OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19	22
‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps	20
Identity transformation, stigma power, and mental wellbeing of Chinese eSports professional players	20
Introduction: Caring media futures	19
Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan	17
Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries	15
Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution	15
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration	12
‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration	11
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis	11
A theory of a theory of the smartphone	11
‘Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film	10
Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building	9
The (broken) promise of queerbaiting: Happiness and futurity in politics of queer representation	9
Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games	8
An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo	8
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic	8
Situating ‘careful surveillance’	7
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium	7
Living Through It: Anger, Laughter, and Internet Memes in Dark Times	6
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy	6
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times	6
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture	6
Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America	6
Sisterhood and affective politics: The CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt	6

Institutional trauma across the Americas: Covid-19 as slow crisis	6
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services	6
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming	6
The Korean Wave as a source of implicit cultural policy: Making of a neoliberal subjectivity in a Korean style	5
Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups	5
Loving idols: K-pop and the limits of neoliberal solidarity in Cuba	5
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media	5
Culture is transnational	5
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope	5
Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries	5
Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice	5
Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien	5
Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis	4
Transgression in contemporary media culture	4
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland	4
Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube	4
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook	4
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore	4
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse	4
Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers	4
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice	4
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity	3
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring	3
Llamas are the new unicorns: Craft as competition television	3
Globalization from above and below: Rejecting superficial multiculturalism and igniting anti-Korean sentiment in Japan	3
On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt	3
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media	3
Platform capitalisms and platform cultures	3
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic	3
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production	3
Disrupting Brazilian television: Streaming and the decline of Globo's hegemony in video cultures	3
Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices	3
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?	3
The digital Creole	3