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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	27
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	24
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	23
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	20
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	14
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	13
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	13
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran	13
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	12
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	12
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	12
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	11
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	11
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	9
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	9
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	9
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	8
The balancing act of minority cultural identity expression policy: palestinian cultural struggles at the Israeli local government level	7
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy	7
Culture is bad for you: inequality in the cultural and creative industries	7
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?	7
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy	7
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi	7
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	7
Cultural equality and policy in Taiwan: the case studies on children/adolescents and the people with disabilities	7

‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure	6
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security	6
UK Music before and after Covid-19	6
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	6
Canadian cultural policy in transition	6
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	6
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy	6
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II	5
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control	5
Cultural values in political economy	5
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland	5
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	5
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park	5
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation	5
Effective cultural policy in the 21^stcentury: challenges and strategies from Australian television	5
Cultural heritage in modern conflict: past, propaganda, parade	5
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	5
Red creative: culture and modernity in China	5
From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries	5
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy	5
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports	5
Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production	5
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities	4
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	4
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	4
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	4
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	4
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore	4
The moral economy of the cultural sector	4
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice	4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	4
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry	4
Is ‘Revive’ a ‘game changer’ or more of the same? Whose needs are addressed in Australia’s new cultural policy and what will change?	4
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	4
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	4
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	4
Cross-cultural collaboration and cultural production within China’s public museums: examining the challenges and practices guiding administration	4
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	3
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	3
National disability strategies as rights-based cultural policy tools	3
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund	3
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	3
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	3
Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa to sustainable development. An empirical research of creative intermediaries in Accra’s contemporary art sector	3
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump	3
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	3
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	3
Geocultural diplomacy	2
Centring the audience: attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations	2
Public art debates as boundary struggles	2

The fuzzy place of interreligious dialogue in the international community’s intercultural dialogue efforts	2
Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan	2
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship	2
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	2
Netflix’ Spain: critical perspectives	2
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	2
Funding art in post-conflict society: a ‘peace dividend’?	2
The Berardo Collection Museum of modern and contemporary art: lessons from a failed public-private partnership (2007–2022)	2
Acting on cultural policy: arts practitioners, policy-making and civil society	2
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	2
Regenerative cultural policy: sustainable development, cultural relations, and social learning	2
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden	2
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	2
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil	2
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	2
Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg	2
Nativist nationalism, cultural homogenisation and bullfighting: VOX’s cultural policy as an instrument for cultural battle (2019–2023)	2
Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden	2
Green’s the word. Cultural policies and the ecological turn	2
Enabling as the anchor for regenerative cultural policy	2
Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements	2
Not just Kangaroos and Koalas: evaluating the operation and outcomes of Australian local content regulation on pay-TV	2
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	2
The justice of visual art. Creative state-building in times of political transition (Series: law in context)	2
Reframing instrumentality: from New Public Management to New Public Governance	2
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia	2
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry	2
Agonistic articulations in the ‘creative’ city: on new actors and activism in Berlin’s cultural politics	1
Leveraging popular music heritage as sustainable cultural infrastructure in small cities	1
Heritage diplomacy through the lens of the European Capitals of Culture programme	1
Implementing gender equality policies in the Spanish film industry: persistent prejudices and a feminist will to ‘exploit the centre into concentric circles’	1
Mirroring the inequalities of mainstream music platforms: popularity, revenue, and monetization strategies on Bandcamp	1
Inviting all humanity to an elite club? Understanding tensions in UNESCO’s global heritage regimes through the lens of a typology of goods	1
The commodification of Chinese culture in the English linguistic landscape of the Forbidden City: a field-based case study	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
Civilisations in dialogue? UNESCO and the politics of building East and West relations	1
The Great Tea Road and the Belt and Road Initiative: cultural policy, mobility narratives and route heritage in contemporary China	1
Digital cultural policy. The story of a slow and reluctant revolution	1
Ours or yours? Localizing the ‘mixed sites’ concept for the sustainable preservation of heritage in Africa: the case of Chongoleani Peninsular, Tanzania	1
Age, mobility and creative output: prominent authors in 18th and 19th century Germany	1
Policy experimentation, everyday state informality, and contested cultural-creative entrepreneurial practices in urbanizing China	1
Review of cultural industries and the COVID-19 pandemic: a European focus	1
Breaking open the black box of narratives on European Capital of culture: social positioning, cultural participation, and success and failure stories (case of ECOC Wrocław 2016)	1
Failures in cultural participation	1
Restitution of material objects and indigenous ontology: towards coloniality of dispossession/theft in Africa	1
Authenticity of cultural heritage vis-à-vis heritage reproducibility and intangibility: from conservation philosophy to practice	1
Cultural work and creative subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries	1
The future of creative work– creativity and digital disruption	1
The public value blueprint: designing a new public service media in the digital context	1
Cultural strategy for people with disability in Australia	1
U.S. public perceptions of artists during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Arab music and the changing political imaginaries of cultural citizenship in Israel: the Musrara School as a case study	1
Health, financial means and cultural participation in Flanders: dissecting complex interaction patterns for nine forms of cultural participation	1
Libraries, archives, and museums in transition: changes, challenges, and convergence in a Scandinavian perspective	1
‘They need to know that it’s theirs’: considerations for policy and practice when developing a public art trail in remote communities	1
Practices and challenges of developing handicrafts as a core tourism product in Chencha and Konso, southern Ethiopia	1
Fundraising policies in cultural and creative industries: public stock market and crowdfunding channels	1
Digital cultural policy in Japan: decentralised digitalisation initiatives and their associated challenges	1
Democratizing opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns	1
Reimagining the cultural impact of neoliberalism: an analysis of Istanbul and Liverpool biennials	1
Museum diplomacy in the digital age	1
Cultural survival amid disaster: support for artists in New Orleans	1
European countries’ policies on restitution of colonial cultural property: some comments from a Latin American perspective	1
The making of a dissonant heritage: the Foro Italico in Rome	1
Gastrodiplomacy in Turkey: ‘saving the world’ or neoliberal conservative cultural policies at work	1
Film subsidies and cultural policy: the status of Hong Kong cinema	1
Recovering cultural heritage: historical insights into Ethiopia’s unique approach	1
The Music City: popular music’s “policy moment”	1
Intangible cultural heritage safeguarding policies: a comparative overview of models employed in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
From party politics to governing instruments: an analysis of letters of allocation to the Norwegian and Swedish heritage agencies	1
Heritage for identity and as diplomacy: the case of Korean martial arts	1
Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review	1
Sport as social policy: Midnight Football and the governing of society	1
Museums and societal collapse: the museum as lifeboat	1
Towards a regenerative approach to cultural policy	1
Cultural values as policy directives: techniques, technologies and symbolic work	1
Resilience and adaptation of the UK’s arts sector during the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	1
Arts and cultural management: sense and sensibilities in the state of the field	1
The Asian cultural heritage Alliance: a new public good for the protection of underwater cultural heritage in Asia?	1