OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Information Development 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Technology Acceptance Model and Moodle: A systematic mapping study	35
Health Information behaviour during COVID-19 outbreak among Egyptian library and information science undergraduate students	27
Understanding the Facebook Users' Behavior towards COVID-19 Information Sharing by Integrating the Theory of Planned Behavior and Gratifications	25
The role of libraries in distance learning during COVID-19	22
Development of the cybersecurity scale (CS-S): Evidence of validity and reliability	19
Does Internet development affect urban-rural income gap in China? An empirical investigation at provincial level	16
Drivers of egovernment adoption amidst COVID-19 pandemic: The Information Adoption Model (IAM) approach	14
Sustaining agriculture with information: An assessment of rural citrus farmers’ information behaviour	14
E-learning adoption in higher education: A review	13
The influence of accounting information system on management control effectiveness: The perspective of SMEs in Yemen	13
Examining online health community users’ sharing behaviour: A social influence perspective	12
Electronic records management systems and the competency of educational institutions: Evidence from Yemen	12
m-Learning Management System use during Covid-19	11
Mobile apps use for wellness and fitness and university students’ subjective wellbeing	11
A survey of social media use in emergency situations: A literature review	10
Mobile-based advisory services for sustainable agriculture: Assessing farmers’ information behavior	10
Effect of word of mouth on m-payment service adoption: a developing country case study	10
Demographic and socio-economic differences in financial information literacy among university students	10
Digitally Transforming Electronic Governments into Smart Governments: SMARTGOV, an Extended Maturity Model	10
Adoption and intensity of use of mobile money among smallholder farmers in rural Ghana	10
Factors influencing integrated information management: Spatial data infrastructure in Pakistan	9
Information and communication technologies (ICTs): The potential for enhancing the dissemination of agricultural information and services to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa	9
A response to the persistent digital divide: Critical components of a community network ecosystem	9
Predictors of electronic health management information system for improving the quality of care for women and people with disabilities	9
Has the Internet increased FDI, economic growth, and trade? Evidence from Asian economies	9

Relationships between social media usage, social capital and job performance: the case of hotel employees in Iran	9
Access to e-government services by citizens through public/community libraries in Namibia	8
Data challenges for public libraries: African perspectives and the social context of knowledge	8
Reading habits of generation Z students in Pakistan: Is it time to re-examine school library services?	8
Social media and inclusive human development in Africa	8
Distance learning information literacy: Undergraduate students experience distance learning during the COVID-19 setting	8
Modeling safety challenges journalists faced in reporting anti-police brutality protests (ENDSARS protests) in Nigeria	8
E-justice evaluation factors: The case of Smart Court of China	7
Barriers to scholarly publishing among library and information science researchers: International perspectives	7
Web archiving of indigenous knowledge systems in South Africa	7
Understanding consumers’ purchase intention towards online paid courses	7
Spatial-temporal variations and trends of Internet users: assessment from global perspective	6
Conceptualising China’s approach to ‘Internet Plus Government Services’: A content analysis of government working plans	6
Trends, patterns and determinants of research productivity at the Technical University of Kenya	6
Academic use of smartphones among medical students in Pakistan	6
The critical determinants impacting artificial intelligence adoption at the organizational level	6
Information dissemination during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of librarians in Borno State Public Library	6
Ghanaian academic libraries’ use of social media: A structural equation modelling approach	6
Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention in a Developing Country: The Influence of Social Media and E-commerce Adoption (SMEA) and its Antecedents	6
The management and the usage of electronic resources in academic libraries: A bi-directional relationship	6
Performance evaluation of web search engines in image retrieval: An experimental study	6
Inclusion of digital records in the archives and records management curricula in a comprehensive open distance e-learning environment	6
How business intelligence capability impacts decision-making speed, comprehensiveness, and firm performance	5
Critical success factors for digital library implementation in Africa: Solution focused rather than problem focused	5
Librarians participation in professional development workshops using Zoom in Nigeria	5
A model for open access institutional repositories usage for university libraries in Ghana	5
Information anxiety in the workplace: Scale development and validation	5
Hate speech in the Internet context: Unpacking the roles of Internet penetration, online legal regulation, and online opinion polarization from a transnational perspective	5
Building counter-archives: Oral history programmes of the Sinomlando Centre and Memory Work in Africa and the South African History Archive	5
Artificial intelligence in developing countries: The impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for development	5
Evolution of research data management in academic libraries: A review of the literature	4
Harnessing social and collaborative tools in digital disaster response work: Implications for design and practice	4
Information technology and insurance development in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Decoding the ChatGPT mystery: A comprehensive exploration of factors driving AI language model adoption	4
Factors Influencing Cloud Computing Adoption Among SMEs: The Jordanian Context	4
Managing and accessing indigenous knowledge for national development: The role of academic libraries in Ghana	4
The use of OPAC query logs to support evidence-informed information literacy (IL) training at The University of Dar es Salaam	4
The challenges of digital divide and the use of web 2.0 platforms as knowledge sharing tools among Nigerian academics	4
Access to educational information enabled by ICT tools in the Fort Beaufort Education District (FBED), Eastern Cape, South Africa	4
Comparative analysis of the effectiveness of interactive radio and interactive television instructions on improvement in life skills among out-of-school nomadic children in Northern Nigeria	4
Bibliometrics units as dynamic engines for universities’ scientific production	4
Indigenous language newspapers and the digital media conundrum in Africa	3
The impact of e-government information quality (EGIQ) dimensions on the adoption of electronic government services	3
Education and learning about research methodology: Views of LIS authors in Pakistan	3
Using a social media based intervention to enhance eye health awareness of members of a deprived community in India	3
Media reporting of climate change crisis in Pakistan: Identifying corrective strategies	3
Analysis of climate change disinformation across types, agents and media platforms	3
A meta-analysis of mobile learning adoption using extended UTAUT	3
Use of webinar tools for teaching and learning by library and information professionals in Nigeria	3
Aligning business strategy and information technologies in local governments using enterprise architectures	3

Factors influencing green information technology adoption: A multi-level perspective in emerging economies context	3
Influence of ICT skills on job performance of librarians in university libraries of South-South, Nigeria	3
“We are captives to digital media surveillance” Netizens awareness and perception of social media surveillance	3
Acceptance of clinical decision support systems in Saudi healthcare organisations	3
A survey of Egyptian physicians’ awareness and use of coronavirus-related mHealth applications	3
ICTs, smallholder agriculture and farmers’ livelihood improvement in developing countries: Evidence from Tanzania	3
A CIO-centric local government data-sharing leadership ecosystem in China	3
Cultural factors that influence the adoption of e-commerce: A Palestinian case study	3
Information and digital literacy initiatives	3