OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Technological Forecasting and Social Change is 126. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
From phone booths to Wi-Fi kiosks: the spatial inequality of public connectivity in New York City	651
Revolutionising retail: A review of Intelligent Unmanned Convenience Stores and their market implications	629
Digitalization's effect on everyday entrepreneurs in the French organic wine industry	515
Towards novel blockchain decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) led corporate governance framework	469
Increasing lower incomes and reducing material deprivation: The beneficial role of social robots	388
Interdisciplinary limits of creative business education	386
Financing sustainable farming: The role of trust in the adoption of fintech by farmers	367
Mitigating liabilities of foreignness in migrant entrepreneurship: The role of AI in building virtual embeddedness	366
Exploring the impact of metaverse adoption on sustainability outcomes in retail organizations: A dynamic capabilities view perspective	364
Editorial Board	357
Direct network effects in electric vehicle adoption	345
Aligning strategic position, behavior, and structure for smart service businesses in manufacturing	327
Supporting the digital transformation journey through monitoring systems in healthcare. A comparative analysis of European empirical approaches through an adaptation of the IPOO framework	324
Digital innovation as strategic response: How CEO with informal power deal with inconsistent performance feedback	319
Selection of sustainable transportation strategies for campuses using hybrid decision-making approach under picture fuzzy sets	318
Cellulosic ethanol production: Assessment of the impacts of learning and plant capacity	318
Deploying artificial intelligence for healthcare: An empirical study on the patients' usage of health care service and AI's anthropomorphic structure form	290
A multicriteria approach to ranking Latin-American universities based on region-specific criteria	283
Birthplace diversity of immigrants and technological novelty: Unpacking the internal structure of diversity	280
Do multinational technology alliances promote enterprises' innovation quality or quantity in emerging markets? - evidence from China	279
Are we making progress on decarbonization? A panel heterogeneous study of the long-run relationship in selected economies	278
Pathway and key factor identification of third-party market cooperation of China's overseas energy investment projects	273
Stepping out of the innovation race to embrace outnovation: Fostering well-being and responsible consumption through sustainability, simplicity, authenticity, and nostalgia	273
Modelling the effect of electric aircraft on airport operations and infrastructure	263
An AI-enabled approach for improving advertising identification and promotion in social networks	254

The role of religiosity in product and technology acceptance: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccines	249
The successful implementation of industry 4.0 in manufacturing: An analysis and prioritization of risks in Irish industry	245
A framework for research on the automation of work	239
Innovation in crisis: The role of ‘exaptive relations’ for medical device development in response to COVID-19	236
Using fuzzy cognitive maps to develop policy strategies for the development of green rural housing: A case study in China	235
Technology married to good governance and diversity: Explaining e-participation preparedness in government	228
Personal growth or servant leader: What do hotel employees need most to be affectively well amidst the turbulent COVID-19 times?	226
Analyzing the interplay between eco-friendly and Islamic digital currencies and green investments	224
Navigating the green wave: Understanding behavioral antecedents of sustainable cryptocurrency investment	221
Adopting new technologies during the crisis: An empirical analysis of agricultural sector	221
Student evaluation of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	218
Late-stage academic entrepreneurship: Explaining why academic scientists collaborate with industry to commercialize their patents	218
Credit evaluation solutions for social groups with poor services in financial inclusion: A technical forecasting method	215
An exploratory study on users' resistance to mobile app updates: Using netnography and fsQCA	214
Whom you know matters: Network structure, industrial environment and digital orientation	214
Enhancing blue: The resilience of blue economy and the efficiency of China's sea-land industrial synergy	213
Minimizing extractivism through 3D printing with law and policy support	213
Technological changes, financial development and ecological consequences: A comparative study of developed and developing economies	212
Implementing and scaling artificial intelligence: A review, framework, and research agenda	211
Impacts of digital government on regional eco-innovation: Moderating role of dual environmental regulations	206
Synergistic impacts of technological advancement and environmental hazards on social change and human well-being in South Asia	202
Regional innovation ability and its inequality: Measurements and dynamic decomposition	201
Forecasting the Olympic medal distribution – A socioeconomic machine learning model	200
The empirical study of digital marketing strategy and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)	197
Who are we? Analyzing the digital identities of organizations through the lens of micro-interactions on social media	197
Exploring users' willingness to disclose personal information in online healthcare communities: The role of satisfaction	197
AI-empowered scale development: Testing the potential of ChatGPT	196
Identifying potential breakthrough research: A machine learning method using scientific papers and Twitter data	189
Intangibles, innovation, and sector specialization in global value chains: A case study on the EU's and the UK's manufacturing industries	189
Quantile co-movement and dependence between energy-focused sectors and artificial intelligence	188
Hesitation at increasing integration: The feasibility of Norway expanding cross-border renewable electricity interconnection to support European decarbonisation	188
The effect of foreign aid on carbon emissions in recipient countries: Evidence from China	187
Evaluating the impact of big data analytics usage on the decision-making quality of organizations	187
R&D innovation, industrial evolution and the labor skill structure in China manufacturing	187
Eco-friendly technologies, international tourism and carbon emissions: Evidence from the most visited countries	186
Capturing the timing of crisis evolution: A machine learning and directional wavelet coherence approach to isolating event-specific uncertainty using Google searches with an application to COVID-19	186
A systematic literature network analysis of green information technology for sustainability: Toward smart and sustainable livelihoods	181
Coskewness and the short-term predictability for Bitcoin return	179
The relationship between total factor productivity and environmental quality: A sustainable future with innovation input	179
Assessing the impact of new technologies on wages and labour income shares	178
Can digital transformation alleviate corporate tax stickiness: The mediation effect of tax avoidance	178
The gig economy's secret weapon: ChatGPT	177
Environmental behavioral perceptions under uncertainty of alternative economic futures	176
Enabling battery circularity: Unlocking circular business model archetypes and collaboration forms in the electric vehicle battery ecosystem	175
Transition towards environmental sustainability through financial inclusion, and digitalization in China: Evidence from novel quantile-on-quantile regression and wavelet coherence approach	175
Forecasting power load: A hybrid forecasting method with intelligent data processing and optimized artificial intelligence	174
Cross-spectral coherence and dynamic connectedness among contactless digital payments and digital communities, enterprise collaboration, and virtual reality firms	171
Intellectual capital, blockchain-driven supply chain and sustainable production: Role of supply chain mapping	169
Intelligent cathedrals: Using augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence to provide an intense cultural, historical, and religious visitor experience	168
Cash rich to cashless market: Segmentation and profiling of Fintech-led-Mobile payment users	167

Environmental information disclosure and green technology innovation: Empirical evidence from China	167
The contagion effect of artificial intelligence across innovative industries: From blockchain and metaverse to cleantech and beyond	166
Is FinTech making world more “inclusive”? Evidence from inclusive growth story of China	166
Boundary spanning R&D collaboration: Key enabling technologies and missions as alleviators of proximity effects?	165
Consequences of technostress for users in remote (home) work contexts during a time of crisis: The buffering role of emotional social support	164
Income inequality, energy poverty, and energy efficiency: Who cause who and how?	164
Risk prediction and credibility detection of network public opinion using blockchain technology	163
Alignment of words and actions? Government environmental attention and enterprise digital transformation	163
Does corporate social responsibility pay? Evidence from social ratings in microfinance institutions	162
Innovation ecosystems as structures: Actor roles, timing of their entrance, and interactions	161
Effect of Digital Silk Road and innovation heterogeneity on digital economy growth across 29 countries: New evidence from PSM-DID	161
Revealing the role of intellectual capital in digitalized health networks. A meso‑level analysis for building and monitoring a KPI dashboard	160
Service chatbot: Co-citation and big data analysis toward a review and research agenda	159
Climate policy uncertainty and the U.S. economic cycle	158
Dynamic effect of Bitcoin, fintech and artificial intelligence stocks on eco-friendly assets, Islamic stocks and conventional financial markets: Another look using quantile-based approaches	156
Editorial Board	155
Consumer knowledge and sustainable decision-making: A mixed-method inquiry and proposed model	153
More is better or in waste? A resource allocation measure of government grants for facilitating firm innovations	153
Framing the virus: The political, economic, biomedical and social understandings of the COVID-19 in Taiwan	152
Empowering AI with experiential learning: Implications from analysing user-generated content	148
Does Internet exposure reduce the desire for family control? Evidence from China	148
Transforming supply chain operations: Unveiling the path ahead by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to drive the shift towards carbon neutrality (CN)	148
The Yin and Yang of social media: Employing PLS-SEM, fsQCA, and NCA to assess its effects on employee work performance	147
Promoting low-carbon development in Yangtze River Delta area in China through the lens of decarbonization of industrial gas producers: A case study based on evolutionary game and Lotka-Volterra models	146
Urban and architectural spatial changes based on technology-adapted users: A literature review	146
Sustainable development goal deficits and the Covid 19 pandemic	145
Links between entropy, complexity, and the technological singularity	145
Biased technical change, capital deepening, and efficiency of environmental regulations: Evidence from the Chinese provinces	145
They didn't ask: Online innovation communities as a latent dynamic capability	144
Emission reduction targets and electrification of the Finnish energy system with low-carbon Power-to-X technologies: Potentials, barriers, and innovations – A Delphi survey	142
How can infectious medical waste be forecasted and transported during the COVID-19 pandemic? A hybrid two-stage method	142
Why do people choose to continue using cryptocurrencies?	142
Specialization in climate technologies at the regional level in Europe: relatedness and the moderating role of policy direction	140
The impacts of game experience and fanwork creation on game loyalty: Mediation effect of perceived value	140
Exploring the knowledge base of innovation research: Towards an emerging innovation model	137
IP dLedger - Decentralized ledger for intellectual property administration	136
An exploratory analysis of Brazilian universities in the technological innovation process	134
Technology yields spoils: The impact of digitalization on innovation value appropriation	133
Does mobile money contribute to reducing multidimensional poverty?	132
Technology-enabled financing of sustainable infrastructure: A case for blockchains and decentralized oracle networks	131
Driven by the policy or bent by the market? Cracking the digital transformation code of farmer cooperatives	130
The impact of natural resource dependency on green economic growth: A business environment perspective	130
Bringing employee learning to AI stress research: A moderated mediation model	130
Impact of virtual water export on water resource security associated with the energy and food bases in Northeast China	130
Geopolitics and the changing landscape of global value chains and competition in the global semiconductor industry: Rivalry and catch-up in chip manufacturing in East Asia	129
Leading smart city projects: Government dynamic capabilities and public value creation	129
Evaluating and forecasting the niche fitness of regional innovation ecosystems: A comparative evaluation of different optimized grey models	128
The pressure of political promotion and renewable energy technological innovation: A spatial econometric analysis from China	128
The role of cooperation and technological orientation on startups' innovativeness: An analysis based on the microfoundations of innovation	127
An exploratory study of breakthrough innovations in digital businesses: The case of the Perfect Corporation	126
Investigating the effect of advertising irritation on digital advertising effectiveness: A moderated mediation model	126