OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Heritage Studies is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Harnessing cultural heritage for sustainable development: an analysis of three internationally funded projects in MENA Countries	35
The geocultural heritage of the Silk Roads	31
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance	28
Heritage, values and gentrification: the redevelopment of historic areas in China	28
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic in England	28
Building a bridge: opportunities and challenges for intangible cultural heritage at the intersection of institutions, civic society, and migrant communities	25
Digitalising endangered cultural heritage in Southeast Asian cities: preserving or replacing?	22
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	17
The making of the Grand Canal in China: beyond knowledge and power	14
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa	12
The role of cultural heritage in visitor narratives of peatlands: analysis of online user-generated reviews from three peatland sites in England	11
Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments	11
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach	11
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	11
Commercialization without over-commercialization: normative conundrums across heritage rationalities	10
Revitalising place-based commercial heritage: A Cultural Political Economy approach to the renaissance of lambic beers in Belgium	10
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages	9
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	9
The use of past events as political symbols in Spain. The example of Vox and the need for a new archaeology of ethnicity	9
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	9
Dilemmas of protection: decolonising the regulation of genetic resources as cultural heritage	9
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	9
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	9
Cultural heritage tourism as a catalyst for sustainable development; the case of old Oyo town in Nigeria	8
The politics and ethical dilemmas of architectural conservation in an unrecognised state: insights from northern Cyprus	8

Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	8
White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media	7
Heritage, community participation and the state: case of the Kalbeliya dance of India	7
Making space for co-creation: heritage attractions that host contemporary art	7
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	7
Tyrannical participation approaches in China’s regeneration of Urban heritage areas: a case study of baitasi historic district, Beijing	7
Embodyingressentimentfulvictimhood: virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk	7
The Islamic State’s Targeting of Christians and their Heritage: Genocide, Displacement and Reconciliation	7
The Missing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Shanghai Cultural and Creative Industries	7
Why look at taxidermy animals? Exhibiting, curating and mourning the Sixth Mass Extinction Event	7
The ‘preservation by relocation’ of Huizhou vernacular architecture: shifting notions on the authenticity of rural heritage in China	7
Plans for Uncertain Futures: Heritage and Climate Imaginaries in Coastal Climate Adaptation	6
Against authenticity	6
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts	6
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach	6
Colonial representations of race in alternative museums: The ‘African’ of St Benet’s, the ‘Arab’ of Jorvik, and the ‘Black Viking’	6
Practice barriers towards intangible heritage within the UK built heritage sector	6
Researching heritage values in social media environments: understanding variabilities and (in)visibilities	5
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes	5
Heritages of hunger: European famine legacies in current academic debates	5
Endangered cultural heritage in the Russia–Ukraine war: comparing and critiquing interventions by international cultural heritage organizations	5
Heritageinandasdiplomacy: a practice based study	5
Shiraz’s heritage gardens during the political turmoil in Twentieth-century Iran	5
Intangible cultural heritage as a tool for urban and social regeneration in neighbourhoods. Participatory process to identify and safeguard ICH in the city of Malaga, Spain	5
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’	5
Decolonising Babylon	5
The promises and limitations of digital participation in heritage: Planning transmedia heritage districts in superdiverse cities	4
Contesting urban monuments: future directions for the controversial monumental landscapes of civic grandeur	4
The management of minority heritage: critical challenges to Vietnamese Catholic heritage seen from the case study of Bui Chu Cathedral	4
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	4
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research	4
The politics of memory in post-accord Colombia: interventions from women social leaders and decolonial feminisms	4
(Re)inventing intangible cultural heritage through the market in Greece	4
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities	4
Buffing and buffering Blu: the societal performance of street art, heritage erasure and digital preservation in Berlin	4
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	4
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway	4
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China	4
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments	4
Socialism, Heritage and Internationalism after 1945. The Second World and Beyond.	4
The role of conservation policies in local understandings of heritage in living heritage places: a Greek testimony	4
Culloden Battlefield: the visitor experience in the context of the experience economy model	4
Disseminating the living story: promoting youth awareness of Lebanon contested heritage	4
Uneasy associations? Critique, cultural heritage and the Mediterranean	4
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	3
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	3
Heterogeneity of residents’ heritage responsibilities in the process of cultural communication: the case of the Genglubu heritage site in Tanmen, China	3
Seeing the glass half-empty: implications for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through formal education in Türkiye	3
Heritage places as the settings for virtual playgrounds: perceived realism in videogames, as a tool for the re-localisation of physical places	3
Digital surrogacy: politics and aesthetics in visualising the historical past of a city	3

Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)	3
Heritage and territorial disputes in the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict: a comparative analysis of the carpet museums of Baku and Shusha	3
The crowding out of social values: on the reasons why social values so consistently lose out to other values in heritage management	3
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	3
An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats	3
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	3
Linking public health and heritage work	3
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	3
The industrial heritage of two sacrifice zones and the geopolitics of memory in Northern Chile. The cases of Gatico and Ollagüe	3
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage	3
‘Beneath the storyline’: analysing the role and importance of film in the preservation and development of Scottish heritage sites	3
Reimagining the ‘Central Plains’ (Zhongyuan) and ‘Borderlands’ (Bianjiang): the cultural heritage scholarship of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao) of Southwest China	3
The promises of the bureaucratisation of intangible cultural heritage safeguarding in post-conflict regions: lessons from anthropological fieldwork in four Western Balkan states	3
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization: a case study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive	3
Taking control of the production of heritage: Country and cultural values in the assessment of Aboriginal cultural heritage significance	3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	3
A management perspective on threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites	3
High tech or high touch? Heritage encounters and the power of presence	3
Beyond child’s play: heritage as process in Singapore’s playgrounds	3
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	3
Showing themselves: Indigenous people, cultural heritage promotion and community development in Northern Argentina	3
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	3
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera	3
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect	3
The dissonant heritage: the case of the Soviet memorial in Antakalnis cemetery, Vilnius	3
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin	3
Heritage languages and language as heritage: the language of heritage in Canada and beyond	3