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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	105
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	45
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	31
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	31
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	31
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	31
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	23
Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation	23
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	22
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	17
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	15
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	15
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	14
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	13
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	13
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	12
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	10
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	10
Lolcows and the mediation of digital freakshows	10
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	9
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	8
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	8
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	8
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	8

‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	8
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	7
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	7
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	7
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	7
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	7
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	7
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	6
Publication Notice	6
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	6
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	6
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	6
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	6
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	6
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	6
Research on power in musical practices and institutions	5
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	5
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	5
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	5
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	5
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	5
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	5
Work in sustainability crisis: The ecological spirit of capitalism and the spectre of sleepwalking	5
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	5
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	5
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	5
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	5
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	4
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	4
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	4
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	4
‘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	4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	4
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	4
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	4
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	4
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	4

No room! Of course there’s room	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating. London: Blooms	3
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	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
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Theory, culture, care	3
Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements	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
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
Making the invisible visible	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	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
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
‘Nobody would believe the protagonist of my story’: From assessing credibility to co-creating (un)reliability in the context of queer asylum narratives	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	2
Calibrated structures of feeling: Cultural citizenship and the reproduction of the military in Singapore	2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
Book Review: Antonio A Casilli, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation CasilliAntonio A, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation. Chicago, IL: The U	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
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	2
The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan	2
Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	2
‘Navigating the travel blogger dispositif’: The importance of aesthetic labour within the digital work of British travel bloggers	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances RibkeNahuel, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographie	2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2
The consequences of the television closet: It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
‘Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 2022	2
Beyond cut, copy and paste: How editors stitch Bollywood’s disability affect	2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference	2
Unforgetting a desirable future: Hauntological lessons for a foundational culture	2
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	2
Space invading at the museum	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	2
Book review: Briony Hannell, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr HannellBriony, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr. Lo	2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Bodies of whiteness: Space invading Viktor Orbán’s ethnonationalism	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	2
Conceptualising change in equality, diversity and inclusion: A case study of the Irish film and television sector	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
Erratum to “Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads”	2
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2