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

Article	Citations
An “Owning Up” of White-IST Trends in LIS to Further Real Transformations	33
Enough Crocodile Tears! Libraries Moving beyond Performative Antiracist Politics	22
What the Field Needs: Core Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for Public Librarianship	17
Libraries and Democracy Revisited	17
Encouraging the Humanization of Patrons Experiencing Homelessness: A Case Study of the Role of the US Public Library Social Worker	16
Social Innovations in Public Libraries: Types and Challenges	13
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese College Students’ Information Behavior and Library Needs: A Qualitative Study	12
Sanitizing American Library History: Reflections of a Library Historian	10
Perceptions of the Public Library Social Worker: Challenges and Opportunities	9
Arsenals of Lifelong Information Literacy: Educating Users to Navigate Political and Current Events Information in World of Ever-Evolving Misinformation	9
“They’re So Stinkin’ Popular, How Could You Say No?” Graphic Novel Collection Development and School Librarian Self-Censorship	8
Storytime Programs as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors? Addressing Children’s Needs through Diverse Book Selection	8
Reading between the Lines: An Environmental Scan of Writing about Third-Party Sexual Harassment in the LIS Literature and Beyond	7
Sustaining Library Makerspaces: Perspectives on Participation, Expertise, and Embeddedness	7
Libraries Reclaiming “Social Justice Warriors” during “Miss Rona’s” Global Pandemic Crises	7
“Unified Mobile, Financial, and Information Literacy Toolkit”: A Social Innovation for Public Libraries to Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries	7
Exercising at the Library: Small and Rural Public Libraries in the Lives of Older Adults	7
Exuberantly Exhuming McCarthy: Confronting the Widespread Attacks on Intellectual Freedom in the United States	6
“Killing It from the Inside”: Acknowledging and Valuing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color as LIS Faculty	6
Between Collections and Connections: Analyzing Public Library Programs in Terms of Format, Content, and Role and Function	6
“Tearing the Shroud of Invisibility”: Communities of Protest Information Practices and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights in US Librarianship	6
Crisis-Related Research in Service to Practice: Researchers Step Up	6
Information Literacy, Work, and Knowledge Creation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Point of View	6
A Political Sociology of the Beall’s List Affair	6
“Still Open and Here for You”: News Media’s Framing of Canadian Public Libraries during COVID-19	6

Confusion Made Its Masterpiece: The Political Climate of Libraries (and Moving Forward)	5
Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game	5
Third-Party Violence, Incivility, and the Frontline Public Library Worker	4
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	4
Education, the Public Sphere, and Neoliberalism: Libraries’ Contexts	4
Public Library Patrons’ Views of Their Psychosocial Needs and How the Library Can Help	4
The Will to Activate Library Users and the Making of Citizens: How Different Rationalities Influence the Notion of Participation in a Library Context	4
Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, and Youth with Autism: LIS Education as a Piece in the Puzzle	4
Not Just for Patrons: Book Club Participation as Professional Development for Librarians	3
LIS Association Activities in Promoting and Sustaining an Inclusive Profession	3
Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic	3
Navigating Children’s Use of Screen Media: An Analysis of Guidance Information Provided on Public Library Websites	3
Digitization and Exploitation: Acknowledging and Addressing the Use of Exploitative Prison Labor by Libraries and Archives	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
“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
Public Libraries and COVID-19: Perceptions and Politics in the United States	3
Meeting Chinese Older Adults’ Health Information Needs: The Role of Public Libraries	3
Identifying Facets of Reader-Generated Online Reviews of Children’s Books Based on a Textual Analysis Approach	3
The Light, of Course, in the Library: Pandemic, Protests, and Being What the Community Most Needs	3