OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Library & Information Science Research is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How can Booktok on TikTok inform readers' advisory services for young people?	28
Human information behavior during the Covid-19 health crisis. A literature review	23
A model for understanding new media literacy: Epistemological beliefs and social media use	19
Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies	17
Public libraries as reserves of cultural and digital capital: Addressing inequality through digitalization	17
Measuring the smartness of a library	14
Public libraries embrace citizen science: Strengths and challenges	14
Towards a model of research data management readiness in Indonesian context: An investigation of factors and indicators through the fuzzy delphi method	13
Content analysis in library and information research: An analysis of trends	12
Validating students' library experience survey using rasch model	11
Determining research data services maturity: The role of library leadership and stakeholder involvement	11
Assessing the spatial accessibility and spatial equity of public libraries' physical locations	10
Examining young children's information practices and experiences: A child-centered methodological approach	10
The relationship between work conditions and perceptions of organizational justice among library employees	10
Social capital, trust and social activity among librarians: Results of research conducted in 20 countries across the world	10
Social network analysis: A methodological approach for understanding public libraries and their communities	9
Mobile apps for visual research: Affordances and challenges for participant-generated photography	9
An analysis of the online information searching strategies and metacognitive skills exhibited by university students during argumentation activities	9
UPCC: A model of plagiarism-free inquiry project-based learning	8
Examining nonsuicidal self-injury content creation on TikTok through qualitative content analysis	8
The relationships between university students' information-seeking strategies, social-media specific epistemological beliefs, information literacy, and personality traits	8
Understanding health information literacy of mHealth app users from digital wellbeing perspective: Evidence from regression analysis and fsQCA	8
Analysis of book circulation data and a book recommendation system in academic libraries using data mining techniques	8
Maturity models in LIS study and practice	8
Use and evaluation of information from social media: A longitudinal cohort study	7

Using the World Café Methodology to support community-centric research and practice in library and information science	7
Designing a connected learning toolkit for public library staff serving youth through the design-based implementation research method	7
Factors affecting topic selection for theses and dissertations in library and information science: A national scale study	7
Public library needs assessment to build a community-based library: Triangulation method with a social media data analysis	7
“What is mine is not thine”: Understanding barriers to China's interagency government data sharing from existing literature	7
Clarifying identity in information behavior research: A conceptual analysis	7
Where's the value? The worth of public libraries: A systematic review of findings, methods and research gaps	7
Librarian views of the ACRL Framework and the impact of covid-19 on information literacy instruction in community colleges	7
Toward community-engaged information behavior research: A methodological framework	7
Defining success for a public library makerspace: Implications of participant-defined, individualized evaluative criteria	7
Health literacy and health information-seeking behavior of immigrants in South Korea	6
A systematic review of library makerspaces research	6
Stimulators and barriers towards social innovations in public libraries: Qualitative research study	6
Library support for emergency management during the time of natural disasters: Through the lens of public library Twitter data	6
Exploring user experience in digital libraries through questionnaire and eye-tracking data	6
Diaries of lifelong learners: Information seeking behaviors of older adults in peer-learning study groups at an academic institution	6
Health information seeking among people with multiple chronic conditions: Contextual factors and their associations mined from questions in social media	6