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 2020-03-01 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
“I'm in sheer survival mode”: Information behaviour and affective experiences of early career academics	19
A model for understanding new media literacy: Epistemological beliefs and social media use	19
Spatial modeling of areas suitable for public libraries construction by integration of GIS and multi-attribute decision making: Case study Tehran, Iran	17
Towards a model of research data management readiness in Indonesian context: An investigation of factors and indicators through the fuzzy delphi method	13
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
Public libraries embrace citizen science: Strengths and challenges	12
Content analysis in library and information research: An analysis of trends	11
Added value of secondary school education toward development of information literacy of adolescents	11
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
Validating students' library experience survey using rasch model	10
Examining young children's information practices and experiences: A child-centered methodological approach	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
Rational actions or institutional actions: A study on the rationality in academic librarians' decision-making processes when purchasing e-book products	8
Determining research data services maturity: The role of library leadership and stakeholder involvement	8
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
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
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
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
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
Memorial design as information creation: Honoring the past through co-production of an informing aesthetic	5
A systematic review of library makerspaces research	5