OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Library & Information Science Research is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
How can Booktok on TikTok inform readers' advisory services for young people?	25
Human information behavior during the Covid-19 health crisis. A literature review	22
A model for understanding new media literacy: Epistemological beliefs and social media use	19
“I'm in sheer survival mode”: Information behaviour and affective experiences of early career academics	19
Spatial modeling of areas suitable for public libraries construction by integration of GIS and multi-attribute decision making: Case study Tehran, Iran	17
Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies	13
Measuring the smartness of a library	13
Public libraries as reserves of cultural and digital capital: Addressing inequality through digitalization	13
Towards a model of research data management readiness in Indonesian context: An investigation of factors and indicators through the fuzzy delphi method	13
Public libraries embrace citizen science: Strengths and challenges	12
Added value of secondary school education toward development of information literacy of adolescents	11
Content analysis in library and information research: An analysis of trends	11
Validating students' library experience survey using rasch model	10
Examining young children's information practices and experiences: A child-centered methodological approach	10
Assessing the spatial accessibility and spatial equity of public libraries' physical locations	10
Social capital, trust and social activity among librarians: Results of research conducted in 20 countries across the world	10
The relationship between work conditions and perceptions of organizational justice among library employees	10
Mobile apps for visual research: Affordances and challenges for participant-generated photography	9
An analysis of the online information searching strategies and metacognitive skills exhibited by university students during argumentation activities	9
Determining research data services maturity: The role of library leadership and stakeholder involvement	8
Rational actions or institutional actions: A study on the rationality in academic librarians' decision-making processes when purchasing e-book products	8
Agent-based geographical modeling of public library locations	7
Clarifying identity in information behavior research: A conceptual analysis	7
UPCC: A model of plagiarism-free inquiry project-based learning	7
Maturity models in LIS study and practice	7

Use and evaluation of information from social media: A longitudinal cohort study	7
Social network analysis: A methodological approach for understanding public libraries and their communities	7
Where's the value? The worth of public libraries: A systematic review of findings, methods and research gaps	7
Public library needs assessment to build a community-based library: Triangulation method with a social media data analysis	7
Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective: Evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA	7
Factors affecting topic selection for theses and dissertations in library and information science: A national scale study	7
Exploring user experience in digital libraries through questionnaire and eye-tracking data	6
Librarian views of the ACRL Framework and the impact of covid-19 on information literacy instruction in community colleges	6
Designing a connected learning toolkit for public library staff serving youth through the design-based implementation research method	6
Analysis of book circulation data and a book recommendation system in academic libraries using data mining techniques	6
“What is mine is not thine”: Understanding barriers to China's interagency government data sharing from existing literature	6
Toward community-engaged information behavior research: A methodological framework	6
Defining success for a public library makerspace: Implications of participant-defined, individualized evaluative criteria	6
Diaries of lifelong learners: Information seeking behaviors of older adults in peer-learning study groups at an academic institution	6
Library support for emergency management during the time of natural disasters: Through the lens of public library Twitter data	6
The relationships between university students' information-seeking strategies, social-media specific epistemological beliefs, information literacy, and personality traits	6
Memorial design as information creation: Honoring the past through co-production of an informing aesthetic	5
A systematic review of library makerspaces research	5
Examining nonsuicidal self-injury content creation on TikTok through qualitative content analysis	5
Stimulators and barriers towards social innovations in public libraries: Qualitative research study	5
Health information seeking among people with multiple chronic conditions: Contextual factors and their associations mined from questions in social media	5
Development and validation of a measuring instrument for digital library maturity	5
Using the World Café Methodology to support community-centric research and practice in library and information science	5
Health literacy and health information-seeking behavior of immigrants in South Korea	4
Creating a ubiquitous reading environment for children in undeveloped rural areas: An action research project	4
Evaluating a digital community archive from the user perspective: The case of formative multifaceted evaluation	4
Effect of online research data management instruction on social science graduate students’ RDM skills	4
Applying theory in practice: The serious leisure perspective and public library programming	4
Prevalence of methodological transparency in the use of mixed methods research in library and information science research in South Africa and Nigeria, 2009–2015	4
“We want to do more, but…”: New Jersey public library approaches to misinformation	4
Supporting collaborative research in information science: The RADAR program as a model for academic-practitioner team engagement	4
Understanding how suburban public librarians respond to the health and social needs of communities	4
Organizational information creation through a design game: A sensemaking perspective	3
Gender differences in research topic and method selection in library and information science: Perspectives from three top journals	3
Writing-up ethnographic research as a thematic narrative: The excerpt-commentary-unit	3
Exploring everyday information seeking of ethnic minorities with small populations in China	3
Companion animal representation and voice in information behavior research	3
Towards effective collaboration between academics and library staff: A comparative Australian/Vietnamese study	3
‘Follow us on Twitter’: How public libraries use dialogic communication to engage their publics	3
How online health discussions make people perceive benefits?	3
A methodological framework for studying visual information practices	3
Crossing the boundaries through OER adoption: Considering open educational resources (OER) as boundary objects in higher education	3
Speaking on the record: Combining interviews with search log analysis in user research	3
Households' public library use across the school calendar	3
“I had to teach my own doctor what this was about”: Information sharing barriers and information evaluation of Finnish transgender people	3
Transactive memory system (TMS) and knowledge sharing: The effects of social capital and task visibility	3
Applying interpretive phenomenological analysis to library and information science research on blended librarianship: A case study	3
“A bit hard for us to explain”: Barriers to creating new information in scientific collaboration	3
An ethical quandary that dare not speak its name: Archival privacy and access to queer erotica	3
Evaluating librarian continuing professional development: Merging Guskey's framework and Vygotsky Space to explore transfer of learning	3

Archaeological information-making activities according to field reports	3
A study on the changes in librarians' perception before and after user privacy education	3
How and why does official information become misinformation? A typology of official misinformation	3
Studies on blind and visually impaired users in LIS literature: A review of research methods	3
The gender and LGBTQ perspectives in library and information science: A case study at the University of Barcelona	3
Thinking like a bricoleur: New forms of rigor in research on information experience	2
Applying the servicescape model to understand student experiences of a Norwegian academic library	2
Unfolding social learning parameters behind the selection of information sources against cyclones: A perspective of information seeking behavior research	2
Development and validation of an internet unethical behavior scale	2
Seeking and sharing datasets in an online community of data enthusiasts	2
Comparison of theoretical frameworks of doctoral theses on the field of instructional technology: The Turkey-US case	2
Health information seeking behaviour during exceptional times: A case study of Persian-speaking minorities in Finland	2
Documenting the fun: Studying artistic information-creating behavior using research diaries	2
Rigour in phenomenological and phenomenography studies: A scoping review of library and information science research	2
Identification and simulation of key influencing factors of online health information service quality from the perspective of information ecology	2
Using Q methodology to understand conflicting conceptualizations of reference and information service	2
Cognitive mapping and its implication for understanding cultural behaviors and experiences in libraries	2
The hidden, manipulated, and secret information world of gambling addiction: Maximizing use of in-depth, narrative interviews to understand social impact	2
Is e-reading environmentally more sustainable than conventional reading? Evidence from a systematic literature review	2
How feasible is creating a natural disaster information management open-access repository (NDIM-OAR) in Iran?	2
Tattoo information creation: Towards a holistic understanding of tattoo information experience	2
Innovative public library services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Application and revision of social innovation typology	2
“Youth service librarians…are not just providers of books”: Caregivers' perceptions of the value of public library services during the COVID-19 pandemic	2