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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Citizens' information behavior in relation to electronic-government services: a systematic review	60
Defining harmful content statements: cultural humility work that leads to institutional change and accountability	37
Information precarity and microaggressions: how race-based trauma mediates Latinx people’s information practices	33
The phantom information booth: migrant and sedentary tertiary students’ tactics in the face of suspect information on social media	31
Documents as weapons: secret police files in Communist and post-Communist Romania	28
Following standards: a document ethnography in Chilean University Libraries	26
Centered and decentered: toward a knowledge organization perspective on social reality	26
Information seeking in a time of war: coping with stress in Lithuania during the Russia/Ukraine war	26
Towards a vernacular aesthetics of liking for information studies	26
Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information	23
Domain analytic paradigm: a quarter century exploration of fundamental ideas in information science	22
Cognitive appraisals and information-seeking achievement emotions: a qualitative study of Swedish primary teacher students	22
Individuals responsible for video games: an exploration of cataloging practice, user need and authorship theory	22
“Our ancestors passed this down to us for a reason”: information practices of ballet folklórico dancers in Mexican-American communities	20
From two-track to tessellation: a revised circulation of power model	19
Information search process model based on costs and benefits: a behavioural economics perspective	18
The health information behaviors of people who inject drugs: a scoping review of the literature	18
The institutional e-lending setup in Scandinavian libraries: logics in play in the eyes of library and policy actors	16
Information experiences of bonsai growers: a phenomenological study in serious leisure	16
“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	15
Traditional, dialogical and complex scholarly communication: towards a renewed trust in science	14
The role of data sharing in survey dropout: a study among scientists as respondents	13
The role of historical and contextual knowledge in enterprise search	13
The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015	12
Preprint servers and journals: rivals or allies?	11

Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and proposals from practice	11
Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality	11
The identity of information science	11
In search of a coherent theoretical foundation for LIS ethical principles: an appraisal of Floridi's Information Ethics	11
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	10
Planning, implementing and evaluating research data services in academic libraries: a model approach	10
“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel	10
Digital storytelling and participatory local heritage through the creation of an online moving image archive: a case-study of Fraserburgh on Film	10
A call for the library community to deploy best practices toward a database for biocultural knowledge relating to climate change	10
Does serendipity matter in knowledge management? Organizational sharing and use of encountered information	9
The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark	9
Can you feel it? The information behaviour of creative DJs	9
A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum	9
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	9
Negotiating neutrality and activism in Norwegian public libraries: the case of environmental sustainability	9
Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: can qualitative research be world-leading?	9
COVID-19 immunity (or vaccine) passports: a documentary overview and analysis of regimes of health verification within the coronavirus pandemic	8
An analysis of research methods utilized in five top, practitioner-oriented LIS journals from 1980 to 2019	8
Reading time: exploring the temporal experiences of reading	8
Rereading, art-making and other joys: toward a theory of information, repetition and the good life	8
Citing and referencing habits in medicine and social sciences journals in 2019	8
Research output, intellectual structures and contributors of digital humanities research: a longitudinal analysis 2005–2020	8
“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process	8
Documenting information making in archaeological field reports	8
Bonded design in the virtual environment: the transition of a participatory design methodology	8
Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems	7
What characterizes LIS as a fragmenting discipline?	7
LIS neutrality: a Wittgensteinian interpretation	7
“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada	7
Bringing order or creating exclusion: systems for managing disability in a university	7
What do we mean by “data”? A proposed classification of data types in the arts and humanities	7
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war	6
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening	6
Information snowballing: information practices in the context of sustainable food practices	6
Images as data – modelling data interactions in social science and humanities research	6
Social noise: the influence of observers on social media information behavior	6
Interrogating access: a critical disability studies approach to information practices research	6
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	6
“So many things were new to us”: identifying the settlement information practices of newcomers to Canada across the settlement process	6
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections	6
Information overload: a concept analysis	6
Advocating for a more active role for the user in LIS participatory research: a scoping literature review	5
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension	5
Readers' advisory vs reference: a difference of stance	5
“We do not always enjoy surprises”: investigating artificial serendipity in an online marketplace context	5
Signifying unity: exploring the interplay of semiotics, universalism and pluralism in information science	5
Becoming a competent weaver: information literacy practice of the weavers of the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana	5
Contemporary spiritual seeking: understanding information interactions in contemplation and spirituality	5
Fractured academic space: digital literacy and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic	5

Multilingual information transitions in migrant families	5
The information trust formation process for informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study	5
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise	5
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers	5
What kind of documents can AI language model outputs be? The concept of artificially blended testimony	5
Evolving legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century	5
From amused to : enriching mood metadata by mapping textual descriptors to emojis for fiction reading	4
Memetics as informational difference: offering an information-centric conception of memes	4
Broadening the field of information	4
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?	4
A systematic review of methods for aligning, mapping, merging taxonomies in information sciences	4
Representation and the problem of bibliographic imagination on Wikipedia	4
Affective memories and perceived value: motivators and inhibitors of the data search-access process	4
Automated Dewey Decimal Classification of Swedish library metadata using Annif software	4
Seven information practices for alleviating information vulnerability	4
Grappling with polarization on Wikipedia: the case of the biography of Ferdinand E. Marcos	4
Interdisciplinarity of information science: an evolutionary perspective of theory application	4
A niche of their own: variations of information practices in biodiversity citizen science	4
Data as assemblage	4
The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis	4
Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts	4
Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda	4
A conceptual framework for motivation factors influencing researchers' use of academic web profiles	4
Understanding international users' library experience in the Digital Age – joining the behavioral and experiential aspects	4
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology	4
Gatekeeping structures and trust development in public sector organizations	4
Promoting transformative encounters in libraries and archives	4
Addressing the information needs of informal carers in Malawi: a healthcare intervention based on co-creation	4
Task information types related to data gathering in media studies	4
Validating predictions of burial mounds with field data: the promise and reality of machine learning	4
Website quality evaluation: a model for developing comprehensive assessment instruments based on key quality factors	4
Reading in the age of digital distraction	4
Topics and changing characteristics of knowledge organization research in the 21st century: a content analysis	4
Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention	4