OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Trends is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-10-01 to 2023-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy	124
“A plague upon your howling”: art and culture in the viral emergency	46
COVID-19, inclusion and workforce diversity in the cultural economy: what now, what next?	39
From public good to public value: arts and culture in a time of crisis	26
Cultural and creative ecosystems: a review of theories and methods, towards a new research agenda	25
The need for robust critique of research on social and health impacts of the arts	24
Five months under COVID-19 in the cultural sector: a German perspective	21
Valuing Culture and Heritage Capital: A framework towards informing decision making	18
Covid-19 and the African cultural economy: an opportunity to reimagine and reinvigorate?	17
Culture as care: Argentina’s cultural policy response to Covid-19	16
Fire, pestilence and the extractive economy: cultural policy after cultural policy	15
The next normal: Chinese indie music in a post-COVID China	14
Tastes of our time: analysing age cohort effects in the contemporary distribution of music tastes	12
Is it really about the evidence? argument, persuasion, and the power of ideas in cultural policy	11
France and the restitution of cultural goods: the Sarr-Savoy report and its reception	10
Gamification and cultural institutions in cultural heritage promotion: a successful example from Italy	9
Evaluating equity: assessing diversity efforts through a social justice lens	8
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	8
Digital access, skills, and dollars: applying a framework to digital exclusion in cultural institutions	7
The missing museums: accreditation, surveys, and an alternative account of the UK museum sector	7
Policy attachment in the arts: the underlying agendas of arts’ social role	7
Investigating the relationship between visitor location and motivations to attend a museum	7
Visiting pop concerts and festivals: measuring the value of an integrated live music motivation scale	7
Urban art in Lisbon: opportunities, tensions and paradoxes	7
The impact of austerity measures on local government funding for culture in England	6

Do the cultural industries offer labour market opportunities for women and youth? A global south case study	6
A hard day’s night: building sustainable careers for musicians	6
Understanding the value of the creative arts: place-based perspectives from regional Australia	6
Culture 2025A National Cultural Policy Framework for Ireland	6
Editorial: Art and culture in the viral emergency	6
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter?	5
Tangibles, intangibles and other tensions in the Culture and Communities Mapping Project	5
So close yet so far: DIY cultures in Portugal and Brazil	5
Funding resilience: market rationalism and the UK’s “mixed economy” for the arts	4
How online video platforms could support China’s independent microfilm (short film) makers and enhance the Chinese film industry	4
The audiovisual action plan: a new audiovisual policy for Ireland	4
Patronage as a way out of crisis? the case of major cultural institutions in Spain	4
Selection and survival in the field of cultural production: a longitudinal study of the Australian census	4
Roses for everyone? Arts Council England’s 2020–2030 strategy and local authority museums – a thematic analysis and literature review	4
Arts education partnerships: sources of harmony and dissonance with cultural institutions’ collaborative efforts	4
“Where is your fixed point?” Dealing with ambiguous freelance musician careers	3
Understanding cultural participation through participation – inventiveness, multivalence and epistemic modernisation	3
Understanding changes to perceived socioeconomic and psychosocial adversities during COVID-19 for UK freelance cultural workers	3
Screen monopoly and diversity: a comparative study between the Korean and French film industries	3
The transformative role of Angels’ cultural organisations under austerity	2
Left cultural populism and podemos: is it possible to newly orient cultural policy in Spain?	2
Supporting the cultural industries using venture capital: a policy experiment from South Korea	2
Unequal entanglements: how arts practitioners reflect on the impact of intensifying economic inequality	2
Care in creative work: exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods	2
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	2
Between cultural trade and cultural development: examining the first decade of UNESCO's International Fund for Cultural Diversity	2
Live or recorded? Reassessing the “decline of the highbrow arts” debate using European newspaper data, 1960–2010	2
Inclusive online community arts: COVID and beyond COVID	2
The impacts of digital initiatives on musicians during COVID-19: examining the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall	2
The arts, Bohemian scenes, and income	2
Cracking up: the pandemic effect on visual artists’ livelihoods	2
Urban and rural preferences for cultural policies and infrastructures	2
Negotiating hybridity, inequality, and hyper-visibility: museums and galleries’ social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Culture wars? The (re)politicization of Swedish cultural policy	2
War memorials, between propaganda and history: Mleeta Landmark and Hezbollah	2
Understanding creative economy policies in the Canadian context: a case study of “Creative Canada”	2
Relocation, relocation, relocation: examining the narratives surrounding the Channel 4 move to regional production hubs	2