OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Policy 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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	20
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	19
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	17
Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age	12
Resilience and adaptation of the UK’s arts sector during the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	12
Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg	12
Assessing the validity of cultural policy typologies for Central-Eastern European countries	11
Disentangling economics and culture in European policies for cinema: what can we learn from Portugal and non-commercial exhibition?	9
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	9
Cultural policy beyond the economy: work, value and the social	8
Sport as social policy: Midnight Football and the governing of society	8
The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities: shifting heritage-making from nation-building to city branding in South Korea and Taiwan	8
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	7
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	7
China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage	7
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice	7
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	7
Mentoring as affective practice	7
Emergent film production in the Pacific: Oceanic strategies of connection and exchange	7
The future of creative work– creativity and digital disruption	6
The normative role of experts in policy development: a comparison of two Scandinavian cultural policy reports	6
Science policy as implicit cultural policy: evaluation of the arts in Polish academia	6
Review of cultural industries and the COVID-19 pandemic: a European focus	6
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	6
Reimagining the cultural impact of neoliberalism: an analysis of Istanbul and Liverpool biennials	6

The dynamics of EU cultural policies in post-socialist urban regeneration strategies: a case study of Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023	6
Transformational governance framework for institutions of cultural diplomacy: the case of the Chinese Confucius Institute	5
The Covid-19 crisis and ‘critical juncture’ in cultural policy: a comparative analysis of cultural policy responses in South Korea, Japan and China	5
Problematizing Iranian university autonomy: a historical-institutional perspective	5
Democratizing opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns	5
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	5
Cultural policy aspirations and the turn in Saudi Arabia’s video game industry	5
The platformisation of culture: challenges to cultural policy	5
Democratising access to domestic audiovisual production in the digital environment: the case of the Argentinian VOD service Cine.Ar Play	5
Creative work: conditions, contexts and practices	5
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	5
Survey evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on Australian musicians and implications for policy	4
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)	4
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	4
The road to censorship: the case of digital audiovisual industries in India	4
Present absence: when cultural participation goes digital	4
Designating heritage as European: between the European Union’s heritage initiatives and the nation-state	4
The UNESCO convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: a critical analysis	4
Sovetskaia kul’turnaia diplomatiia v usloviiakh Kholodnoi voiny 1945 – 1989	4
The rise of Chinese animation: policy evolution and industry development since the 1990s	4
Authenticity of cultural heritage vis-à-vis heritage reproducibility and intangibility: from conservation philosophy to practice	4
The ambivalence in the ambiguity of UNESCO’s cultural policy remit: a structural description of the Common Heritage of Mankind in the Cultural Diversity Convention	4
The culture of ban: pop culture, social media and securitization of youth politics in today’s Russia	4
Genius fails to appear: the Atlantic Awards in literature, 1946–1950	4
Arts and cultural management: sense and sensibilities in the state of the field	4
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	4
Translation as cultural diplomacy: a Chinese perspective	4
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	4
Agonistic articulations in the ‘creative’ city: on new actors and activism in Berlin’s cultural politics	3
Indeterminacy in the cultural property restitution debate	3
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	3
Heritage diplomacy through the lens of the European Capitals of Culture programme	3
Heritage diplomacy; an afterword	3
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran	3
“Happy, healthy and participatory citizens”: suburban cultural policy in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä	3
Histories of cultural participation, values and governance	3
Dating apps: towards post-romantic love in digital societies	3
Failures in cultural participation	3
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	3
Comparing landscape values and heritage stakeholders: a case study of West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, China	3
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	3
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	2
Culture is Digitaland the shifting terrain of UK cultural policy	2
From cultural policy towards cultural politics? The case of the Hungarian cultural sphere	2
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	2
Accounting for non-economic loss: climate displacement and the meaningful omission of the intangible	2
From aims to results: justifying and implementing Japanese cultural policies in Southeast Asia	2
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry	2
Ethics, values and legality in the restoration of cultural artefacts: the case of South Africa	2
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	2

Trading devil Fish and Monkey kings: French and Chinese film industry policies and exchanges 1978-1993	2
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	2
Cultural survival amid disaster: support for artists in New Orleans	2
‘They need to know that it’s theirs’: considerations for policy and practice when developing a public art trail in remote communities	2
Whose culture is it? Recovering illegally excavated Chinese bronze wares from Japan	2
Cooperation among intergovernmental organizations in global cultural governance: Towards an actor-centered constructivist approach	2
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	2
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	2
Cultural policy regimes and arts councils. Thelongue duréeperspective, birth of the state, religious trajectories and national cultural policies	2
The fragility of cultural philanthropy: why private art museums close	2
Accomplishing cultural policy in Europe. Financing, governance and responsiveness	2
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	2
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	2
Examining restitution and repatriation options for cultural artefacts: an empirical enquiry in South Africa	2
An evaluation of the web accessibility of China’s national-level museums	2
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	2
Ours or yours? Localizing the ‘mixed sites’ concept for the sustainable preservation of heritage in Africa: the case of Chongoleani Peninsular, Tanzania	2
The Eurovision song contest as a cultural phenomenon: from concert halls to the halls of academia	2
To receive and to give something back – director’s perspectives on public – private collaborations in Norwegian art museums	2
Putting creative labour in its place in the shadow of the Korean Wave	2