OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Information Technology is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	122
Pursuit of decentralization in blockchain-based systems: An empowerment perspective	57
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	53
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	52
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	44
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	38
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	36
Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	36
Statistical significance versus practical importance in information systems research: Response to commentary	35
When Harry, the human, met Sally, the software robot: Metaphorical sensemaking and sensegiving around an emergent digital technology	33
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact	33
To regulate or not to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of algorithmic control of digital platforms	31
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	25
Improving the governance of information technology: Insights from the history of Internet governance	24
Digital sourcing: A discussion of agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts	23
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation	21
Disruptive change within financial technology: A methodological analysis of digital transformation challenges	19
AI-augmented dynamic capabilities for business sustainability: Enactment through humanistic and instrumental approaches	18
Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform	18
Digital futures: Definition (what), importance (why) and methods (how)	18
Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation	17
Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: A model for assessing cognitive automation use cases	17
Regulation of data-driven market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive advantages from big data	16
A framework to support Robotic process automation	14
Selecting on statistical significance and practical importance is wrong	14

Acceptable nudge strategies to incentivize the use of wearables and physiolytics at work: A Q-methodology examination	13
A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	13
Competing and complementary strategic signals: The versatile relationship between CDO appointments and companies’ stock market value	11
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	11
Strategic configurations of digital technologies and servitization business model components	11
On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	11
Empowering digital transformation: The roles of platforms	10
Rethinking online friction in the information society	9
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	9
IT’s a matter of trust: Literature reviews and analyses of human trust in information technology	9
Lost in interpretation: Making sense of equivocalities and tensions in approaches to interoperability	9
Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption	8
The regulation of and through information technology: Towards a conceptual ontology for IS research	8
The influence of social norms on expressing sympathy in social media	8
If the street is wet, is it raining? The fallacy of affirming the consequent and the misuse of valid statistical evidence	7
Unethical but not illegal! A critical look at two-sided disinformation platforms: Justifications, critique, and a way forward	7
Building data management capabilities to address data protection regulations: Learnings from EU-GDPR	7
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence	7
Leveraging paradigms to foster theoretical contributions in information systems research	7
Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization	6
Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy	6
Information systems as a nexus of information technology systems: A new view of information systems practice	6
Digital platforms, surveillance and processes of demoralization	5
Digital transformation: The geopolitical-organizational nexus	5
Seventy years of information systems development methodologies from early business computing to the Agile era: A two-part history Part 2: Later ISD to Early post ISD methodology era: Adapting to accel	5
Not only data: The necessity of abstract thinking to make sense of digital phenomena	5
Digitalization of multisensory collective activity: The case of virtual wine tasting	5
Procuring services through IT crowdsourcing: The role of IT administration and IT flexibility	5