OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telematics and Informatics is 18. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of the smart city: Applying the dematel technique	285
How compulsive WeChat use and information overload affect social media fatigue and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic? A stressor-strain-outcome perspective	246
Rural broadband: Gaps, maps and challenges	154
Hollow infrastructures: The case of Facebook and Israeli civil society	128
An imperative to innovate? Crisis in the sociotechnical imaginary	126
Is the period really “pissed”? The effect of punctuation and message length on perceptions in digital communication	113
Preventing insider threats to enhance organizational security: The role of opportunity-reducing techniques	99
Methodological analysis of personalization in urban recommender systems by distance measures	97
Editorial Board	91
Pathways to e-participation diffusion: A societal and governance perspective	91
Is a “6-second” advertisement reasonable? Acceptable mobile advertisement length for consumers	90
Emoji as Icebreakers? Emoji can signal distinct intentions in first time online interactions	90
Editorial Board	90
Editorial Board	89
Effects of political orientation on sentiment features: the case of online news outlets in South Korea	89
Editorial Board	88
Systematic review of survey scales measuring information privacy concerns on social network sites	85
Impulsivity and loot box engagement	79
Global news media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI): A comparative analysis of frames, sentiments, and trends across 12 countries	76
The smartphone: The tourist’s on-site shopping friend. An extended cognitive, affective, normative model	75
The silence of the LLMs: Cross-lingual analysis of guardrail-related political bias and false information prevalence in ChatGPT, Google Bard (Gemini), and Bing Chat	74
Grassroots information divides in China: Theorising everyday information practices in the Global South	71
Algorithmic amplification and polarization in social media	70
Patterns in environmental priorities revealed through government open data portals	69
Systematic evaluation of mobile fitness apps: Apps as the Tutor, Recorder, Game Companion, and Cheerleader	65

Creating the path to success: The impact of crowdsourced exploratory and exploitative activities of expert graphic designers on creativity performance	64
To produce or resell? Which content strategy is more efficient for program providers?	61
Models and constructs to predict students’ digital educational games acceptance: A systematic literature review	60
The emergence of core (hash)tags and its effects on performance	60
Fake Reviews or Not: Exploring the relationship between time trend and online restaurant reviews	60
Corrigendum to “Identification of significant features and data mining techniques in predicting heart disease” [Telematics Informatics 36 (2019) 82–93]	58
Understanding the impacts of Internet use on senior Citizens’ social participation in China: Evidence from longitudinal panel data	57
Who (and with whom) uses more emoji? Exploring individual, relational, and motivational characteristics driving emoji use	56
FibVID: Comprehensive fake news diffusion dataset during the COVID-19 period	56
#Buzz: Exploring public interest in pollinators, bees, and honey using online media data	55
How online review environment affects review generation behavior: A competing for attention perspective	55
Progress and future directions for research on social media addiction: Visualization-based bibliometric analysis	54
Combating health misinformation on social media through fact-checking: The effect of threat appraisal, coping appraisal, and empathy	50
What makes citizens participate in government data governance? A study based on Behavioral Reasoning Theory	50
Trolling asymmetry toward Republicans and Democrats and the shift from foreign to domestic trolling	49
Predicting continuity of online conversations on Reddit	49
Comparing factors affecting self-disclosure behavior between German and South Korean SNS users	47
Why DO citizens engage in government social media accounts during COVID-19 pandemic? A comparative study	46
Bubbles bursting: Investigating and measuring the personalisation of social media searches	45
Research on the dynamic mechanism of group emotional expression in the crisis	45
Explaining caste-based digital divide in India	44
Digital stress within early adolescents’ friendships – A focus group study from Belgium	44
Examining the links between active Facebook use, received likes, self-esteem and happiness: A study using objective social media data	43
Where the earth is flat and 9/11 is an inside job: A comparative algorithm audit of conspiratorial information in web search results	43
Consumer behavior in an augmented reality environment: Exploring the effects of flow via augmented realism and technology fluidity	42
Futures of artificial intelligence through technology readiness levels	42
What motivates users to continue using current short video applications? A dual-path examination of flow experience and cognitive lock-in	41
Exploring public perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine online from a cultural perspective: Semantic network analysis of two social media platforms in the United States and China	40
Open government data portal usability: A user-centred usability analysis of 41 open government data portals	40
Improving evidence-based assessment of players using serious games	39
Behind the growth of FinTech in South Korea: Digital divide in the use of digital financial services	39
Exploring the Determinants of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy: Digital Divide, Computational Thinking, Cognitive Absorption	38
Am I watching or being watched? Exploring the selective disclosure paradox in users’ self-censorship to dataveillance awareness in video recommender systems	36
Customer adoption of p2p mobile payment systems: The role of perceived risk	35
How multidimensional benefits determine cumulative satisfaction and eWOM engagement on mobile social media: Reconciling motivation and expectation disconfirmation perspectives	35
The Government Metaverse: Charting the Coordinates of Citizen Acceptance	35
Smart city and remote services: The case of South Korea’s national pilot smart cities	34
Designing the metaverse: A study on inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility and safety for digital immersive environments	34
Children’s perceptions of fairness in a data disclosure context: The effect of a reward on the relationship between privacy literacy and disclosure behavior	34
The impact of advertising value of in-game pop-up ads in online gaming on gamers’ inspiration: An empirical investigation	32
Attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions of artificial intelligence: A population study in Germany	32
People-centered distributed ledger technology-IoT architectures: A systematic literature review	32
Unravelling social media racial discriminations through a semi-supervised approach	31
Artificial humanity: A multi-method exploration of user responses to AI influencer affordances in short video platform	31
Editorial Board	30
Editorial Board	29
Sensory and cognitive intrusions with and without media content during the COVID-19 pandemic: Isolation, media use, sleep and stress factors	28
How resilient is the open web to the COVID-19 pandemic?	28
The interplay of virtual reality and narrative story in disaster journalism through empathy, transportation, and identification	28
Editorial Board	28

Understanding the adoption of digital terrestrial, cable-based, and satellite-based television to speed up the analogue switch-off in Indonesia	28
Editorial Board	27
When attention-grabbing tactics backfire during media multitasking: The detrimental effect of atypical advertising slogans on brand attitude	27
Editorial Board	27
Editorial Board	27
Visualizing support: Exploring emoji usage in online support groups through the lens of symbolic interactionism	26
A theoretical model of cyberchondria development: Antecedents and intermediate processes	26
Who wants to be a YouTuber? Personality traits predict the desire to become a social media influencer	26
Citizen science resource mobilization: Social identities and textual narcissism	26
Editorial Board	25
Social media portrait-editing intentions: Comparisons between Chinese and American female college students	25
Disentangling facial recognition payment service usage behavior: A trust perspective	25
Unleashing the potential of mobile broadband: Evidence from Indonesia's underdeveloped regions on its role in reducing income inequality	25
Understanding the actual use of open data: Levels of engagement and how they are related	25
User perception and self-disclosure towards an AI psychotherapy chatbot according to the anthropomorphism of its profile picture	25
Online identities and social influence in social media gambling exposure: A four-country study on young people	25
Motivations behind problematic short video use: A three-level meta-analysis	25
The nature of nomophobia and its associations with contents of smartphone use and fear of missing out: A network perspective	24
Understanding individual psychological and behavioral responses during COVID-19: Application of stimulus-organism-response model	24
Privacy disclosure by de-anonymization using music preferences and selections	23
The pursuit of online misinformation literacy: Understanding age-varying competence for misinformation recognition	22
Predicting cell phone adoption metrics using machine learning and satellite imagery	22
Editorial Board	22
Does internet security matter for foreign direct investment? A spatial econometric analysis	22
Motivations of online and offline activism against racism and xenophobia among Asian-American publics during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Perception of Artificial Intelligence in Spain	21
Are you satisfied or satiated by the games you play? An empirical study about game play and purchase patterns by genres	21
Digital natives’ snack content consumption and their goals: A means-end chain approach	21
Risk and opportunity for online purchase intention – A moderated mediation model investigation	21
Building the sustainable city through Twitter: Creative skilled migrants and innovative technology use	21
A mini imitation game: How individuals model social robots via behavioral outcomes and social roles	20
Are smartphones addictive? Examining the cognitive-behavior model of motivation, leisure boredom, extended self, and fear of missing out on possible smartphone addiction	20
Social support for digital inclusion of women in South African townships	20
Television, news media, social media and adolescents’ and young adults’ violations of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: A prototype willingness model	20
Do social media campaigns foster vaccination adherence? A systematic review of prior intervention-based campaigns on social media	19
On spatial variation in the detectability and density of social media user protest supporters	19
D-HRSP: Dataset of helpful reviews for service providers	18
Is real screen time a determinant of problematic smartphone and social network use among young people?	18
Displaying health cues on online dating profiles: How do gender, smoking, and COVID-19 vaccination statuses influence impression and dating decision?	18
Can book covers help predict bestsellers using machine learning approaches?	18
Emotion regulation and cheap talk as signaling strategies: Evidence from crowdfunding for Ukraine	18
Who made the decisions: Human or robot umpires? The effects of anthropomorphism on perceptions toward robot umpires	18
Should I post my very best self? The within-person reciprocal associations between social media literacy, positivity-biased behaviors and adolescents’ self-esteem	18
A novel influence diffusion model under temporal and content constraints on Business Social Network	18
Social media discontinuation: A systematic literature review on drivers and inhibitors	18