OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Information Technology is 12. 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
Reconceptualizing users: The roles and activities of people as they engage with digital technologies	155
Reforming work patterns or negotiating workloads? Exploring alternative pathways for digital productivity assistants through a problematization lens	104
Big Tech’s power, political corporate social responsibility and regulation	94
Proactive digital workplace transformation: Unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations	52
Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis	47
Guiding computationally intensive theory development with explainable artificial intelligence: The case of shapley additive explanations	43
Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data	40
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	36
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	32
The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work	28
Digital futures: Definition (what), importance (why) and methods (how)	27
Digital sourcing: A discussion of agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts	26
Improving the governance of information technology: Insights from the history of Internet governance	23
Disruptive change within financial technology: A methodological analysis of digital transformation challenges	20
Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews	19
Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform	17
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation	17
Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation	17
Selecting on statistical significance and practical importance is wrong	16
Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: A model for assessing cognitive automation use cases	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
Regulation of data-driven market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive advantages from big data	14

A critical realist approach to agent-based modeling: Unlocking prediction in non-positivist paradigms	12
On digital theorizing, clickbait research, and the cumulative tradition	12
What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction	12
Capabilities for value co-creation and value capture in emergent platform ecosystems: A longitudinal case study of SAP’s cloud platform	12
Shaping innovation outcomes: The role of CIOs for firms’ digital exploration	12