OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Online Information Review is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Citizen involvement in digital transformation: a systematic review and a framework	79
Access and impact barriers to academic publications: a global study of thesis and dissertation embargo policies	70
Evaluating the effect of Chinese universities’ public opinion governance strategies through online user comments on the Weibo platform	51
Why are people reluctant to use metaverse products? Investigating barriers based on innovation resistance theory	39
What motivates people to counter misinformation on social media? Unpacking the roles of perceived consequences, third-person perception and social media use	33
It's the platform, stupid (-; the elitist nature of sport podcast listeners	32
Editorial: Five challenges in detection and mitigation of disinformation on social media	28
Understanding Shadow IT usage intention: a view of the dual-factor model	28
The complex information needs of Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorder	27
Media events in an age of “cross-media”: a smartphone diary app study	25
Social network fatigue: revisiting the antecedents and consequences	24
Extending the norm activation model and unpacking laypeople’s misinformation correction process: multilayered roles of awareness, norms and efficacy	24
The application of emotions, sharing motivations, and psychological distance in examining the intention to share COVID-19-related fake news	24
Exploring social media users’ disclosures of negative information during the COVID-19 infodemic: the moderating role of personality traits	23
The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections	23
Understanding the impact of government social media on citizens’ unverified information avoidance behavior during health crises: the health belief model	23
Wired to seek, comment and share? Examining the relationship between personality, news consumption and misinformation engagement	23
Use behaviour of academic social networking sites in research communication: a structural equation model	22
Visual analysis of global research trends in social bots based on bibliometrics	22
Surveying research data-sharing practices in US social sciences: a knowledge infrastructure-inspired conceptual framework	22
Bibliometric analysis of literature on social media trends during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Persuading others in different communication media: appeals to logic, authority and emotion	21
Understanding online health community users' information adoption intention: an elaboration likelihood model perspective	19
Exploring the social activity of open research data on ResearchGate: implications for the data literacy of researchers	18
Factors influencing the adoption and use of open access scholarly communication among researchers in India	18

What news sparks interest on YouTube? A study of news content uploaded by India's top five Hindi news networks	18
Semiprivate space and access to online education during COVID-19: empirical tests from China	17
Exploring the sociotechnical system of Chinese internet literature online forums: a social network analytical approach	17
The future of human experience: the drivers of user adoption of the metaverse	17
Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis–Covid-19 pandemic in Israel	17
Reasoning in social media: insights from Reddit “Change My View” submissions	17
Privacy? What’s that? Differences in privacy boundaries	17
Information discernment and online reading behaviour: an experiment	16
How are news portals integrated into daily news habits? A study on news trust, news repertoires and political participation in South Korea	16
WELMSD – word embedding and language model based sarcasm detection	16
Watching participatory budgeting events or attending them produce different distributive outcomes	14
How do internet memes affect brand image?	13
Detrimental influences of social comparison and problematic WeChat use on academic achievement: significant role of awareness of inattention	13
Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis	13
Understanding health misinformation sharing among the middle-aged or above in China: roles of social media health information seeking, misperceptions and information processing predispositions	13
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 coming of age for paid digital campaigning: equalization or normalization in the 2019 Belgian federal elections?	12
Enhancing social capital and reciprocity through community news media during COVID-19: a study of video volunteers	12
Unlocking young people’s engagement with online news: affective or cognitive?	12
Editorial: Generative artificial intelligence in the creator economy	12
Fight against hair loss together: exploring self-disclosure and social support in an online hair loss support community	12
The infinity vaccine war: linguistic regularities and audience engagement of vaccine debate on Twitter	12
Exploring Arab researchers' research data sharing and requesting practices: a survey study	12
A social media engagement framework for applicant attraction and retention: #SocialMediaCongruence	12
COVID-19 fake news among the general population: motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts – a systematic review	11
Social media exposure assessment: influence on attitudes toward generic vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Artificial intelligence research in agriculture: a review	11
Citation pattern of open access and toll-based research articles in the field of biological and physical sciences: a comparative study	11
Quality assessment of web-based information on type 2 diabetes	11
Distinct roles of distrust, cynicism and indifference: investigating how antipathy toward news media increases misinformation belief through passive news consumption	11
Adopt or not? The determinants of health information adoption in online question-and-answer communities	11
The scientific periphery and new flows of knowledge: the case of regional preprint servers	11
The effect of social media environments on online emotional disclosure: tie strength, network size and self-reference	11
Are data repositories fettered? A survey of current practices, challenges and future technologies	11
A good dentist or not: understanding the role of storytelling in online dentist reviews	10
Does publication history influence the integrity of the journals: studying publication timelines and their impact on journal metrics?	10
Web search to access health information by adults with intellectual disability	10
Engagement in a social media: an analysis in higher education institutions	10
Cross-social networks analysis: building me-edge centered BUNet dataset based on implicit bridge users	10
Egyptian physicians' information-seeking behavior while serving in public isolation hospitals for coronavirus patients	10
The role of libraries in the fake news era: a survey of information scientists and library science students in Greece	10
m-Government experience: a qualitative study in India	9
The role of human behaviour in activist content sharing on social media	9
Misinformation detection: datasets, models and performance	9
Development of a mobile health information application for immigrant women in South Korea	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
Modeling the acceptance and resistance to use mobile contact tracing apps: a developing nation perspective	9
A contribution-based indicator of research productivity: theoretical definition and empirical testing in the field of communication	8
Examining the impacts of social media on the psychological well-being in a patriarchal culture: a study of women in Pakistan	8

Remote OPAC users’ search query reformulation (SQR) patterns: a transaction log analysis	8
Understanding physicians' motivations for community participation and content contribution in online health communities	8
TAI: a lightweight network for content-based fake news detection	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
Intergenerational family online community and older adults' overall well-being	8
Comment-enriched index terms improve the relevance and novelty of the ranking of the commented medical articles retrieved by an NLP system	8
Decentralized digital preservation: the LOCKSS initiative and shadow libraries	8
Thinking, checking and learning: testing a moderated-mediation model of social media news use conditional upon elaboration on political knowledge via fact-checking	8