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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous governance of cultural heritage: searching for alternatives to co-management	23
Harnessing cultural heritage for sustainable development: an analysis of three internationally funded projects in MENA Countries	22
The geocultural heritage of the Silk Roads	19
Authenticity and heritage conservation: seeking common complexities beyond the ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ dichotomy	19
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic in England	16
The past as a catalyst for cultural sustainability in historic cities; the case of Doha, Qatar	16
Digitalising endangered cultural heritage in Southeast Asian cities: preserving or replacing?	15
Critical heritage and the posthumanities: problems and prospects	14
Safeguarding intangible heritage through edutainment in China’s creative urban environments	14
Curating the selective memory of gentrification: the Wulixiang Shikumen Museum in Xintiandi, Shanghai	13
Difficult heritage and digital media: ‘selfie culture’ and emotional practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe	12
Necessary conditions for integrated approaches to the post-conflict recovery of cultural heritage in the Arab World	12
Building a bridge: opportunities and challenges for intangible cultural heritage at the intersection of institutions, civic society, and migrant communities	12
Situating (in)significance	12
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance	12
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities	11
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	11
Relationality and territoriality: rethinking policy circulation of industrial heritage reuse in Chongqing, China	11
The making of the Grand Canal in China: beyond knowledge and power	11
The UNESCO imprimatur: creating global (in)significance	10
Heritage, values and gentrification: the redevelopment of historic areas in China	10
Does intra-disciplinary historic preservation scholarship address the exigent issues of practice? Exploring the character and impact of preservation knowledge production in relation to critical herita	8
Sustaining intangible heritage through video game storytelling - the case of the Sami Game Jam	8
Toilets first, temples second: adopting heritage in neoliberal India	8
Stories of feelings and things: intangible heritage from within the built heritage paradigm in the UK	8

The role of cultural heritage in visitor narratives of peatlands: analysis of online user-generated reviews from three peatland sites in England	8
White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media	7
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach	7
Time-space politics and heritagisation in Africa: understanding where to begin decolonisation	7
Dilemmas of protection: decolonising the regulation of genetic resources as cultural heritage	7
Revitalising place-based commercial heritage: A Cultural Political Economy approach to the renaissance of lambic beers in Belgium	6
When Rivers Were Trails: cultural expression in an indigenous video game	6
Making space for co-creation: heritage attractions that host contemporary art	6
3D visualisation, communities and the production of significance	6
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	6
Commercialization without over-commercialization: normative conundrums across heritage rationalities	6
Why look at taxidermy animals? Exhibiting, curating and mourning the Sixth Mass Extinction Event	6
Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments	5
Curating the Partition: dissonant heritage and Indian nation building	5
How does music heritage get lost? Examining cultural heritage loss in community and authorised music archives	5
The relevance of researching video games and cultural heritage	5
Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering	5
Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting: conflict avoidance strategies in Kyiv city tour guiding	5
Colonial representations of race in alternative museums: The ‘African’ of St Benet’s, the ‘Arab’ of Jorvik, and the ‘Black Viking’	5
The ‘preservation by relocation’ of Huizhou vernacular architecture: shifting notions on the authenticity of rural heritage in China	5
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	4
Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)	4
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	4
Colliding epistemologies, productive tensions and usable pasts in the generation of heritage-led immersive experiences	4
Uneasy associations? Critique, cultural heritage and the Mediterranean	4
National identities and war heritage: acceptance and resistance of an authorised heritage discourse among visitors to the Australian War Memorial	4
The Islamic State’s Targeting of Christians and their Heritage: Genocide, Displacement and Reconciliation	4
Introduction: (in)significance – values and valuing in heritage	4
Heritage, community participation and the state: case of the Kalbeliya dance of India	4
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’	4
The management of minority heritage: critical challenges to Vietnamese Catholic heritage seen from the case study of Bui Chu Cathedral	4
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	4
Decolonising Babylon	4
Shiraz’s heritage gardens during the political turmoil in Twentieth-century Iran	4
Heritages of hunger: European famine legacies in current academic debates	4
Military, meaning, and tactical myopia: representations of weapons at the Royal Canadian Artillery Museum	4
’Gooseberry is the only thing left’ – a study of declining biological cultural heritage at abandoned crofts in the province of Södermanland, Sweden	4
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	4
Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’	4
The politics and ethical dilemmas of architectural conservation in an unrecognised state: insights from northern Cyprus	4
The practice and potential of heritage emotion research: an experimental mixed-methods approach to investigating affect and emotion in a historic house	4
Recognising values of China’s scenic and historic interest areas as world heritage cultural landscapes: Lushan case study	4
The use of past events as political symbols in Spain. The example of Vox and the need for a new archaeology of ethnicity	4
Unravelling histories: researching uneasy heritage associations in Oran, Algeria	3
Fluctuation between AHD and cultural intimacy: heritagisation of a historic private house in Qingtian, China	3
Practice barriers towards intangible heritage within the UK built heritage sector	3
Reimagining the ‘Central Plains’ (Zhongyuan) and ‘Borderlands’ (Bianjiang): the cultural heritage scholarship of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao) of Southwest China	3
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages	3
Local museum, national history: curating Shanghai’s history in the context of a changing China (1994–2018)	3
Heritage languages and language as heritage: the language of heritage in Canada and beyond	3

The politics of memory in post-accord Colombia: interventions from women social leaders and decolonial feminisms	3
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments	3
‘Living in a postcard’: creatively exploring cultural heritage with young people living in Scottish island communities	3
(Re)inventing intangible cultural heritage through the market in Greece	3
Women’s representation and participation in UNESCO heritage discourse	3
The restricted heritage significance of historic mosques in Qatar	3
Rethinking game heritage – towards reflexivity in game preservation	3
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect	3
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway	3
Linking public health and heritage work	3
Remaking generational memory: practices of de-canonisation at historical museums	3
Showing themselves: Indigenous people, cultural heritage promotion and community development in Northern Argentina	3
Digital surrogacy: politics and aesthetics in visualising the historical past of a city	3
Embodying ressentimentful victimhood: virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk	3
Roses and castles: competing visions of canal heritage and the making of place	3
Resisting clearance and reclaiming place in Cyprus’ state forests through the work of heritage	3
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China	3