OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Librarianship and Information Science is 3. 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
Defining artificial intelligence for librarians	22
A study of university law students’ self-perceived digital competences	18
Research data management systems and the organization of universities and research institutes: A systematic literature review	16
Correlatives of business students’ perceived information literacy self-efficacy in the digital information environment	16
Leveraging information literacy: Mapping the conceptual influence and appropriation of information literacy in other disciplinary landscapes	16
Green libraries and green librarianship – Towards conceptualization	15
Health information seeking and sharing behavior of young adults on social media in Pakistan	14
Cultural sustainability: A perspective from independent libraries in the United Kingdom and the United States	14
A study on the discussion on Library 5.0 and the generation of Library 1.0 to Library 5.0	14
I feel at home: Perspectives of homeless library customers on public library services and social inclusion	14
Not like riding a bike: How public libraries facilitate older people’s digital inclusion during the Covid-19 pandemic	13
The relationship between motivational factors and librarians’ professional development (PD): A systematic review	13
Teachers’ perceived information literacy self-efficacy	12
A systematized review on data librarianship literature: Current services, challenges, skills, and motivational factors	12
Democratic librarianship in the Nordic model	12
Evolution of institutional repositories: Managing institutional research output to remove the gap of academic elitism	12
Academicians’ awareness, attitude, and use of open access during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Librarians’ support in improving health literacy: A systematic literature review	11
The provision of smart service at academic libraries and associated challenges	11
Information and information resources in COVID-19: Awareness, control, and prevention	9
Personal information management through ubiquitous devices: Students’ mobile self-efficacy and PIM practices	9
Students’ frequency of access to school library materials in transformative times	9
Journal and disciplinary variations in academic open peer review anonymity, outcomes, and length	9
A gamified mobile application for first-year student orientation to promote library services	8
“I actually got my first job through my ex-colleague”: Employment-related information seeking behavior of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada	8

Young children’s information-seeking practices in center-based childcare	8
Information landscapes as contexts of information practices	8
Delivering services in the new normal: Recording the experiences of UK public library staff during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The expanding circles of information behavior and human–computer interaction	7
Preprint paper platforms in the academic scholarly communication environment	7
The information-gathering practice of liberal professionals in a workplace setting: More than just seeking information	7
Modeling the process of personal digital archiving through ubiquitous and desktop devices: A systematic review	7
An investigation of emerging COVID-19 research trends and future implications for LIS field: A bibliometric mapping and visualization	7
Status of open access scholarly journal publishing in Pakistan	7
Library services enriching community engagement for dementia care: The Tales & Travels Program at a Canadian Public Library as a case study	7
Agriculture-based community engagement in rural libraries	7
Global trends in digital preservation: Outsourcing versus in-house practices	6
Assessing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in academic libraries	6
Unveiling the research pattern and trends in library service quality studies: A meta-narrative review	6
Influence of publication on university ranking: Citation, collaboration, and level of interdisciplinary research	6
Global perspective on digital preservation policy: A systematic review	6
“Books, physical spaces, rules, people”: A holistic analysis of young Chinese children’s perceptions of public libraries	6
A mapping review of literature on Blockchain usage by libraries: Challenges and opportunities	6
Information work of hospital librarians: Making the invisible visible	6
Information literacy in the legal workplace: Current state of lawyers’ skills in Pakistan	6
Defending and refuting information sources rhetorically: The case of COVID-19 vaccination	6
An empirical study of research ethics and their role in psychologists’ data sharing intentions using consequentialism theory of ethics	5
The effect of visual multimedia instructions against fake news spread: A quasi-experimental study with Nigerian students	5
Librarians’ competencies for implementing embedded librarianship in university libraries	5
Librarians self-efficacy in ICT-based library operations and services: A survey of librarians working in libraries of Aligarh Muslim University Library System	5
The role of feelings in personal information management behavior: Deleting and organizing information	5
Use of reference management software among postgraduate students in Greece	5
What are the options for library and information studies education reform in addressing racial inequity in the library profession in the UK?	5
Pedagogical strategy for scholarly communication literacy and avoiding deceptive publishing practices	5
Purposive and non-purposive information behaviour on Instagram	5
Gauging the research performance of BRICS in the domain of Library and Information Science through Performance analysis and Science mapping	5
Overlay journals: A study of the current landscape	5
Exploring librarians’ intentions to collaborate in research: A model integrating the Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Exchange Theory	5
Capturing computational thinking in public libraries: An examination of assessment strategies, audience, and mindset	4
Reaching into the basket of doom: Learning outcomes, discourse and information literacy	4
Assessing the perceived research competencies of academic librarians in Pakistan: Implications for work performance	4
Graphic novels through the lens of Goodreads reviews: Artistic, textual, or blend of both?	4
“For me, it is an intellectual freedom issue”: Drag storytimes, neutrality, and ALA core values	4
Researching Finnish library responses to Covid-19 digital literacy challenges through the employment of reflective practice	4
Knowledge graph technology application in Chinese SSCI: An example of short videos research	4
Future uncertainties for preserving tweets: Peoples’ perceptions in Japan	4
Using current research information systems to investigate data acquisition and data sharing practices of computer scientists	4
Building and enhancing library services: Patrons’ awareness of, and engagement with social media in academic libraries in Ghana	4
Open access journal publishing in the business disciplines: A closer look at the low uptake and discipline-specific considerations	4
Information seeking behaviors of environmental journalists	4
Public library events with spaces and collections: Case analysis of the Helsinki Central Library Oodi	4
Is information literacy ability, and metacognition of that ability, related to interest, gender, or education level? A cross-sectional study of higher education students	4
Reddit use in the LIS community	4
Continuing professional development strategies for digital transformation among academic librarians in Africa: A systematic review	4
Relegating expertise: The outward and inward positioning of librarians in information literacy education	4

A decade of changes in OA and non-OA journal publication and production	4
The relationship between social responsibility and public libraries accountability: The mediating role of professional ethics and conscientiousness	4
The value of digital and physical library services in UK public libraries and why they are not interchangeable	4
Adoption of a quadratic usage framework for predicting blockchain use intention from the perspective of librarians in Southwest Nigerian universities	3
Google Scholar or University Digital Libraries: A comparison of student perceptions and intention to use	3
Key features of digital library management system (DLMS) for developing digital libraries: An investigation from LIS practitioners in Pakistan	3
Limitations to success in academic data reference support	3
Characteristics of LIS research articles affecting their citation impact	3
A study on researcher use behavior changes since Covid-19	3
A study of emerging trends in digital preservation literature: An analysis of journal articles presented in course syllabi	3
‘Talk to them like they’re people’: A cross-cultural comparison of teen-centred approaches in public library services	3
Reading practices of Spanish-speaking readers in the United States and Canada	3
How are academic libraries in Spanish-speaking Latin America responding to new models of scholarly communication and predatory publishing?	3
Social inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers: The role of public libraries in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area	3
Understanding the information literacy experiences of Australia’s humanitarian migrants	3
Perceptions of academic librarians regarding their interpersonal competencies: A case of Pakistani universities	3
Insights from a cultural-historical HE library makerspace case study on the potential for academic libraries to lead on supporting ethical-making underpinned by ‘Critical Material Literacy’	3
Video or perish? An analysis of video abstract author guidelines	3
Open research data: A case study into institutional and infrastructural arrangements to stimulate open research data sharing and reuse	3
Exploring students’ attitudes toward university e-textbooks: Experiences, expectations, and preferences	3
Towards developing library and information science practicum supervision competency framework	3
Metrics employed in the evaluation of research productivity: A systematic literature review	3
Starting from ‘scratch’: Building young people’s digital skills through a coding club collaboration with rural public libraries	3
Data preservation practices for enhancing agricultural research data usage among agricultural researchers in Tanzania	3