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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Awards Recognize Outstanding Research in Library Quarterly	15
Can the Allocation of Library Resources Improve the Competitiveness of Universities in Innovation and Entrepreneurship? An Empirical Study from Chinese Universities	14
Staff Perceptions of Public Library Goals Revisited	13
Opportunities and Areas for Improvement in Public Library Makerspaces for Adults with Disabilities	12
What’s So Special about Appeal? Drawing the Aesthetic/Nonaesthetic Distinction in Readers’ Advisory	12
Get Out: Academic Libraries as the Sunken Place	11
Questions of Trust: A Survey of Student Expectations and Perspectives on Library Learning Analytics	10
Autherine Lucy Foster: Yet Another Hidden Figure in American Library History	9
Reading When Stressed: Understanding Motivations for Reading Fiction and Enhancing Future Recommendation Services	9
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
Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic	8
Make Me Think! Exploring Library User Experience through the Lens of (Critical) Information Literacy	7
The Potential Role of Public Libraries in a Quadruple Helix Model of “Smart City” Development: Lessons from Chattanooga, Tennessee	7
The Impact of COVID-19 on E-book Reading Behavior: The Case of the Municipal Library of Prague	6
How Visibility, Hypervisibility, and Invisibility Shape Library Staff and Drag Performer Perceptions of and Experiences with Drag Storytimes in Public Libraries	6
LINQing InFLOmation of Librarians in the Public Sphere: A Critical Race Theory Perspective Toward Librarian Identity	5
Front Matter	5
Civic Literacy: Reimagining a Role for Libraries	5
Learning Takes More Than One Way of Knowing: Embedding Indigenous and Queer of Color Theory within Knowledge Organization Resources	5
Public Libraries, Older Adults, and Social Determinants of Health: A Narrative Research Synthesis	5
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
The Identities Valued and Celebrated in Public Library Virtual Storytimes: Reflections of Diversity in the Books Shared	4
Library Quarterly Centennial Issues	4
Multilingual Support in Digital Environments: A Case Study of Online Catalogs in US Public Libraries, with a Focus on Korean-Language Speakers	3
Public Libraries and COVID-19: Perceptions and Politics in the United States	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
Reimagining the Civic Role of Libraries: Introduction	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
Libraries Reclaiming “Social Justice Warriors” during “Miss Rona’s” Global Pandemic Crises	3
Front Matter	2
Perceptions of the Public Library Social Worker: Challenges and Opportunities	2
Supporting Libraries to Serve the Holistic Needs of the Community: Insights from Fathers Served by Social Service Systems	2
Digital Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Digital Information Services at Academic Libraries: The University of Jordan Case	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
Towards Inclusive Lactation Spaces in Libraries	2
Public Library Social Work: Reading the Literature as Discursive Resources at the Intersection of Two Professions	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