OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	111
Achieving stakeholder alignment in digital transformation: A frame transformation perspective	78
A framework to support Robotic process automation	66
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	35
The axis of accessibility and the duality of control of remote workers: A literature review	33
Leveraging paradigms to foster theoretical contributions in information systems research	32
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	31
Building data management capabilities to address data protection regulations: Learnings from EU-GDPR	30
Stakes, positions and logics: An institutional field analysis of cross-border health IT policy	26
Toward replication study types for design science research	26
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	25
Understanding responsibility under uncertainty: A critical and scoping review of autonomous driving systems	23
Artificial Intelligence’s new clothes? A system technology perspective	23
Behavioral economics in information systems research: Critical analysis and research strategies	20
Toward a taxonomy of corporate data protection malpractices and their causal mechanisms: A regulatory view	20
Unethical but not illegal! A critical look at two-sided disinformation platforms: Justifications, critique, and a way forward	19
A qualitative systematic review of trust in technology	18
The past, present, and future of (net) neutrality: A state of knowledge review and research agenda	18
Data science in organizations: Conceptualizing its breakthroughs and blind spots	17
On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	14
The technology-behavioral compensation effect: Unintended consequences of health technology adoption	13
Capabilities for value co-creation and value capture in emergent platform ecosystems: A longitudinal case study of SAP’s cloud platform	13
The Pursuit of Innovative Theory in the Digital Age	12
Information systems as a nexus of information technology systems: A new view of information systems practice	11
The anatomy of ‘fake news’: Studying false messages as digital objects	11

Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	11
Acceptable nudge strategies to incentivize the use of wearables and physiolytics at work: A Q-methodology examination	10
A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	9
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	9
Competing stakeholder narratives on crypto-assets: Miracle or mirage?	8
To regulate or not to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of algorithmic control of digital platforms	8
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	8
Organizing vision revisited and reimagined for a changing world	8
A temporal dynamics framework and methodology for computationally intensive social media research	7
Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization	7
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact	6
Blockchain: From Bitcoin to the Internet of Value and beyond	6
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	6
Distributed Internet voting architecture: A thin client approach to Internet voting	6
Statistical significance versus practical importance in information systems research: Response to commentary	5
Digital infrastructure evolution as generative entrenchment: The formation of a core–periphery structure	5
Algorithmic audiencing: Why we need to rethink free speech on social media	5
Interoperability in the era of digital innovation: An information systems research agenda	5
Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy	5
When Harry, the human, met Sally, the software robot: Metaphorical sensemaking and sensegiving around an emergent digital technology	5
IT-based regulation of personal health: Nudging, mobile apps and data	5
Innovative theory in the digital age: Clarifying our positions	5
The aestheticization of business processes: Visualizing their Gestalt for collective thinking	4
Did you get my Email?!—Leveraging boundary work tactics to safeguard connectivity boundaries	4
Steps toward a digital ecology: ecological principles for the study of digital ecosystems	4
Exploring technological instantiation of regulatory practices in entangled financial markets	4
Reflections on statistical significance and practical importance in information systems research	3
Rethinking online friction in the information society	3
Algorithmic pollution: Making the invisible visible	3
Empowering digital transformation: The roles of platforms	3
Influencing information systems practice: The action principles approach applied to robotic process and cognitive automation	3
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	3
Digital platforms, surveillance and processes of demoralization	3
Algorithmic Pollution: Making the Invisible Visible	3
Instantiation: Reconceptualising the role of technology as a carrier of organisational strategising	3
‘ChatGPT et al.’: The ethics of using (generative) artificial intelligence in research and science	3
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	3