
Does digitalization promote net job creation? Empirical evidence from WAEMU countries	19
Spectrum access options for vertical network service providers in 5G	19

Will 5G lead to more spectrum sharing? Discussing recent developments of the LSA and the CBRS spectrum sharing frameworks	18
A new measure of digital economic activity and its impact on local opportunity	18
The AI techno-economic complex System: Worldwide landscape, thematic subdomains and technological collaborations	18
“Data localization”: The internet in the balance	18
ICT and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Transmission channels and effects	18
Ethics of autonomous weapons systems and its applicability to any AI systems	18
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	18
Factors influencing K-pop artists' success on V live online video platform	18
Digital divides across consumers of internet services in Spain using panel data 2007–2019. Narrowing or not?	17
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	17
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy	17
Measuring ICT externalities and their contribution to productivity: A bilateral trade based approach	17
Ubiquitous technologies and 5G development. Who is leading the race?	17
Factors affecting users' satisfaction and dissatisfaction of OTT services in South Korea	16
Advertising in streaming video: An integrative literature review and research agenda	16
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	16
Internet of things and the economics of 5G-based local industrial networks	15
Digital dividend or digital divide? Digital economy and urban-rural income inequality in China	15
“The Netflix effect” in Thailand: Industry and regulatory implications	15
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?	15
Could information and communication technology (ICT) reduce carbon emissions? The role of trade openness and financial development	15
Information and communications technology infrastructure and firm growth: An empirical study of China's cities	15
Quantum Artificial Intelligence: A “precautionary” U.S. approach?	15
Prediction of Wheat Production Using Machine Learning Algorithms in northern areas of Pakistan	15
5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries	14
E-commerce by individuals in Spain using panel data 2008–2016	14
Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK	14
The ‘China’ question in mobile Internet standard-making: Insights from expert interviews	14
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	14
Mobile phones, mobile Internet, and employment in Uganda	14
The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans	14
Reforming funding of universal access to telecommunications and broadband services: Approaches for the new decade	13
Harmonizing regulatory regimes for the governance of patient-generated health data	13
Friends or Foes? Mobile money interaction with formal and informal finance	13
Normfare: Norm entrepreneurship in internet governance	13
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	13
Impact of high-speed broadband access on local establishment dynamics	13
How do industrial robots applications affect the quality upgrade of Chinese export trade?	13
Does the digital economy generate a gender dividend for female employment? Evidence from China	13
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	13
Effects of data localization on digital trade: An agent-based modeling approach	13
Population grid-based assessment of the impact of broadband expansion on population development in rural areas	13
Small rural operators techno-economic analysis to bring mobile services to isolated communities: The case of Peru Amazon rainforest	13
Socio-spatial patterns of the national broadband network revealed: Lessons from greater Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane	13
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	13
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei	13
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective	13
The evolution paths of neutral host businesses: Antecedents, strategies, and business models	13