OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of MIS Quarterly is 14. 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
Real-Effort Incentives in Online Labor Markets: Punishments and Rewards for Individuals and Groups	200
Enterprise Systems and M&A Outcomes for Acquirers and Targets	160
Ruptures During IT-enabled Change: A Sensemaking and Imbrication Analysis	160
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Time Will Tell: The Case for an Idiographic Approach to Behavioral Cybersecurity Research	105
Do Security Fear Appeals Work When They Interrupt Tasks? A Multi-Method Examination of Password Strength	79
Designing Payment Contracts for Healthcare Services to Induce Information Sharing: The Adoption and the Value of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)	71
The Path of the Righteous: Using Trace Data to Understand Fraud Decisions in Real Time	61
Everything Old Can Be New Again: Reinvigorating Theory Borrowing for the Digital Age	58
The Dialectics of Technology Standardization	58
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Global by Design: Reaffirming Our Commitment to Inclusive IS Scholarship	56
Peer-to-Peer Loan Fraud Detection: Constructing Features from Transaction Data	51
Technology-Centric Contestation over Symbolic and Social Boundaries: The Social Justice Implications of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technologies	49
Wearable Sensor-Based Chronic Condition Severity Assessment: An Adversarial Attention-Based Deep Multisource Multitask Learning Approach	47
Examining the Neural Basis of Information Security Policy Violations: A Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Approach	45
Are Foreign and Domestic Information Technology Professionals Complements or Substitutes?	43
When IT Creates Legal Vulnerability: Not Just Overutilization but Underprovisioning of Health Care Could be a Consequence	42
When and Who Do Platform Companies Acquire? Understanding the Role of Acquisitions in the Growth of Platform Companies	40
The Effect of Posted Prices on Auction Prices: An Empirical Investigation of a Multichannel B2B Market	39
How Green Information Technology Standards and Strategies Influence Performance: Role of Environment, Cost and Dual Focus	39
Performance Implications of Digital Disruption in Strategic Competition	37
Motivating User-Generated Content: The Unintended Consequences of Incentive Thresholds	37
Connecting Customers and Merchants Offline: Experimental Evidence from the Commercialization of Last-mile Stations at Alibaba	35

The Effect of Bots on Human Interaction in Online Communities	35
Time for a Decentralization Journey of Digital Infrastructures? Reflections on the 2023 Impact Award	35
The Returns of Early Adoption of Information Technologies: Order of Adoption or Level of Adoption Advantages?	34
The Role of Social Cues and Trust in Users’ Private Information Disclosure	33
United We Stand, Divided We Fall: An Autogenic Perspective on Empowering Cybersecurity in Organizations	33
Combining Crowd and Machine Intelligence to Detect False News on Social Media	30
How AI-Based Systems Can Induce Reflections: The Case of AI-Augmented Diagnostic Work	30
The Impact of IT Decision-Making Authority on IT Project Performance in the U.S. Federal Government	29
Do Early Words from New Ventures Predict Fundraising? A Comparative View of Social Media Narratives	28
Soft but Strong: Software-Based Innovation and Product Differentiation in the IT Hardware Industry	28
Mutual Disclosures and Content Intimacy in User Engagement: Evidence from an Online Chat Group	28
Discursive Modulation in Open Source Software: How Online Communities Shape Novelty and Complexity	27
Do Black Fintechs Matter? The Long and Winding Road to Develop Inclusive Algorithms for Social Justice	27
Strategic Directions for AI: The Role of CIOs and Boards of Directors	27
Understanding the Effectiveness of Rewarding Recipients on Online Referral Behavior	27
Self-Organization and Governance in Digital Platform Ecosystems: An Information Ecology Approach	26
Correcting Measurement Error in Regression Models with Variables Constructed from Aggregated Output of Data Mining Models	26
How Users Drive Value in Two-Sided Markets: Platform Designs That Matter	26
Reconfiguring for Agility: Examining the Performance Implications of Project Team Autonomy through an Organizational Policy Experiment	25
Executive Functions and Information Systems Learning	25
Cognitive Diagram Understanding and Task Performance in Systems Analysis and Design	25
Platform Compatibility and Developer Multihoming: A Trade-off Perspective	24
What Disrupts Flow in Office Work? The Impact of Frequency and Relevance of IT-Mediated Interruptions	24
Cyberslacking in the Workplace: Antecedents and Effects on Job Performance	24
Digitization of Transaction Terms within TCE: Strong Smart Contract as a New Mode of Transaction Governance	24
What Will Be Popular Next? Predicting Hotspots in Two-Mode Social Networks	24
Algorithmic Processes of Social Alertness and Social Transmission: How Bots Disseminate Information on Twitter	23
Recognition in Personal Data: Data Warping, Recognition Concessions, and Social Justice	23
A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects	23
Online Reviews and Information Overload: The Role of Selective, Parsimonious, and Concordant Top Reviews	23
“Complexity Is the Worst Enemy of Security”: Studying Cybersecurity Through the Lens Of Organizational Complexity	22
Microblogging Replies and Opinion Polarization: A Natural Experiment	22
Equality Does Not Make You Happy: Effects of Differentiated Leader-Member Exchange and Team-Member Exchange on Developer Satisfaction in Agile Development Teams	22
Just Enough Information? The Contingent Curvilinear Effect of Information Volume on Decision Performance in IS-Enabled Teams	21
Theorizing Process Dynamics with Directed Graphs: A Diachronic Analysis of Digital Trace Data	20
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AI on Drugs: Can Artificial Intelligence Accelerate Drug Development? Evidence from a Large-Scale Examination of Bio-Pharma Firms	20
The Complex Effects of Cross-Domain Knowledge on IS Development: A Simulation-Based Theory Development	18
Stability of Transaction Fees in Bitcoin: A Supply and Demand Perspective	18
A Robust Inference Method for Decision-Making in Networks	18
Are We There Yet? Analyzing Progress in the Conversion Funnel Using the Diversity of Searched Products	17
When Constructs Become Obsolete: A Systematic Approach to Evaluating and Updating Constructs for Information Systems Research	17
Lying for Viewers: Commingled Partisan Falsehoods Increase Viewing and Sharing of News Media	17
Data Commoning in the Life Sciences	17
ROLEX: A Novel Method for Interpretable Machine Learning Using Robust Local Explanations	16
Effect of Market Information on Bidder Attrition in Online Auction Markets	16
Review Moderation Transparency and Online Reviews: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	16
Anger in Consumer Reviews: Unhelpful but Persuasive?	16
How Trust Leads to Commitment on Microsourcing Platforms: Unraveling the Effects of Governance and Third-Party Mechanisms on Triadic Microsourcing Relationships	16
Information Technology and Government Corruption in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana Customs	16

Understanding the Digital Resilience of Physicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study	15
The OPM Data Breach: An Investigation of Shared Emotional Reactions on Twitter	15
Quantitative Behavioral IS Research—A Look Back and a Look Forward	15
Discursive Fields and the Diversity-Coherence Paradox: An Ecological Perspective on the Blockchain Community Discourse	14
Resilience in the Open Source Software Community: How Pandemic and Unemployment Shocks Influence Contributions to Others’ and One’s Own Projects	14
How the Locus of Uncertainty Shapes the Influence of CEO Long-term Compensation on Information Technology Capital Investments	14
Incorporating the Time–Order Effect of Feedback in Online Auction Markets through a Bayesian Updating Model	14
Supporting Community First Responders in Aging in Place: An Action Design for a Community-Based Smart Activity Monitoring System	14
Understanding Medication Nonadherence from Social Media: A Sentiment-Enriched Deep Learning Approach	14
Enterprise Systems and M&A Outcomes for Acquirers and Targets	14
Taming Complexity in the Cybersecurity of Multihospital Systems: The Role of Enterprise-Wide Data Analytics Platforms	14