OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telecommunications Policy is 12. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility	229
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy	192
Editorial Board	182
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy	174
Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry	131
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices	118
Too good to be true? China's new conceptual scheme for data property rights	115
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy	108
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges	98
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services	87
Editorial Board	78
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos	70
Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective	70
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road	68
Editorial Board	68
The ICT growth puzzle: Disentangling the role of individuals, firms, and governments across digitalization stages	67
Wired and working? An evaluation of broadband expansion in Rural America	66
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network	66
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea	59
Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans	59
A two-sided model of paid peering	59
How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis	59
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany	58
Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy	56
A new digital era: Challenges and opportunities for Thai women in online marketplace	56

Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	56
Triple Helix Synergy Model in China's new technology diplomacy: Perspectives from AI startups	48
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	48
Editorial Board	47
Editorial Board	46
A holistic framework for analyzing spectrum licensing models— illustrated by local licensing for 5G and 6G networks	44
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	44
Governing data through privacy after China's PIPL: Discursive strategies, layered compliance and power dynamics in digital platform policies	42
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies	40
Impacts of the USDA broadband initiatives program on employment and telework: Evidence from confidential American community survey microdata	38
Digital dividends? Rural E-commerce policy and urban-rural income disparity in China	37
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	36
Broadband deployment and access to online banking: Does improved technology facilitate adoption?	36
ICT payoffs for workers: Evidence from the labor market in Brazil	36
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?	35
Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain	32
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	32
How artificial intelligence penetration affects workers’ job quality? Empirical evidence from China	31
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach	31
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications	31
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis	30
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan	30
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe	30
Revisiting the digital divide in Europe — The profile of those on the wrong side of the divide	29
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	28
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet	28
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States	27
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband	27
The influence of digital divide frames on legislative passage and partisan sponsorship: A content analysis of digital equity legislation in the U.S. from 1990 to 2020	25
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties	25
The evolution of the digital economy: Comparative insights from China and the United States, 1995–2020	25
A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network	24
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill	24
Editorial Board	24
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?	24
Editorial Board	24
The behavioral impact of 5G adoption: Evidence from individual-level transaction data	24
Planned obsolescence and smartphone replacement: Empirical evidence on the Italian market	24
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?	23
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	23
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces	23
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China	23
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats	23
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case	22
Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK	22
Governing deepfake realities: The truth immunity framework for telecommunications policy	21
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens	21
A scaling law for two-sided networks? Empirical evidence for a mobile payment scheme	21
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	21

Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica	20
Editorial Board	20
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications	20
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions	20
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework	20
Place matters for the poor: Digitisation and spatial inequality in Chile	20
Unlocking trade locks in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) in Africa: The role of digital infrastructure	20
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment	19
When defines where: how rural digital divide, customers’ mobility and usage patterns have shaped mobile infrastructures	18
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform	18
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China	18
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania	17
Activating the principle of ‘taking into account the special needs of the developing countries’ in the distribution of low Earth orbit frequency/orbit resources	17
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	17
An old familiar song? Assessing the artificial intelligence divide among the regions of the European Union and its connections with digital divides	17
Anticipatory governance of digital platforms: An analysis based on the UK's online safety act	17
A study on forward and backward linkage effects in South Korea's telecom industry across generations	16
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus	16
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand	16
Universal service and structural reforms in Latin America: What have we learned and where are we going?	16
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges	16
Working from home, job tasks, and productivity	16
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability	16
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	15
How do standards committees affect the success of a standard? Comparative analysis of RCS and VoLTE and proposed hybrid standards development model of open and bandwagon approaches	15
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea	15
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	15
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider	15
Editorial Board	15
What drives broadband traffic?	15
Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation	15
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services	15
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model	14
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	14
Editorial Board	14
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries	14
Editorial Board	14
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	14
From entrepreneur to social sharer: Entrepreneurship and digital social sharing	13
Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 8	13
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition	13
Impact assessment of broadband transport and internet access projects in Peru	13
Small firms, big streams: How the characteristics of SMEs impact live streaming commerce performance	13
Digital discrimination under disparate impact: A legal and economic analysis	13
“In the end, Bell always wins …” A critical analysis of concentration in Toronto's fibre-internet service market	12
Digital infrastructure and industrial integration: An assessment of the coupling coordination effect between digital and real economy in China	12
Between regulation and innovation: Stakeholder interests in the governance of the financial MyData ecosystem in South Korea	12
New challenges in Internet governance: Power shifts and contestation from “within”	12
Impact of mobile money on the economic empowerment of women in Benin	12
OrbitShare: The policy imperative for satellite internet mega-constellation sharing	12
Economic, political, and social factors impeding the regulation of digital platforms	12
Editorial Board	12
How does the urban digital economy affect labor mobility? An analysis from inflow and outflow perspectives	12