OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	159
Pursuit of decentralization in blockchain-based systems: An empowerment perspective	94
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	87
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	64
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	59
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	54
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	54
Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	52
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact	49
To regulate or not to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of algorithmic control of digital platforms	39
Lost in decentralization? Governing emerging technologies within enterprise architecture	38
When Harry, the human, met Sally, the software robot: Metaphorical sensemaking and sensegiving around an emergent digital technology	33
Disruptive change within financial technology: A methodological analysis of digital transformation challenges	32
Digital sourcing: A discussion of agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts	32
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	32
Deep structure changes and the evolution of the IT architect role during scaled agile transformations	31
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation	29
AI-augmented dynamic capabilities for business sustainability: Enactment through humanistic and instrumental approaches	27
Digital futures: Definition (what), importance (why) and methods (how)	26
Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: A model for assessing cognitive automation use cases	25
Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform	23
Regulation of data-driven market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive advantages from big data	23
A framework to support Robotic process automation	21
Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation	21
On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	20

A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	19
Acceptable nudge strategies to incentivize the use of wearables and physiolytics at work: A Q-methodology examination	15
A mechanism-based theory of legacy enterprise information system reconfiguration in incumbent firms	15
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	14
Competing and complementary strategic signals: The versatile relationship between CDO appointments and companies’ stock market value	13
IT’s a matter of trust: Literature reviews and analyses of human trust in information technology	11
It’s not what you say, but how you say it: Using artifact intelligence to detect deception in natural speech in an HR recruiting context	11
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	11
Empowering digital transformation: The roles of platforms	11
Lost in interpretation: Making sense of equivocalities and tensions in approaches to interoperability	10
The regulation of and through information technology: Towards a conceptual ontology for IS research	10
The influence of social norms on expressing sympathy in social media	10
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence	10
Strategic configurations of digital technologies and servitization business model components	10
Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption	10
Unethical but not illegal! A critical look at two-sided disinformation platforms: Justifications, critique, and a way forward	9
If the street is wet, is it raining? The fallacy of affirming the consequent and the misuse of valid statistical evidence	9
Leveraging paradigms to foster theoretical contributions in information systems research	9
AI systems are not information systems. Should we care?	8
From ‘ChatGPT et al.’ to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in peer review: Safeguarding trust while modernising scholarly publishing	8
Building data management capabilities to address data protection regulations: Learnings from EU-GDPR	8
Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy	8
Developing context-transcendent information systems for the future enterprise: Theory and insights from adaptive digital transformation	7
Seventy years of information systems development methodologies from early business computing to the Agile era: A two-part history Part 2: Later ISD to Early post ISD methodology era: Adapting to accel	7
Digital platforms, surveillance and processes of demoralization	7
Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization	7
Procuring services through IT crowdsourcing: The role of IT administration and IT flexibility	7