OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Documentation 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
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	51
Intentional echo chamber management: Chinese celebrity fans’ information-seeking and sense-making practices on social media	34
What does it mean “human” in the age of AI? A bibliometric evidence of posthumanism’s evolution, thematic structures, and future directions	30
Emotions affecting motivation and information behavior in problem solving: a systematic literature review	28
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	26
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	25
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	23
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	23
Debunking a politically motivated rumour on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign	18
Many-to-many. Usability challenges of entity reconciliation in art history and photographic studies	18
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	17
Information behavior and the subjective digital well-being of individuals affected by social anxiety disorder	16
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	16
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	15
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change	15
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	14
Taking pictures in response to uncertainty: coping through double remediation of in-game photography	14
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	14
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	13
Public libraries as public sphere institutions in a period of crises, conflicts and wars. The theory of low-intensive meeting places revisited	13
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	13
Research data management practices and perspectives among Catalan archaeologists: a qualitative approach	13
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	12
The meaning of prompts: a semiotic approach to human–machine communication	12
A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022	11

The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model	11
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	11
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people	10
Who cites the contributions by information science?	10
The science publishing manifesto: AI moves fast, science publishing must too	10
The algorithm of silence: artificial intelligence, archival bias and the ethical reconstruction of digital memory	10
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation	10
Artificial intelligence and the library as Third Place: cognitive automation and the reconfiguration of labour	10
A bibliometric assessment of the incidence of Eszett (ẞ; ß)-catenin and Eszett (ẞ; ß)-glucuronidase in th	9
Understanding the value of information in the everyday life of a small-scale marine fishing community in Bangladesh	9
“We do the best we can with the information we have” Science reporting referencing retracted papers in the UK and Finland	9
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments	9
Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership	9
An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic referencing and citing practices	9
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists	9
Constructing the empowering intermediation theory: a multi-case study of public libraries in digital inclusion	9
Human intelligence versus artificial intelligence in classifying economics research articles: exploratory evidence	8
Cultural capital and public libraries in the era of algorithmic collection management	8
The role of health information behaviour research for informing health communication: exploring and mapping connections and impact pathways	8
A systematic review of grounded theory studies in library and information science research	8
An information behaviour transition model for the self-disclosure of HIV-positive serostatus: a qualitative study	8
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods	8
Disinformation as a tool for digital political activism: Croatian Wikipedia and the case for critical information literacy	8
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	8
An exploration of search-as-learning in digital archives of an online museum	7
Information retrieval of humanities resources: subject searching from a user perspective	7
The effect of cooking recipe storage on their retrieval	7
Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies	7
Innovating cultural event information platforms: a regional case study from Småland, Sweden	7
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment	7
Information poverty in Southwest China: self and interactive behaviors among heterogeneous rural groups	7
Interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for Q&A behaviour on an academic social networking site: qualitative evidence from Researchgate	7
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents	7
The readability of abstracts in library and information science journals	7
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge	7
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage	7
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields	6
Can ChatGPT replace citations for quality evaluation of academic articles and journals? Empirical evidence from library and information science	6
Consensus, conflict and social capital: the conceptualisation of democracy in recent public library research	6
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	6
Rural aging and digital inclusion: sustaining access to personal information	6
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	6
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	6
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology	6
Advocating for a more active role for the user in LIS participatory research: a scoping literature review	6
Knowledge graphs generation from cultural heritage texts: combining LLMs and ontological engineering for scholarly debates	6
Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	6
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	5
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Situated cognition: understanding the acquisition dependence of digital literacy	5

Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	5
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	5
Understanding digital hoarding behavior in the workplace: a proximal and distal framework	5
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions	5
Developing a cultural heritage taxonomy for an Indonesian world heritage site	5
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	5
User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections	5
What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	5
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation	5
Do large language models know basic facts about journal articles?	5
Taxonomy of context in human information behavior	5
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research	5
The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China	5
Book review: Niels Windfeld Lund, Introduction to Documentation Studies	5
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	5
Embracing emojis: prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers	5
Information practices and emotion regulation in wartime news consumption	4
“Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer’’: conceptualizing the information needs of undergraduate engineers	4
Exploring the sources of ideation among visual artists	4
Guest editorial: Festschrift for Michael Buckland	4
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?	4
Taking Chatman back to prison: rethinking the theory of life in the round	4
Exploring arXiv usage habits among Slovenian scientists	4
Social infrastructuring in public libraries: librarians' continuous care in everyday library practice	4
Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate	4
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information	4
Scholarly communication: a concept analysis	4
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories	4
Critical open access literacy as a strategy to confront the challenges in scholarly communication	4
The library person: negotiating the aporia of universalism in library diversity work	4
Public libraries in the discourse of Drag Queen Story Time challengers and supporters	4
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures	4
Landscapes of information science and library science research: comparing funded and non-funded research from 2008 to 2023	4
Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositories	4
The potential impact of concussions on information behaviour	4
Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings	4
How are library cataloging metadata used differently over time: a large-scale quantitative analysis of the Library of Congress catalog	4
Becoming part of the conspiracy theory: far-right framings of museums and public libraries on Swedish YouTube	4
Exploring the contemplative landscape of Library and Information Science through the lens of Chinese philosophies	4