OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telecommunications Policy is 13. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada	168
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges	165
Editorial Board	165
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility	163
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy	144
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa	139
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy	115
Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry	95
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices	83
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect	75
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies	75
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy	73
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services	70
Too good to be true? China's new conceptual scheme for data property rights	65
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos	63
Editorial Board	63
Editorial Board	62
The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle	61
Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans	61
The ICT growth puzzle: Disentangling the role of individuals, firms, and governments across digitalization stages	59
A two-sided model of paid peering	59
Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness	59
Competition reform and household welfare: A microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia	57
Wired and working? An evaluation of broadband expansion in Rural America	55
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network	55

Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy	55
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea	53
Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective	53
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road	51
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany	49
How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis	48
Editorial Board	46
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	45
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies	44
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	44
Digital dividends? Rural E-commerce policy and urban-rural income disparity in China	44
A new digital era: Challenges and opportunities for Thai women in online marketplace	43
Impacts of the USDA broadband initiatives program on employment and telework: Evidence from confidential American community survey microdata	40
Explaining geospatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach	40
Triple Helix Synergy Model in China's new technology diplomacy: Perspectives from AI startups	38
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	38
Governing data through privacy after China's PIPL: Discursive strategies, layered compliance and power dynamics in digital platform policies	38
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis	37
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet	35
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe	34
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan	34
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?	33
Broadband deployment and access to online banking: Does improved technology facilitate adoption?	32
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach	31
Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain	31
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications	31
ICT payoffs for workers: Evidence from the labor market in Brazil	30
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	29
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	28
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	27
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	26
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces	25
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill	25
Planned obsolescence and smartphone replacement: Empirical evidence on the Italian market	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
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?	25
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States	24
The behavioral impact of 5G adoption: Evidence from individual-level transaction data	24
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties	23
Editorial Board	23
A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network	22
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China	22
The evolution of the digital economy: Comparative insights from China and the United States, 1995–2020	22
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?	22
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband	22
Editorial Board	22
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats	21
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK	20
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications	20

Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	20
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case	20
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	19
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens	19
Unlocking trade locks in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) in Africa: The role of digital infrastructure	19
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework	19
Editorial Board	19
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform	18
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions	18
An old familiar song? Assessing the artificial intelligence divide among the regions of the European Union and its connections with digital divides	17
Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica	17
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges	17
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment	17
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	17
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China	17
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	17
A scaling law for two-sided networks? Empirical evidence for a mobile payment scheme	17
Working from home, job tasks, and productivity	16
Editorial Board	16
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania	16
Activating the principle of ‘taking into account the special needs of the developing countries’ in the distribution of low Earth orbit frequency/orbit resources	16
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
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs	15
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider	15
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea	15
Editorial Board	15
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	15
Editorial: Digital societies and industrial transformations: ITS 23rd Biennial Conference	15
What drives broadband traffic?	15
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand	15
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services	15
Editorial Board	14
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	14
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	14
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	14
Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation	14
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	14
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability	14
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	14
Editorial Board	13
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	13
Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 8	13
From entrepreneur to social sharer: Entrepreneurship and digital social sharing	13
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries	13
Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India	13
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition	13
Impact of mobile money on the economic empowerment of women in Benin	13
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model	13
Digital discrimination under disparate impact: A legal and economic analysis	13
How does the urban digital economy affect labor mobility? An analysis from inflow and outflow perspectives	13
Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages	13