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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial intelligence in developing countries: The impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for development	32
Health Information behaviour during COVID-19 outbreak among Egyptian library and information science undergraduate students	32
Understanding the Facebook Users' Behavior towards COVID-19 Information Sharing by Integrating the Theory of Planned Behavior and Gratifications	30
Information and communication technologies (ICTs): The potential for enhancing the dissemination of agricultural information and services to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa	26
The role of libraries in distance learning during COVID-19	25
Development of the cybersecurity scale (CS-S): Evidence of validity and reliability	24
Does Internet development affect urban-rural income gap in China? An empirical investigation at provincial level	22
The influence of accounting information system on management control effectiveness: The perspective of SMEs in Yemen	21
Digitally Transforming Electronic Governments into Smart Governments: SMARTGOV, an Extended Maturity Model	20
Drivers of egovernment adoption amidst COVID-19 pandemic: The Information Adoption Model (IAM) approach	20
E-learning adoption in higher education: A review	19
The critical determinants impacting artificial intelligence adoption at the organizational level	19
Examining online health community users’ sharing behaviour: A social influence perspective	16
Factors influencing integrated information management: Spatial data infrastructure in Pakistan	15
Electronic records management systems and the competency of educational institutions: Evidence from Yemen	15
m-Learning Management System use during Covid-19	14
Decoding the ChatGPT mystery: A comprehensive exploration of factors driving AI language model adoption	13
Mobile apps use for wellness and fitness and university students’ subjective wellbeing	13
Has the Internet increased FDI, economic growth, and trade? Evidence from Asian economies	13
Adoption and intensity of use of mobile money among smallholder farmers in rural Ghana	13
How business intelligence capability impacts decision-making speed, comprehensiveness, and firm performance	13
Understanding consumers’ purchase intention towards online paid courses	11
Barriers to scholarly publishing among library and information science researchers: International perspectives	10
Factors Influencing Cloud Computing Adoption Among SMEs: The Jordanian Context	10
The management and the usage of electronic resources in academic libraries: A bi-directional relationship	10

Relationships between social media usage, social capital and job performance: the case of hotel employees in Iran	10
Spatial-temporal variations and trends of Internet users: assessment from global perspective	10
Trends, patterns and determinants of research productivity at the Technical University of Kenya	10
Management of records at Statistics South Africa: Challenges and prospects	9
Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention in a Developing Country: The Influence of Social Media and E-commerce Adoption (SMEA) and its Antecedents	9
Web archiving of indigenous knowledge systems in South Africa	9
Managing and accessing indigenous knowledge for national development: The role of academic libraries in Ghana	9
Librarians participation in professional development workshops using Zoom in Nigeria	9
Evolution of research data management in academic libraries: A review of the literature	9
Effect of word of mouth on m-payment service adoption: a developing country case study	9
Access to e-government services by citizens through public/community libraries in Namibia	9
Acceptance of clinical decision support systems in Saudi healthcare organisations	8
Factors influencing green information technology adoption: A multi-level perspective in emerging economies context	8
Inclusion of digital records in the archives and records management curricula in a comprehensive open distance e-learning environment	8
Modeling safety challenges journalists faced in reporting anti-police brutality protests (ENDSARS protests) in Nigeria	8
Distance learning information literacy: Undergraduate students experience distance learning during the COVID-19 setting	8
Ghanaian academic libraries’ use of social media: A structural equation modelling approach	7
Information anxiety in the workplace: Scale development and validation	7
Indigenous language newspapers and the digital media conundrum in Africa	7
Academic use of smartphones among medical students in Pakistan	7
Information and digital literacy initiatives	6
Information dissemination during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of librarians in Borno State Public Library	6
Does technology affect human development? Examining some important moderating factors	6
Peace journalism strategy for covering online political discourses in a multipolar society and the new public sphere	6
Immediacy as a better service: Analysis of limitations of the use of ChatGPT in library services	6
Performance evaluation of web search engines in image retrieval: An experimental study	6
Hate speech in the Internet context: Unpacking the roles of Internet penetration, online legal regulation, and online opinion polarization from a transnational perspective	6
Analysis of climate change disinformation across types, agents and media platforms	6
Building counter-archives: Oral history programmes of the Sinomlando Centre and Memory Work in Africa and the South African History Archive	6
ICTs, smallholder agriculture and farmers’ livelihood improvement in developing countries: Evidence from Tanzania	6
The impact of e-government information quality (EGIQ) dimensions on the adoption of electronic government services	5
Adoption of electronic commerce by individuals in Bangladesh	5
Access to educational information enabled by ICT tools in the Fort Beaufort Education District (FBED), Eastern Cape, South Africa	5
Information technology and insurance development in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
A meta-analysis of mobile learning adoption using extended UTAUT	5
Use of webinar tools for teaching and learning by library and information professionals in Nigeria	5
Knowledge Sharing through Social Networking Sites (SNSs): A Study of Pakistani Research Students	5
Education and learning about research methodology: Views of LIS authors in Pakistan	5
Moderating effect of ICT on the relationship between governance quality and income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa	5
A survey of Egyptian physicians’ awareness and use of coronavirus-related mHealth applications	5
Applying Batho Pele principles in South African public archives – Do public programming initiatives count?	5
Socio-demographic Predictors for Misinformation Sharing and Authenticating amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic among Malaysian Young Adults	5
Research data management and sharing awareness, attitude, and behavior of academic researchers	5
Cultural factors that influence the adoption of e-commerce: A Palestinian case study	5
Using machine learning algorithms to predict individuals’ tendency to be victim of social engineering attacks	5
Spatial data infrastructure as the means to assemble geographic information necessary for effective agricultural policies in Pakistan	5
Can digitalization improve agriculture? Exploring the impact of ICT on grain food production in SAARC countries	4
Perceived impact of automation on university library services by library personnel in South West, Nigeria	4
The use of OPAC query logs to support evidence-informed information literacy (IL) training at The University of Dar es Salaam	4
Factors influencing the young physicians’ intention to use Internet of Things (IoT) services in healthcare	4

Aligning business strategy and information technologies in local governments using enterprise architectures	4
Influence of ICT skills on job performance of librarians in university libraries of South-South, Nigeria	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
The challenges of digital divide and the use of web 2.0 platforms as knowledge sharing tools among Nigerian academics	4
From silent spaces to smart spaces: Leveraging IoT-based innovative services to enhance library system performance using SEM approach	4
Factors influencing smartphone usage of rural farmers: Empirical analysis of five selected provinces in China	4
“We are captives to digital media surveillance” Netizens awareness and perception of social media surveillance	3
A framework for the entrenchment of intellectual property (IP) information services in Zimbabwe's university libraries	3
The magic bullet for rural development? Exploring the impacts of community telecenters in Bangladesh	3
Undervalued, understaffed, underdeveloped, and underutilized? The status of public libraries in the eleven municipalities of rural Iloilo Province, Philippines	3
A financial inclusion app and USSD service for farmers in rural Colombia	3
Media reporting of climate change crisis in Pakistan: Identifying corrective strategies	3
Electronic records management in Tanzanian courts	3
Data management of digitized indigenous knowledge system in repositories	3
Exploring models for the management of indigenous knowledge in academic libraries of Ghana	3
Designing an innovative unified contextual architecture for improving information retrieval service in healthcare organizations	3
Access to information technology of households and secondary school students in Turkey	3
ICT-enabled agricultural extension: How to promote and sustain?	3
Institutional repositories in Africa: Regaining direction	3
A CIO-centric local government data-sharing leadership ecosystem in China	3
Influence of social media on the uptake of emerging musicians and entertainment events	3
Use of electronic resources in research and learning in a health sciences library in Ghana: An analysis of awareness and perception of users	3
Digital discretion and public administration in Africa: Implications for the use of artificial intelligence	3
Assessment of higher education students’ information problem-solving skills in educational sciences	3
Exploring the Elements Influencing the Behavioral Adoption of E-Commerce by Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)	3
Scientific communication of east Asian countries on internet of things (IoT): A performance evaluation based on scientometric tools	3
Using a social media based intervention to enhance eye health awareness of members of a deprived community in India	3
Achieving structured knowledge management with a novel online group decision support system	3