OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Heritage Studies 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
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts	65
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw	50
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	37
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene	34
UNESCO’s institutional drift and normative vacuum: interpreting the failure to protect Palestinian heritage in Gaza	33
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand	32
Ontological politics of heritage: forms of humanity and living images in the Amazon	30
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts	29
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	29
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society	27
The heritage body: tattoos as sites of personal storytelling	23
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives	23
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach	21
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage	21
Assessing the social values of heritage: methods in theory and practice	21
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining Virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy	19
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin	19
Heritage as a bellwether for Peace: developing community-based indicators in conflict-affected contexts	18
Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage	18
From sacred spaces to learning spaces: integrating intangible cultural heritage into urban heritage education in Hanoi	18
Correction	17
While memory was still here: Kōjō , literary citation and archival consciousness in YaNeSen magazine	17
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance	17
Heritage as emancipation?	16
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription	16

Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List	16
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong	15
From assessment to implementation: knowledge-action asymmetry in post-disaster heritage recovery in Beirut	15
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership	15
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China	15
Political reconciliation and emancipatory reinterpretations of Jakarta’s Pancasila Sakti Monument through heritage tourism: an exploratory study	15
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self	15
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)	15
Beyond national jurisdiction: a proposition for tackling wicked problems through World Heritage sites and practices	15
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont	14
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model	14
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China	12
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future	12
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan	12
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation	11
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	11
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework	11
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance	10
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	10
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine	10
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes	10
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research	10
Arts, heritage and performative politics	10
Carbon cultures of progress in history of technology museums	10
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands	10
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world	10
Against authenticity	9
Ancient Egyptian human remains and more-than-human networks in Dutch museum collections	9
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes	9
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall	9
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach	8
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves	8
Fallowed heritage. The past and presents of the State Agricultural Farms in Poland	8
The evolving house museum: art collectors and their residences, then and now	8
Distinct aesthetics of democratic memory: Thailand’s 14th of October 1973 memorial and the Philippines’ Bantayog ng mga Bayani	8
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze	8
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	8
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe	8
Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hölleland (2025)	8
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing	8
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily	7
Considering Sino-Thais’ residual place-rhythms as everyday heritage in Thai cities	7
Living heritage and sustainable landscapes in rural Europe: narratives of change and continuity in four Biosphere Reserves	7
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige	7
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda	7
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	7
Networks and networking for a transnational World Heritage nomination – the Transatlantic Cable Ensemble	7
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha	7
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes	7
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage	7

Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	7
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events	7
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?	7
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	6
Echoes of heritage: Huayin laoqiang and the cosmopolitan journey of Chinese music	6
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center	6
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories	6
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies	6
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage	6
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution	6
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization	6
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums	6
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history	6
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data	5
Heritage pidgin: when intangible cultural heritage looks alive and is not	5
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia	5
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	5
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	5
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal	5
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states	5
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity	5
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia	5
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	5
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo	5
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy	5
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia	5
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter	5
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory	5
Uncanny transcripts and spectral justice: multivocality and heritagising death at Bukit Brown Cemetery	5
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia	4
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	4
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums	4
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality: the case of Hrušov, Slovakia	4
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards	4
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene	4
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu	4
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park	4
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–2001	4
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island	4
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years	4
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities	4
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden	4
Loving culture, living peace: the link between cultural heritage engagement and peace values in Cambodia	4
Digital museum objects and digital ecologies	4
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	4
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education	4
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives *Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve*	4
ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right	4
Authors’ reply to Peter Bridgewater, ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hølleland (2025)’	4
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique	4
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	4
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)	4