OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	155
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	104
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	94
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	52
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	47
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	43
Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	40
Statistical significance versus practical importance in information systems research: Response to commentary	36
When Harry, the human, met Sally, the software robot: Metaphorical sensemaking and sensegiving around an emergent digital technology	36
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact	33
To regulate or not to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of algorithmic control of digital platforms	32
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	28
Digital futures: Definition (what), importance (why) and methods (how)	27
Digital sourcing: A discussion of agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts	26
Improving the governance of information technology: Insights from the history of Internet governance	23
Disruptive change within financial technology: A methodological analysis of digital transformation challenges	20
Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews	19
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation	17
Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation	17
Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform	17
Selecting on statistical significance and practical importance is wrong	16
Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: A model for assessing cognitive automation use cases	15
A framework to support Robotic process automation	14
Regulation of data-driven market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive advantages from big data	14
Acceptable nudge strategies to incentivize the use of wearables and physiolytics at work: A Q-methodology examination	14

On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	12
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	12
Capabilities for value co-creation and value capture in emergent platform ecosystems: A longitudinal case study of SAP’s cloud platform	12
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	12
A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	12
Empowering digital transformation: The roles of platforms	10
Strategic configurations of digital technologies and servitization business model components	10
Rethinking online friction in the information society	10
IT’s a matter of trust: Literature reviews and analyses of human trust in information technology	10
Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption	9
Digital assemblages, information infrastructures, and mobile knowledge work	9
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence	8
Lost in interpretation: Making sense of equivocalities and tensions in approaches to interoperability	8
The influence of social norms on expressing sympathy in social media	8
Unethical but not illegal! A critical look at two-sided disinformation platforms: Justifications, critique, and a way forward	7
The regulation of and through information technology: Towards a conceptual ontology for IS research	7
Information systems as a nexus of information technology systems: A new view of information systems practice	6
Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization	6
Building data management capabilities to address data protection regulations: Learnings from EU-GDPR	6
The anatomy of ‘fake news’: Studying false messages as digital objects	6
Leveraging paradigms to foster theoretical contributions in information systems research	6
Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy	5
Digital platforms, surveillance and processes of demoralization	5
Digitalization of multisensory collective activity: The case of virtual wine tasting	4
Procuring services through IT crowdsourcing: The role of IT administration and IT flexibility	4
Digital transformation: The geopolitical-organizational nexus	4
Toward a taxonomy of corporate data protection malpractices and their causal mechanisms: A regulatory view	4
Seventy years of information systems development methodologies from early business computing to the Agile era: A two-part historyPart 2: Later ISD to Early post ISD methodology era: Adapting to accele	4
Not only data: The necessity of abstract thinking to make sense of digital phenomena	4