OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Library Trends is 0. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreword	5
Veritable Miracle: Situating Black Women Librarian Networks within a Feminist Historical Paradigm	4
"The Teaching of Reference Must Keep Pace": Teaching Sources and Searching in an Evolving Reference Environment	3
Reexamining Knowledge Management Education in Higher Institutions of Learning in Africa: A South African Perspective	3
Interlude 2: Student Haiku	3
Exploration of the Construction and Digitization of the Yellow River Governance Landscape Special Collection	2
Foreword: Mapping the Domain of Indigenous Librarianship in North America	2
Finding Amy Jones: An Amiable Network of Early Twentieth-Century Internationalism	2
Seventy Years of Library Trends and Beyond: Influencing Diversity, Technology Use, and Interdisciplinarity	2
Afterword: Manifestations of Joy of Information in Everyday Information Behavior Research	2
Approaches to Conceptualizing the Cost of Academic Library Cataloging: Discourses on Metadata Creation Cost, Value, and Worth	2
Newcomer: Best Practices on Community Librarianship in Europe	2
Enhancing Stewardship of Indigenous Peoples' Data, Information, and Knowledges in Libraries and Archives through Indigenous Data Governance	2
Interlude 3: Student Haiku	2
Holistic Epistemology and Prospects for Design in the Philosophy of Information	1
Public Libraries: Current and Future Trends with Reflections over Seventy Years	1
A Review of Knowledge Management Education in China	1
Knowledge Management Education and Training in the Middle East	1
LIS Accreditation: Why and What Next?	1
Implementing Indigenous Approaches to Knowledge and Knowing at the John Hay Library: A Pueblo Reflection	1
Research Impact Assessment in Africa and the Evolving Role of Academic Libraries	1
The Burning Spirit: The Encyclopedic Vision, Wikipedia, and Librarianship	1
Pleasure and the Practice of Classification	1
Consensus: Using AI to Analyze Scientific Literature	1
Introduction	1

Introduction	1
Curating for Convergence: Data Stewardship for Interdisciplinary Inquiry	1
Introduction	1
Researching the Personal Life: Mary Niles Maack's Early Writing on Feminist Biography	0
Informed by Joy: A Christian Librarian's Reflection on C. S. Lewis	0
International Contexts and U.S. Trends in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Libraries	0
Knowledge Management Status in Russian Higher Education	0
Miranda's Quest	0
Construction of a Knowledge-Based Database for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Shui Script: A Perspective from Oral Histories with Shui Script Masters	0
Mapping the Knowledge Management Education and Professional Landscape in Brazil	0
A Return to the Stone Age: Rock Art as Joyful Information Practice during COVID-19	0
Care Ethics for French Twenty-First-Century Librarians: Examining Ecologie Documentaire and an Ethics of Care for the Environment	0
Re-Visiting the Revised Knowledge Pyramid	0
AI and Open Science: Implications and Library Practice Recommendations	0
Aftercare, Not an Afterthought: Providing Access to Records to Adults Formerly in Care	0
Introduction	0
Appendix	0
The Library in the Life of the Community: Twenty Years of OCLC Research	0
Understanding Knowledge Management Education within the North American Higher Education System	0
Knowledge Organization Initiative for Digital Resources of Ancient Chinese Stele Inscriptions	0
The Colonial Adventures of Confiscated Arabic Texts: Ibn Battuta's Rihla Manuscript from North Africa to the French National Library	0
Introduction	0
Libraries, Community Empowerment, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Symbiotic Transformation	0
Transcending Binaries of Agency through Librarians’ Discursive Constructions of AI	0
Truth and Agency: Rethinking the Definition of Information	0
Toward Generative AI–Driven Metadata Modeling: A Human–Large Language Model Collaborative Approach	0
La Visionnaire : An Intellectual Biography of Mary Niles Maack	0
Developing a Competitive Resource-Based View Strategy for Academic Libraries	0
A New Data-Mining Method for the Digital Great Wall Exemplified by Statistical Evaluation and Analysis of the Ming Great Wall Archery Windows	0
Claude AI and Literature Reviews: An Experiment in Utility and Ethical Use	0
Digital Storytelling: A New Opportunity for the Archival Documentary Heritage of Suzhou Silk	0
Trends in Latin America: Libraries’ Challenges Magnified by the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
The Efficient Provision of Information Resources in Academic Libraries: Theory and Practice	0
Don't Call It Apprenticeships: Teaching Libraries in Library Science Education	0
Trends of LIS Education and Practice in Asia and Oceania: A Bibliometric Analysis	0
Centering Indigenous Perspectives in Library Collections: A Lesson in Cultural Humility	0
Research on Digital Resources of Kizil Grottoes Art and MOOC Teaching	0
Native Students in Library and Information Science Education, 1990–2019: Past Trends and Implications for Future Advancement	0
Case Study of AI Application in Scholarly Communication—ScienceON	0
Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies	0
Putting a Price on Sharing: Fresh Cost Data as an Essential Ingredient of Evaluating Interlibrary Loan Services	0
Closing the Loop: Bridging Machine Learning (ML) Research and Library Systems	0
Introduction: International Perspectives on Knowledge Management Education	0
AI and Library and Information Science Publishing: A Survey of Journal Editors	0
Generative AI and Open Access Publishing: A New Economic Paradigm	0
Navigating the Copyright Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act in an Education and Library Environment	0
Finding Joy in Uncertainty	0
Bridging the Digital Divide: Librarians' Role in Empowering Nigerian Communities through Digital Competencies and Advocacy	0
Enhancing Library Communities through Field-Based Projects	0
Use of Generative AI in Aiding Daily Professional Tasks: A Survey of Librarians’ Experiences	0

Introduction: Design in the Philosophy of Information	0
Concentric Learning Communities: Educating Rural Library Staff in Principles of Collaborative Family Learning	0
Introduction to Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics, Part I	0
The Joy of Contemplative Scholarship	0
A Statistical Essay on Diversity in the Library Professions Compared to Other Occupations in the United States	0
Generative AI and the Reinforcement of Information Privilege: Implications for Information Literacy Instruction	0
From Tradition to Fast Pacing 4IR and Society 5.0, to Embracing Community Librarianship: An Evolutionary Approach on How to Prepare Students	0
Leadership for Social Change: Clara Whitehill Hunt and the Evolution of Children's Librarianship	0
PLATO Lessons: Rediscovering the Joy of Information in an Innovation Age	0
Research on the Digitization of Yunnan Pu'er Tea Processing Technology	0
On Preferring Joy	0
Huluniixsuwaakan: The Role of the Library in Munsee Delaware Language Revitalization and the Development of Community Relationships on Lenape Land	0
Research on the Quality Control Method of Cultural Heritage Digital Information Service: A Case Study of the Digital Cultural Relics Library Platform of the Palace Museum in Beijing	0
Knowledge Management: Educational Activities Supported by the Profession in the Australasian Region	0
Introduction: The Imperative Connections among LIS Education, Libraries, and Communities	0
Infecting Museums with Joy: Seven Ways	0
A Statistical Analysis of the Campus-Based Open Access Fund at Boston College	0
Estimating Scale and Scope Economies of Academic Libraries: Using the Flexible Fixed Cost Quadratic Function	0
Are Knowledge Management Courses in South Asia Designed Well? A Content Analysis of Syllabi and a Case Study	0
The Emergence of New Disciplines and the Transformation of the Library and Information Science Profession	0
Linda C. Smith: Fifty Years of Library and Information Science Education by Design	0
"Something that Belongs to All of Us": Beda Cornwall and the Las Vegas Public Library Campaign	0
The Path Taken and the Promising Road: Libraries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)	0
Local Music Collectors in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Finding Joy through Occupational Devotion	0
The Depths of Cost-per-Use: Historical Context and Applications	0
Oknoma Nikan Tinemih : Improving Inclusive Access to the Indigenous Studies Collections at the Newberry Library	0
Knowledge Management Education in Europe	0
Mary Niles Maack: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, and Friend	0
Using Generative AI for Qualitative Coding	0
Librarianship and Participatory Practices: Something Old, Something Borrowed, and Something New	0
Research on Digital Application of the Bronze Carriage in Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum: Development of an Immersive Virtual Assembly System	0
Taking Flight with Document Diffraction	0
Studying Community Librarianship through Historical Writings on Public Library Programming Activities: American, British, and Anglo-Scandinavian Perspectives	0
Swedish Library Policy and Community Librarianship	0
"A Start Must Be Made": An Evaluation of the Published History of Women in Australian Libraries	0
International Cooperation in the Digital Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes	0
Interlude 1: Student Haiku	0
Continuity and Change in West African Librarianship: Revisiting Mary Niles Maack's Research in Senegal and the Region	0
AI on the Shoulders of Giants: Using Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process to Improve AI Support for Information-Seeking	0
The Fate of the Document in Library and Information Science	0
Modeling of Serials	0
The Renaissance Scholar of Library and Information Science: Professor Linda C. Smith	0
Introduction: Cultural Heritage and Digital Scholarship in China	0
A Reconsideration of Metatheories of Library and Information Science: A Chinese Information Philosophy Perspective	0
The Construction and Open Sharing of Ancient Books Resources in the National Library of China	0
Digital Reconstruction and Interpretation of Great Sites: Case of Severely Damaged Yingtianmen in Luoyang	0
Unpacking Predominant Narratives about Generative AI and Education: A Starting Point for Teaching Critical AI Literacy and Imagining Better Futures	0