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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A study of higher education students' self-perceived digital competences for learning and everyday life online participation	55
Contextualising risk: the unfolding information work and practices of people during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Affordances for information practices: theorizing engagement among people, technology, and sociocultural environments	23
“Outside the industry, nobody knows what we do” SEO as seen by search engine optimizers and content providers	23
Serious information in hedonic social applications: affordances, self-determination and health information adoption in TikTok	22
Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology	21
Health information-seeking behavior in the time of COVID-19: information horizons methodology to decipher source path during a global pandemic	21
LIS research across 50 years: content analysis of journal articles	21
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach	18
Information behavior during the Covid-19 crisis in German-speaking countries	18
Discursive power and resistance in the information world maps of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community leaders	16
“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation	16
Researcher attitudes toward data sharing in public data repositories: a meta-evaluation of studies on researcher data sharing	16
Reading in the age of digital distraction	15
Health-seeking behaviours of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Europe: a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles	15
Characteristics of the health information seeking behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review on information types, information sources and influencing factors	14
Documenting information making in archaeological field reports	14
Innovating peer review, reconfiguring scholarly communication: an analytical overview of ongoing peer review innovation activities	13
Hidden and forbidden: conceptualising Dark Knowledge	13
Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement	13
Workplace information literacy: a bridge to the development of innovative work behaviour	12
Libraries, sustainability and sustainable development: a review of the research literature	12
The potential of feminist technoscience for advancing research in information practice	11
Information cultures and strategies for coping with information overload: case of Estonian higher education institutions	11
COVID-19 immunity (or vaccine) passports: a documentary overview and analysis of regimes of health verification within the coronavirus pandemic	11

A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies	11
Information experiences of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada	11
Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources	11
Documenting social justice in library and information science research: a literature review	11
Toward a conceptual framework of health crisis information needs: an analysis of COVID-19 questions in a Chinese social Q&A website	10
Serendipity in human information behavior: a systematic review	9
Reading experience librarianship: working with readers in the 21st century	9
Cultural information needs of long-settled immigrants, their descendants and family members: use of collective and personal information sources about the home country	9
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	9
Individuation through infrastructure: Get Full Text Research, data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly	9
Intergenerational workplace knowledge sharing: challenges and new directions	8
Subject indexing in humanities: a comparison between a local university repository and an international bibliographic service	8
The Chinese philosophy of information by Kun Wu	8
Intellectual structure of information science 2011–2020: an author co-citation analysis	8
Research data sharing behaviour of engineering researchers in Norway and the UK: uncovering the double face of Janus	8
An analysis of research methods utilized in five top, practitioner-oriented LIS journals from 1980 to 2019	8
Manifestations of expert power in gatekeeping: a conceptual study	8
Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research	8
Information overload: a concept analysis	8
An emerging genre of contemporary fact-checking	7
A systematic review of information practices research	7
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	7
Reading by listening: conceptualising audiobook practices in the age of streaming subscription services	7
Sociocultural barriers to information and integration of women refugees	7
Saturation, acceleration and information pathologies: the conditions that influence the emergence of information literacy safeguarding practice in COVID-19-environments	7
Tag analysis as a tool for investigating information behaviour: comparing fan-tagging on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own and Etsy	7
The mediating role of documents: information sharing through medical records in healthcare	7
A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the Journal of Documentation: 1945–2018	7
Health literacy, health literacy interventions and decision-making: a systematic literature review	7
A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors	7
Information flows and topic modeling in corporate governance	6
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	6
Linking science to technology: the “patent paper citation” and the rise of patentometrics in the 1980s	6
Research output, intellectual structures and contributors of digital humanities research: a longitudinal analysis 2005–2020	6
Named-entity recognition for early modern textual documents: a review of capabilities and challenges with strategies for the future	6
Narrative ephemera: documents in storytelling worlds	6
Lifestyle information from YouTube influencers: some consumption patterns	6
Practice ecology of knowledge management—connecting the formal, informal and personal	6
“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process	6
Information literacy as a site for anticipation: temporal tactics for infrastructural meaning-making and algo-rhythm awareness	6
The steering effects of citations and metrics	6
Exploring the information practices of lawyers	6
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	6
The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015	6
Validation of information-seeking behaviour of nursing students confirms most profiles but also indicates desirable changes for information literacy support	6
“Bouncing ideas” as a complex information practice: information seeking, sharing, creation, and cooperation	5
Infotainment as a hybrid of information and entertainment: a conceptual analysis	5
The complex information needs of disadvantaged young first-time mothers: insights into multiplicity of needs	5
The social media use of Muslim women in the Arabian Peninsula: insights into self-protective information behaviours	5
Labor, classification and productions of culture on Netflix	5

The information trust formation process for informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	5
Archival knowledge in the field of personal archiving: an exploratory study based on grounded theory	5
Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: are existing models applicable?	5
Automatic classification of older electronic texts into the Universal Decimal Classification–UDC	5
A proposed reading event analysis model (REAM) for determining likely reading format preferences	5
Data modeling and evaluation of deep semantic annotation for cultural heritage images	5
Public librarians' perception of their professional role and the library's role in supporting the public sphere: a multi-country comparison	5
Organizing subject access to cultural heritage in Swedish online museums	5
“So many things were new to us”: identifying the settlement information practices of newcomers to Canada across the settlement process	5
Technologies, knowledge and truth: the three dimensions of information literacy of university students in Slovakia	5
Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes	5
Searching, sharing and singing: understanding the information behaviors of choral directors	5
Digital humanities research: interdisciplinary collaborations, themes and implications to library and information science	5
Information culture and recordkeeping: a case of Chinese enterprises	5
Questioning the role of information poverty in immigrant employment acquisition: empirical evidence from African immigrants in Canada	5
Embracing theories of precarity for the study of information practices	5
From data to knowledge: the relationships between vocabularies, linked data and knowledge graphs	5
Social aspects of personal information organization	5