OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telecommunications Policy is 13. 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
Analysis of spectrum pricing for commercial mobile services: A cross country study	145
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect	134
Editorial Board	130
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	128
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy	127
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy	116
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges	115
Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry	111
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices	99
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility	95
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa	92
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies	83
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada	75
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services	68
What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance	62
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy	58
Editorial Board	57
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos	56
Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy	55
Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans	54
Editorial Board	53
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea	53
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network	52
Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness	52
How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis	51

The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle	51
A two-sided model of paid peering	50
Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective	50
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road	48
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany	47
Competition reform and household welfare: A microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia	46
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	45
Editorial Board	44
Explaining geospatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach	43
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	43
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies	42
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	41
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	41
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	41
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet	40
Editorial Board	40
The digital divide between high school students in Colombia	39
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis	38
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach	38
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	37
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan	36
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe	36
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?	35
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison	34
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications	33
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	33
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	33
Broadband technology opportunities program public computer center grants and residential broadband adoption	32
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	32
Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain	32
Editorial Board	29
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces	28
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats	28
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband	28
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China	28
Editorial Board	28
A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network	27
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?	27
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States	27
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	27
The influence of digital divide frames on legislative passage and partisan sponsorship: A content analysis of digital equity legislation in the U.S. from 1990 to 2020	25
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill	24
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties	24
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?	24
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions	23
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case	23
Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK	23
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	23
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment	22

Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework	22
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	22
Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica	22
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens	22
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform	22
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China	22
The commercialization of bias in cashless India	21
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications	21
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	21
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	20
Editorial Board	20
The rewards of municipal broadband: An econometric analysis of the labor market	19
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand	18
Working from home, job tasks, and productivity	18
Scoping new policy frameworks for local and community broadband networks	18
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges	18
Idea entrepreneurs: The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group & cybersecurity	17
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	16
A study on forward and backward linkage effects in South Korea's telecom industry across generations	16
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus	16
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	16
Valuation of digital goods during the coronavirus outbreak in the United States	16
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania	16
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs	15
How do standards committees affect the success of a standard? Comparative analysis of RCS and VoLTE and proposed hybrid standards development model of open and bandwagon approaches	15
Editorial: Digital societies and industrial transformations: ITS 23rd Biennial Conference	15
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	15
What drives broadband traffic?	15
Editorial Board	15
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider	14
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future	14
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	14
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea	14
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability	14
Inequalities of opportunity in the access and use of telecommunication services in Togo	14
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services	14
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	14
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	13
Editorial Board	13
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model	13
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	13
Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation	13
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries	13
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	13
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	13
Editorial Board	13
Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 8	13
Determining spectrum caps and service efficiency: A case study of mobile operators in Thailand	13
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition	13