OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of MIS Quarterly is 14. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Do Security Fear Appeals Work When They Interrupt Tasks? A Multi-Method Examination of Password Strength	88
Leveraging Network Effects for Connected Products: Strategies and Implications for the Value Chain	74
Dancing to the #Challenge: The Effect of TikTok on Closing the Artist Gender Gap in the Music Industry	73
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Editor’s Comments	58
Enterprise Systems and M&A Outcomes for Acquirers and Targets	56
Everything Old Can Be New Again: Reinvigorating Theory Borrowing for the Digital Age	55
Guest Editorial	53
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Real-Effort Incentives in Online Labor Markets: Punishments and Rewards for Individuals and Groups	52
The Path of the Righteous: Using Trace Data to Understand Fraud Decisions in Real Time	51
Peer-to-Peer Loan Fraud Detection: Constructing Features from Transaction Data	51
Ruptures During IT-enabled Change: A Sensemaking and Imbrication Analysis	48
Time Will Tell: The Case for an Idiographic Approach to Behavioral Cybersecurity Research	44
Behind Privacy Labels: Data Tracking and Advertising Competition on App Platforms	44
Guest Editorial	42
Technology-Centric Contestation over Symbolic and Social Boundaries: The Social Justice Implications of Covid-19 Contact Tracing Technologies	42
The Effect of Posted Prices on Auction Prices: An Empirical Investigation of a Multichannel B2B Market	42
Are Foreign and Domestic Information Technology Professionals Complements or Substitutes?	42
Examining the Neural Basis of Information Security Policy Violations: A Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Approach	40
When IT Creates Legal Vulnerability: Not Just Overutilization but Underprovisioning of Health Care Could be a Consequence	39
Motivating User-Generated Content: The Unintended Consequences of Incentive Thresholds	39
Wearable Sensor-Based Chronic Condition Severity Assessment: An Adversarial Attention-Based Deep Multisource Multitask Learning Approach	38
When and Who Do Platform Companies Acquire? Understanding the Role of Acquisitions in the Growth of Platform Companies	38

How Green Information Technology Standards and Strategies Influence Performance: Role of Environment, Cost and Dual Focus	38
The Returns of Early Adoption of Information Technologies: Order of Adoption or Level of Adoption Advantages?	35
The Effect of Bots on Human Interaction in Online Communities	35
Fake News and True News Assessment: The Persuasive Effect of Discursive Evidence in Judging Veracity	35
Time for a Decentralization Journey of Digital Infrastructures? Reflections on the 2023 Impact Award	34
The Impact of IT Decision-Making Authority on IT Project Performance in the U.S. Federal Government	34
Performance Implications of Digital Disruption in Strategic Competition	34
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: An Autogenic Perspective on Empowering Cybersecurity in Organizations	34
Predicting Consultation Success in Online Health Platforms Using Dynamic Knowledge Networks and Multimodal Data Fusion	33
A Field Experiment in Local Personalization for Charitable Crowdfunding	33
Do Early Words from New Ventures Predict Fundraising? A Comparative View of Social Media Narratives	33
How AI-Based Systems Can Induce Reflections: The Case of AI-Augmented Diagnostic Work	30
Connecting Customers and Merchants Offline: Experimental Evidence from the Commercialization of Last-Mile Stations at Alibaba	30
The Role of Social Cues and Trust in Users’ Private Information Disclosure	29
Editor’s Comments	29
Combining Crowd and Machine Intelligence to Detect False News on Social Media	28
Understanding the Effectiveness of Rewarding Recipients on Online Referral Behavior	28
Soft but Strong: Software-Based Innovation and Product Differentiation in the IT Hardware Industry	28
Engaging Physicians with Introductory Incentives: References to Online and Offline Income	28
Do Black Fintechs Matter? The Long and Winding Road to Develop Inclusive Algorithms for Social Justice	28
Cognitive Diagram Understanding and Task Performance in Systems Analysis and Design	27
Mutual Disclosures and Content Intimacy in User Engagement: Evidence from an Online Chat Group	27
How Users Drive Value in Two-Sided Markets: Platform Designs That Matter	26
Discursive Modulation in Open Source Software: How Online Communities Shape Novelty and Complexity	25
Seizing Growth Opportunities, a Risky Business? Effects of Cloud-Sourcing on Mergers and Acquisitions	25
Correcting Measurement Error in Regression Models with Variables Constructed from Aggregated Output of Data Mining Models	25
Self-Organization and Governance in Digital Platform Ecosystems: An Information Ecology Approach	24
Executive Functions and Information Systems Learning	24
Reconfiguring for Agility: Examining the Performance Implications of Project Team Autonomy through an Organizational Policy Experiment	23
Editor’s Comments	22
Rethinking Responsibility in the Digital Age: A Narrative Approach	22
What Disrupts Flow in Office Work? The Impact of Frequency and Relevance of IT-Mediated Interruptions	22
How a Rotten Apple May Spoil the Barrel: Corporate Fraud Detection via Dynamic Business Networks	22
Digitization of Transaction Terms within TCE: Strong Smart Contract as a New Mode of Transaction Governance	21
Platform Compatibility and Developer Multihoming: A Trade-off Perspective	21
Cyberslacking in the Workplace: Antecedents and Effects on Job Performance	21
Microblogging Replies and Opinion Polarization: A Natural Experiment	20
Recognition in Personal Data: Data Warping, Recognition Concessions, and Social Justice	20
Online Reviews and Information Overload: The Role of Selective, Parsimonious, and Concordant Top Reviews	20
A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects	19
Regulating AI: Lessons from Scientific Computing	18
Editor’s Comments	18
The Myth of Good Data: An Ecosystem Perspective on Data Integrity Breakdown and Rehabilitation	18
Algorithmic Processes of Social Alertness and Social Transmission: How Bots Disseminate Information on Twitter	18
Equality Does Not Make You Happy: Effects of Differentiated Leader-Member Exchange and Team-Member Exchange on Developer Satisfaction in Agile Development Teams	18
Editor’s Comments	18
Guest Editorial: “Complexity is the Worst Enemy of Security”: Studying Cybersecurity Through the Lens of Organizational Complexity	17
The Pleasant Visual Path to Review Helpfulness: Picture-Evoked Emotional Valence and Picture-Text Alignment	17
Just Enough Information? The Contingent Curvilinear Effect of Information Volume on Decision Performance in IS-Enabled Teams	17
Data Valuation for Vertical Federated Learning: A Model-free and Privacy-preserving Method	17

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Effect of Market Information on Bidder Attrition in Online Auction Markets	16
A Robust Inference Method for Decision-Making in Networks	16
AI-Augmented Content Validation in Behavioral Research: Development and Evaluation of the RATER System	16
When Constructs Become Obsolete: A Systematic Approach to Evaluating and Updating Constructs for Information Systems Research	16
Understanding the Digital Resilience of Physicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study	16
Validity in Design Science	16
The Complex Effects of Cross-Domain Knowledge on IS Development: A Simulation-Based Theory Development	16
Editor’s Comments	15
Are We There Yet? Analyzing Progress in the Conversion Funnel Using the Diversity of Searched Products	15
The OPM Data Breach: An Investigation of Shared Emotional Reactions on Twitter	15
Data Commoning in the Life Sciences	15
Review Moderation Transparency and Online Reviews: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	15
Information Technology and Government Corruption in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana Customs	15
ROLEX: A Novel Method for Interpretable Machine Learning Using Robust Local Explanations	15
Enterprise Systems and M&A Outcomes for Acquirers and Targets	14
Lying for Viewers: Commingled Partisan Falsehoods Increase Viewing and Sharing of News Media	14
Resilience in the Open Source Software Community: How Pandemic and Unemployment Shocks Influence Contributions to Others’ and One’s Own Projects	14
Mitigating Bias in Hate Speech Detection With a Small Number of Expert Annotations: A Prompt-Based Learning Approach	14