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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices	144
What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance	130
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility	123
Analysis of spectrum pricing for commercial mobile services: A cross country study	122
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect	119
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services	113
Editorial Board	111
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	105
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy	92
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies	89
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy	85
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa	77
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges	73
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy	66
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada	61
Competition reform and household welfare: A microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia	57
Editorial Board	54
A two-sided model of paid peering	53
Editorial Board	53
How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis	52
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany	51
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos	51
Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans	50
Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy	50
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road	49

Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness	47
Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective	46
The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle	46
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea	45
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network	45
Explaining geospatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach	44
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	43
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	43
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	42
Not too much nor too little: Salience bias in mobile plan choices	41
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	41
Editorial Board	40
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	40
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies	40
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	39
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe	39
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan	39
Editorial Board	39
Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain	38
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach	37
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications	37
Broadband technology opportunities program public computer center grants and residential broadband adoption	35
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?	34
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison	33
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	31
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet	31
The digital divide between high school students in Colombia	31
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	30
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	30
Editorial Board	29
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis	29
A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network	28
Editorial Board	28
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties	28
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces	27
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband	27
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?	27
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats	26
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States	26
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China	25
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
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill	24
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens	23
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	23
Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica	23
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform	23
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions	22
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case	21
The commercialization of bias in cashless India	21

Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK	21
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment	21
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China	21
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications	20
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework	20
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	20
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	19
Idea entrepreneurs: The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group & cybersecurity	19
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	19
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	19
The rewards of municipal broadband: An econometric analysis of the labor market	18
Working from home, job tasks, and productivity	18
Editorial Board	18
A study on forward and backward linkage effects in South Korea's telecom industry across generations	18
Valuation of digital goods during the coronavirus outbreak in the United States	17
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand	17
Scoping new policy frameworks for local and community broadband networks	17
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	16
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges	16
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus	16
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	15
Editorial Board	15
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	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
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania	15
Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation	15
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	14
Editorial: Digital societies and industrial transformations: ITS 23rd Biennial Conference	14
Inequalities of opportunity in the access and use of telecommunication services in Togo	14
Impact of high-speed broadband access on local establishment dynamics	14
What drives broadband traffic?	14
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services	14
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider	14
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs	14
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability	14
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	13
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future	13
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea	13
Determining spectrum caps and service efficiency: A case study of mobile operators in Thailand	13
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	13
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model	13
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	12
Impact of mobile operator consolidation on unit prices	12
Editorial Board	12
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition	12
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	12
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries	12
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	12
Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 8	12
Editorial Board	12