OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Culture 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Transcending the self: The intertwining of spiritual emergence and sustainable clothing consumption	72
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	23
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	22
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	18
The politics of representation: A critical exploration of essentialist categories in select advertisements from India	15
Social representations of pleasure in gambling among young adults: Between homo ludens and homo economicus	14
Conspicuous prosumption: Expressing class via materially productive leisure	14
The garden party: Refrains on literature as consumer research	14
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	12
Socialites in consumer culture: A Socio-marketing perspective	11
Book Review: Review of diners, dudes, and diets: How gender and power collide in food media and culture	10
Anything but hard discount: Storevorousness and the social stratification of grocery shopping venues in Italy (2014–2022)	9
Caring for choice: Fur, anthropocentric orderings and ethicalisation in consumer culture	8
Consumption, migration, and urban life	8
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	7
Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances	7
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	7
Digital neo-tribal formations and identity construction among Generation Z: A cyber-ethnographic analysis of China’s cotton dolls circle subculture	7
Negotiating patriotic cosmopolitanism in post-reform China: Identity, social capital, and transnational sport fandom among Chinese college students	7
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	7
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	7
Art in the digital dimension: Trivialization of the effects of creative work and the identity conflict of artists	6
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	6
Vulgar things: Moral dilemmas of luxury consumption in an unequal society	6
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	6

Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	6
The role of design in creating recognisability and attractiveness of sport in China	6
Mystery box fever and symbolic value in contemporary Chinese consumer society	5
‘It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas’: Exploring multiple atmospheres at Manchester’s Christmas markets	5
Towards a good (enough) life: The thrifty lives of young Australians	5
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	5
Cultural vacillation between Anatolia and Europe: Acculturation and sustainable consumption pattern in the Turkish community in Germany	5
Dreaming of “Homeownership”: Real estate advertising and housing dissonance in Santiago de Chile	5
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	5
Reshaping female consumer subjectivity: Beauty consumption practices in Li Jiaqi’s livestream room	4
The co-optation of Scottish cold-water surfing: An exemplar of how using indigenous relational power to share knowledge averts value co-destruction in western capitalist markets	4
Social practices and identity-work: Life course changes as sites for clothing and textile disposal	4
Entitlements, Payments, Enterprise: framing pocket money in teenage girls’ consumption practices	4
Feeding masculine norms: Representations of (non-) meat and masculinities in food advertising	4
Cross-cultural perspectives on ethical consumption: A study of Swedish and Iranian citizens	3
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	3
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production	3
Exploring the process of remote enculturation through heritage possessions: A case study of transracial international adoptees	3
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us	3
(Un)sustainable everyday practices sociomateriality shaping sustainability in an urban district	3
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	2
Servicescapes emplacing masculinity: Pursuing fighter identity at the martial arts gym	2
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	2
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	2
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	2
Taste making as assemblage effect: The case of electronic dance music	2
The making of the upgrade money: Home, Turkish housewives and digital secondhand marketplaces	2
From print to prompt: Examining orientalism in travel, tourism, and transport advertising from the 20th century to the age of generative AI	1
Performing balanced aspirations through identity capital: A case study of Chinese Ivy League influencers on RedNote	1
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	1
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	1
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion	1
Marking humans for consumption, whilst erasing others: Affective becomings and the workings of (dis)comfort	1
Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective	1
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil	1
Privileges of challenging the market: The red gate student consumer cooperative as a welfare enterprise in pre-1945 Japan	1
Generational reconfiguration. Unveiling hidden fault lines in socio-cultural dynamics	1
Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games	1