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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	135
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	48
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	40
Information behavior and the subjective digital well-being of individuals affected by social anxiety disorder	36
Intentional echo chamber management: Chinese celebrity fans’ information-seeking and sense-making practices on social media	32
Debunking a politically motivated rumour on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign	27
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	25
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	21
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change	20
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	20
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	16
Public libraries as public sphere institutions in a period of crises, conflicts and wars. The theory of low-intensive meeting places revisited	15
Taking pictures in response to uncertainty: coping through double remediation of in-game photography	15
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	15
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	14
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	14
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	14
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	13
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	13
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	13
The science publishing manifesto: AI moves fast, science publishing must too	12
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people	12
A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022	12
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation	12
Who cites the contributions by information science?	12

The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model	11
Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search	11
Collective aspects of information literacy in developing countries: a Bangladeshi case	10
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	10
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library	10
Disinformation as a tool for digital political activism: Croatian Wikipedia and the case for critical information literacy	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
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods	9
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	9
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists	9
Human intelligence versus artificial intelligence in classifying economics research articles: exploratory evidence	8
Understanding the value of information in the everyday life of a small-scale marine fishing community in Bangladesh	8
Cultural capital and public libraries in the era of algorithmic collection management	8
An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services	8
A bibliometric assessment of the incidence of Eszett (ẞ; ß)-catenin and Eszett (ẞ; ß)-glucuronidase in th	8
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments	8
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents	8
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge	7
Gender influences in Digital Humanities co-authorship networks	7
Information poverty in Southwest China: self and interactive behaviors among heterogeneous rural groups	7
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields	7
Information retrieval of humanities resources: subject searching from a user perspective	7
An exploration of search-as-learning in digital archives of an online museum	7
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment	7
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage	7
Rural aging and digital inclusion: sustaining access to personal information	7
The readability of abstracts in library and information science journals	7
The effect of cooking recipe storage on their retrieval	7
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
Interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for Q&A behaviour on an academic social networking site: qualitative evidence from Researchgate	6
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	6
From two-track to tessellation: a revised circulation of power model	6
Developing a cultural heritage taxonomy for an Indonesian world heritage site	6
Consensus, conflict and social capital: the conceptualisation of democracy in recent public library research	6
Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies	6
Can ChatGPT replace citations for quality evaluation of academic articles and journals? Empirical evidence from library and information science	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
Situated cognition: understanding the acquisition dependence of digital literacy	6
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	6
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology	6
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	6
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	6
When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements	5
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	5
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation	5
Exploring the sources of ideation among visual artists	5

What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	5
The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China	5
Guest editorial: Festschrift for Michael Buckland	5
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research	5
User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections	5
Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	5
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information	5
Embracing emojis: prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers	5
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions	5
Taxonomy of context in human information behavior	5
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures	5
Extinction by citation deficiency: are botany journals at risk?	5
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
“Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer’’: conceptualizing the information needs of undergraduate engineers	4
Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple	4
How are library cataloging metadata used differently over time: a large-scale quantitative analysis of the Library of Congress catalog	4
Can review articles help identify influential topics in library and information science?	4
Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality	4
Democracy, freedom and public libraries: four types of freedom	4
Social infrastructuring in public libraries: librarians' continuous care in everyday library practice	4
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?	4
Information practices and emotion regulation in wartime news consumption	4
Critical open access literacy as a strategy to confront the challenges in scholarly communication	4
Rethinking archival data management for indigenous communities: lessons learned from the Moklen community digital repository	4
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections	4
A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum	4
Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information	4
Preprint servers and journals: rivals or allies?	4
Exploring the contemplative landscape of Library and Information Science through the lens of Chinese philosophies	4
Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings	4
Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate	4
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories	4
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach	4
An eye-tracking study on monolingual and bilingual proficiency in navigating online disinformation	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
Toward a Peircean-enriched Phenomenon-Based Classification – ontological foundations and semiotic mediations	4
Taking Chatman back to prison: rethinking the theory of life in the round	4
Exploring arXiv usage habits among Slovenian scientists	4
Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositories	4