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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	172
What does it mean “human” in the age of AI? A bibliometric evidence of posthumanism’s evolution, thematic structures, and future directions	52
Emotions affecting motivation and information behavior in problem solving: a systematic literature review	51
Debunking a politically motivated rumour on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign	34
Intentional echo chamber management: Chinese celebrity fans’ information-seeking and sense-making practices on social media	30
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	28
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	26
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	23
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	23
Many-to-many. Usability challenges of entity reconciliation in art history and photographic studies	22
Information behavior and the subjective digital well-being of individuals affected by social anxiety disorder	17
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	17
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	16
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	16
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	16
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	15
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	15
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change	13
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	13
Taking pictures in response to uncertainty: coping through double remediation of in-game photography	13
Research data management practices and perspectives among Catalan archaeologists: a qualitative approach	13
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	13
Public libraries as public sphere institutions in a period of crises, conflicts and wars. The theory of low-intensive meeting places revisited	12
The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model	12
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	12

A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022	11
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library	11
The science publishing manifesto: AI moves fast, science publishing must too	11
Who cites the contributions by information science?	11
Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership	11
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation	10
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people	10
The algorithm of silence: artificial intelligence, archival bias and the ethical reconstruction of digital memory	10
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists	10
Artificial intelligence and the library as Third Place: cognitive automation and the reconfiguration of labour	10
Understanding the value of information in the everyday life of a small-scale marine fishing community in Bangladesh	10
An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic referencing and citing practices	9
The role of health information behaviour research for informing health communication: exploring and mapping connections and impact pathways	9
A bibliometric assessment of the incidence of Eszett (ẞ; ß)-catenin and Eszett (ẞ; ß)-glucuronidase in th	9
“We do the best we can with the information we have” Science reporting referencing retracted papers in the UK and Finland	9
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments	9
Disinformation as a tool for digital political activism: Croatian Wikipedia and the case for critical information literacy	9
A systematic review of grounded theory studies in library and information science research	8
Human intelligence versus artificial intelligence in classifying economics research articles: exploratory evidence	8
An exploration of search-as-learning in digital archives of an online museum	8
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment	8
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods	8
Cultural capital and public libraries in the era of algorithmic collection management	8
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents	8
Information poverty in Southwest China: self and interactive behaviors among heterogeneous rural groups	8
An information behaviour transition model for the self-disclosure of HIV-positive serostatus: a qualitative study	8
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	8
Innovating cultural event information platforms: a regional case study from Småland, Sweden	8
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge	7
Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies	7
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage	7
The readability of abstracts in library and information science journals	7
The effect of cooking recipe storage on their retrieval	7
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields	7
Advocating for a more active role for the user in LIS participatory research: a scoping literature review	7
Information retrieval of humanities resources: subject searching from a user perspective	7
Interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for Q&A behaviour on an academic social networking site: qualitative evidence from Researchgate	7
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology	7
Rural aging and digital inclusion: sustaining access to personal information	7
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	6
What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	6
Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	6
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	6
Can ChatGPT replace citations for quality evaluation of academic articles and journals? Empirical evidence from library and information science	6
Developing a cultural heritage taxonomy for an Indonesian world heritage site	6
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	6
Consensus, conflict and social capital: the conceptualisation of democracy in recent public library research	6
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	6
Book review: Niels Windfeld Lund, Introduction to Documentation Studies	6
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	6

Knowledge graphs generation from cultural heritage texts: combining LLMs and ontological engineering for scholarly debates	6
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	5
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	5
Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	5
Scholarly communication: a concept analysis	5
Exploring the sources of ideation among visual artists	5
User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections	5
Situated cognition: understanding the acquisition dependence of digital literacy	5
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Embracing emojis: prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers	5
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures	5
Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositories	5
Understanding digital hoarding behavior in the workplace: a proximal and distal framework	5
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions	5
Taxonomy of context in human information behavior	5
The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China	5
Guest editorial: Festschrift for Michael Buckland	5
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information	5
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation	5
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research	5
“Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer’’: conceptualizing the information needs of undergraduate engineers	4
Information practices and emotion regulation in wartime news consumption	4
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories	4
Taking Chatman back to prison: rethinking the theory of life in the round	4
How are library cataloging metadata used differently over time: a large-scale quantitative analysis of the Library of Congress catalog	4
Toward a Peircean-enriched Phenomenon-Based Classification – ontological foundations and semiotic mediations	4
Exploring the contemplative landscape of Library and Information Science through the lens of Chinese philosophies	4
Becoming part of the conspiracy theory: far-right framings of museums and public libraries on Swedish YouTube	4
Social infrastructuring in public libraries: librarians' continuous care in everyday library practice	4
Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate	4
Do large language models know basic facts about journal articles?	4
Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings	4
Critical open access literacy as a strategy to confront the challenges in scholarly communication	4
Rethinking archival data management for indigenous communities: lessons learned from the Moklen community digital repository	4
Public libraries in the discourse of Drag Queen Story Time challengers and supporters	4
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?	4
Landscapes of information science and library science research: comparing funded and non-funded research from 2008 to 2023	4
Exploring arXiv usage habits among Slovenian scientists	4
The library person: negotiating the aporia of universalism in library diversity work	4
Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple	4
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach	4