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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Harnessing cultural heritage for sustainable development: an analysis of three internationally funded projects in MENA Countries	27
The geocultural heritage of the Silk Roads	25
Authenticity and heritage conservation: seeking common complexities beyond the ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ dichotomy	23
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic in England	22
Necessary conditions for integrated approaches to the post-conflict recovery of cultural heritage in the Arab World	21
Difficult heritage and digital media: ‘selfie culture’ and emotional practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe	18
The past as a catalyst for cultural sustainability in historic cities; the case of Doha, Qatar	18
Safeguarding intangible heritage through edutainment in China’s creative urban environments	17
Situating (in)significance	16
Digitalising endangered cultural heritage in Southeast Asian cities: preserving or replacing?	16
Building a bridge: opportunities and challenges for intangible cultural heritage at the intersection of institutions, civic society, and migrant communities	16
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance	15
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	14
Heritage, values and gentrification: the redevelopment of historic areas in China	14
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities	13
Curating the selective memory of gentrification: the Wulixiang Shikumen Museum in Xintiandi, Shanghai	13
Relationality and territoriality: rethinking policy circulation of industrial heritage reuse in Chongqing, China	13
Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments	11
Toilets first, temples second: adopting heritage in neoliberal India	11
Stories of feelings and things: intangible heritage from within the built heritage paradigm in the UK	11
The making of the Grand Canal in China: beyond knowledge and power	11
The UNESCO imprimatur: creating global (in)significance	11
Sustaining intangible heritage through video game storytelling - the case of the Sami Game Jam	10
The role of cultural heritage in visitor narratives of peatlands: analysis of online user-generated reviews from three peatland sites in England	9
Commercialization without over-commercialization: normative conundrums across heritage rationalities	9

Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	8
Dilemmas of protection: decolonising the regulation of genetic resources as cultural heritage	8
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
Time-space politics and heritagisation in Africa: understanding where to begin decolonisation	7
Making space for co-creation: heritage attractions that host contemporary art	7
‘Living in a postcard’: creatively exploring cultural heritage with young people living in Scottish island communities	7
Revitalising place-based commercial heritage: A Cultural Political Economy approach to the renaissance of lambic beers in Belgium	7
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach	7
White death: finnish world war two narrative and alternative heritage work in social media	7
Curating the Partition: dissonant heritage and Indian nation building	7
The use of past events as political symbols in Spain. The example of Vox and the need for a new archaeology of ethnicity	6
Why look at taxidermy animals? Exhibiting, curating and mourning the Sixth Mass Extinction Event	6
The politics and ethical dilemmas of architectural conservation in an unrecognised state: insights from northern Cyprus	6
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa	6
Eclectic Religion: The flattening of religious cultural heritage in videogames	6
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	6
The Islamic State’s Targeting of Christians and their Heritage: Genocide, Displacement and Reconciliation	6
The Missing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Shanghai Cultural and Creative Industries	6
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	6
Recognising values of China’s scenic and historic interest areas as world heritage cultural landscapes: Lushan case study	6
Embodyingressentimentfulvictimhood: virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk	5
Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering	5
The ‘preservation by relocation’ of Huizhou vernacular architecture: shifting notions on the authenticity of rural heritage in China	5
The relevance of researching video games and cultural heritage	5
Colonial representations of race in alternative museums: The ‘African’ of St Benet’s, the ‘Arab’ of Jorvik, and the ‘Black Viking’	5
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	5
Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting: conflict avoidance strategies in Kyiv city tour guiding	5
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	5
National identities and war heritage: acceptance and resistance of an authorised heritage discourse among visitors to the Australian War Memorial	5
How does music heritage get lost? Examining cultural heritage loss in community and authorised music archives	5
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
Tyrannical participation approaches in China’s regeneration of Urban heritage areas: a case study of baitasi historic district, Beijing	4
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	4
The management of minority heritage: critical challenges to Vietnamese Catholic heritage seen from the case study of Bui Chu Cathedral	4
Local museum, national history: curating Shanghai’s history in the context of a changing China (1994–2018)	4
Decolonising Babylon	4
Shiraz’s heritage gardens during the political turmoil in Twentieth-century Iran	4
Practice barriers towards intangible heritage within the UK built heritage sector	4
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	4
Heritage, community participation and the state: case of the Kalbeliya dance of India	4
Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)	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
Introduction: (in)significance – values and valuing in heritage	4
Against authenticity	4
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’	4
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages	4
Exploring Deaf heritage futures through critical design and ‘Public Things’	4
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts	4

Taking control of the production of heritage: Country and cultural values in the assessment of Aboriginal cultural heritage significance	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
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	3
Linking public health and heritage work	3
Remaking generational memory: practices of de-canonisation at historical museums	3
(Re)inventing intangible cultural heritage through the market in Greece	3
Reimagining the ‘Central Plains’ (Zhongyuan) and ‘Borderlands’ (Bianjiang): the cultural heritage scholarship of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao) of Southwest China	3
Rethinking game heritage – towards reflexivity in game preservation	3
Socialism, Heritage and Internationalism after 1945. The Second World and Beyond.	3
Buffing and buffering Blu: the societal performance of street art, heritage erasure and digital preservation in Berlin	3
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway	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
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China	3
Women’s representation and participation in UNESCO heritage discourse	3
‘Beneath the storyline’: analysing the role and importance of film in the preservation and development of Scottish heritage sites	3
The restricted heritage significance of historic mosques in Qatar	3
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes	3
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect	3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	3
Cultural heritage tourism as a catalyst for sustainable development; the case of old Oyo town in Nigeria	3
The promises and limitations of digital participation in heritage: Planning transmedia heritage districts in superdiverse cities	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
Endangered cultural heritage in the Russia–Ukraine war: comparing and critiquing interventions by international cultural heritage organizations	3