OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Association for Information Systems 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Don’t Take It Personally: An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Responses to Explicit Targeting	153
Is it Your Fault? Framing Social Media Inclusion and Exclusion Using Just World Theory	117
Does Analytics Help Resolve Equivocality in the Healthcare Context? Contrasting the Effects of Analyzability and Differentiation	57
Envisioning Digital Transformation: Advancing Theoretical Diversity	48
Navigating Generative Artificial Intelligence Promises and Perils for Knowledge and Creative Work	42
The Vicious Circles of Skill Erosion: A Case Study of Cognitive Automation	41
Theorizing about the Early-Stage Diffusion of Codependent IT Innovations	40
Creating Collaboration: How Social Movement Organizations Shape Digital Activism to Promote Broader Social Change	39
On Scholarly Composition: From Acceptable to Exceptional	38
Algorithm Sensemaking: How Platform Workers Make Sense of Algorithmic Management	32
Digital Resilience: A Conceptual Framework for Information Systems Research	30
How Do Individuals Understand Multiple Conceptual Modeling Scripts?	29
Firm Competitive Structure and Consumer Reaction in Search Advertisings	28
Theorizing Routines with Computational Sequence Analysis: A Critical Realism Framework	23
A Design Theory for Energy and Carbon Management Systems in the Supply Chain The Quest for Innovation in Information Systems Research: Recognizing, Stimulating, and Promoting Novel and Useful Knowledg	21
Digital Transformation as Collective Social Action	19
Does Technology Thwart Gender Stereotypes? An Impression Formation-Based Examination of the Differential Influence of Technology across Gender and Messages	18
Showcase: A Data-Driven Dashboard for Federal Criminal Sentencing	17
The Digital Transformation Conundrum: Labels, Definitions, Phenomena, and Theories	16
Reconciling the Personalization-Privacy Paradox: Exploring Privacy Boundaries in Online Personalized Advertising	15
Inventing Together: The Role of Actor Goals and Platform Affordances in Open Innovation Data-Centric Knowing	15
How Online Consumers Use Multiple Advice Sources: An Empirical Exploration Using Verbal Protocol Analysis	15
Product Differentiation in IT Industries: The Interplay between M&As and In-House Innovation and Exploitative Innovation Orientation	14
Policy and Imprecise Concepts: The Case of Digital Transformation	14
Using Simulation in Information Systems Research	13

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Mechanisms for Achieving Ambidexterity in the Context of Digital Transformation: Insights from Digital Innovation Labs	12
Champions for Social Good: How Can We Discover Social Sentiment and Attitude-Driven Patterns in Prosocial Communication?	12
Examining the Impacts of Airbnb Review Policy Change on Listing Reviews From Other Worlds: Speculative Engagement Through Digital Geographies	12
From Product Platform Ecosystem to Innovation Platform Ecosystem: An Institutional Perspective on the Governance of Ecosystem Transformations	12
Taking the Person Seriously: Ethically Aware IS Research in the Era of Reinforcement Learning-Based Personalization	11
Unraveling the Effects of Mobile Application Usage on Users’ Health Status: Insights from Conservation of Resources Theory	11
The Mediating Role of Fitness Technology Enablement of Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration on the Relationship between Goals for Fitness Technology Use and Use Outcomes	10
The Backstory of “An Adversarial Dance”	10
Extending the Foresight of Phillip Ein-Dor: Causal Knowledge Analytics	10
Effects of Intellectual and Social Alignment on Organizational Agility: A Configurational Theory Approach	9
An Ontology of Emotion Process to Support Sentiment Analysis	9
A Process for Managing Digital Transformation: An Organizational Inertia Perspective	9
Organizations as Digital Enactment Systems: A Theory of Replacement of Humans by Digital Technologies in Organizational Scanning, Interpretation, and Learning	9
Positive or Negative Reviews? Consumers’ Selective Exposure in Seeking and Evaluating Online Reviews	9
Living in a Fishbowl or Not: The Role of Transparency and Privacy in Creative Dialogues on Enterprise Social Media	9
Workgroup Embeddedness and Professionalism among IT Professionals: Impacts on Work-Life Conflict and Organizational Citizenship	9
Feedback Loops in Machine Learning: A Study on the Interplay of Continuous Updating and Human Discrimination	8
Avoiding the Diffusion of Responsibility in Social Networking Groups: A Field Experiment on Responses to Online Help-Request Referrals	8
Same but Different: Variations in Reactions to Digital Transformation Within an Organizational Field	8
Mitigating IT Professionals’ Turnover in Non-IT Organizations: An Organizational Identification Perspective	8
Design Principles for Platform-Enabled Knowledge Commons with an Expository Instantiation	8
Human-in-the-Loop AI Reviewing: Feasibility, Opportunities, and Risks	7
Effective Intervention in User Adaptation: A 2×2 Coping Framework Entailing Implementation and Contextual Factors	7
On the Effectiveness of Smart Metering Technology Adoption: Evidence from the National Rollout in the United Kingdom	7
The Role of AI-Based Artifacts’ Voice Capabilities for Agency Attribution	7
An Empirical Investigation of The Unintended Consequences of Vulnerability Assessments Leading to Betrayal	7
A Test of Protection Motivation Theory in the Information Security Literature: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Approach in Search Advertising	7
Digital Agility: Conceptualizing Agility for the Digital Era	7
Knowledge Management Perspective of Generative Artificial Intelligence	7
Power as “Present-in-Actions” in Mundane Information Systems Work	6
On the Design of and Interaction with Conversational Agents: An Organizing and Assessing Review of Human-Computer Interaction Research	6
How Designers Use Design Principles: Design Behaviors and Application Modes	6
The Influence of Political Skill and Community Capabilities on Microtask Worker Hourly Wage: A Mixed Methods Study of Mechanical Turk	6
Technology Lifecycles and Digital Technologies: Patterns of Discourse across Levels of Materiality	6
Bilateral, Collective, or Both? Formal Governance and Performance in Multisourcing	6
On Civil Critique: Reviewing for JAIS	6
Freemium Strategy in Competitive App Markets: Maintaining Profitability with Product Fit Uncertainty	6
Guidelines for the Development of Three-Level Models: Bridging Levels of Analysis and Integrating Contextual Influences in IS Research	6
Meta-Analysis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Challenging its Validity and Charting a Research Agenda in the Red Ocean	5
Configuring Relationships between Analytics and Business Domain Groups for Knowledge Integration	5
Sensing the Future: A Design Framework for Context-Aware Predictive Systems	5
Dynamic Capabilities in Information Systems Research: A Critical Review, Synthesis of Current Knowledge, and Recommendations for Future Research	5
The Effects of Featuring Product Sampling Reviews on E-Tailer Websites	5
The Impact of Dominant IT Infrastructure in Multi-Establishment Firms: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism	5
Why Are People Addicted to SNS? Understanding the Role of SNS Characteristics in the Formation of SNS Addiction	5
Special Issue Introduction: JAIS Special Issue on Technology and Social Inclusion	5
The Design of Social Inclusion Interventions: A Paradox Approach	5
The Backstory of “Digital Agility Theory”	4
Reimagining the Journal Editorial Process: An AI-Augmented Versus an AI-Driven Future	4

When Socialization Goes Wrong: Understanding the We-Intention to Participate in Collective Trolling in Virtual Communities	4
Positively Fearful: Activating the Individual’s HERO Within to Explain Volitional Security Technology Adoption	4
A Warning Approach to Mitigating Bandwagon Bias in Online Ratings: Theoretical Analysis and Experimental Investigations	4
Democratizing Knowledge Creation Through Human-AI Collaboration in Academic Peer Review	4
Penetration or Skimming? Pricing Strategies for Software Platforms Considering Asymmetric Cross-Side Network Effects	4
Principles to Facilitate Social Inclusion for Design-Oriented Research	4
Should We Collaborate with AI to Conduct Literature Reviews? Changing Epistemic Values in a Flattening World	4
“My Precious!”: A Values-Affordances Perspective on the Adoption of Bitcoin	4
Skill Spanning in the Online Labor Market: A Double-Edged Sword?	4
Research Perspectives: An Encompassing Framework for Conceptualizing Space in Information Systems: Philosophical Perspectives, Themes, and Concepts	4
An Adversarial Dance: Toward an Understanding of Insiders’ Responses to Organizational Information Security Measures	4