OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	71
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	54
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	51
Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation	38
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	30
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	22
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	21
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	20
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	19
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	19
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	19
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	18
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	16
Who are Shunzhi ? Subaltern politics and the making of ‘the other’ in Chinese queer activism	16
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	15
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	15
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	13
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	12
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	12
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	12
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	11
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	11
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	11
Lolcows and the mediation of digital freakshows	11
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	11

‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	10
Special Cultural Commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook , Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	9
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	9
Anti-naturalism, technoscientific empowerment and rage: Insurgent feminist knowledge in an online menopause forum	9
‘ Je te crois ’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	9
Imagining audiences in the age of generative AI	9
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	8
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	8
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	8
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	8
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	8
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	7
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	7
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	7
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	7
Research on power in musical practices and institutions	7
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	7
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	7
Publication Notice	7
Between exploitation and autonomy: How participants position themselves within reality television production in the post-socialist Czech Republic	6
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	6
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	6
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	6
Work in sustainability crisis: The ecological spirit of capitalism and the spectre of sleepwalking	6
Serial repetition, imperfection and the time loop narrative in women-centric US TV	6
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	6
Flushed but not gone: Brainrot and AI slop as abject excess in data-intensive capitalism	5
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	5
Culturalist and neo-propagandist politics at Eurovision: A triptych analysis of cultural diplomacy approaches of the European Broadcasting Union vis-à-vis Belarus, Russia and Israel	5
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	5
Confinement, imagination, and resistance in Palestine: The caricatures and graphic art of Mohammed Sabaaneh	5
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journe	5
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	5
Beefed-up feeds: Young men interpreting meat-masculinity scripts on Instagram	5
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	5
Social mobility is a joke: Working-class women and British TV comedy on ‘the social floor’	5
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	5
The irony of aging graffiti writers: Negotiating subcultural identities through Internet memes	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	5
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	5
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	5
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	5
POD goes to Westminster: Makeover television, AI discipline, and the classed politics of Hannah Spencer’s body	5
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	5
‘It’s almost as good as going to a very good concert!’: But is everyone invited? Examining the cultural world of the Death Café neo-tribe	5
Book review: Castellano CG, Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque in Tragic Times CastellanoCG (2026) Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque i	5
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	5
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	5
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	4
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	4

Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	4
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	4
Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture	4
Making the invisible visible	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	4
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	4
Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements	4
‘Nobody would believe the protagonist of my story’: From assessing credibility to co-creating (un)reliability in the context of queer asylum narratives	4
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present ChengYa-Hui, The Evolution of Chi	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	4
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	4
Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda	4
No room! Of course there’s room	4
Matching energy: The end of caring about reception studies’ racial ambivalence	4
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating	3
Desired or disillusioned urban dreams? How Weibo discursively construct digitalized cruel mobility for Chinese skilled migrants	3
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	3
Space invading at the museum	3
Exploring the gendered experiences of British lifestyle migrants in Spain in the context of Brexit	3
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	3
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	3
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
Computational Gallerte : Compressions of culture	3
‘I want to be judged on my work, I don’t want to be judged as a person’: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft	3
Weaving the network of collectivism – Kuqing as affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality show X-Change	3
Theory, culture, care	3
Recast(e)ing sports on screen: A critical study of popular postmillennial sports films in India	3
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	3
Book review: Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman (eds), The Richard Dyer Reader DavisGlynKooijmanJaap (eds), The Richard Dyer Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2023,	3
Book review: Jessica Martin, Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity MartinJessica, Feminisms and Domesticity i	3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	3
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Book review: Zahra Stardust, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance StardustZahra, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. Durham	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	3
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	3
Unforgetting a desirable future: Hauntological lessons for a foundational culture	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3