OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Library Quarterly is 3. 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
Enough Crocodile Tears! Libraries Moving beyond Performative Antiracist Politics	23
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese College Students’ Information Behavior and Library Needs: A Qualitative Study	15
Social Innovations in Public Libraries: Types and Challenges	14
Perceptions of the Public Library Social Worker: Challenges and Opportunities	12
Exercising at the Library: Small and Rural Public Libraries in the Lives of Older Adults	10
Storytime Programs as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors? Addressing Children’s Needs through Diverse Book Selection	9
Arsenals of Lifelong Information Literacy: Educating Users to Navigate Political and Current Events Information in World of Ever-Evolving Misinformation	9
Exuberantly Exhuming McCarthy: Confronting the Widespread Attacks on Intellectual Freedom in the United States	9
“Unified Mobile, Financial, and Information Literacy Toolkit”: A Social Innovation for Public Libraries to Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries	8
Sustaining Library Makerspaces: Perspectives on Participation, Expertise, and Embeddedness	8
Moving toward Health Justice in the COVID-19 Era: A Sampling of US Public Libraries’ Efforts to Inform the Public, Improve Information Literacy, Enable Health Behaviors, and Optimize Health Outcomes	8
Information Literacy, Work, and Knowledge Creation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Point of View	8
Libraries Reclaiming “Social Justice Warriors” during “Miss Rona’s” Global Pandemic Crises	7
“Still Open and Here for You”: News Media’s Framing of Canadian Public Libraries during COVID-19	7
Public Library Patrons’ Views of Their Psychosocial Needs and How the Library Can Help	7
How Visibility, Hypervisibility, and Invisibility Shape Library Staff and Drag Performer Perceptions of and Experiences with Drag Storytimes in Public Libraries	6
“Killing It from the Inside”: Acknowledging and Valuing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color as LIS Faculty	6
Crisis-Related Research in Service to Practice: Researchers Step Up	6
Confusion Made Its Masterpiece: The Political Climate of Libraries (and Moving Forward)	5
Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic	5
Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game	5
Social Justice Storytelling: A Pedagogical Imperative	5
Not Just for Patrons: Book Club Participation as Professional Development for Librarians	5
Libraries, Democracy, and Citizenship: Twenty Years after 9/11	5
Third-Party Violence, Incivility, and the Frontline Public Library Worker	4

The Potential Role of Public Libraries in a Quadruple Helix Model of “Smart City” Development: Lessons from Chattanooga, Tennessee	4
Digital Literacy Training in Canada, Part 2: Defining and Measuring Success	4
Public Libraries and COVID-19: Perceptions and Politics in the United States	4
Digital Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Digital Information Services at Academic Libraries: The University of Jordan Case	3
Librarian Contributions to Evidence Synthesis Programs: Addressing the COVID-19 Infodemic	3
A Comparative Study of Attitudes and Perceptions of LIS and non-LIS Students toward Library User Education at Sun Yat-Sen University	3
Digital Literacy Training for Canadians, Part 1: “It’s … Just Core Public Works”	3
Digitization and Exploitation: Acknowledging and Addressing the Use of Exploitative Prison Labor by Libraries and Archives	3
“How Much Is Not Enough?”: Public Library Outreach to “Disadvantaged” Communities in the War on Poverty	3
Questions of Trust: A Survey of Student Expectations and Perspectives on Library Learning Analytics	3
“Our Mission Doesn’t Stop Just Because We Don’t Have a Building”: Librarians’ and Museum Educators’ Discursive Construction of Their Shifting Roles during the Pandemic	3
Evaluating the Use of Journal Prestige as a Metric for Academic Research Faculty: A Case of Library and Information Science Faculty in the United States and Canada	3
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Popular Media and the Roles of Public Libraries in Supporting Health Information Access, Health Literacy, and Health Justice during Pandemics: Learning from the Past to	3
Navigating Children’s Use of Screen Media: An Analysis of Guidance Information Provided on Public Library Websites	3
The Light, of Course, in the Library: Pandemic, Protests, and Being What the Community Most Needs	3