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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Information behavior and the subjective digital well-being of individuals affected by social anxiety disorder	97
Debunking a politically motivated rumour on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign	37
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	37
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	34
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	29
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening	28
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	28
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	25
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	23
Intentional echo chamber management: Chinese celebrity fans’ information-seeking and sense-making practices on social media	20
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	20
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	17
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	16
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	16
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	16
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	14
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	14
On impersonal justice: libraries' neutrality as an act of change	14
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	13
Who cites the contributions by information science?	13
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation	13
The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model	13
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people	12
Time and temporality in library and information science	12
A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022	12

Collective aspects of information literacy in developing countries: a Bangladeshi case	12
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	11
Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search	11
A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions	11
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library	11
Trust in the academy: a conceptual framework for understanding trust on academic web profiles	10
Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership	10
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments	10
Exploring the digital humanities research agenda: a text mining approach	10
Mapping the research on museums and the public sphere: a scoping review	10
Interacting with digitised historical newspapers: understanding the use of digital surrogates as primary sources	10
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists	9
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	9
Human intelligence versus artificial intelligence in classifying economics research articles: exploratory evidence	9
An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services	8
The trajectory of linked data in late capitalism	8
Information poverty in Southwest China: self and interactive behaviors among heterogeneous rural groups	8
Information behavior during the Covid-19 crisis in German-speaking countries	8
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods	8
Trauma, time and information	8
An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic referencing and citing practices	8
Identification of social scientifically relevant topics in an interview repository: a natural language processing experiment	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
Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies	7
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents	7
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology	7
Rural aging and digital inclusion: sustaining access to personal information	7
The effect of cooking recipe storage on their retrieval	7
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge	6
Advocating for a more active role for the user in LIS participatory research: a scoping literature review	6
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	6
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	6
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage	6
Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields	6
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	6
Seven information practices for alleviating information vulnerability	6
Book review: Niels Windfeld Lund, Introduction to Documentation Studies	6
Gender influences in Digital Humanities co-authorship networks	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
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	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
Making time/breaking time: critical literacy and politics of time in data visualisation	5
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
Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	5
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	5

Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	5
User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections	5
Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositories	5
Extinction by citation deficiency: are botany journals at risk?	5
What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	5
Taxonomy of context in human information behavior	5
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis	5
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures	5
Image manipulation in scholarly publications: are there ways to an automated solution?	5
Searching for Swedish LGBTQI fiction: challenges and solutions	5
Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach	4
Health information communication and advocacy in the haemophilia community: an X-based analysis	4
Functions of paradata in data papers	4
A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum	4
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections	4
Social infrastructuring in public libraries: librarians' continuous care in everyday library practice	4
Exploring arXiv usage habits among Slovenian scientists	4
Hide and seek – the role of personality, sense of coherence and experiential information in hidden information needs	4
Information literacy as a site for anticipation: temporal tactics for infrastructural meaning-making and algo-rhythm awareness	4
Information culture and recordkeeping: a case of Chinese enterprises	4
Preservation for diverse users: digital preservation and the “Designated Community” at the Ontario Jewish Archives	4
“Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer’’: conceptualizing the information needs of undergraduate engineers	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
Citizens' information behavior in relation to electronic-government services: a systematic review	4
Critical open access literacy as a strategy to confront the challenges in scholarly communication	4
Preprint servers and journals: rivals or allies?	4
Optical character recognition quality affects subjective user perception of historical newspaper clippings	4
Into the archive of ubiquitous computing: the data perfect tense and the historicization of the present	4
Guest editorial: Festschrift for Michael Buckland	4
How are library cataloging metadata used differently over time: a large-scale quantitative analysis of the Library of Congress catalog	4
Scholarly communication: a concept analysis	4
Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate	4
Taking Chatman back to prison: rethinking the theory of life in the round	4
Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality	4
Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information	4
The phantom information booth: migrant and sedentary tertiary students’ tactics in the face of suspect information on social media	4
Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple	4
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories	4
Sociocultural barriers to information and integration of women refugees	4
Upcycling historical data collections. A paradigm for digital history?	4
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information	4
Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems	4
Embracing emojis: prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers	4