OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Heritage Studies 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
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth	46
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts	41
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw	40
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	33
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand	28
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society	21
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene	19
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	19
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts	18
Working–class heritage and the marketization of difference – the limits of new museology at Manhattan's Tenement Museum	15
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives	14
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin	14
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach	14
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania	13
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription	11
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership	11
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance	11
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List	11
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance	11
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China	10
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self	10
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect	10
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China	9
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	9
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage	9

Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation	9
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model	9
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas	9
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe	9
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong	8
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	8
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan	8
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future	8
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	7
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance	7
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont	7
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)	7
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	7
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework	7
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’	7
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe	7
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes	6
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine	6
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands	6
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall	6
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals	6
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research	6
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach	6
Against authenticity	6
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	6
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes	6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze	6
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	5
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?	5
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes	5
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories	5
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves	5
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily	5
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda	5
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage	5
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	5
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments	5
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	5
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center	4
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage	4
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach	4
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige	4
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events	4
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	4
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states	4
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	4
The Brutish museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution	4
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies	4
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history	4
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums	4

Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal	3
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity	3
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha	3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	3
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts	3
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data	3
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter	3
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization	3
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution	3
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia	3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory	3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	3
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway	3
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia	3
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage	3
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo	3
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia	3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	3
Seeing the glass half-empty: implications for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through formal education in Türkiye	2
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia	2
Mapping the research on gender, LGBTQI minorities and heritage across social sciences and humanities	2
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island	2
Urban textile mills: conservation and conversion	2
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	2
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–2001	2
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education	2
Constructing national identity through World Heritage: the international and intranational politics of the built environment in Ahmadabad	2
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique	2
The paradoxes of heritage participation	2
The role of communities in preserving, using and remembering heritage: archaeological monuments and dark heritage sites in Estonia	2
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics	2
Understanding the role of local stories in living archaeological heritage sites: the case of Stratonikeia	2
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities	2
Plans for Uncertain Futures: Heritage and Climate Imaginaries in Coastal Climate Adaptation	2
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives *Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve*	2
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities	2
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu	2
The politics and ethical dilemmas of architectural conservation in an unrecognised state: insights from northern Cyprus	2
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	2
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene	2
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada	2
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage	2
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden	2
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera	2
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages	2
Dissonance and disobedience in Brazilian quilombola heritages	2
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards	2
The Aeschylus Museum as a collections-free institution of the Muses: community consultation and values assessment	2
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years	2
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies	2
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	2
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park	2
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary	2
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)	2
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums	2
Cultural dissonance: heritage protests and their implications for heritage-making in settler colonial cities	2
Putting the Illegal into heritage practice	2