OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Science 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An ontological data model to support urban flood disaster response	52
Scientists’ behaviour towards information disorder: A systematic review	33
Realising the potential of information acquisition in promoting sustainable agriculture: A systematic review	33
A recommendation-based reading list system prototype for learning and resource management	29
Academic collaboration recommendation based on graph neural network and multi-attribute embedding	27
Improved PageRank and New Indices for Academic Impact Evaluation Using AI Papers as Case Studies	24
Towards a moderate realist foundation for ontological knowledge organization systems: The question of the naturalness of classifications	24
Small female citation advantages for US journal articles in medicine	24
Factors affecting the journal choice for manuscript submission: A qualitative study on Turkish medical researchers	22
Research on interdisciplinarity of five-metrics in China based on Chinese Citation Data under the background of open science	20
Assessing causality among topics and sentiments: The case of the G20 discussion on Twitter	19
A graph convolutional network to improve item recommendation by incorporating bundle-based side-information with multi-level propagations	19
Ontology is what makes data interesting: Interestingness framework for COVID-19 corpora	18
Detecting agro: Korean trolling and clickbaiting behaviour in online environments	18
Article promotion on Twitter and Facebook: A case study of Cell journal	18
ALIS: A novel metric in lineage-independent evaluation of scholars	18
Revisiting delayed recognition in science: A large-scale and comprehensive study	16
A matter of time: Publication dates in Scopus	16
Examination of digital citizenship, online information searching strategy and information literacy depending on changing state of experience in using digital technologies during COVID-19 pandemic	15
Do retraction practices work effectively? Evidence from citations of psychological retracted articles	15
Connecting information literacy and social capital to better utilise knowledge resources in the workplace	15
Short text classification using semantically enriched topic model	15
Women authorship in library and information science journals from 1981 to 2020: Is equitable representation being attained?	14
Identifying key factors and actions: Initial steps in the Open Science Policy Design and Implementation Process	14
A web-based information intervention for family caregivers of patients with Dementia: A randomized controlled trial	13

Extractive text summarisation using Bayesian state estimation of sentences: A Markovian framework	13
An empirical study of factors influencing usage intention for generative artificial intelligence products: A case study of China	13
The economics of libraries	12
The effect of co-opinion on the cocitation-based information retrieval systems’ effectiveness evaluated by semantic similarity	12
Depth analysis: What happens after papers stand on the giant’s shoulder?	11
Determinants of societal and academic recognition: Evidence from randomised controlled trials	11
The role of institutional policies in the sustainability of institutional repositories in Africa: A reflection from Ghana	11
Agent-based model: A method worthy of promotion in Library and Information Science	11
Wildfire risk weighting and behaviour prediction using open geospatial data and ontologies	11
Infusing factual knowledge into pre-trained model for finding the contributions from the research articles	10
Open access movement in the scholarly world: Pathways for libraries in developing countries	10
A novel scheme of domain transfer in document-level cross-domain sentiment classification	10
An intelligent system for multi-topic social spam detection in microblogging	10
To know or not to know? Exploring COVID-19 information seeking with the risk information seeking and processing model	10
All roads lead to Rome: Understanding the diffusion trajectories of innovation twins	9
Research on the co-evolution of temporal networks structure and public opinion propagation	9
Evaluating public sector employee perceptions towards artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence integration	9
Research on the co-evolution of competitive public opinion and intervention strategy based on Markov process	9
Utilising crowdsourcing and text mining to enhance information extraction from social media: A case study in handling COVID-19 supply requests in Thailand	9
SA-MAIS: Hybrid automatic sentiment analyser for stock market	9
Use of positive terms and certainty language in retracted and non-retracted articles: The case of biochemistry	8
A semantic metric for concepts similarity in knowledge graphs	8
Two fast algorithms for computation of h-index	8
Ranking of Iranian medical universities based on altmetric indices	8
Tracing policy diffusion: Identifying main paths in policy citation networks	8
Tweets on a horror movie: An investigation into relationships between sentiment strength, cognitive language and tweet virality	8
Real time anomalies detection in crowd using convolutional long short-term memory network	8
Scientometric review of Web 3.0	7
A bibliometric analysis of literature on bibliometrics in recent half-century	7
Hermos: An annotated image dataset for visual detection of grape leaf diseases	7
Open access editorial policies of SciELO health sciences journals	7
LEGO: Linked electronic government ontology	7
Retraction notice: “Information skills and literacy in investigative journalism in the social media era”	7
Attitudes and practices of educational researchers towards the use of social media to disseminate science	6
Human-centred design on crowdsourcing annotation towards improving active learning model performance	6
SKIFF: Spherical K-means with iterative feature filtering for text document clustering	6
What Google-based data can tell us about information systems theory: A review	6
The use of one-on-one interviews in library and information science: A scoping review	6
Representation, detection and usage of the content semantics of comments in a social platform	6
The ripple effect of dataset reuse: Contextualising the data lifecycle for machine learning data sets and social impact	6
Peer Review Metrics and their influence on the Journal Impact	6
Finding answers to COVID-19-specific questions: An information retrieval system based on latent keywords and adapted TF-IDF	6
Does scientific collaboration variety influence the impact of articles?	6
Enterprise resource planning adoption model for well-informed decision in higher learning institutions	6
Predicting social media rumours in the context of public health emergencies	6
A review for comparative text mining: From data acquisition to practical application	5
TsEDM: A two-steps event detection model for Chinese event detection	5
An online multi-dimensional opinion dynamic model with misinformation diffusion in emergency events	5
Think outside the search box: A comparative study of visual and form-based query builders	5
ICT literacy and community connectedness in a Hispanic-majority community	5

China’s policy similarity evaluation using LDA model: An experimental analysis in Hebei province	5
‘Access necessitates being seen’: Queer visibility and intersectional embodiment within the health information practices of queer community leaders	5
Ensemble correction model for aspect-level sentiment classification	5
Creativity as a key competence in advertising industry: Knowledge management and creative potential stimulation	5
A comprehensive bibliometric analysis on opinion mining and sentiment analysis global research output	5
Sci-Hub use among Spanish researchers: Enemy or a learning opportunity for libraries?	5
Factors affecting university students’ information literacy education: An empirical study using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	4
Adapting the influences of publishers to perform news event detection	4
A new multi-document summarisation approach using saplings growing-up optimisation algorithms: Simultaneously optimised coverage and diversity	4
Collaboration of issuing agencies and topic evolution of health informatisation policies in China	4
Discovering the fundamental strategic indicators of the use of Internet of Things in libraries: A grounded theory study	4
Language style and recognition of the answers in health Q&A community: Moderating effects of medical terminology	4
Reuse of the transparency-related information posted on Spanish library and archive websites	4
You change the way you talk: Examining the network, toxicity and discourse of cross-platform users on Twitter and Parler during the 2020 US Presidential Election	4
Information architecture on the websites of major American political parties: Qualitative-heuristic assessment and comparative analysis	4
Can we use link-based indicators to find highly cited publications? The case of the Trust Flow score	4
Comparing COVID-19 vaccine passports attitudes across countries by analysing Reddit comments	4
Relevance feedback for building pooled test collections	4
The phronesis of expert searchers on using forward citation searching and web searching to search for studies for systematic reviews: A hermeneutic phenomenological analysis	4
Knowledge visualisation and strategic decision-making outcomes in small and medium-sized enterprises	4
Hidden in the light: Scientists’ online presence on institutional websites and professional networking sites	4
Essential elements, conceptual foundations and workflow design in crowd-powered projects	4
Modelling in engineering: A citation context analysis	4
Listening to the unheard and unseen: Information literacy perspectives of the rural bi/multilinguals in Nigeria	4
The information behaviour of individuals changing health insurance plans and an exploration of health insurance priorities	4
A deep CNN architecture with novel pooling layer applied to two Sudanese Arabic sentiment data sets	4
Comprehensive selective improvements in agri-informatics semantics	4
Metaverse maelstrom: Dissecting information dynamics and polarisation	4
The effects of international research collaboration on the policy impact of research: A causal inference drawing on the journal Lancet	4
Quantifying scientists’ research ability by taking institutions’ scientific impact as priori information	4
SceneFND: Multimodal fake news detection by modelling scene context information	4
Hi Bixby: Determinants of goal-congruent usage and goal-congruent outcome in the artificial intelligence personal assistant context	4
Snippet-based result merging in federated search	4
A formal study of co-opetition in scholarly publishing	4
Strategies for information source selection: A focus group study on young people in Europe	4
Expert-recommended biomedical journal articles: Their retractions or corrections, and post-retraction citing	4
Industry-research fronts – Private sector collaboration with research institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean	4
Cognitive and interdisciplinary mobility in the social sciences and humanities: Traces of increased boundary crossing	4
Modelling the factors that determine online news-sharing behaviour of social media users: The role of perceived message and online environmental characteristics	4
Effect of perceived risks, perceived benefits and regulatory events on users’ supervision intention towards e-hailing platforms: A mixed method	4
Detecting the public’s information behaviour preferences in multiple emergency events	4