International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 1. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium26
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times20
Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America19
Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups17
Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France16
The digital Creole16
De-celebrifying the problematic wanghong: Interlocking tensions in Chinese digital anti-fandom14
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production14
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin12
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 202212
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations10
Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events9
Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice9
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers8
Thanks to Reviewers8
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland8
Cultures of reading: Then and now8
The carnivalesque celebration of a slack laborer icon on a talent show: Civic engagement, commercialization, and political control7
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms7
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production7
Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan6
Four concepts to think from the South6
We are not raised by wolves: Decentering human exceptionalism in nature6
The border as “other space”5
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey5
Culture is transnational5
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria5
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks5
RETRACTED: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation5
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television5
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey5
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation5
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil5
RETRACTION NOTICE: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation5
Globally connected, nationally restrained: Platform ambiguities and censorship in Turkey's drama production5
Not just Netflix: Interventions of Korea's domestic streamers4
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context4
We got you covered: Contextualizing industry insurance practices and the response to Covid-194
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage4
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South4
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic4
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture4
The memefication of Squid Game and mimicry of Asian images4
Introduction: Caring media futures4
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in digital public sphere3
Situating ‘careful surveillance’3
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities3
Ambivalence of informality: Covid-19 and unmasked precarity in Nollywood3
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not3
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora3
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration3
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans3
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform3
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials3
The neoliberal perils of yoga and self-care on apps and platforms3
Engaging the present, embracing the past: Pop culture museums and cultural continuity in Fukushima3
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials3
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community3
Getting to yes: An interview with Igor Vamos3
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming3
More than a makeover: Discourses of masculinity, hyposexuality, and marriage in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!3
Lifestyle, nostalgia, and serial storytelling in the Southern Living South3
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘Dhoom Dham’3
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism3
Can co-op supermarkets lead the way to sustainability? Potentials and challenges in the shift from food difference to food democracy in Spain2
Intersectional methods to study the intellectual production of a Black female samba composer2
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok2
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin2
#Nature is trending: Social media, viral landscapes, and digital environmental activism in Oman2
“I made myself a new safety bubble”: Building trans virtual homeplaces2
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice2
The patriarchal Western gaze and the discursive policing of fandom: “Koreaboo” as stigma2
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives2
Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China2
Illicit media, reflexivity and sociocultural change in North Korea2
Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements2
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?2
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic2
Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity2
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy2
Turning disaster into crisis2
A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba2
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context2
Mapping globalised Chinese webnovels: Genre blending, cultural hybridity, and the complexity of transcultural storytelling2
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community2
Revise and Republish Notice2
Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices2
Girl-instrument: Posthumanism, producers, and virtual performers in Japanese music2
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work2
Globalization from above and below: Rejecting superficial multiculturalism and igniting anti-Korean sentiment in Japan2
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore2
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space2
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services2
Danger, no exit: Relationships to ‘remains’ and ‘petromelancholia’ on the landscape of the oil sands1
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’1
Struggle over control: Sound in home video1
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship1
A global approach to studying platforms and cultural production1
‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration1
#MournHub and @GrieveWatch: Mediating monarchy and mourning in the digital age1
Art rocks: Atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space1
The politics of credit in remix of Japanese popular culture: Between “an 80's Japanese disco floor” and “this remix is worthy of the actual game”1
‘What eating disorders are really like’ - Dynamics of lived experience and repetitive aesthetics on TikTok1
The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands1
Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries1
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse1
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation1
‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism1
Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China1
Story-weaving: homo narrans, popular culture and the role of stories in tourism1
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand1
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America1
Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution1
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa1
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture1
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation1
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana1
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance1
Worldmaking on digital platforms: A study of Cuban comedy in social media1
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