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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Promoting culture and creativity in Ghana: bottom-up strategies for creative industries development	41
(De)politicising Argentinian cultural policy? an analysis of Macri’s cultural policy (2015–19)	40
Editorial	25
Performance, cultural resistance and social justice: India’s creative economies since the COVID-19 pandemic	25
The four worlds of creative employees: the role of education level and job-education match	21
Avant-garde or democracy? Transformations and dilemmas of the U.S. public art programme in the 1970s	16
Transnational cultural networks: soft mechanisms for cultural diversity and frictionless mobility: tools for EU legitimacy?	14
A value based approach to assessing changes in cultural policies	12
The REED typology: understanding market-orientation and instrumental values in cultural policy across Europe	11
Editorial	10
The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged	10
Understanding Well-Being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research	9
Get back: analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Lowlands festival	9
Kenneth Kwok (Ministry of National Development, Singapore): in conversation	8
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America	8
Towards a paradigm shift? The potential of participatory arts practices in a context of post-crisis reconstruction	7
Audience Development and Cultural Policy	7
Relocation, relocation, relocation: examining the narratives surrounding the Channel 4 move to regional production hubs	7
Negotiating participation: investigation of an informal art and urban development initiative in Norway	6
The duality of creative hubs in non-Western contexts: the case of Bomontiada	6
The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain	5
Editorial	5
Cultural capitals and creative labour of short video platforms: a study of wanghong on Douyin	5
Heritage conservation and the limitation of public-private partnerships	5
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	4

Cracking up: the pandemic effect on visual artists’ livelihoods	4
Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers	4
What is an independent art space? Using a text-mining approach to describe independent art spaces	4
Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum – reflections from practice	4
Cakes and ale: the role of culture in the new municipalism	3
Tracing policy change of the NEA in urban design through the advocacy coalition framework	3
Geopolitics of Digital HeritageGeopolitics of Digital Heritage, by Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 94 pp., £17.00 (paperback), £49.99 (hardback	3
Addressing causality: participatory evaluation on improvisational drama workshops for people with dementia and their carers	3
Do not forget the state! The supposed state free self-regulatory system in post-war Japan	3
Future of culture: financing and governance in the digital age	3
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	3
“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy	3
Mark Katz and Junious “House” Brickhouse (Next Level, USA): in conversation	3
Urban art in Lisbon: opportunities, tensions and paradoxes	3
Developing craft business in Russia: capitals and tactics of young cultural entrepreneurs	3
Understanding changes to perceived socioeconomic and psychosocial adversities during COVID-19 for UK freelance cultural workers	3
Introduction	3
Towards a paradigm for online heritage: cyber communities and digital educommunication	2
Editorial	2
Building mutual rewarding sponsor relationships between museums and corporations	2
Beyond the “good story” and sales history: where is the reader in the publishing process?	2
Patronage as a way out of crisis? the case of major cultural institutions in Spain	2
Professional cultural institutions and the community? Lessons from the first community production of the Barcelona opera house	2
Cultural branding of cities: the role of live music in building a city’s brand	2
Editorial	2
The “music city” paradigm and its policy side: a focus on Brisbane and Melbourne	2
Collecting and classifying data on audience identity: the cultural background of festival audiences	2
Whose lens? Gender behind the camera in Pacific filmmaking	2
Glorifying my gods: cultural politics of statue making, Hindu symbolism, and power iconography	2
Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management and Cultural Policy Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management and Cultural Policy , edited by Steve	2
The benefits and attractiveness of local theatres. Comedy or Shakespeare – does it matter?	2
Making it big in live music: a multilevel analysis of careers in live music	2
“A place for my art”: independent artist-run spaces as incubators of artistic careers in Italy	2
Avatar is a “drama” and Squid Game is a “movie”: a new era of convergence	2
Public libraries as social infrastructures: libraries’ response to the COVID crisis in the Emilia-Romagna region	2