OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology 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
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	142
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	96
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	88
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	47
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	43
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	42
Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	33
Statistical significance versus practical importance in information systems research: Response to commentary	31
When Harry, the human, met Sally, the software robot: Metaphorical sensemaking and sensegiving around an emergent digital technology	31
To regulate or not to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of algorithmic control of digital platforms	29
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact	29
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	27
Digital futures: Definition (what), importance (why) and methods (how)	25
Digital sourcing: A discussion of agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts	21
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation	20
Improving the governance of information technology: Insights from the history of Internet governance	20
Disruptive change within financial technology: A methodological analysis of digital transformation challenges	20
Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews	19
Selecting on statistical significance and practical importance is wrong	16
Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform	16
Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation	13
A framework to support Robotic process automation	12
Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: A model for assessing cognitive automation use cases	12
Acceptable nudge strategies to incentivize the use of wearables and physiolytics at work: A Q-methodology examination	12
Regulation of data-driven market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive advantages from big data	12

A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	12
On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	11
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	10
Capabilities for value co-creation and value capture in emergent platform ecosystems: A longitudinal case study of SAP’s cloud platform	10
IT’s a matter of trust: Literature reviews and analyses of human trust in information technology	9
Strategic Configurations of Digital Technologies and Servitization Business Model Components	9
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	9
Empowering digital transformation: The roles of platforms	9
Lost in interpretation: Making sense of equivocalities and tensions in approaches to interoperability	8
Rethinking online friction in the information society	8
Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption	8
Distributed IT championing: A process theory	8
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence	7
Digital assemblages, information infrastructures, and mobile knowledge work	7
The regulation of and through information technology: Towards a conceptual ontology for IS research	7
Unethical but not illegal! A critical look at two-sided disinformation platforms: Justifications, critique, and a way forward	7
The influence of social norms on expressing sympathy in social media	7
Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization	6
Building data management capabilities to address data protection regulations: Learnings from EU-GDPR	6
The anatomy of ‘fake news’: Studying false messages as digital objects	6
Leveraging paradigms to foster theoretical contributions in information systems research	6
Information systems as a nexus of information technology systems: A new view of information systems practice	6
Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy	5
Digital platforms, surveillance and processes of demoralization	4
Procuring services through IT crowdsourcing: The role of IT administration and IT flexibility	4
Not only data: The necessity of abstract thinking to make sense of digital phenomena	4
Toward a taxonomy of corporate data protection malpractices and their causal mechanisms: A regulatory view	4
Digitalization of multisensory collective activity: The case of virtual wine tasting	4
Digital transformation: The geopolitical-organizational nexus	4