OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Poetics is 2. 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
Editorial Board	64
Editorial Board	52
Is fiction a remedy for our wish to live many lives? Testing a popular assumption among contemporary readers	27
Is there a Nobel Prize effect? Translations after the Nobel Prize a quantitative analysis of translations of germanophone literature's Nobel laureates	25
Authenticity among distilleries: Signaling, transparency, and essence	22
Blurred Authorities: How Exposure to Conflicting Accounts Increases Strong Democrats’ Openness to Partisan Conspiracy Narratives	18
The Symbolic Economy of the Nobel Prize in literature: how it counters or reproduces modes of domination	17
Integrating geometric data analysis and network analysis by iterative reciprocal mapping. The example of the German field of sociology	17
“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take”: How journalists use digital platforms to make industry critiques	16
Editorial Board	16
Cultural critics as moral reputational entrepreneurs: Controversy, metaethical discourse, and authority in the documentary field	16
A deep dive into the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock	14
Editorial Board	13
Of centers and peripheries: Explaining the macro-structure of book translation flows in Europe	13
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms again? A computational view on the de facto canon of classical orchestral music in Germany and the USA at the beginning of the 21st century	13
Why Jane likes to read and John does not. How parents and schools stimulate girls’ and boys’ intrinsic reading motivation	12
The effect of narratives on attitudes toward animal welfare and pro-social behaviour on behalf of animals: Three pre-registered experiments	12
Social capital and the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital: How parents’ social networks influence children's accumulation of cultural capital	12
Measuring movement in cultural landscapes	11
Is cuisine art? Considering art and craft as conceptual categories in American fine dining	11
The problem of socio-territorial inequality in cultural policies: Unveiling policy frames through Barcelona policies (2019–2023)	11
Armchair citizenship and ontological insecurity: Uncovering styles of media and political behavior	10
Mechanisms of change: How focus events reshape online meaning-making	9
Toward a cultural sociology of disaster: Introduction	9
Mapping relational structures in culture	9

How narratives of disaster impact survivors’ emotionality: The case of Typhoon Morakot	9
Growing openness or creeping intolerance? Cultural taste orientations and tolerant social attitudes in Finland, 2007–2018	9
The bookshelf's ‘magic circle’: An ethnographic study of classificatory encounters in library spaces	9
Uneven and combined consecration: The mainstream, duplicate, and workaround institutions of jazz	8
Civil sacred: The nobel and the laureate position in cultural space	8
Preaching to the converted: Cultural intermediaries and cultural consumer behavior	8
Power, precarity and diversity in the field of publicly funded arts and culture: An analysis of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations	8
Cultural power via contaminating dualities	7
“Just like friends”: Chinese young adults’ interpretation of parent–child relationships on American TV shows	7
“The poem has stayed with me”: Continued processing and impact from Shared Reading experiences of people living with cancer	7
Editorial Board	7
Reading culture as shared ethos: A study of Finnish self-identified readers	7
Age and cultural differences in the relationship between reading and theory of mind	7
The work that genre does: How music genre mediates gender inequalities in the informal work cultures of Amsterdam's nightclubs	7
Professor-writers and machinist-painter-photographers: Investigating the duality between occupational categories and artistic hobbies	6
Music consumption and taste internalisation practices among educated Brazilian metal listeners and members of musical scenes	6
The psychology of distinction: How cultural tastes shape perceptions of class and competence in the U.S.✰	6
Editorial Board	6
From rhymes to revelation:A qualitative study of listeners’ meaning-making of hip-hop music	6
In the mood for odd? The role of affective factors in the evaluation of categorical atypicality	6
Performing Social Distancing: Culture, Scripts, and Meaningful Order in the Italian Lockdown	6
Does culture improve affective well-being in everyday life? An experimental sampling approach	6
Reconfiguring “Heritage hip-hop” From the scenes: Rightful youth rebellion and localised authenticity in the Huxiang Flow	5
Stratification of educational quality judgments: Insights from two factorial survey experiments on socioeconomic differences in student and parent evaluations	5
Editorial Board	5
Vulnerable Machos: The Globalization of Hip hop and Changing Gender Regimes in Israeli Rap	5
Culture and green tastes. A sociological analysis of the relationship between cultural engagement and environmental practices	5
Comparison of ambiguity and aesthetic impressions in haiku poetry between experts and novices	5
Designed for success or failure: Differences in funding and rejection in the space of applications to the Danish Art Foundation among craftsmen and designers	5
An affective religious boundary tool	5
Socioeconomic or marital status? Factors driving digital inequality among single and married mothers – findings of a repeated cross-sectional study, 2014–2019	5
Editorial Board	5
Artists as change agents in cross-sector partnerships: A typology	5
Coagents as intermediaries in the book industry	5
Editorial Board	5
The left and the right in the ethnographic imagination	4
Continuing in a creative career: Claiming an artistic identity and aligning trajectories among early career novelists	4
Race, nation, and commemoration: Representations of the national Juneteenth holiday in news media	4
Duality and value realism	4
Transcultural taste and neoliberal patriotic subject: A study of Chinese fans’ online talk of K-pop	4
Creative industries in transition: A study of Santiago de Chile's autopoietic cultural transformation	4
Structural predictors of private museum founding	4
The conservative revolution revisited: The blending of art and commerce in four Western publishing fields	4
The classed trajectory of media habitus: Television time and socioeconomic status from adolescence to adulthood	4
The show must go on(line): Livestreamed concerts and the hyper-ritualisation of genre conventions	4
Watching scripted fiction: Repertoires of co-viewing, time, and attention to scripted series and movies in Australia	4
Editorial Board	4
From chart-topper to gold record: The effects of Billboard chart popularity on RIAA gold or platinum certification of #1 R&B/Hip-Hop singles in the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras, 1977–2008	4
Editorial Board	4
Application essays and the ritual production of merit in US selective admissions	4

The imaginary and epistemology of disaster preparedness: The case of Japan's nuclear safety failure	4
Making fast fashion past fashion? How UN, EU, and Dutch green political intervention shift a cultural field	3
Impacts of character morality on egocentric projection and identification	3
O tempora! O mores! Cultural modernisation and nudity depiction in European cinema	3
The ties that conform: Legitimacy and innovation of live music venues and local music scenes	3
Taste on Facebook: Revisiting the omnivore–univore hypothesis using digital trace data	3
The meaning of autonomy: How artists justify career paths	3
Corrigendum to ‘Race, nation, and commemoration: Representations of the national Juneteenth holiday in news media’ Poetics 115-116 (2026) 102093	3
Sustainable creative careers through mentoring: Understanding social resilience in the art field	3
Rulenet: Mapping the structure of cultural preferences using association-rules and network graphs	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Case for ecumenical use of network and geometric data analyses in mapping of cultural spaces: Illustration of contemporary French-speaking Swiss theatrical productions	3
Beyond statistical variables: Examining the duality of persons and groups in structuring cultural space	3
Professional patios, emotional studios: Locating social ties in European art residences	3
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field	3
Affordances, personal culture, and place-based variation in creativity	3
The avant-garde consumers: A new perspective on quality evaluations of performing arts	3
Party rocking: Exploring the relationship between music preference, partisanship, and political attitudes	3
Definitely (not) belonging to culture: Europeans’ evaluations of the contents and limits of culture	3
Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II	3
Editorial Board	2
From Macrogenres to microgenres via relationality	2
Socially distanced artistic careers: Professional social interactions in early, established, and late career stages during COVID-19	2
The costliest signals of authenticity? How iconic deaths transform audience reception in hip-hop	2
The dual clustering of tastes and ties: Extending the notion of relational similarity in cultural fields	2
The dance of markets and movements: The emergence and development of dance genres in the US, UK, and the Netherlands, 1985–2005	2
Synthetic duality: A framework for analyzing generative artificial intelligence's representation of social reality	2
Climate change as an event	2
Seeing is believing: Performing transparency in the informal organic market in China	2
Between a rock and a hard place: how artists seek optimal distinctiveness in grant acquisition	2
Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature	2
Trend accommodation in heteronomous fields: How established artists respond to changing conventions	2
Organizational account of symbolic boundaries in urban cultures: social network analysis of New York art world from 1940 to 1969	2
Youth's experiences with books: Orientations towards digital spaces of literary socialisation	2
For the greater good? The disputed prestige of private art museum founders in Brazil	2
Multilingualism and mismatching: Spanish language usage in college admissions essays	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
Working live. A sociological account of the entangled relations of liveness through festival work.	2
The Turkish knowledge trap: Populist resentment as elite-counterelite collaboration	2
Towards a Digital Reflexive Sociology: Using Wikipedia's Biographical Repository as a Reflexive Tool	2
Hidden patterns of inequality: The heterogeneity in parenting within educational groups	2
Narrative pacing under fragmented attention: A structural approach to suspense in serialized television	2
A taxonomy of artists’ postures to grasp the plurality of cultural production practices: Putting an end to the cicada and the ant	2
Living up to a bohemian work ethic. Balancing autonomy and risk in the symbolic economy of the performing arts	2
Holding a position: Public opinion as cognition in a disorganized field	2