OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Online Information Review is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Five challenges in detection and mitigation of disinformation on social media	186
Evaluating the effect of Chinese universities’ public opinion governance strategies through online user comments on the Weibo platform	74
Understanding Shadow IT usage intention: a view of the dual-factor model	59
It's the platform, stupid (-; the elitist nature of sport podcast listeners	53
Access and impact barriers to academic publications: a global study of thesis and dissertation embargo policies	33
Why are people reluctant to use metaverse products? Investigating barriers based on innovation resistance theory	33
The complex information needs of Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorder	31
Media events in an age of “cross-media”: a smartphone diary app study	30
Big Tobacco’s hashtag hijacking: a network analysis approach to social media hashtag use among FDA-registered vaping establishments	30
Exploring the effects of personality traits on echo chamber formation under different derivative topics	29
What motivates people to counter misinformation on social media? Unpacking the roles of perceived consequences, third-person perception and social media use	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
From the parliamentary watchdog to the digital watchdog: parliamentary oversight through parliamentary questions in the social media era	27
Are the quality and quantity of knowledge contributions increasing simultaneously? An empirical study from an online health community	26
Use behaviour of academic social networking sites in research communication: a structural equation model	26
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 effect of public and media attention dynamics on vaccination coverage: evidence from China during COVID-19	23
The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections	22
Bibliometric analysis of literature on social media trends during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Extending the norm activation model and unpacking laypeople’s misinformation correction process: multilayered roles of awareness, norms and efficacy	20
Understanding the impact of government social media on citizens’ unverified information avoidance behavior during health crises: the health belief model	20
What news sparks interest on YouTube? A study of news content uploaded by India's top five Hindi news networks	19
Are memes selfish? How Internet memes reflect crisis–Covid-19 pandemic in Israel	19

Exploring the sociotechnical system of Chinese internet literature online forums: a social network analytical approach	19
Privacy? What’s that? Differences in privacy boundaries	19
Persuading others in different communication media: appeals to logic, authority and emotion	18
The future of human experience: the drivers of user adoption of the metaverse	18
How are news portals integrated into daily news habits? A study on news trust, news repertoires and political participation in South Korea	17
The role of online communities in transforming news production: challenges and opportunities	17
Exploring the relationship between multidimensional health information overload and cyberchondria: the mediating role of rumination	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
Erratum: Influence of short-form video advertising on purchase intention in social commerce: the power of word-of-mouth and flow experience	17
Group polarization in social media: a systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda	16
Detrimental influences of social comparison and problematic WeChat use on academic achievement: significant role of awareness of inattention	15
Information discernment and online reading behaviour: an experiment	15
Breaking the illusion: impact of news literacy on deepfake identification and sharing	14
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
The coming of age for paid digital campaigning: equalization or normalization in the 2019 Belgian federal elections?	13
Editorial: Generative artificial intelligence in the creator economy	13
Exploring Arab researchers' research data sharing and requesting practices: a survey study	12
Distinct roles of distrust, cynicism and indifference: investigating how antipathy toward news media increases misinformation belief through passive news consumption	12
The effect of social media environments on online emotional disclosure: tie strength, network size and self-reference	12
The infinity vaccine war: linguistic regularities and audience engagement of vaccine debate on Twitter	12
Shame on you! How incivility and absence of supporting evidence in likeminded Facebook comments influence evaluations of ingroup members and online political participation	12
Unlocking young people’s engagement with online news: affective or cognitive?	12
Enhancing social capital and reciprocity through community news media during COVID-19: a study of video volunteers	12
“Selfie”-objectification: effects of sexually objectifying selfies on young women's self-objectification and intention to have cosmetic surgery	12
The scientific periphery and new flows of knowledge: the case of regional preprint servers	11
Egyptian physicians' information-seeking behavior while serving in public isolation hospitals for coronavirus patients	10
Does publication history influence the integrity of the journals: studying publication timelines and their impact on journal metrics?	10
Adopt or not? The determinants of health information adoption in online question-and-answer communities	10
Web search to access health information by adults with intellectual disability	10
Citation pattern of open access and toll-based research articles in the field of biological and physical sciences: a comparative study	10
Development of a mobile health information application for immigrant women in South Korea	10
COVID-19 fake news among the general population: motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts – a systematic review	10
Modeling the acceptance and resistance to use mobile contact tracing apps: a developing nation perspective	9
Barriers to the use of digital government among the Arab population in Israel – A case study of digital divide	9
Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States	9
Social media use and loneliness among adolescents: the moderating role of media literacy	9
The role of human behaviour in activist content sharing on social media	9
Misinformation detection: datasets, models and performance	8
A contribution-based indicator of research productivity: theoretical definition and empirical testing in the field of communication	8
Remote OPAC users’ search query reformulation (SQR) patterns: a transaction log analysis	8
TAI: a lightweight network for content-based fake news detection	8
Comment-enriched index terms improve the relevance and novelty of the ranking of the commented medical articles retrieved by an NLP system	8
Understanding physicians' motivations for community participation and content contribution in online health communities	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