OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Museum Management and Curatorship is 1. 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
From cognition to emotion: mechanisms of Participatory Museum Interpretation	43
Free-choice visitor engagement through play in cultural heritage museums	43
Beyond numbers: visual and textual diversity in the online art database	40
Inclusivity and digital technologies in museums: lessons from an Italian experience	39
Editorial	28
Investigating parent attitudes from the perspective of learning experiences in a museum	26
Art and culture in the multiverse of metaverses: immersion, presence, and interactivity in the digital age	23
Reframing exhibition accessibility: multisensory curatorship and non-visual experience of visual impairment	22
Editorial	19
The museum in Asia	18
Diversity and inclusion in museum studies: an analysis of current trends and practices through a systematic review of the literature	16
China's hidden century in Chinese visitors' eyes: a sequential explanatory mixed methods study	14
The use of social media in Greek museums during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
‘We cannot, nor do we have the right to speak forgiveness for the grandmothers’: a study of visitor comment books at the Chinese Comfort Women Historical Museum in Shanghai	13
Industrial museums with Chinese characteristics: theories and practices	12
Enhancing parent–child interaction and satisfaction in cultural heritage exhibitions through multisensory experiences: a mixed-methods study	12
Adult family members’ roles in mediating children’s visits at a Chinese science museum	12
An exploratory study on children with special needs experiencing museum services: research data and lessons from being art museums	11
Robots onboard? Investigating what individual predispositions and attitudes influence the reactions of museums’ employees towards the adoption of social robots	11
Whose culture is it anyway? Perceptions of accessibility in museums by professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities in Greece	9
‘I felt I was right there with them’: the impact of sound-enriched audio description on experiencing and remembering artworks, for blind and sighted museum audiences	9
Diversity as a matter of reality or a perception at the museum: samples of approaches and practices through research and analysis	9
Curating AI-driven Art: actors, institutional strategies and organisational change	9
Limitations and ethical reflection on the application of big data in museum visitor research	9
Unveiling the influence: multiple superposition attributes of museum digital technology on visitors’ online engagement behavior	8

Caring exhibitions: integrating care theory in museum practices and curatorship in Southern Europe	8
Editorial	8
Curated polyrhythms at the museum of screen culture: rethinking agency in digital museum experiences	7
Editorial	7
Commoning the museum: participation and the civic role of contemporary art museums in global cities	7
Sick building syndrome in air-conditioned museum	7
Comfort stations and their legacy: exhibitions of negative heritage	7
Tourism marketing in a metaverse context: the new reality of European museums on meta	7
The role of leadership behaviors in organizational citizenship behaviors at Vietnamese museums: workplace incivility and work engagement as mediators	7
Communities of transformation: an example from the museum field	6
Practice architectures for bridging the semantic gap in museum documentation	6
The museum of other people. From colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions	6
Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects	6
Revolutionary exhibition and youth identity: a visitor study of the Shanghai Sihang warehouse battle memorial	5
Copyright protection: a key element in realizing the development potential of digital cultural and creative products in museums	5
Short but meaningful: visitors’ experiences underlying time spent looking at artworks and labels	5
What is the gap between curator’s plan and visitors’ perception of the palace museum?	5
Towards human-centric AI in museums: practitioners’ perspectives and technology acceptance of visitor-centered AI for value (co-)creation	5
Quantifying factors influencing the interest in museums with the use of marketing mix modelling	5
The myth of ‘pink collaring’: blaming women for pay inequity in art museums	5
Re-reading collections. A sustainable toolkit to achieve gender equality in museums	5
Who stays late? Institutional practices and audience engagement in late-night museum programming: the case of Greece	5
Behind the words: a quantitative analysis of museums’ tweets	5
Meeting of collaborators: projection of an experimental exhibition ‘The Toys in My Money Box Are in My Playground' (2021–2024)	4
Social inequality determines science museums attendance in Latin America: a quantitative analysis of data from seven countries	4
Digitalization in Chinese museums: a policy evolution perspective	4
Correction	4
Participatory research with children in Liangzhu Museum: co-developing a ‘child-friendly’ museum evaluation toolkit	4
Mapping generation Z visitor experience priorities in small museums in China: an importance–performance analysis	4
Correction	4
Visitor orientation as a game changer for the digital transformation of museums	4
Exploring information practices in Greek museums: a qualitative study	4
The slow museum: the affordances of a university art museum as a nurturing and caring space for young children and their families	4
Museum text translation in the Chinese context: the museum role and text production	4
Queer as a method in museum practice: inspiration from Queer Museums: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology	4
Diversified visitors’ participation roles as an innovation factor: a case study of the ‘Seoul Museum of Art Group’	4
‘Views for perverts!’: the threat of upskirting in the New Acropolis Museum, Athens	3
Building culturally sustainable communities. Community museums and transmedia storytelling	3
Awe in the museum: casting light on the role of the curator	3
Encoding object-oriented democracy in Swedish museums: implementing method of the thing in exhibition-making	3
The value of technology and interactive systems in cultural heritage interpretation: a study based on existing empirical research	3
Emotion-based indexing of cultural heritage: demographic differences in aesthetic vocabulary	3
Plunder? How museums got their treasures	3
Following community guidelines in publishing Native American archaeological collections online	3
Understanding virtual museum visits: generation Z experiences	3
How to address a ‘curation crisis’: rethinking collection storage at the Museum of Tropical Queensland	3
The relationship between interactive kiosk design towards usage intention in the National Music Museum of Malaysia	3
Inventors and demolishers: children disrupting the museum from within	3
‘Critically disruptive’ museum interpretation as a methodology for challenging popular perceptions of Roman Britain	3
The museum accessibility spectrum: re-imagining access and inclusion	3

The influence of visitors’ self-protective behaviors on social carrying capacity in museums during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The adoption of virtual technology in museums: the case of a modern and contemporary museum in Indonesia	2
New genre Arctic art in institutional and activistic contexts	2
Understanding and harnessing the potential of front-line employees’ self-governance in technologised museums and theme parks: insights from a qualitative study	2
Museums and wealth: the politics of contemporary art collections	2
Why does Museum Studies need criticism?	2
Art curatorship strategy models: from tradition to contemporaneity	2
‘Imperfectly and by only a passing glance’: the return of the salon hang	2
Understanding levels of online participation in the U.K. museum sector	2
From origin to future: interdisciplinary approaches to provenance in art collections	2
Co-curating with trans people: the challenges of collaborating with heterogenous minoritised communities	2
Decolonising ethnographic documentation at the Sierra Leone National Museum: a systematic review	2
Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory	2
Symbolic power for student curators as social agents: the emergence of the museum of World Languages at Shanghai International Studies University during the COVID-19 era	2
Lean on Me! Building trust and reducing risk through emotional rapport in inclusive museum experiences	2
Editorial	2
The role of the museum shop in sustainable futures	2
From knowledge to relational empathy: ‘learning to feel’ in curatorial education	2
Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes	2
Museum literature as a foundation for change: new perspectives for museum practice	1
Communities of practice as a strategy for research in museums	1
COVID-19 and the museum environment	1
War heritage impact on museum dynamics in Budapest: a multidimensional analysis of visitor satisfaction through cultural, statistical, and netnographic modalities	1
Driving co-engineering in virtual children’s museum: using community engagement	1
Museums as assemblages: analysing dynamic museum practice	1
The gameful museum experience: motivation, behavior, and interpretation in a hybrid money exhibition	1
Enhancing the appeal of university art museums: perceptions, preferences and experiences of visitors and non-visitors	1
Museums as catalysts for social change: reconstructing the narrative in Danish Society	1
Flourishing in museums: towards a positive museology	1
Dialogues with cultural heritage via museum digitalisation: developing a model of visitors’ cognitive identity, technological agent, cultural symbolism, and public engagement	1
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices	1
When stories are not the same: power and powerlessness in a Nigerian Museum	1
From past achievements to possible futures: science museums as spaces for futures thinking	1
Creating of a xylarium and herbarium with a preventive conservation profile: review of procedures and materials	1
The edutainment scan: immersive media and its deployment in museums	1
The efficient use of new cultural management tools in the adaptation of public heritage during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The museums and collections of higher education	1
Problem or opportunity? A museological review of accessible museum storage	1
Editorial	1
Curating lively objects: exhibitions beyond disciplines	1
Museums and narrative. from ‘Grand Narratives’ and objects biographies to exhibition storytelling	1
Research on the welcoming experience of the museum's arrival space	1
Being present and bearing witness: talking about cultural revitalization programming in museums	1
Photo-Museology – The presence of absence and the absence of presence Photo-Museology – The presence of absence and the absence of presence , by Mark Adams and Nicholas	1
Storytelling in heritage tourism: an exploration of co-creative experiences from a tourist perspective	1
An empirical study of visitors' engagement with a museum robot guide and a mobile audio guide: a case study in South Korea	1
Ambient topologies in the museum route (light, sound, and thermal): the method of analysis and visualization	1
‘We want to know more than that’: lessons learnt from the public workshop on collections data at the V&A	1
Virtual reality and decolonial practice: a case study of Dunhuang Mogao Caves	1
Translating environmental memory in a natural history museum	1
Editorial	1
Sensory cues as transformative tools in driving inclusion: insights from visitors and managerial perspectives	1
Editorial	1