OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities: Walking Barcelona, Marseille and Genova	56
‘If I don’t do some couching I will burst’	51
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum	45
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob	38
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses	28
‘Good food’ in an Instagram age: Rethinking hierarchies of culture, criticism and taste	24
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	21
The political economy of fanzines on the threshold of state socialism and post-socialism: The story of Czech(o)slovak fanzines	20
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	17
Book review: Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and Jessalynn Keller, Digital Feminist Activism Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture	17
Book Review: Catherine McDermott, Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture	13
‘Even if the algorithm is a terrible workmate, you just need to learn to live with it’: Perceptions of data analytics among game industry professionals	12
‘Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 2022	12
Humour under occupation: Jokes and humorous anecdotes and their reflections in Palestine	11
Artificial Intelligence and the question of creativity: Art, data and the sociocultural archive of AI-imaginations	11
Women as ‘space invaders’ in a gendered billiards hall: The male space and moments of change	10
Book review: Laura Clancy, Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages its Image and our Money	10
Mapping the music of migration: Emergent themes and challenges	10
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	9
What is needed to promote gender equality in the cultural sector? Responses from cultural professionals in Catalonia	9
Advocacy for territorial and people-centered approaches to development in Romania: Place attachment based on industrial heritage	9
Listening to the cultural acoustics of migrant voices: The archived conversations of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Library’s ‘Listening Project’	9
The semiotic heritage of grunge and the distressed sneakers trend	9
‘I don’t want to be known for it’: Girls, leadership role models and the problem of representation	8
Nobody cares for men anymore: Affective-discursive practices around men’s victimisation across online and offline contexts	8

Photographable femininities in women’s magazines and on Instagram	8
AIDS melodrama now: Queer tears in It’s a Sin and Pose	8
HIV/AIDS and its monsters. Negotiating criminalisation along the monster–human continuum	8
‘It’s not who I want to be!’: Negotiating the ‘illegible’ single woman in US–UK popular culture	7
From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: The romanticisation of domestic labour on TikTok	7
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	7
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	6
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	6
How time flows making games: An ethnographic analysis of experiences of temporality in an indie videogame studio	6
Book review: Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet and Leonie Schmidt, ‘It’s My Party’: Tat Ming and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong	6
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	5
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	5
Discourses of cultural diversity and inclusion in film policy: The case of Flanders (2002–2022)	5
Contrasting media representations of race and national identity: The case of England and Italy at the Union of European Football Associations Euro 2020	5
Machinic, inadequate, entrepreneurial: Uncovering the citizen subject of the human-centric welfare state	5
Crafting professionals: Skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy	5
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	5
Book Review: Anne M Cronin, Secrecy in Public Relations, Mediation and News Cultures	5
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	5
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	4
Beyond ‘reifying whiteness’ in feminist media studies	4
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	4
Contemporary curating: Gift-giving in the Zürcher Theater Spektakel performing arts festival	4
Keywords as method	4
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	4
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	4
Space oddity – Reading Nirmal Puwar’s Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place in decolonial times	4
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	4
Gendering the history of cinemagoing in Izmir, Turkey: Middle-class women’s experiences of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s	4
Pansy asses and terrorists: Sensibilities of anti-environmentalist toxic speech against Extinction Rebellion Finland	4
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	4
Microcelebrities’ identity construction on social media: A systematic review and synthesis	4
From progressiveness to perfection: Mothers’ descriptions of their children in print media, 1970–1979 versus 2010–2019	4
The politics of vulnerability in the influencer economy	4
Beyond the Giralda: Residents’ interpretations of the Seville portrayed in fictional movies and TV series	4
He said, she said	4
Deconstructing the stigma of ageing: The rise of the mature female influencers	4
Book review: Jia Tan, Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China	3
Deepfakes and the promise of algorithmic detectability	3
Representation of climate change and global warming in comics: From apocalyptic fiction to educational tool	3
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	3
Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey	3
‘Scatter my ashes at Saks Fifth Avenue’: Boundary work and intermediation in the fashion landscape	3
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	3
Book review: Karen Wells, The Visual Cultures of Childhood: Film and Television from The Magic Lantern to Teen Vloggers	3
WhatsAppening Donald: The social uses of Trump memes	3
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions	3
‘When showing Hanfu to foreigners, I feel very proud’: The imagined community and affective economies of Hanfu (Chinese traditional couture) among Chinese migrant youth in the United Kingdom	3
Need for belonging: Exploring subcultural identity in the Chinese Lolita online community	3
‘We haven’t got here just on our own. It’s a conversation’: An interview with Carol Tulloch	3

Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
Queer media production as soft activism: Insights from a Chinese community project	3
Purging the neoliberal poison? Marina Diamandis and the cultural grammar of popular left politics	3
Book Review: Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor, Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries	3
Book Review: Koen Leurs, Digital Migration	3
From London to Bali: Raymond Williams and communication as transport and social networks	3
Making the invisible visible	3
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating	3
Jo Cox, public feeling and British political culture: #MoreInCommon	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	2
Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Spectacular girls and the place of psychoanalytic approaches in feminist media and cultural studies during the Coronavirus crisis	2
The emergence and undermining of sex worker-led freelance feminism	2
#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis	2
Civic stage fright: Motivation and news satire engagement	2
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	2
The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT	2
Book review: Joy White, Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City	2
Genres at work: A holistic approach to genres in book publishing	2
Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’sThe Crown	2
‘In the end you adapt to anything’: Responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain	2
Book review: Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport	2
Ageing and unruliness: Articulations of gaga feminism in representations of ageing, gender and sexuality	2
Breaking the logic of neoliberal victimhood: Vulnerability, interdependence and memory in Captain Marvel (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2019)	2
Womens’ football, sexism and media representation: Contextualising the Rubiales/Hermoso kiss	2
Ethnography as thrownness and the face of the sufferer	2
When the dancing went wrong, the evening went right: An argument for ageing and changing cultural practice	2
A music for all times: Arabesk as a nostalgic commodity for New Turkey’s entertainment industry	2
‘The man that got away’: Gender inequalities in the consumption and production of jazz	2
Authenticity, uniqueness and talent: Gay male beauty influencers in post-queer, postfeminist Instagram beauty culture	2
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	2
Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism	2
Fatal feminisation: Problematising endocrine-disrupting chemicals in Denmark	2
We will be great again: Historical victimhood in populist discourse	2
‘Come and get a taste of normal’: Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic	2
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	2
Anticonsumerist marketers: Cultural intermediaries in an era of consumer activism	2
Twists and turns in the 360 deal: Spinning the risks and rewards of artist–label relations in the streaming era	2
Finding fun in the fatigue: Exploring healthism among group fitness instructors	2