OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Library Quarterly is 2. 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
Can the Allocation of Library Resources Improve the Competitiveness of Universities in Innovation and Entrepreneurship? An Empirical Study from Chinese Universities	14
Awards Recognize Outstanding Research in Library Quarterly	14
Staff Perceptions of Public Library Goals Revisited	13
What’s So Special about Appeal? Drawing the Aesthetic/Nonaesthetic Distinction in Readers’ Advisory	12
Get Out: Academic Libraries as the Sunken Place	11
Opportunities and Areas for Improvement in Public Library Makerspaces for Adults with Disabilities	11
Questions of Trust: A Survey of Student Expectations and Perspectives on Library Learning Analytics	9
The Potential Role of Public Libraries in a Quadruple Helix Model of “Smart City” Development: Lessons from Chattanooga, Tennessee	8
Reading When Stressed: Understanding Motivations for Reading Fiction and Enhancing Future Recommendation Services	8
Moving toward Health Justice in the COVID-19 Era: A Sampling of US Public Libraries’ Efforts to Inform the Public, Improve Information Literacy, Enable Health Behaviors, and Optimize Health Outcomes	8
Autherine Lucy Foster: Yet Another Hidden Figure in American Library History	8
Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic	7
Make Me Think! Exploring Library User Experience through the Lens of (Critical) Information Literacy	7
How Visibility, Hypervisibility, and Invisibility Shape Library Staff and Drag Performer Perceptions of and Experiences with Drag Storytimes in Public Libraries	6
Using Critical Race Theory to Deconstruct “One Brick at a Time” in Dismantling the White-Centered Power Structures in the Entrenched Citadel of the LIS Academy	5
LINQing InFLOmation of Librarians in the Public Sphere: A Critical Race Theory Perspective Toward Librarian Identity	5
Front Matter	5
Learning Takes More Than One Way of Knowing: Embedding Indigenous and Queer of Color Theory within Knowledge Organization Resources	5
The Impact of COVID-19 on E-book Reading Behavior: The Case of the Municipal Library of Prague	5
Civic Literacy: Reimagining a Role for Libraries	4
The Identities Valued and Celebrated in Public Library Virtual Storytimes: Reflections of Diversity in the Books Shared	4
Public Libraries, Older Adults, and Social Determinants of Health: A Narrative Research Synthesis	4
Library Quarterly Centennial Issues	4
Libraries Reclaiming “Social Justice Warriors” during “Miss Rona’s” Global Pandemic Crises	3
(Dis)Information, Dysfunctions, and Democracy during the Global Pandemic: Is the Vision of Social Justice a Mirage (for Libraries) in the Neoliberal Age?	3

Understanding Human Information Behavior: When, How, and Why People Interact with Information. By Beth St. Jean, Ursula Gorham, and Elizabeth Bonsignore. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlef	3
“If Others Are Doing It, So Can I”: Leveraging Communities of Practice to Introduce Connected Learning into Small and Rural Libraries	3
Public Libraries and COVID-19: Perceptions and Politics in the United States	3
Multilingual Support in Digital Environments: A Case Study of Online Catalogs in US Public Libraries, with a Focus on Korean-Language Speakers	3
Reimagining the Civic Role of Libraries: Introduction	3
Digital Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Digital Information Services at Academic Libraries: The University of Jordan Case	2
Crafting a Pandemic Book Club	2
It’s Meaningful Work, but It’s “Really, Really Hard”: Librarians’ Understanding of Their Work with Families Experiencing Homelessness	2
Front Matter	2
Creativity: A Toolkit for Academic Libraries. By Nancy Falciani-White. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021. Pp. vii+147. $54.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-3777-8.	2
Supporting Libraries to Serve the Holistic Needs of the Community: Insights from Fathers Served by Social Service Systems	2
Public Library Social Work: Reading the Literature as Discursive Resources at the Intersection of Two Professions	2
Perceptions of the Public Library Social Worker: Challenges and Opportunities	2