OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Documentation 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening	119
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	45
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	42
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	36
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	34
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	31
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	29
Debunking a politically motivated rumour on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign	26
Information behavior and the subjective digital well-being of individuals affected by social anxiety disorder	24
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	19
Taking pictures in response to uncertainty: coping through double remediation of in-game photography	19
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	19
Intentional echo chamber management: Chinese celebrity fans’ information-seeking and sense-making practices on social media	19
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	19
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change	17
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	15
Public libraries as public sphere institutions in a period of crises, conflicts and wars. The theory of low-intensive meeting places revisited	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	14
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	14
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation	13
Who cites the contributions by information science?	13
The science publishing manifesto: AI moves fast, science publishing must too	13
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	13
Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search	13

A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022	12
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library	12
The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model	12
Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership	11
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	11
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people	10
Collective aspects of information literacy in developing countries: a Bangladeshi case	10
Time and temporality in library and information science	10
An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic referencing and citing practices	10
Exploring the digital humanities research agenda: a text mining approach	10
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists	10
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	9
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods	9
An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services	9
Disinformation as a tool for digital political activism: Croatian Wikipedia and the case for critical information literacy	9
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments	9
Understanding the value of information in the everyday life of a small-scale marine fishing community in Bangladesh	9
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment	8
Information poverty in Southwest China: self and interactive behaviors among heterogeneous rural groups	8
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge	8
Human intelligence versus artificial intelligence in classifying economics research articles: exploratory evidence	8
An exploration of search-as-learning in digital archives of an online museum	8
The readability of abstracts in library and information science journals	8
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents	8
Gender influences in Digital Humanities co-authorship networks	8
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields	7
The effect of cooking recipe storage on their retrieval	7
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	7
Can ChatGPT replace citations for quality evaluation of academic articles and journals? Empirical evidence from library and information science	7
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage	7
Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies	7
From two-track to tessellation: a revised circulation of power model	7
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	7
Rural aging and digital inclusion: sustaining access to personal information	7
Information retrieval of humanities resources: subject searching from a user perspective	7
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	7
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology	7
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	6
Image manipulation in scholarly publications: are there ways to an automated solution?	6
Developing a cultural heritage taxonomy for an Indonesian world heritage site	6
Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	6
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	6
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	6
The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China	6
Advocating for a more active role for the user in LIS participatory research: a scoping literature review	6
Book review: Niels Windfeld Lund, Introduction to Documentation Studies	6
Taxonomy of context in human information behavior	6
Seven information practices for alleviating information vulnerability	6
Situated cognition: understanding the acquisition dependence of digital literacy	6

What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	6
Landscapes of information science and library science research: comparing funded and non-funded research from 2008 to 2023	5
Scholarly communication: a concept analysis	5
Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate	5
Exploring the sources of ideation among visual artists	5
Extinction by citation deficiency: are botany journals at risk?	5
Guest editorial: Festschrift for Michael Buckland	5
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions	5
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures	5
Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings	5
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	5
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories	5
When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements	5
Embracing emojis: prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers	5
Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	5
“Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer’’: conceptualizing the information needs of undergraduate engineers	5
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research	5
Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositories	5
User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections	5
Information culture and recordkeeping: a case of Chinese enterprises	5
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation	5
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information	5