OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Policy is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	40
‘The more it changes’: state scripting, local mediation, and civic voices in the transformation of China’s disaster memoryscapes	29
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	22
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	21
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	21
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events	20
Film promotion across the EU member states and abroad: institutional practices in Denmark, Finland and France in an evolving policy and technological architecture	16
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	15
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	15
Piracy as social antagonism: platform capitalism and censorship in India	15
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	14
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	13
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	13
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	13
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	13
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	12
Culture, people and wildlife extraction: the case of “Cameroon” (1884-1916)	12
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	12
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	12
Platformisation and precarity: the restructuring of creative labour in South Korea’s webtoon industry	11
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy	11
Advancing the European audiovisual sector through external action: agreements and funding in the EU enlargement region	11
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	11
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	11
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi	11

Restitution and rehumanisation	10
Why they took – Humanity and expropriation during the colonial period	10
Doing screen diversity in Australia: a review of existing policy approaches	10
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy	9
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	9
‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure	9
Canadian cultural policy in transition	9
UK Music before and after Covid-19	9
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy	9
Conceptualising K-pop as cultural heritage and content: institutionalisation within South Korea’s cultural policy framework	8
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy	8
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	8
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park	8
Staging Modernity: Public Diplomacy as a Status Performance in Early Republican Turkey	8
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control	8
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II	7
Reel politics: political ecology and cinematic geography in the Massachusetts film industry	7
Embedding the protection of cultural heritage into a security agenda: China’s and Russia’s heritage diplomacy	6
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation	6
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	6
Cultural heritage in modern conflict: past, propaganda, parade	6
The moral economy of the cultural sector	6
The European audiovisual sector at the intersection of the Council of Europe and the European Union: regional cooperation for a normative framework	6
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	6
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 production	6
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore	6
Analogue and digital future imaginaries in an accelerated society: Norway’s national library digitalisation programme and the future library artwork	6
European Networks and Cultural Governance. How Culture Makes Policy	6
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports	6
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland	6
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities	5
Les Belles étrangères (1987–2010): cultural policy and France’s literary cultural diplomacy	5
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	5
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	5
Digital transformation and cultural policies in Europe	5
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	5
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	5
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	4
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	4
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	4
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	4
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 relations	4
The hybridisation of public libraries: a comparative study between Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm	4
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	4
The legal boundaries of creativity: exploring how China’s copyright law regulates AI-generated content in video game development	4
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	4
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	4
Video-on-demand affordability: the cultural costs of unequal access to online film and television	4

The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil	4
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry	4
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	4
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump	4
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund	4
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	4
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	4
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia	4
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	4
Possibilities for reconciliation in heterotopic spaces of Australian frontier massacre	4