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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of ICT on economic growth-Comparing rich and poor countries	164
ICT for sustainable development: Global comparative evidence of globalisation thresholds	117
Revisiting Wireless Internet Connectivity: 5G vs Wi-Fi 6	104
Broadband infrastructure and export growth	91
Factors influencing TikTok engagement behaviors in China: An examination of gratifications sought, narcissism, and the Big Five personality traits	89
Internet access and poverty reduction: Evidence from rural and urban Mexico	88
From digital divide to digital inclusion: Challenges for wide-ranging digitalization in Pakistan	72
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	70
Could information and communication technology (ICT) reduce carbon emissions? The role of trade openness and financial development	68
Reaping digital dividends: Digital inclusive finance and high-quality development of enterprises in China	68
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	67
Digital infrastructure and employment in services: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	63
5G: A new future for Mobile Network Operators, or not?	63
Resistance to facial recognition payment in China: The influence of privacy-related factors	62
The impact of literacy on intention to use digital technology for learning: A comparative study of Korea and Finland	52
An analysis of the impacts of telecommunications technology and innovation on economic growth	49
Effects of the internet, mobile, and land phones on income inequality and The Kuznets curve: Cross country analysis	49
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	45
Mobile payment and rural household consumption: Evidence from China	45
ICT and socio-economic development: Evidence from a spatial panel data analysis in China	45
Can digitization mitigate the economic damage of a pandemic? Evidence from SARS	44
Inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the interaction between ICT diffusion, and financial development	44
Information technology, income inequality and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries	44
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	43
ICT, governance and inequality in Africa	42

Digital dividend or digital divide? Digital economy and urban-rural income inequality in China	39
Regulating smart contracts: Legal revolution or simply evolution?	38
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	38
Determinants of digitalization and digital divide in Sub-Saharan African economies: A spatial Durbin analysis	37
Digital divide and financial development in Africa	37
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	36
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	35
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain	35
Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19	35
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	34
ICT adoption, innovation, and SMEs’ access to finance	34
The non-linear impact of digitization on remittances inflow: Evidence from the BRICS	33
ICT investment and GDP growth: Causality analysis for the case of Korea	33
Importance of Internet Exchange Point (IXP) infrastructure for 5G: Estimating the impact of 5G use cases	32
Regulation and innovation in 5G markets	32
Platform configurations for local and private 5G networks in complex industrial multi-stakeholder ecosystems	32
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	31
How does broadband infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	31
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	30
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	30
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance	30
Convergence patterns in global ICT: Fresh insights from a club clustering algorithm	29
Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies	28
ICT and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Transmission channels and effects	28
Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Connecting the other half: Exploring options for the 50% of the population unconnected to the internet	28
The impact of ICT patents on economic growth: An international evidence	27
Factors affecting users' satisfaction and dissatisfaction of OTT services in South Korea	27
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy	26
Does digitalization promote net job creation? Empirical evidence from WAEMU countries	25
E-commerce in Spain: Determining factors and the importance of the e-trust	25
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	25
The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on internet interconnection	24
Prediction of Wheat Production Using Machine Learning Algorithms in northern areas of Pakistan	24
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?	24
Why is South Korea at the forefront of 5G? Insights from technology systems theory	23
Who uses paid over-the-top services and why? Cross-national comparisons of consumer demographics and values	23
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective	23
Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Demonetization and digitalization: The Indian government's hidden agenda	22
Does the digital economy generate a gender dividend for female employment? Evidence from China	22
Advertising in streaming video: An integrative literature review and research agenda	21
A new measure of digital economic activity and its impact on local opportunity	21
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	21
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	21
Friends or Foes? Mobile money interaction with formal and informal finance	20
The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force	20
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	20
Can digital policy improve corporate sustainability? Empirical evidence from China's national comprehensive big data pilot zones	20
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	19

How do industrial robots applications affect the quality upgrade of Chinese export trade?	19
A ‘biased’ emerging governance regime for artificial intelligence? How AI ethics get skewed moving from principles to practices	19
5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries	19
Toward the adoption of digital assistive technology: Factors affecting older people's initial trust formation	18
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei	18
Factors influencing K-pop artists' success on V live online video platform	18
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	18
Participation of developing countries in global value chains: What role for information and communication technologies?	18
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	18
The effect of the digital economy on total factor productivity in European regions	18
Measuring ICT externalities and their contribution to productivity: A bilateral trade based approach	18
“The Netflix effect” in Thailand: Industry and regulatory implications	18
Ubiquitous technologies and 5G development. Who is leading the race?	18
Harmonizing regulatory regimes for the governance of patient-generated health data	18
Internet of things and the economics of 5G-based local industrial networks	17
The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans	17
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Impact of high-speed broadband access on local establishment dynamics	17
Digital divides across consumers of internet services in Spain using panel data 2007–2019. Narrowing or not?	17
Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK	16
Mobile phones, mobile Internet, and employment in Uganda	16
Digital platforms in Africa: A case-study of Jumia Egypt's digital platform	16
An in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurship of rural Chinese mothers and the digital inclusive finance	15
Population grid-based assessment of the impact of broadband expansion on population development in rural areas	15
Assessment of E-government inclusion policies toward seniors: A framework and case study	15
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future	15
Information and communications technology infrastructure and firm growth: An empirical study of China's cities	15
Normfare: Norm entrepreneurship in internet governance	15
The evolution paths of neutral host businesses: Antecedents, strategies, and business models	15
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	14
Who is left behind? Exploring the characteristics of China's broadband non-adopting families	14
Small rural operators techno-economic analysis to bring mobile services to isolated communities: The case of Peru Amazon rainforest	14
The ‘China’ question in mobile Internet standard-making: Insights from expert interviews	14
Reforming funding of universal access to telecommunications and broadband services: Approaches for the new decade	13
Standard essential patents and global ICT value chains with a focus on the catching-up of China	13
ICT for healthy and active aging: The elderly as first and last movers	13
Evaluating the impact of broadband access and internet use in a small underserved rural community	13
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	12
The role of epistemic communities in the “constitutionalization” of internet governance: The example of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence	12
Industry consortia in mobile telecommunications standards setting: Purpose, organization and diversity	12
Blockchain for sustainability: A systematic literature review for policy impact	12
The effect of mobile phone penetration on the quality of life	12
Personalized pricing for customer retention: Theory and evidence from mobile communication	12
The mobile phone technology, gender inclusive education and public accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
ICT interaction with trade, FDI and financial inclusion on inclusive growth in top African nations ranked by ICT development	12