OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Online Information Review is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Five challenges in detection and mitigation of disinformation on social media	186
Evaluating the effect of Chinese universities’ public opinion governance strategies through online user comments on the Weibo platform	74
Understanding Shadow IT usage intention: a view of the dual-factor model	59
It's the platform, stupid (-; the elitist nature of sport podcast listeners	53
Why are people reluctant to use metaverse products? Investigating barriers based on innovation resistance theory	33
Access and impact barriers to academic publications: a global study of thesis and dissertation embargo policies	33
The complex information needs of Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorder	31
Big Tobacco’s hashtag hijacking: a network analysis approach to social media hashtag use among FDA-registered vaping establishments	30
Media events in an age of “cross-media”: a smartphone diary app study	30
Exploring the effects of personality traits on echo chamber formation under different derivative topics	29
Citizen involvement in digital transformation: a systematic review and a framework	28
What motivates people to counter misinformation on social media? Unpacking the roles of perceived consequences, third-person perception and social media use	28
“What? This post is sponsored?”: sponsorship awareness negatively moderates influencer credibility and parasocial relationships for longtime followers	27
From the parliamentary watchdog to the digital watchdog: parliamentary oversight through parliamentary questions in the social media era	27
Use behaviour of academic social networking sites in research communication: a structural equation model	26
Are the quality and quantity of knowledge contributions increasing simultaneously? An empirical study from an online health community	26
Exploring social media users’ disclosures of negative information during the COVID-19 infodemic: the moderating role of personality traits	24
The effect of public and media attention dynamics on vaccination coverage: evidence from China during COVID-19	23
Ballots make waves: the impact of elections on social media adoption by local governments	23
The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections	22
Bibliometric analysis of literature on social media trends during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Extending the norm activation model and unpacking laypeople’s misinformation correction process: multilayered roles of awareness, norms and efficacy	20
Understanding the impact of government social media on citizens’ unverified information avoidance behavior during health crises: the health belief model	20
Privacy? What’s that? Differences in privacy boundaries	19
What news sparks interest on YouTube? A study of news content uploaded by India's top five Hindi news networks	19

Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis–Covid-19 pandemic in Israel	19
Exploring the sociotechnical system of Chinese internet literature online forums: a social network analytical approach	19
The future of human experience: the drivers of user adoption of the metaverse	18
Persuading others in different communication media: appeals to logic, authority and emotion	18
Erratum: Influence of short-form video advertising on purchase intention in social commerce: the power of word-of-mouth and flow experience	17
How are news portals integrated into daily news habits? A study on news trust, news repertoires and political participation in South Korea	17
The role of online communities in transforming news production: challenges and opportunities	17
Exploring the relationship between multidimensional health information overload and cyberchondria: the mediating role of rumination	17
Understanding health misinformation sharing among the middle-aged or above in China: roles of social media health information seeking, misperceptions and information processing predispositions	17
Group polarization in social media: a systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda	16
Detrimental influences of social comparison and problematic WeChat use on academic achievement: significant role of awareness of inattention	15
Information discernment and online reading behaviour: an experiment	15
Fight against hair loss together: exploring self-disclosure and social support in an online hair loss support community	14
Breaking the illusion: impact of news literacy on deepfake identification and sharing	14
A bibliometric analysis of large language models in China	14
Editorial: Generative artificial intelligence in the creator economy	13
The coming of age for paid digital campaigning: equalization or normalization in the 2019 Belgian federal elections?	13
Unlocking young people’s engagement with online news: affective or cognitive?	12
Enhancing social capital and reciprocity through community news media during COVID-19: a study of video volunteers	12
“Selfie”-objectification: effects of sexually objectifying selfies on young women's self-objectification and intention to have cosmetic surgery	12
Exploring Arab researchers' research data sharing and requesting practices: a survey study	12
Distinct roles of distrust, cynicism and indifference: investigating how antipathy toward news media increases misinformation belief through passive news consumption	12
The effect of social media environments on online emotional disclosure: tie strength, network size and self-reference	12
The infinity vaccine war: linguistic regularities and audience engagement of vaccine debate on Twitter	12
Shame on you! How incivility and absence of supporting evidence in likeminded Facebook comments influence evaluations of ingroup members and online political participation	12
The scientific periphery and new flows of knowledge: the case of regional preprint servers	11
Development of a mobile health information application for immigrant women in South Korea	10
COVID-19 fake news among the general population: motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts – a systematic review	10
Egyptian physicians' information-seeking behavior while serving in public isolation hospitals for coronavirus patients	10
Does publication history influence the integrity of the journals: studying publication timelines and their impact on journal metrics?	10
Adopt or not? The determinants of health information adoption in online question-and-answer communities	10
Web search to access health information by adults with intellectual disability	10
Citation pattern of open access and toll-based research articles in the field of biological and physical sciences: a comparative study	10
The role of human behaviour in activist content sharing on social media	9
Modeling the acceptance and resistance to use mobile contact tracing apps: a developing nation perspective	9
Barriers to the use of digital government among the Arab population in Israel – A case study of digital divide	9
Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States	9
Social media use and loneliness among adolescents: the moderating role of media literacy	9
Comment-enriched index terms improve the relevance and novelty of the ranking of the commented medical articles retrieved by an NLP system	8
Understanding physicians' motivations for community participation and content contribution in online health communities	8
Effects of risk perception factors on misinformation engagement of social media users during the public health crisis and the moderating effect of personality traits	8
Misinformation detection: datasets, models and performance	8
A contribution-based indicator of research productivity: theoretical definition and empirical testing in the field of communication	8
Remote OPAC users’ search query reformulation (SQR) patterns: a transaction log analysis	8
TAI: a lightweight network for content-based fake news detection	8
Examining the impacts of social media on the psychological well-being in a patriarchal culture: a study of women in Pakistan	7
Social media and political protest: framing and agenda-setting in the Indonesian demonstrations, August 2025	7
Antecedents and outcomes of news authentication: out-group news, comment congruence and the moderation of social media news credibility on news sharing	7
The Yale model of green message sharing and environmental consciousness on social media platforms	7
Exploring journalism students’ perceptions of disinformation in the Mediterranean region: a cross-national study on migration narratives in Greece, Cyprus and Malta	7

Exploring the diffusion mechanism of generative AI disinformation in online platforms: an explanatory model	7
How commenter-following shapes news exposure: homophily and selective exposure in naver news	7
Hey, let's take a selfie: insights of selfie defamiliarisation in the classroom	7
Emotions and sentiment in social media information sharing: a systematic review across domains and platforms	7
Information literate students are more engaged and successful: role of information literacy in higher education	7
Decentralized digital preservation: the LOCKSS initiative and shadow libraries	7
From fact-checks to informed citizens: investigating political knowledge effects with longitudinal data	7
Learning with smartphones: the acceptance of m-learning in higher education	7
Investigating users' discontinuous usage intention toward social networking sites: the roles of motivation and affectivity	7
What makes the metaverse lovable? Unveiling the interplay between immersive experiences, engagement and the triangular theory of love	7
Political ideology and differences in seeking COVID-19 information on the internet: examining the comprehensive model of information seeking	6
What facilitates users’ compliance willingness to health information in online health communities: a subjective norms perspective	6
Digital divide: accessing digital technologies for firms in BOP countries	6
Will reviewer recommendation source and cured status bias review helpfulness in online health community?	6
Coverage of the research documents with top altmetric attention scores in online news	6
Bad robot? The benevolent use of automated software and social bots by influencers in the #antivaxx discourse on Twitter	6
Abuse in the time of COVID-19: the effects of Brexit, gender and partisanship	6
How behaviour in terms of pluralistic ignorance affects social commerce intentions	6
Expectant, anxious and excited: the information journey of Chinese first-time mothers	6
My friend sent it, I fell for it: investigating misinformation and sender credibility	6
Public trust and dissatisfaction: digital platforms and public responses to Portugal's vehicle circulation tax debate	6
Studying domain structure: a comparative analysis of bibliographic coupling analysis and co-citation analysis considering all authors	6
Do price consciousness, anti-socializing behavior and content add fuel to consuming online video streaming? A multigroup analysis and moderating role of gender and marital status	6
Information sharing intention or sharing avoidance? Impacts of fake news risk perceptions and personal capabilities under the lens of the situational awareness theory	6
Gendered COVID-19 discussions on Twitter: a Norwegian case	6
The moderating role of narcissism in predicting the behavior intention of the Palestinian university students towards adopting the new Facebook currency	5
Others are more affected than me: the influence of presumed influence and affective responses on misinformation correction intentions	5
I assume others are influenced by health misinformation on social media: examining the underlying process of intentions to combat health misinformation	5
The digitalization tendency of young adults: differences by living environment, gender and education	5
Understanding users’ online health information seeking switching intention: from traditional health information platforms to GAI	5
Are AI hallucinations the same as error information? A qualitative exploration of hallucination tolerance and resistance strategies	5
Scientific evidence and specific context: leveraging large language models for health fact-checking	5
Connecting differential psychological motivations for WeChat use with civic engagement: the significant role of bonding and bridging social capital	5
Investigating patterns of knowledge production in research on three UN sustainable development goals	5
Identities for upstream value creation: the case of open-source software communities	5
Labservatory: a synergy between journalism studies and computer science for online news observation	5
Relationships between online social interaction, social exclusion, and self-esteem: moderating role of familiarity	5
Apprehensive silence or narcissistic speech? Interactions between context and psychology in the spiral of silence theory	5
Creating a virtuous circle during a pandemic threat: netizens' resilience via information-induced psychological distance and social media approach	5
Publisher’s note: Mapping the metaverse-sustainability nexus in hospitality and tourism: a bibliometric approach	5
Mapping LinkedIn research: bibliometric trends and implications for online professional information behavior	5
Exploring user resistance to self-disclosure in social commerce: the effects of privacy and social value	5
Museums and communicating climate change-related issues on Facebook platforms	5
Employing face reading technology to study the effects of the fake news' message sidedness on consumers' emotional valence and arousal	5
Between remediating and participating: visuals of the Ford–Kavanaugh controversy on Instagram	5
Who corrects misinformation online? Self-perceived media literacy and the moderating role of reflective judgment	4
Factors influencing correction upon exposure to health misinformation on social media: the moderating role of active social media use	4
Multi-tiered circle-based dissemination model and key influencing factors in social media: an empirical study on Weibo	4
Stories worth sharing – why do people spread news online?	4
A systematic review of socio-technical gender bias in AI algorithms	4
Polarization and reliability of news sources in Wikipedia	4
Crowdsourcing in peer review: estimating the effects of crowd peer review on academic impact and social media impact	4
Factors influencing researchers to publish in open-access: Is it a self-decision or a self-reinforcing cycle?	4
Viewing advertisements in social networks: the attitude-intention inconsistency revisited	4
A quantitative study of vocabulary categorization and reuse in the LIS field linked data	4
Understanding discontinuance behavior on short-video platform: the effects of perceived overload, dissatisfaction, flow experience and regret	4
Who writes the news matters: the role of social trust in shaping credibility across AI, human and human–AI collaboration	4
Investigating information dissemination and citizen engagement through government social media during the COVID-19 crisis	4
Sneakerheads for Trump: information flows in the online news media	4
Social TV and audience engagement: investigating the relationship between Facebook engagement and TV performance of The Voice (USA)	4
Exploring continuance intention determinants of using the metaverse technology: an extended self-determination theory incorporating technological elements, flow experience and technophilia	4
Shaming behavior in online communities: exploring a new configuration of digital conversations	4
Creating vicious information cycle: trust, exposure and misperception in online and offline information dynamics during health crises	4
Social media use and social well-being: a systematic review and future research agenda	4
Drivers of Metaverse adoption and performance in retail SMEs: an integrated TOE–KBV perspective	4
Generations X, Y, Z: the effects of personal and positional inequalities on critical thinking digital skills	4