OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Documentation is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Citizens' information behavior in relation to electronic-government services: a systematic review	48
Information seeking in a time of war: coping with stress in Lithuania during the Russia/Ukraine war	33
Following standards: a document ethnography in Chilean University Libraries	31
Documents as weapons: secret police files in Communist and post-Communist Romania	26
Centered and decentered: toward a knowledge organization perspective on social reality	25
Towards a vernacular aesthetics of liking for information studies	23
Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information	22
Research output, intellectual structures and contributors of digital humanities research: a longitudinal analysis 2005–2020	22
Domain analytic paradigm: a quarter century exploration of fundamental ideas in information science	22
Individuals responsible for video games: an exploration of cataloging practice, user need and authorship theory	21
From two-track to tessellation: a revised circulation of power model	20
“Our ancestors passed this down to us for a reason”: information practices of ballet folklórico dancers in Mexican-American communities	20
Bringing order or creating exclusion: systems for managing disability in a university	20
Information overload: a concept analysis	19
An analysis of research methods utilized in five top, practitioner-oriented LIS journals from 1980 to 2019	18
LIS neutrality: a Wittgensteinian interpretation	16
The health information behaviors of people who inject drugs: a scoping review of the literature	15
Information search process model based on costs and benefits: a behavioural economics perspective	15
The institutional e-lending setup in Scandinavian libraries: logics in play in the eyes of library and policy actors	13
The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015	11
Traditional, dialogical and complex scholarly communication: towards a renewed trust in science	11
Bonded design in the virtual environment: the transition of a participatory design methodology	11
“We are openly, proudly Subjective … This history is important to our contemporary survival”: queer embodied knowledge and the curatorial work of ICT-based LGBTQIA+ history content creators	11
Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and proposals from practice	11
The role of data sharing in survey dropout: a study among scientists as respondents	11

Information experiences of bonsai growers: a phenomenological study in serious leisure	11
Cognitive appraisals and information-seeking achievement emotions: a qualitative study of Swedish primary teacher students	10
Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality	10
The identity of information science	10
In search of a coherent theoretical foundation for LIS ethical principles: an appraisal of Floridi's Information Ethics	10
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	10
“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel	9
Reading time: exploring the temporal experiences of reading	9
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	9
A call for the library community to deploy best practices toward a database for biocultural knowledge relating to climate change	9
Advocating for a more active role for the user in LIS participatory research: a scoping literature review	9
Rereading, art-making and other joys: toward a theory of information, repetition and the good life	8
Planning, implementing and evaluating research data services in academic libraries: a model approach	8
“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process	8
A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum	8
Digital storytelling and participatory local heritage through the creation of an online moving image archive: a case-study of Fraserburgh on Film	8
The role of historical and contextual knowledge in enterprise search	8
Does serendipity matter in knowledge management? Organizational sharing and use of encountered information	8
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening	8
Negotiating neutrality and activism in Norwegian public libraries: the case of environmental sustainability	7
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	7
Can you feel it? The information behaviour of creative DJs	7
Interrogating access: a critical disability studies approach to information practices research	7
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	7
Social noise: the influence of observers on social media information behavior	7
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	7
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	6
Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: can qualitative research be world-leading?	6
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	6
The information trust formation process for informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	6
COVID-19 immunity (or vaccine) passports: a documentary overview and analysis of regimes of health verification within the coronavirus pandemic	6
Perceptions and experiences of virtual reality in public libraries	6
Documenting information making in archaeological field reports	6
“So many things were new to us”: identifying the settlement information practices of newcomers to Canada across the settlement process	6
Information snowballing: information practices in the context of sustainable food practices	6
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	6
Linking science to technology: the “patent paper citation” and the rise of patentometrics in the 1980s	5
The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis	5
The implications of handwritten text recognition for accessing the past at scale	5
Citing and referencing habits in medicine and social sciences journals in 2019	5
What characterizes LIS as a fragmenting discipline?	5
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	5
Broadening the field of information	5
Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda	5
Lifestyle information from YouTube influencers: some consumption patterns	5
In quest of goldilocks ranges in searching for information on the web	5
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections	5
What do we mean by “data”? A proposed classification of data types in the arts and humanities	5
Fact-checking of political information about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict	5
The nonpharmaceutical interventionist (NPI) signs of the coronavirus pandemic: a documentary typology and case study of COVID-19 signage	5

Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	5
Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems	5
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	5
Images as data – modelling data interactions in social science and humanities research	5
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	4
Representation and the problem of bibliographic imagination on Wikipedia	4
Recent temporal dynamics in economics: empirical analyses of annual publications in economic fields	4
Grappling with polarization on Wikipedia: the case of the biography of Ferdinand E. Marcos	4
A systematic literature review on image information needs and behaviors	4
Automated Dewey Decimal Classification of Swedish library metadata using Annif software	4
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Data as assemblage	4
Interdisciplinarity of information science: an evolutionary perspective of theory application	4
From amused to : enriching mood metadata by mapping textual descriptors to emojis for fiction reading	4
A niche of their own: variations of information practices in biodiversity citizen science	4
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	4
Signifying unity: exploring the interplay of semiotics, universalism and pluralism in information science	4
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	4
Museum open data ecosystems: a comparative study	4
Validating predictions of burial mounds with field data: the promise and reality of machine learning	4
Seven information practices for alleviating information vulnerability	4
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	4
Gatekeeping structures and trust development in public sector organizations	4
Relevance and creativity – a linear model	4
Fractured academic space: digital literacy and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Addressing the information needs of informal carers in Malawi: a healthcare intervention based on co-creation	4
Health information-seeking behavior in the time of COVID-19: information horizons methodology to decipher source path during a global pandemic	4
A systematic review of methods for aligning, mapping, merging taxonomies in information sciences	4
Promoting transformative encounters in libraries and archives	4