OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Documentation is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology	38
LIS research across 50 years: content analysis of journal articles	30
“Outside the industry, nobody knows what we do” SEO as seen by search engine optimizers and content providers	29
Serious information in hedonic social applications: affordances, self-determination and health information adoption in TikTok	28
Contextualising risk: the unfolding information work and practices of people during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach	25
Health information-seeking behavior in the time of COVID-19: information horizons methodology to decipher source path during a global pandemic	23
Health-seeking behaviours of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Europe: a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles	22
Reading in the age of digital distraction	22
A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies	22
Researcher attitudes toward data sharing in public data repositories: a meta-evaluation of studies on researcher data sharing	20
Libraries, sustainability and sustainable development: a review of the research literature	20
Information behavior during the Covid-19 crisis in German-speaking countries	20
Characteristics of the health information seeking behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review on information types, information sources and influencing factors	19
Discursive power and resistance in the information world maps of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community leaders	19
Innovating peer review, reconfiguring scholarly communication: an analytical overview of ongoing peer review innovation activities	18
Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement	16
Documenting information making in archaeological field reports	16
Workplace information literacy: a bridge to the development of innovative work behaviour	15
Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources	15
Documenting social justice in library and information science research: a literature review	15
Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country	14
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	14
Serendipity in human information behavior: a systematic review	13
Intergenerational workplace knowledge sharing: challenges and new directions	12

Information cultures and strategies for coping with information overload: case of Estonian higher education institutions	12
Information overload: a concept analysis	11
The potential of feminist technoscience for advancing research in information practice	11
Reading by listening: conceptualising audiobook practices in the age of streaming subscription services	11
COVID-19 immunity (or vaccine) passports: a documentary overview and analysis of regimes of health verification within the coronavirus pandemic	11
Public librarians' perception of their professional role and the library's role in supporting the public sphere: a multi-country comparison	11
Information experiences of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada	11
“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process	11
When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements	11
Linking science to technology: the “patent paper citation” and the rise of patentometrics in the 1980s	11
A systematic review of information practices research	10
Sociocultural barriers to information and integration of women refugees	10
Toward a conceptual framework of health crisis information needs: an analysis of COVID-19 questions in a Chinese social Q&A website	10
An emerging genre of contemporary fact-checking	10
Health literacy, health literacy interventions and decision-making: a systematic literature review	10
Information literacy as a site for anticipation: temporal tactics for infrastructural meaning-making and algo-rhythm awareness	9
Intellectual structure of information science 2011–2020: an author co-citation analysis	9
An analysis of research methods utilized in five top, practitioner-oriented LIS journals from 1980 to 2019	9
Named-entity recognition for early modern textual documents: a review of capabilities and challenges with strategies for the future	9
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	9
Infotainment as a hybrid of information and entertainment: a conceptual analysis	9
Research data sharing behaviour of engineering researchers in Norway and the UK: uncovering the double face of Janus	9
Validation of information-seeking behaviour of nursing students confirms most profiles but also indicates desirable changes for information literacy support	8
Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research	8
Measuring the time spent on data curation	8
The Chinese philosophy of information by Kun Wu	8
Revisiting the notion of the public library as a meeting place: challenges to the mission of promoting democracy in times of political turmoil	8
Tag analysis as a tool for investigating information behaviour: comparing fan-tagging on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own and Etsy	8
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	8
Perceptions and experiences of virtual reality in public libraries	8
Saturation, acceleration and information pathologies: the conditions that influence the emergence of information literacy safeguarding practice in COVID-19-environments	8
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	8
A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors	8
Research output, intellectual structures and contributors of digital humanities research: a longitudinal analysis 2005–2020	8
Information experience as an object of LIS research: a definition based on concept analysis	7
Data modeling and evaluation of deep semantic annotation for cultural heritage images	7
Social noise: the influence of observers on social media information behavior	7
“Bouncing ideas” as a complex information practice: information seeking, sharing, creation, and cooperation	7
Exploring the digital humanities research agenda: a text mining approach	7
The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015	7
The steering effects of citations and metrics	7
The social media use of Muslim women in the Arabian Peninsula: insights into self-protective information behaviours	7
Information culture and recordkeeping: a case of Chinese enterprises	6
Questioning the role of information poverty in immigrant employment acquisition: empirical evidence from African immigrants in Canada	6
Lifestyle information from YouTube influencers: some consumption patterns	6
Sharing experiential information in online discussion: the case of coping with the COVID-19 epidemic	6
Pets and people: information experience of multispecies families	6
Library as place: conceptual model for public libraries and their transition	6
“So many things were new to us”: identifying the settlement information practices of newcomers to Canada across the settlement process	6
Automatic classification of older electronic texts into the Universal Decimal Classification–UDC	6

Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search	6
Exploring the information practices of lawyers	6
The information trust formation process for informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	6
Expert judgments versus publication-based metrics: do the two methods produce identical results in measuring academic reputation?	5
A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions	5
An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services	5
Memetics as informational difference: offering an information-centric conception of memes	5
Audiobook routines: identifying everyday reading by listening practices amongst young adults	5
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	5
The role of historical and contextual knowledge in enterprise search	5
Identifying the future direction of legal deposit in the United Kingdom: The Digital Library Futures approach	5
A proposed reading event analysis model (REAM) for determining likely reading format preferences	5
Embracing theories of precarity for the study of information practices	5
A qualitative study of social sciences faculty research workflows	5
Organizing subject access to cultural heritage in Swedish online museums	5
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	5
Preservation for diverse users: digital preservation and the “Designated Community” at the Ontario Jewish Archives	5
Searching, sharing and singing: understanding the information behaviors of choral directors	5
What do they make us see: a comparative study of cultural bias in online databases of two large museums	5
A critical comparison analysis between human and machine-generated tags for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection	5
Trust in the academy: a conceptual framework for understanding trust on academic web profiles	5
In quest of goldilocks ranges in searching for information on the web	5
Social aspects of personal information organization	5
Green library as a subject of research – a quantitative and qualitative perspective	5