International Journal of Cultural Policy

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao40
‘The more it changes’: state scripting, local mediation, and civic voices in the transformation of China’s disaster memoryscapes29
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida22
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?21
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account21
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events20
Film promotion across the EU member states and abroad: institutional practices in Denmark, Finland and France in an evolving policy and technological architecture16
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy15
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–198415
Piracy as social antagonism: platform capitalism and censorship in India15
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production14
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility13
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction13
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China13
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics13
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations12
Culture, people and wildlife extraction: the case of “Cameroon” (1884-1916)12
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media12
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province12
Advancing the European audiovisual sector through external action: agreements and funding in the EU enlargement region11
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality11
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia11
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi11
Platformisation and precarity: the restructuring of creative labour in South Korea’s webtoon industry11
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy11
Restitution and rehumanisation10
Why they took – Humanity and expropriation during the colonial period10
Doing screen diversity in Australia: a review of existing policy approaches10
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy9
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix9
‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure9
Canadian cultural policy in transition9
UK Music before and after Covid-199
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy9
Conceptualising K-pop as cultural heritage and content: institutionalisation within South Korea’s cultural policy framework8
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy8
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy8
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park8
Staging Modernity: Public Diplomacy as a Status Performance in Early Republican Turkey8
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control8
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II7
Reel politics: political ecology and cinematic geography in the Massachusetts film industry7
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities6
Cultural heritage in modern conflict: past, propaganda, parade6
The moral economy of the cultural sector6
The European audiovisual sector at the intersection of the Council of Europe and the European Union: regional cooperation for a normative framework6
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe6
Is ‘Revive’ a ‘game changer’ or more of the same? Whose needs are addressed in Australia’s new cultural policy and what will change?6
Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production6
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore6
Analogue and digital future imaginaries in an accelerated society: Norway’s national library digitalisation programme and the future library artwork6
European Networks and Cultural Governance. How Culture Makes Policy6
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports6
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland6
Embedding the protection of cultural heritage into a security agenda: China’s and Russia’s heritage diplomacy6
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation6
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities5
Les Belles étrangères (1987–2010): cultural policy and France’s literary cultural diplomacy5
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films5
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate5
Digital transformation and cultural policies in Europe5
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia5
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement5
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London4
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives4
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s4
Updating the European Union’s Strategy for International Cultural Relations in a time of geopolitical turmoil: international EU film policy and the future of EU–Global South relations4
The hybridisation of public libraries: a comparative study between Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm4
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it4
The legal boundaries of creativity: exploring how China’s copyright law regulates AI-generated content in video game development4
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic4
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites4
Video-on-demand affordability: the cultural costs of unequal access to online film and television4
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil4
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry4
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China4
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump4
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund4
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations4
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool4
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia4
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums4
Possibilities for reconciliation in heterotopic spaces of Australian frontier massacre4
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo4
Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg3
Cultural policies in turbulent times3
Enabling as the anchor for regenerative cultural policy3
Religion in the cultural and political discourse of the Council of Europe3
The Berardo Collection Museum of modern and contemporary art: lessons from a failed public-private partnership (2007–2022)3
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism3
Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements3
Multinormativity of a place: the ‘meaning system’ of Ordam Mazar and its relevance as ‘global cultural heritage’*3
From party politics to governing instruments: an analysis of letters of allocation to the Norwegian and Swedish heritage agencies3
Digital cultural policy. The story of a slow and reluctant revolution3
Reframing instrumentality: from New Public Management to New Public Governance3
Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review3
Centring the audience: attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations3
Green’s the word. Cultural policies and the ecological turn3
Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa to sustainable development. An empirical research of creative intermediaries in Accra’s contemporary art sector3
Acting on cultural policy: arts practitioners, policy-making and civil society3
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden3
Invisible cultural policy in America3
Gender equality and diversity discourses intertwined with the implementation of the EU audiovisual media services directive in Lithuania, Spain, and Sweden3
Libraries, archives, and museums in transition: changes, challenges, and convergence in a Scandinavian perspective3
Between distinction and ‘common prosperity’: how Chinese designers navigate Shanzhai and China’s intellectual property policy3
EU film festivals – balancing and harnessing the ambiguity of competitiveness and public diplomacy3
The (Un)protected memory of modern architecture in Turkey: conservation debates on the archaeological museums through the modern architectural heritage3
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship3
Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan3
Funding art in post-conflict society: a ‘peace dividend’?3
Nativist nationalism, cultural homogenisation and bullfighting: VOX’s cultural policy as an instrument for cultural battle (2019–2023)3
Geopolitical dimensions of the National Museum of China: strategic narratives and the construction of socialist citizenship (1949–1981)3
The unsung: examining how contracts affect session musicians’ remuneration in Australia3
Arab music and the changing political imaginaries of cultural citizenship in Israel: the Musrara School as a case study3
Netflix’ Spain: critical perspectives3
Not just Kangaroos and Koalas: evaluating the operation and outcomes of Australian local content regulation on pay-TV3
Regenerative cultural policy: sustainable development, cultural relations, and social learning3
The making of a dissonant heritage: the Foro Italico in Rome2
Democratizing opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns2
The commodification of Chinese culture in the English linguistic landscape of the Forbidden City: a field-based case study2
Seeking borealism in Istanbul: contemporary musical and cultural connections between Iceland and Turkey2
‘They need to know that it’s theirs’: considerations for policy and practice when developing a public art trail in remote communities2
Crossing the river by feeling the stones: content management of Chinese TV drama during the early reform and opening-up period (1978–1992)2
Inviting all humanity to an elite club? Understanding tensions in UNESCO’s global heritage regimes through the lens of a typology of goods2
Cultural infrastructure and shared prestige: rethinking cultural aid2
Arts and cultural management: sense and sensibilities in the state of the field2
Review of cultural industries and the COVID-19 pandemic: a European focus2
Sport as social policy: Midnight Football and the governing of society2
Rehearsal spaces as objects of municipal intervention in Québec2
Cultural survival amid disaster: support for artists in New Orleans2
Film subsidies and cultural policy: the status of Hong Kong cinema2
Recovering cultural heritage: historical insights into Ethiopia’s unique approach2
‘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 conflict2
Heritage diplomacy through the lens of the European Capitals of Culture programme2
Christopher Gordon (1944-2026): a personal tribute2
Authenticity of cultural heritage vis-à-vis heritage reproducibility and intangibility: from conservation philosophy to practice2
Mirroring the inequalities of mainstream music platforms: popularity, revenue, and monetization strategies on Bandcamp2
‘Getting back to my old self’: women and gender non-conforming people restarting DIY careers in music2
The Music City: popular music’s “policy moment”2
Failures in cultural participation2
Museums and societal collapse: the museum as lifeboat2
The public value blueprint: designing a new public service media in the digital context2
Between tradition and innovation: a comparative analysis of the publishing industry in Spain and France in the digital age1
Cultural policy and cultural industries in Africa: from culture as a commodity to culture as praxis1
Cultural policy beyond the economy: work, value and the social1
Intangible cultural heritage safeguarding policies: a comparative overview of models employed in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina1
Present absence: when cultural participation goes digital1
Cultural values as policy directives: techniques, technologies and symbolic work1
Health, financial means and cultural participation in Flanders: dissecting complex interaction patterns for nine forms of cultural participation1
Digital cultural policy in Japan: decentralised digitalisation initiatives and their associated challenges1
Restitution of material objects and indigenous ontology: towards coloniality of dispossession/theft in Africa1
Mapping diversity: Spanish LGBTQIA + content on SVoD platforms1
Exhibiting Europe at European Union film festivals1
Responsible consumption and production in the creative and cultural industries1
European countries’ policies on restitution of colonial cultural property: some comments from a Latin American perspective1
The alchemy of ACME: turning ‘land rent’ into art in the London real estate market1
The Eurovision song contest as a cultural phenomenon: from concert halls to the halls of academia1
Accomplishing cultural policy in Europe. Financing, governance and responsiveness1
The platformisation of culture: challenges to cultural policy1
The rise of Chinese animation: policy evolution and industry development since the 1990s1
Disentangling economics and culture in European policies for cinema: what can we learn from Portugal and non-commercial exhibition?1
Multicologies? The development of multi-racial creative ecologies in East London1
Staging the empire: Choi Seung-hee’s world tour (1938–1940) and the cultural politics of Japanese imperial image-making1
Cultural work and creative subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries1
U.S. public perceptions of artists during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Understanding Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations1
Policy experimentation, everyday state informality, and contested cultural-creative entrepreneurial practices in urbanizing China1
European film at the crossroads of EU external policies and cultural governance1
Towards a regenerative approach to cultural policy1
Young people, media and politics in the digital age1
Reinterpreting colonial heritage in urban spaces: memory politics and urban regeneration in China1
Repair and revitalise: collaboration and reciprocity for socio-cultural regeneration in community museums in the Global South1
“Happy, healthy and participatory citizens”: suburban cultural policy in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä1
Infrastructuring the policymaking, funding and positioning of libraries: unpacking tensions in public library policies in three European cities1
The road to censorship: the case of digital audiovisual industries in India1
Platform regulation and digital cultural industries: the state–society nexus in the Middle East1
Seeking the past through eyes of others: nostalgia for Kowloon Walled City in post-colonial Hong Kong1
Justifying authoritarian practices: epistemic governance in two opposite interventionist policies on women’s attire in Iran’s pre- and post-revolution 19791
Gastrodiplomacy in Turkey: ‘saving the world’ or neoliberal conservative cultural policies at work1
Handbook of indigenous public policy1
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
Heritage for identity and as diplomacy: the case of Korean martial arts1
Beyond the nature–culture divide? Recent shifts in Norwegian heritage policy1
The Asian cultural heritage Alliance: a new public good for the protection of underwater cultural heritage in Asia?1
Curating War Memory under Constraint: The Chinese ‘Comfort Women’ Museum and the Politics of Remembrance1
Leveraging popular music heritage as sustainable cultural infrastructure in small cities1
Creative and cultural hub sustainability: from theory to practice1
Accounting for non-economic loss: climate displacement and the meaningful omission of the intangible1
To receive and to give something back – director’s perspectives on public – private collaborations in Norwegian art museums1
Cultural policy aspirations and the turn in Saudi Arabia’s video game industry1
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