OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Library & Information Science Research is 2. 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
Factors affecting users' intention to use mobile health services of public libraries	38
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	24
Analysis of book circulation data and a book recommendation system in academic libraries using data mining techniques	22
Factors affecting the cultural information needs of Chinese migrant workers and their role in the acculturation: A descriptive framework	21
LAM professionals' roles and attitudes to user participation in Norway and Sweden	20
College students and patient work: Health information management by emerging young adults	16
Development and validation of an internet unethical behavior scale	16
Acknowledgements 2022	14
“Lady can talk forever…”: Exploring caring discourse in bilingual librarianship	14
Editorial Issue 1 2024	13
The relationships between university students' information-seeking strategies, social-media specific epistemological beliefs, information literacy, and personality traits	13
How feasible is creating a natural disaster information management open-access repository (NDIM-OAR) in Iran?	12
Assessing social efficiency of libraries from a dynamic perspective: The Peruvian municipal library system	12
Evaluating a digital community archive from the user perspective: The case of formative multifaceted evaluation	12
Creating information and records for development work: Working through the lens of information and records continuum models	11
Determining research data services maturity: The role of library leadership and stakeholder involvement	10
Data literacy in flux: Perspectives of community college librarians on evolving educational demands and library capacities	10
How can Booktok on TikTok inform readers' advisory services for young people?	9
“A bundle of serendipity”: A crowdsourcing program for picture book information organization oriented toward preschool children	9
Tattoo information creation: Towards a holistic understanding of tattoo information experience	9
Beyond surface: Chinese youth's digital reading motivation explored via laddering and the interpretative structural modeling method (ISM)	9
Rigour in phenomenological and phenomenography studies: A scoping review of library and information science research	9
A systematic review of library services platforms research and research agenda	8
A model for understanding new media literacy: Epistemological beliefs and social media use	8

How and why does official information become misinformation? A typology of official misinformation	8
Impact of school librarians on elementary student achievement in reading and mathematics: A propensity score analysis	8
Documenting the fun: Studying artistic information-creating behavior using research diaries	7
Editorial Board	7
“I had to teach my own doctor what this was about”: Information sharing barriers and information evaluation of Finnish transgender people	7
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) liaison librarians: Perspectives on functions and frequencies for serving academic researchers	7
Acknowledgements	7
Unfolding social learning parameters behind the selection of information sources against cyclones: A perspective of information seeking behavior research	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Examining young children's information practices and experiences: A child-centered methodological approach	7
The relationship between work conditions and perceptions of organizational justice among library employees	6
Companion animal representation and voice in information behavior research	6
The predictors of academics' online information searching strategies: A structural model integrating cognitive absorption and digital literacy	6
Creating a ubiquitous reading environment for children in undeveloped rural areas: An action research project	6
Prevalence of methodological transparency in the use of mixed methods research in library and information science research in South Africa and Nigeria, 2009–2015	6
Towards a model of research data management readiness in Indonesian context: An investigation of factors and indicators through the fuzzy delphi method	6
ChatGPT for chatting and searching: Repurposing search behavior	5
Guest editorial: Research methods in information behavior research	5
Measurement model for dynamic capabilities of an academic library (DCAL)	5
From hierarchies of exclusion to participant-led inclusion: A qualitative research agenda for health information literacy	5
Public libraries embrace citizen science: Strengths and challenges	5
How to bridge the gap? Information asymmetry in Tibetan-Chinese bilingual search behavior	5
Influence of cognitive and emotional frames on Weibo users' information dissemination behavior in natural disaster emergencies: The moderating effect of psychological distance	5
Library and information science applied studies on collaborative information behavior	5
Understanding how suburban public librarians respond to the health and social needs of communities	5
Supporting collaborative research in information science: The RADAR program as a model for academic-practitioner team engagement	5
“O brave new world” : A case study of a social worker in the public library	5
Does an image facilitate the sharing of negative news on social media? An experimental investigation	5
Developing and evaluating a gamified information retrieval system for Generation Z	4
Archaeological information-making activities according to field reports	4
Democratizing technology in a public library: A nexus analytical inquiry into a Hebocon maker activity	4
A systematic review of library makerspaces research	4
A methodological and theoretical exploration of a two-country, comparative study of collaboration between academics and library staff	4
Is e-reading environmentally more sustainable than conventional reading? Evidence from a systematic literature review	4
Exploring older adults' motivation to use public libraries in South Korea using the attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction (ARCS) motivation model	4
An exploration of feedback orientation in library workers	4
Virtual reality training for crisis communication: Fostering empathy, confidence, and de-escalation skills in library and information science graduate students	4
The hidden, manipulated, and secret information world of gambling addiction: Maximizing use of in-depth, narrative interviews to understand social impact	4
Development and validation of the library ethics scale	4
Evaluating librarian continuing professional development: Merging Guskey's framework and Vygotsky Space to explore transfer of learning	4
Assessing the spatial accessibility and spatial equity of public libraries' physical locations	4
Speaking on the record: Combining interviews with search log analysis in user research	3
Toward community-engaged information behavior research: A methodological framework	3
Evaluating e-book vendors in the era of smart libraries	3
The role of curiosity triggers and features in digital literacy training	3
A longitudinal study of user continuance intention to use public digital cultural services	3
Editorial Board	3
Corrigendum to “Space invaders: First-time users feel like intruders in the makerspace” [Library & Information Science Research 45/4 (2023) 101264]	3
Hiker on trail: Information practices in the wild. A mixed methods approach to investigate real-time mobile technology use by long-distance backpackers	3

Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies	3
Diaries of lifelong learners: Information seeking behaviors of older adults in peer-learning study groups at an academic institution	3
Genres of online COVID-19 information and government information culture: A comparative case study	2
Accounting for the knowledge gained during a web search: An empirical study on learning transfer indicators	2
Comparison of theoretical frameworks of doctoral theses on the field of instructional technology: The Turkey-US case	2
From seeking to learning: Understanding contextual factors associated with users’ self-regulated learning on medical Q&A platforms	2
How do fans purposively create information to promote a celebrity? An analysis of fans' information practices and literacy improvement	2
Identifying the hypothetical adolescent in library and information science literature: Describing the reader constructed in recommendations of adult books for young adults	2
Editorial Board	2
Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective: Evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA	2
Thinking like a bricoleur: New forms of rigor in research on information experience	2
Privacy protection framework for open data: Constructing and assessing an effective approach	2
Organizational information creation through a design game: A sensemaking perspective	2
Interpretable analysis of public library service outcomes based on ensemble learning models: Data study from China (2007–2021)	2