OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Consumer Culture is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	63
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	53
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	51
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	16
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	15
Conspicuous prosumption: Expressing class via materially productive leisure	13
Book Review: Review of diners, dudes, and diets: How gender and power collide in food media and culture	13
Governing individuals’ imaginaries and conduct in personal finance: The mobilization of emotions in financial education	12
The wall unit: State policy and the emergence of fashion in People’s Poland	11
Men becoming fighters: Exploring processes of consumer socialization	11
Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances	11
Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking	10
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	10
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	9
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	8
Book Review: Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and The Birth of a Local Scene	8
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	7
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	6
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	6
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	6
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	6
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	6
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	6
Aspirational taste regime: Masculinities and consumption in pick-up artist training in China	5
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	5

Book Review: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Polity	5
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	5
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	4
Entitlements, Payments, Enterprise: framing pocket money in teenage girls’ consumption practices	4
Book Review: Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protests in the United States	4
Reshaping female consumer subjectivity: Beauty consumption practices in Li Jiaqi’s livestream room	4
Feeding masculine norms: Representations of (non-) meat and masculinities in food advertising	4
A short ethnography of twenty-first century consumers: On retail rage and one-dimensionality	4