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
“I can read, I just can't see”: a disability rights-based perspective on reading by listening	29
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
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
“Telling the story of telling the story”: capturing intangible heritage storytelling on the origins of malt whisky in the Cabrach	25
“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities	25
Metadata description framework for Chinese paper-cutting as traditional art in the context of intangible cultural heritage inheritance	23
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music	19
“The real Goncharov was the fandom we made along the way”: Goncharov (1973) as information creation	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

The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use	12
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
Gamifying piracy: functions and users of the Z-library	11
Time and temporality in library and information science	11
Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search	11
Grey digital divide: factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK	10
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
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
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
Trauma, time and information	8
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
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
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
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
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

User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections	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
Everyday encounters with deepfakes: young people’s media and information literacy practices with AI-generated media	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
When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements	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
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
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