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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Bringing order or creating exclusion: systems for managing disability in a university	82
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	40
Information behavior and the subjective digital well-being of individuals affected by social anxiety disorder	36
“So many things were new to us”: identifying the settlement information practices of newcomers to Canada across the settlement process	34
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	29
Debunking a politically motivated rumour on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign	29
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening	29
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	27
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	27
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	25
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	25
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	23
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	19
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	19
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	18
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	16
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change	15
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	15
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	15
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	15
A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022	14
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people	13
Exploring the digital humanities research agenda: a text mining approach	13
A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions	13
Who cites the contributions by information science?	13

Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership	12
Collective aspects of information literacy in developing countries: a Bangladeshi case	12
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation	12
The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model	12
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	12
Time and temporality in library and information science	11
Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search	11
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library	11
Mapping the research on museums and the public sphere: a scoping review	10
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists	10
Human intelligence versus artificial intelligence in classifying economics research articles: exploratory evidence	10
Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources	10
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	10
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments	9
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods	9
An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic referencing and citing practices	9
The trajectory of linked data in late capitalism	9
An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services	9
Trust in the academy: a conceptual framework for understanding trust on academic web profiles	9
Workplace information literacy: a bridge to the development of innovative work behaviour	8
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment	8
Characteristics of the health information seeking behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review on information types, information sources and influencing factors	8
Information behavior during the Covid-19 crisis in German-speaking countries	8
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents	8
Information poverty in Southwest China: self and interactive behaviors among heterogeneous rural groups	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
Trauma, time and information	8
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology	7
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields	7
Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies	7
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage	7
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	7
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge	7
The effect of cooking recipe storage on their retrieval	7
Gender influences in Digital Humanities co-authorship networks	7
From two-track to tessellation: a revised circulation of power model	6
Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	6
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	6
Seven information practices for alleviating information vulnerability	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
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	6
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	6
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	6
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	6
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	6
When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements	5
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation	5

Extinction by citation deficiency: are botany journals at risk?	5
Embracing emojis: prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers	5
“Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer’’: conceptualizing the information needs of undergraduate engineers	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
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research	5
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	5
Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research	5
Making time/breaking time: critical literacy and politics of time in data visualisation	5
Guest editorial: Festschrift for Michael Buckland	5
Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	5
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions	5
Image manipulation in scholarly publications: are there ways to an automated solution?	5
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures	5
Hide and seek – the role of personality, sense of coherence and experiential information in hidden information needs	5
The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China	5
How are library cataloging metadata used differently over time: a large-scale quantitative analysis of the Library of Congress catalog	4
Social infrastructuring in public libraries: librarians' continuous care in everyday library practice	4
Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings	4
Information culture and recordkeeping: a case of Chinese enterprises	4
Exploring arXiv usage habits among Slovenian scientists	4
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach	4
Digital storytelling and participatory local heritage through the creation of an online moving image archive: a case-study of Fraserburgh on Film	4
Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information	4
“We are openly, proudly Subjective … This history is important to our contemporary survival”: queer embodied knowledge and the curatorial work of ICT-based LGBTQIA+ history content creators	4
LIS neutrality: a Wittgensteinian interpretation	4
Information literacy as a site for anticipation: temporal tactics for infrastructural meaning-making and algo-rhythm awareness	4
Named-entity recognition for early modern textual documents: a review of capabilities and challenges with strategies for the future	4
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories	4
Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present	4
Critical open access literacy as a strategy to confront the challenges in scholarly communication	4
Taking Chatman back to prison: rethinking the theory of life in the round	4
Bonded design in the virtual environment: the transition of a participatory design methodology	4
Citizens' information behavior in relation to electronic-government services: a systematic review	4
Preprint servers and journals: rivals or allies?	4
The phantom information booth: migrant and sedentary tertiary students’ tactics in the face of suspect information on social media	4
A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum	4
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?	4
Preservation for diverse users: digital preservation and the “Designated Community” at the Ontario Jewish Archives	4
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information	4
Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate	4
Scholarly communication: a concept analysis	4
Sociocultural barriers to information and integration of women refugees	4
Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple	4
Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality	4
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections	4
Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems	4