OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Library & Information Science Research is 5. 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
How can Booktok on TikTok inform readers' advisory services for young people?	32
Human information behavior during the Covid-19 health crisis. A literature review	27
A model for understanding new media literacy: Epistemological beliefs and social media use	22
Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies	21
Public libraries as reserves of cultural and digital capital: Addressing inequality through digitalization	18
Public libraries embrace citizen science: Strengths and challenges	17
Towards a model of research data management readiness in Indonesian context: An investigation of factors and indicators through the fuzzy delphi method	16
The relationship between work conditions and perceptions of organizational justice among library employees	14
Exploring user experience in digital libraries through questionnaire and eye-tracking data	13
Assessing the spatial accessibility and spatial equity of public libraries' physical locations	12
Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective: Evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA	12
Determining research data services maturity: The role of library leadership and stakeholder involvement	12
Validating students' library experience survey using rasch model	12
Examining young children's information practices and experiences: A child-centered methodological approach	12
Analysis of book circulation data and a book recommendation system in academic libraries using data mining techniques	10
Examining nonsuicidal self-injury content creation on TikTok through qualitative content analysis	10
Where's the value? The worth of public libraries: A systematic review of findings, methods and research gaps	10
Maturity models in LIS study and practice	9
A systematic review of library makerspaces research	9
Stimulators and barriers towards social innovations in public libraries: Qualitative research study	9
Library support for emergency management during the time of natural disasters: Through the lens of public library Twitter data	9
Use and evaluation of information from social media: A longitudinal cohort study	8
Designing a connected learning toolkit for public library staff serving youth through the design-based implementation research method	8
Public library needs assessment to build a community-based library: Triangulation method with a social media data analysis	8
UPCC: A model of plagiarism-free inquiry project-based learning	8

Toward community-engaged information behavior research: A methodological framework	8
The relationships between university students' information-seeking strategies, social-media specific epistemological beliefs, information literacy, and personality traits	8
Librarian views of the ACRL Framework and the impact of covid-19 on information literacy instruction in community colleges	7
The public library as social infrastructure for older patrons: Exploring the implications of online library programming for older adults during COVID-19	7
Diaries of lifelong learners: Information seeking behaviors of older adults in peer-learning study groups at an academic institution	7
Development and validation of a measuring instrument for digital library maturity	7
Evaluating librarian continuing professional development: Merging Guskey's framework and Vygotsky Space to explore transfer of learning	7
Memorial design as information creation: Honoring the past through co-production of an informing aesthetic	6
Health literacy and health information-seeking behavior of immigrants in South Korea	6
Effect of online research data management instruction on social science graduate students’ RDM skills	6
Gender differences in research topic and method selection in library and information science: Perspectives from three top journals	6
Identification and simulation of key influencing factors of online health information service quality from the perspective of information ecology	6
Seeking and sharing datasets in an online community of data enthusiasts	5
Health information seeking behaviour during exceptional times: A case study of Persian-speaking minorities in Finland	5
Companion animal representation and voice in information behavior research	5
Evaluating a digital community archive from the user perspective: The case of formative multifaceted evaluation	5
How and why does official information become misinformation? A typology of official misinformation	5
Transactive memory system (TMS) and knowledge sharing: The effects of social capital and task visibility	5
How online health discussions make people perceive benefits?	5
A methodological framework for studying visual information practices	5
Prevalence of methodological transparency in the use of mixed methods research in library and information science research in South Africa and Nigeria, 2009–2015	5
Rigour in phenomenological and phenomenography studies: A scoping review of library and information science research	5
‘Follow us on Twitter’: How public libraries use dialogic communication to engage their publics	5
Using Q methodology to understand conflicting conceptualizations of reference and information service	5
Creating a ubiquitous reading environment for children in undeveloped rural areas: An action research project	5
Supporting collaborative research in information science: The RADAR program as a model for academic-practitioner team engagement	5
LAM professionals' roles and attitudes to user participation in Norway and Sweden	5