OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Online Information Review is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the effect of Chinese universities’ public opinion governance strategies through online user comments on the Weibo platform	187
Understanding Shadow IT usage intention: a view of the dual-factor model	82
It's the platform, stupid (-; the elitist nature of sport podcast listeners	64
Access and impact barriers to academic publications: a global study of thesis and dissertation embargo policies	37
Media events in an age of “cross-media”: a smartphone diary app study	36
Big Tobacco’s hashtag hijacking: a network analysis approach to social media hashtag use among FDA-registered vaping establishments	34
Exploring the effects of personality traits on echo chamber formation under different derivative topics	32
From the parliamentary watchdog to the digital watchdog: parliamentary oversight through parliamentary questions in the social media era	32
What motivates people to counter misinformation on social media? Unpacking the roles of perceived consequences, third-person perception and social media use	31
The complex information needs of Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorder	31
Drivers of user stickiness to social media platforms and its effects on brand loyalty: Analysis from the perspective of the uses and gratifications theory	28
Citizen involvement in digital transformation: a systematic review and a framework	28
“What? This post is sponsored?”: sponsorship awareness negatively moderates influencer credibility and parasocial relationships for longtime followers	27
Are the quality and quantity of knowledge contributions increasing simultaneously? An empirical study from an online health community	27
Why are people reluctant to use metaverse products? Investigating barriers based on innovation resistance theory	27
The effect of public and media attention dynamics on vaccination coverage: evidence from China during COVID-19	24
Use behaviour of academic social networking sites in research communication: a structural equation model	24
Exploring social media users’ disclosures of negative information during the COVID-19 infodemic: the moderating role of personality traits	24
Ballots make waves: the impact of elections on social media adoption by local governments	23
The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections	23
Understanding the impact of government social media on citizens’ unverified information avoidance behavior during health crises: the health belief model	22
Bibliometric analysis of literature on social media trends during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Extending the norm activation model and unpacking laypeople’s misinformation correction process: multilayered roles of awareness, norms and efficacy	21
Exploring the sociotechnical system of Chinese internet literature online forums: a social network analytical approach	20
The future of human experience: the drivers of user adoption of the metaverse	20

What news sparks interest on YouTube? A study of news content uploaded by India's top five Hindi news networks	20
Exploring the relationship between multidimensional health information overload and cyberchondria: the mediating role of rumination	19
Privacy? What’s that? Differences in privacy boundaries	19
How are news portals integrated into daily news habits? A study on news trust, news repertoires and political participation in South Korea	19
Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis–Covid-19 pandemic in Israel	17
Persuading others in different communication media: appeals to logic, authority and emotion	17
Understanding health misinformation sharing among the middle-aged or above in China: roles of social media health information seeking, misperceptions and information processing predispositions	17
Information discernment and online reading behaviour: an experiment	16
Erratum: Influence of short-form video advertising on purchase intention in social commerce: the power of word-of-mouth and flow experience	16
Trading privacy for entertainment: exploring the specificity, antecedents and consequences of gaming privacy from a dual-factor model perspective of privacy concerns	15
The role of online communities in transforming news production: challenges and opportunities	15
Detrimental influences of social comparison and problematic WeChat use on academic achievement: significant role of awareness of inattention	15
Group polarization in social media: a systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda	15
A bibliometric analysis of large language models in China	14
Fight against hair loss together: exploring self-disclosure and social support in an online hair loss support community	14
Breaking the illusion: impact of news literacy on deepfake identification and sharing	14
The coming of age for paid digital campaigning: equalization or normalization in the 2019 Belgian federal elections?	13
The infinity vaccine war: linguistic regularities and audience engagement of vaccine debate on Twitter	13
Shame on you! How incivility and absence of supporting evidence in likeminded Facebook comments influence evaluations of ingroup members and online political participation	13
Enhancing social capital and reciprocity through community news media during COVID-19: a study of video volunteers	13
Unlocking young people’s engagement with online news: affective or cognitive?	12
The effect of social media environments on online emotional disclosure: tie strength, network size and self-reference	12
Exploring Arab researchers' research data sharing and requesting practices: a survey study	12
Editorial: Generative artificial intelligence in the creator economy	12
“Looks human, communicates warmly”: the impact of chatbots' anthropomorphic design cues on users' intention to adopt health information	11
Distinct roles of distrust, cynicism and indifference: investigating how antipathy toward news media increases misinformation belief through passive news consumption	11
Citation pattern of open access and toll-based research articles in the field of biological and physical sciences: a comparative study	10
COVID-19 fake news among the general population: motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts – a systematic review	10
Does publication history influence the integrity of the journals: studying publication timelines and their impact on journal metrics?	10
The scientific periphery and new flows of knowledge: the case of regional preprint servers	10
Adopt or not? The determinants of health information adoption in online question-and-answer communities	10
“Selfie”-objectification: effects of sexually objectifying selfies on young women's self-objectification and intention to have cosmetic surgery	10
Development of a mobile health information application for immigrant women in South Korea	9
Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States	9
The role of human behaviour in activist content sharing on social media	9
Understanding physicians' motivations for community participation and content contribution in online health communities	9
Barriers to the use of digital government among the Arab population in Israel – A case study of digital divide	9
Web search to access health information by adults with intellectual disability	9
Comment-enriched index terms improve the relevance and novelty of the ranking of the commented medical articles retrieved by an NLP system	8
Social media use and loneliness among adolescents: the moderating role of media literacy	8
Social media and political protest: framing and agenda-setting in the Indonesian demonstrations, August 2025	8
Retraction notice: Debiasing misinformation: how do people diagnose health recommendations from AI?	8
Modeling the acceptance and resistance to use mobile contact tracing apps: a developing nation perspective	8
A contribution-based indicator of research productivity: theoretical definition and empirical testing in the field of communication	8
Decentralized digital preservation: the LOCKSS initiative and shadow libraries	8
Misinformation detection: datasets, models and performance	8
Effects of risk perception factors on misinformation engagement of social media users during the public health crisis and the moderating effect of personality traits	8
TAI: a lightweight network for content-based fake news detection	8
Examining the impacts of social media on the psychological well-being in a patriarchal culture: a study of women in Pakistan	7
What makes the metaverse lovable? Unveiling the interplay between immersive experiences, engagement and the triangular theory of love	7

Gendered COVID-19 discussions on Twitter: a Norwegian case	7
My friend sent it, I fell for it: investigating misinformation and sender credibility	7
Learning with smartphones: the acceptance of m-learning in higher education	7
Expectant, anxious and excited: the information journey of Chinese first-time mothers	7
From fact-checks to informed citizens: investigating political knowledge effects with longitudinal data	7
Exploring the diffusion mechanism of generative AI disinformation in online platforms: an explanatory model	7
Investigating users' discontinuous usage intention toward social networking sites: the roles of motivation and affectivity	7
Coverage of the research documents with top altmetric attention scores in online news	7
What facilitates users’ compliance willingness to health information in online health communities: a subjective norms perspective	7
Public trust and dissatisfaction: digital platforms and public responses to Portugal's vehicle circulation tax debate	7
Emotions and sentiment in social media information sharing: a systematic review across domains and platforms	7
How commenter-following shapes news exposure: homophily and selective exposure in naver news	7
Antecedents and outcomes of news authentication: out-group news, comment congruence and the moderation of social media news credibility on news sharing	7
Exploring journalism students’ perceptions of disinformation in the Mediterranean region: a cross-national study on migration narratives in Greece, Cyprus and Malta	7
How behaviour in terms of pluralistic ignorance affects social commerce intentions	7
Information literate students are more engaged and successful: role of information literacy in higher education	7
Hey, let's take a selfie: insights of selfie defamiliarisation in the classroom	7
Studying domain structure: a comparative analysis of bibliographic coupling analysis and co-citation analysis considering all authors	6
Trust in government and digital civic engagement: a moderation analysis of behavioral intentions and actions	6
Will reviewer recommendation source and cured status bias review helpfulness in online health community?	6
Others are more affected than me: the influence of presumed influence and affective responses on misinformation correction intentions	6
Publisher’s note: Mapping the metaverse-sustainability nexus in hospitality and tourism: a bibliometric approach	6
Exploring user resistance to self-disclosure in social commerce: the effects of privacy and social value	6
Digital divide: accessing digital technologies for firms in BOP countries	6
Investigating patterns of knowledge production in research on three UN sustainable development goals	6
Beyond assumptions: how social media use and self-other dynamics shape responses to misinformation	6
Mapping LinkedIn research: bibliometric trends and implications for online professional information behavior	6
Connecting differential psychological motivations for WeChat use with civic engagement: the significant role of bonding and bridging social capital	6
The moderating role of narcissism in predicting the behavior intention of the Palestinian university students towards adopting the new Facebook currency	6
Political ideology and differences in seeking COVID-19 information on the internet: examining the comprehensive model of information seeking	6
Do price consciousness, anti-socializing behavior and content add fuel to consuming online video streaming? A multigroup analysis and moderating role of gender and marital status	6
Identities for upstream value creation: the case of open-source software communities	6
Bad robot? The benevolent use of automated software and social bots by influencers in the #antivaxx discourse on Twitter	6
Information sharing intention or sharing avoidance? Impacts of fake news risk perceptions and personal capabilities under the lens of the situational awareness theory	6
The digitalization tendency of young adults: differences by living environment, gender and education	6
Abuse in the time of COVID-19: the effects of Brexit, gender and partisanship	6
Are AI hallucinations the same as error information? A qualitative exploration of hallucination tolerance and resistance strategies	5
Labservatory: a synergy between journalism studies and computer science for online news observation	5
Scientific evidence and specific context: leveraging large language models for health fact-checking	5
Understanding users’ online health information seeking switching intention: from traditional health information platforms to GAI	5
Who writes the news matters: the role of social trust in shaping credibility across AI, human and human–AI collaboration	5
Creating a virtuous circle during a pandemic threat: netizens' resilience via information-induced psychological distance and social media approach	5
Between remediating and participating: visuals of the Ford–Kavanaugh controversy on Instagram	5
Apprehensive silence or narcissistic speech? Interactions between context and psychology in the spiral of silence theory	5
Why users trust generative AI: an empirical exploration of trustworthiness dimensions and privacy disclosure	5
I assume others are influenced by health misinformation on social media: examining the underlying process of intentions to combat health misinformation	5
Relationships between online social interaction, social exclusion, and self-esteem: moderating role of familiarity	5
Employing face reading technology to study the effects of the fake news' message sidedness on consumers' emotional valence and arousal	5
A quantitative study of vocabulary categorization and reuse in the LIS field linked data	4
Crowdsourcing in peer review: estimating the effects of crowd peer review on academic impact and social media impact	4
Museums and communicating climate change-related issues on Facebook platforms	4
A systematic review of socio-technical gender bias in AI algorithms	4
Social TV and audience engagement: investigating the relationship between Facebook engagement and TV performance of The Voice (USA)	4
Information sharing by parents of children with autism spectrum disorder in an online community: themes and types	4
Who corrects misinformation online? Self-perceived media literacy and the moderating role of reflective judgment	4
Creating vicious information cycle: trust, exposure and misperception in online and offline information dynamics during health crises	4
Shaming behavior in online communities: exploring a new configuration of digital conversations	4
Social media use and social well-being: a systematic review and future research agenda	4
Understanding discontinuance behavior on short-video platform: the effects of perceived overload, dissatisfaction, flow experience and regret	4
Generations X, Y, Z: the effects of personal and positional inequalities on critical thinking digital skills	4
Exploring continuance intention determinants of using the metaverse technology: an extended self-determination theory incorporating technological elements, flow experience and technophilia	4
Factors influencing correction upon exposure to health misinformation on social media: the moderating role of active social media use	4
Factors influencing researchers to publish in open-access: Is it a self-decision or a self-reinforcing cycle?	4
Multi-tiered circle-based dissemination model and key influencing factors in social media: an empirical study on Weibo	4
Stories worth sharing – why do people spread news online?	4
Drivers of Metaverse adoption and performance in retail SMEs: an integrated TOE–KBV perspective	4
Sneakerheads for Trump: information flows in the online news media	4
Viewing advertisements in social networks: the attitude-intention inconsistency revisited	4
The meta-commerce paradox: exploring consumer non-adoption intentions	4