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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cultural and creative ecosystems: a review of theories and methods, towards a new research agenda	41
The need for robust critique of research on social and health impacts of the arts	40
Five months under COVID-19 in the cultural sector: a German perspective	32
From public good to public value: arts and culture in a time of crisis	30
Covid-19 and the African cultural economy: an opportunity to reimagine and reinvigorate?	26
Gamification and cultural institutions in cultural heritage promotion: a successful example from Italy	25
Valuing Culture and Heritage Capital: A framework towards informing decision making	25
The next normal: Chinese indie music in a post-COVID China	23
Is it really about the evidence? argument, persuasion, and the power of ideas in cultural policy	21
So close yet so far: DIY cultures in Portugal and Brazil	17
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	16
Digital access, skills, and dollars: applying a framework to digital exclusion in cultural institutions	14
The impact of austerity measures on local government funding for culture in England	12
Understanding the value of the creative arts: place-based perspectives from regional Australia	11
Editorial: Art and culture in the viral emergency	10
Understanding changes to perceived socioeconomic and psychosocial adversities during COVID-19 for UK freelance cultural workers	10
Culture wars? The (re)politicization of Swedish cultural policy	10
Visiting pop concerts and festivals: measuring the value of an integrated live music motivation scale	9
Funding resilience: market rationalism and the UK’s “mixed economy” for the arts	9
A hard day’s night: building sustainable careers for musicians	9
Tangibles, intangibles and other tensions in the Culture and Communities Mapping Project	8
Urban art in Lisbon: opportunities, tensions and paradoxes	8
Negotiating hybridity, inequality, and hyper-visibility: museums and galleries’ social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	7
Cultural capitals and creative labour of short video platforms: a study of wanghong on Douyin	7

The transformative role of Angels’ cultural organisations under austerity	6
Embracing the messiness: a creative approach to participatory arts evaluation	6
Patronage as a way out of crisis? the case of major cultural institutions in Spain	6
The impact of COVID-19 on the cultural and creative industries: determinants of vulnerability and estimated recovery times	5
Inclusive online community arts: COVID and beyond COVID	5
Justifying creative work: Norwegian business support and the conflicting narratives of creative industries	5
Selection and survival in the field of cultural production: a longitudinal study of the Australian census	5
Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum – reflections from practice	5
Care in creative work: exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods	4
Cracking up: the pandemic effect on visual artists’ livelihoods	4
Understanding creative economy policies in the Canadian context: a case study of “Creative Canada”	4
Left cultural populism and podemos: is it possible to newly orient cultural policy in Spain?	4
The “music city” paradigm and its policy side: a focus on Brisbane and Melbourne	4
Living theatrical approach to creative placemaking: the case of Xisan Film Studio project in China	3
Opera-ting on inequality: gender representation in creative roles at The Royal Opera	3
The cultural industries of India: an introduction	3
The impacts of digital initiatives on musicians during COVID-19: examining the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall	3
What does Emily in Paris say about the “Netflix quota” and the “Netflix tax”?	3
Creative industries’ new entrants as equality, diversity and inclusion change agents?	3
Who cares for creative and cultural workers? The role of intermediaries in Europe’s creative economy	3
Supporting the cultural industries using venture capital: a policy experiment from South Korea	3
Screen monopoly and diversity: a comparative study between the Korean and French film industries	3
Bollywood and slum tours: poverty tourism and the Indian cultural industry	3
Between cultural trade and cultural development: examining the first decade of UNESCO's International Fund for Cultural Diversity	2
Opera houses as cultural white elephants? The effect of the creative city model, bureaucratic mismanagement and lack of accountability in Valencia's opera house	2
Unequal entanglements: how arts practitioners reflect on the impact of intensifying economic inequality	2
Esme Ward (Manchester Museum): in conversation	2
Beyond the “good story” and sales history: where is the reader in the publishing process?	2
Cultivating progressive development in the cultural industries: challenges and support needs identified by the creative workforce in the United Kingdom	2
“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy	2
Designed for the job? An empirical study on the determinants of design graduates’ work choices	2
Understanding the factors that affected the resilience of performing arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Mapping innovation in India’s creative industries: an ecosystem framework	2
Reimagining the creative industries in the community arts sector	2
“Where is your fixed point?” Dealing with ambiguous freelance musician careers	2
Collecting and classifying data on audience identity: the cultural background of festival audiences	2
Heritage conservation and the limitation of public-private partnerships	2
The paradox of impact measurement in cultural contexts	2
Milena Dragićević Šešić: Imagining post-capitalist cultural policy futures	2
The UK museum boom: continuity and change 1960–2019	2
Welcome to the inner circle? Earnings and inequality in the creative industries	2
Editorial	2
Developing craft business in Russia: capitals and tactics of young cultural entrepreneurs	2
Relocation, relocation, relocation: examining the narratives surrounding the Channel 4 move to regional production hubs	2