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 2021-05-01 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
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
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	12
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	11
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	11
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
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	9
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	8
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
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

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
‘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
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
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 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
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
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
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	3
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	2
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden	2
Funding art in post-conflict society: a ‘peace dividend’?	2

The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil	2
The Berardo Collection Museum of modern and contemporary art: lessons from a failed public-private partnership (2007–2022)	2
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	2
Acting on cultural policy: arts practitioners, policy-making and civil society	2
Nativist nationalism, cultural homogenisation and bullfighting: VOX’s cultural policy as an instrument for cultural battle (2019–2023)	2
Regenerative cultural policy: sustainable development, cultural relations, and social learning	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
Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg	2
Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements	2
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	2
Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden	2
The justice of visual art. Creative state-building in times of political transition (Series: law in context)	2
Green’s the word. Cultural policies and the ecological turn	2
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia	2
Enabling as the anchor for regenerative cultural policy	2
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry	2
Not just Kangaroos and Koalas: evaluating the operation and outcomes of Australian local content regulation on pay-TV	2
Reframing instrumentality: from New Public Management to New Public Governance	2
The fuzzy place of interreligious dialogue in the international community’s intercultural dialogue efforts	2
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship	2
Geocultural diplomacy	2
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	2
Centring the audience: attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations	2
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	2
Public art debates as boundary struggles	2
Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan	2
Netflix’ Spain: critical perspectives	2