OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Policy 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and the arts and cultural sectors: investigating countries’ contextual factors and early policy measures	65
Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics	29
Cultural and creative work in rural and remote areas: an emerging international conversation	26
Survey evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on Australian musicians and implications for policy	20
The pandemic politics of cultural work: collective responses to the COVID-19 crisis	19
The UNESCO convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: a critical analysis	17
‘Demand’ for culture and ‘allied’ industries: policy insights from multi-site creative economy research	14
Practices and challenges of developing handicrafts as a core tourism product in Chencha and Konso, southern Ethiopia	12
Failure seems to be the hardest word to say	12
China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage	12
Content quotas and prominence on VOD services: new challenges for European audiovisual regulators	11
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	9
The Covid-19 crisis and ‘critical juncture’ in cultural policy: a comparative analysis of cultural policy responses in South Korea, Japan and China	9
Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden	8
The platformisation of culture: challenges to cultural policy	8
Effective cultural policy in the 21^stcentury: challenges and strategies from Australian television	8
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?	7
Dating apps: towards post-romantic love in digital societies	7
Iran’s soft power in Azerbaijan: shifting cultural dynamics in the post-Soviet era	7
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	7
Geocultural diplomacy	7
Integrating music and sound into efforts to advance the sustainable development goals in the Asia-Pacific: case studies from Indonesia, Vanuatu and Australia	7
Constructing Hungarian ‘good-will ambassadors’: the collaborative soft power efforts of Hungary’s Balassi Institute and the Hungarian community in Australia	6
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship	6
Balancing Act: motivation and creative work in the lived experience of writers and musicians	6

Digital cultural policy. The story of a slow and reluctant revolution	6
The Great Tea Road and the Belt and Road Initiative: cultural policy, mobility narratives and route heritage in contemporary China	6
Translation as cultural diplomacy: a Chinese perspective	6
Contingent availability: a case-based approach to understanding availability in streaming services and cultural policy implications	6
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	6
Bridging, nudging and translating: facilitators of local creative industries in Norway	6
Civilisations in dialogue? UNESCO and the politics of building East and West relations	5
Implementing gender equality policies in the Spanish film industry: persistent prejudices and a feminist will to ‘exploit the centre into concentric circles’	5
Ethics, values and legality in the restoration of cultural artefacts: the case of South Africa	5
Culture is Digitaland the shifting terrain of UK cultural policy	5
Competing economies of worth in a multiagency music and reconciliation partnership: The Sri Lanka Norway Music Cooperation (2009-2018)	5
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security	5
From cultural policy towards cultural politics? The case of the Hungarian cultural sphere	5
The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities: shifting heritage-making from nation-building to city branding in South Korea and Taiwan	5
The hidden roots of the creative economy: a critical history of the concept along the twentieth century	5
A cultural turn in urban governance: cultural practices of governance in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area	5
Heritage diplomacy; an afterword	5
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	4
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	4
License to stream? A study of how rights-holders have responded to music streaming services in Norway	4
The response of Polish performance artists to cultural policies during the pandemic: liminality, precarity and resilience	4
Scandinavian success as European policy dilemma: creative Europe’s funding for TV drama co-productions, 2014-20	4
“Happy, healthy and participatory citizens”: suburban cultural policy in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä	4
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	4
How gatekeeping became digital: infrastructural barriers to participation in conventional and platformized cultural production	4
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	4
Exploring the dynamics of EDI leadership in the Irish screen industries: policy, practice and perspective	4
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	4
Indeterminacy in the cultural property restitution debate	4
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	4
Shaping cultural policy discourse in Germany: the case of ‘Cultural Education’	4
Governing creative industries in the post-normative cultural condition	4
Can the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor help Beijing Win Pakistanis’ hearts and minds? Reviewing higher education as an instrument of Chinese soft power in Pakistan	4
Industrial heritage reuse ideas on the move: comparative case studies in Shanghai and Chongqing, China	4
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	4
Media policy attitudes and political attitudes: the politization of media policy and the support for the ‘media welfare state’	3
Reframing instrumentality: from New Public Management to New Public Governance	3
Culture and trade: Chinese practices and perspectives	3
Examining restitution and repatriation options for cultural artefacts: an empirical enquiry in South Africa	3
Cross-cultural collaboration and cultural production within China’s public museums: examining the challenges and practices guiding administration	3
Private taste and public space: the heated media debate about a privately initiated sculpture park in Oslo	3
Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier	3
Media-political inroads for Europeanising national cultural public spheres: EU-level obstacles and national public service perspectives	3
Comparing landscape values and heritage stakeholders: a case study of West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, China	3
Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg	3
Measures for the betterment of the labor market position of non-standard working regimes in the cultural and creative sector in the Netherlands	3
Cultural policy between television and digital platforms: the case of SVOD regulation in Australia	3
Disagreement over monuments: cultural planning of national jubilees and public spaces in Vilnius	3
National disability strategies as rights-based cultural policy tools	3
The moral economy of the cultural sector	2

Science policy as implicit cultural policy: evaluation of the arts in Polish academia	2
Developed but close to nature: the image of Finland in the National Geographic Magazine from the 1900s to the 2010s	2
A Common Market for film: British policy and the unification of European film	2
Introduction: reflecting on heritage diplomacy	2
Debating structural violence in European heritage diplomacy	2
Designating heritage as European: between the European Union’s heritage initiatives and the nation-state	2
Museums after the pandemic, from resilience to innovation: the case of the Uffizi	2
Fundraising policies in cultural and creative industries: public stock market and crowdfunding channels	2
Role of universities in preserving cultural heritage in areas of conflict	2
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation	2
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	2
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	2
UK Music before and after Covid-19	2
Aggressive yet benign: Korea’s engagement in creative industries in Africa	2
Cultural policy regimes and arts councils. Thelongue duréeperspective, birth of the state, religious trajectories and national cultural policies	2
Cultural diplomacy as an external voice of cultural policy. The case of Poland	2
Historical dynamics of cultural policy: the case of literary translation from English to Czech (1918–2018)	2
Authenticity of cultural heritage vis-à-vis heritage reproducibility and intangibility: from conservation philosophy to practice	2
Age, mobility and creative output: prominent authors in 18th and 19th century Germany	2
Democratizing opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns	2
Orange Economy: definition and measurement – the case of Jordan	2
Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age	2
Enhancing elite autonomy: the role of cultural policy in post-authoritarian Chile (1990-2005)	2
Birds of a feather?: Lessons on U.S. cultural diplomacy from Walt Disney during the Good Neighbor Policy	2
Cultural equality and policy in Taiwan: the case studies on children/adolescents and the people with disabilities	2
Putting creative labour in its place in the shadow of the Korean Wave	2
Cultural strategy for people with disability in Australia	2
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	2
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	2
The balancing act of minority cultural identity expression policy: palestinian cultural struggles at the Israeli local government level	1
‘They all know which way the wind is blowing, which way the money is flowing’: museum actors’ perspectives on involvement in protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict	1
Multicologies? The development of multi-racial creative ecologies in East London	1
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	1
Toward a decentralized copyright infrastructure as a ‘public service’: the case of Digiciti and Estonia	1
Cooperation among intergovernmental organizations in global cultural governance: Towards an actor-centered constructivist approach	1
From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries	1
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	1
Museum coloniality: displaying Asian art in the whitened context	1
Cultural policy aspirations and the turn in Saudi Arabia’s video game industry	1
Women’s statues in Italian cities. A study of public art and cultural policies	1
Emergent film production in the Pacific: Oceanic strategies of connection and exchange	1
From texts to contexts: the self-regulating body in the Japanese adult video industry	1
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	1
Mirror, mirror on the wall, do I want to know at all? A story about cultural organizations that conduct research on themselves and those that do not	1
What makes for a creative-friendly community? Untangling the location attributes of creative clusters	1
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy	1
Epistemological shifts, power imbalances and conflicts at documenta fifteen: decolonial cultural policy conceptions beyond Eurocentric universalism	1
National identity, transnational ideology, and cultural policy in Iran	1
Heritage for identity and as diplomacy: the case of Korean martial arts	1
Film subsidies and cultural policy: the status of Hong Kong cinema	1
Whose culture is it? Recovering illegally excavated Chinese bronze wares from Japan	1
Can the ‘creative city’ be sustainable? Lessons from the Sant Martí district (Barcelona)	1
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	1
Chinese Maker Culture – co-opting digitally mediated making for nation building	1
Opera houses: from democratization to plutocratic control? Lyric production, economic management, and elite control in the main Spanish opera houses during the period of austerity (2009–2018)	1
Public art debates as boundary struggles	1
The future of creative work– creativity and digital disruption	1
Contemporary state cultural policy in Russia: organization, political discourse and ceremonial behavior	1
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	1
Gastrodiplomacy in Turkey: ‘saving the world’ or neoliberal conservative cultural policies at work	1
Disentangling economics and culture in European policies for cinema: what can we learn from Portugal and non-commercial exhibition?	1
Chinese legislation on protection of underwater cultural heritage in marine spatial planning and its implementation	1
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi	1
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	1
Heritage diplomacy and soft power competition between Iran and Turkey: competing claims over Rumi and Nowruz	1
‘If you can’t beat them…’: AVMSD policy-making for Portuguese audiovisual production in the context of the small markets and of multistakeholderism	1
At the juncture of funding, policy, and technology: how promising is match-funding of arts and culture through crowdfunding platforms?	1
Trading devil Fish and Monkey kings: French and Chinese film industry policies and exchanges 1978-1993	1
Regional partnerships and media policy in the age of China’s rise: the case of Singapore-China film co-productions	1
Ours or yours? Localizing the ‘mixed sites’ concept for the sustainable preservation of heritage in Africa: the case of Chongoleani Peninsular, Tanzania	1
The COVID-19 pandemic, cultural heritage, and policy in Japan: implications of survey data	1
The culture of ban: pop culture, social media and securitization of youth politics in today’s Russia	1
Cultural values as policy directives: techniques, technologies and symbolic work	1
The dynamics of EU cultural policies in post-socialist urban regeneration strategies: a case study of Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023	1
Leveraging popular music heritage as sustainable cultural infrastructure in small cities	1
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	1
Resilience and adaptation of the UK’s arts sector during the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	1
Workers’ and volunteers’ ideas about the benefits of young people’s cultural participation: a critical capital-based approach	1
The fuzzy place of interreligious dialogue in the international community’s intercultural dialogue efforts	1
Ruin(ed) policies: why we should aim for protecting ruins regionally	1