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

Article	Citations
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	170
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	110
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	53
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	49
Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	42
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	37
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	36
Statistical significance versus practical importance in information systems research: Response to commentary	36
When Harry, the human, met Sally, the software robot: Metaphorical sensemaking and sensegiving around an emergent digital technology	32
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact	30
To regulate or not to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of algorithmic control of digital platforms	30
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	29
Digital futures: Definition (what), importance (why) and methods (how)	25
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation	23
Improving the governance of information technology: Insights from the history of Internet governance	18
Digital sourcing: A discussion of agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts	18
Disruptive change within financial technology: A methodological analysis of digital transformation challenges	18
Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform	17
Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews	17
Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation	15
Regulation of data-driven market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive advantages from big data	15
Selecting on statistical significance and practical importance is wrong	15
Acceptable nudge strategies to incentivize the use of wearables and physiolytics at work: A Q-methodology examination	14
A framework to support Robotic process automation	14
Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: A model for assessing cognitive automation use cases	14

A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	13
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	12
On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	12
Competing and Complementary Strategic Signals - The Versatile Relationship between CDO Appointments and Companies’ Stock Market Value	12
Empowering digital transformation: The roles of platforms	11
Strategic configurations of digital technologies and servitization business model components	10
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	10
Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption	10
Rethinking online friction in the information society	10
IT’s a matter of trust: Literature reviews and analyses of human trust in information technology	10
Digital assemblages, information infrastructures, and mobile knowledge work	9
Lost in interpretation: Making sense of equivocalities and tensions in approaches to interoperability	8
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence	7
Building data management capabilities to address data protection regulations: Learnings from EU-GDPR	7
Unethical but not illegal! A critical look at two-sided disinformation platforms: Justifications, critique, and a way forward	7
Leveraging paradigms to foster theoretical contributions in information systems research	7
The regulation of and through information technology: Towards a conceptual ontology for IS research	7
The influence of social norms on expressing sympathy in social media	7
Information systems as a nexus of information technology systems: A new view of information systems practice	6
Seventy years of information systems development methodologies from early business computing to the Agile era: A two-part historyPart 2: Later ISD to Early post ISD methodology era: Adapting to accele	5
Ethical issues and unintended consequences of digitalization and platformization	5
Digital platforms, surveillance and processes of demoralization	5
Digitalization of multisensory collective activity: The case of virtual wine tasting	5
Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy	5
Digital transformation: The geopolitical-organizational nexus	4
Toward a taxonomy of corporate data protection malpractices and their causal mechanisms: A regulatory view	4
Procuring services through IT crowdsourcing: The role of IT administration and IT flexibility	4
Mindful or Mindless? How and Why Virtual Communities Fail to Contain Information Pollution Across Different Disasters	4
Not only data: The necessity of abstract thinking to make sense of digital phenomena	4