OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Visual 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog	10
Immersive encounters: video, swimming and wellbeing	10
Memes in the time of corona: an autoethnographic visual essay on memes as relational resources during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
A pictured Africa: drawing as a visual qualitative research methodology for examining British African Diaspora imaginings of their ancestral ‘home’	7
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey	7
Face masks as floating signifiers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium	7
On reciprocity: expanding the dialogue between disciplines	6
Altered spaces: new ways of seeing and envisioning nature with Minecraft	5
Miao traditional patterns: the origins and design transformation	5
Photo-eliciting technique as an integrated meaning-making practice: an introspective look at diversity, identities, and voice-giving	5
Visual framing in the German movements for gay liberation and against nuclear energy	5
Contemplating ‘visual studies’ as an emerging transdisciplinary endeavour	5
Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces	5
Ugly on the internet: from #authenticity to #selflove	4
RE/MAP 2.0 in Tokyo: drawing on local stories to draw out hidden realities	4
‘Through my eyes’: feminist self-portraits of Osteogenesis Imperfecta as arts-based knowledge translation	4
Breaking the frame: evolving practices of first-generation photo-elicitation researchers	4
The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method	4
“Local guys wanted”: homoerotic photography, censorship, and national belonging in apartheid South Africa – the case of Alternative Books (1981-1991)	3
Rethinking verticality through top-down views in drone hobbyist photography	3
Visual reciprocity and #vanlife in the visual commons: Vancouver Island is a VW bus	3
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city	3
No selfies: the social world of autistic male adults as depicted in their everyday photographic practices	3
The silent Tibetan women and their visual exclusions in Pema Tseden’s ‘Tibetan Trilogy’	3
Visual discourses in sport. A sociological analysis of the implementation of the video evidence in cycling and football	3

Back to basics? Portraits of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal	3
Changing portrayal of women during the late modern period in regards to visual communication design	3
Portfolio implementation for self-reflection and professional growth of students in the arts	3
Analogic and symbolic dimensions in graphic representations associated with patient information leaflets for medicines	3
The ‘anti-Instagram’: Using visual methods to study the college experiences of underrepresented students	3
Visual propaganda at a crossroads: new techniques at Iran’s Vali Asr billboard	3
Degenerate ecocinema: indexing entropy with drones	3
Editorial	2
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City	2
Visual culture studies: twenty years later	2
Reframing the homescape: documenting domesticity during photography’s COVID turn	2
Graphic medicine’s golden age?	2
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok	2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers	2
How to preserve the visible content of films in visual form throughout the analytical process?	2
Picturing atrocity: visual representations of ISIS in Arabic political cartoons	2
Editorial	2
Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa	2
The political work of graffiti during the Covid-19 pandemic: a view from Tottenham, London	2
Descendants of the modernist museum: tracing the musealisation of Swedish national parks	2
Collaboratively videoing mobile activities	2
Epidemics, public health workers, and ‘heroism’ in cinematic perspective	2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media	2
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways	2
Diagrammatic mental representation: a methodological bridge	2
Warao queen: challenging beauty in Venezuela – the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology 2020	2
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula	2
Across the islands: A multimodal discourse analysis of government homepages	2
Response to ‘Visual studies now’	2
Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland	2
Marshland revival: a narrative rephotography essay on the False Creek Flats neighbourhood in Vancouver	2
A study of light pollution discourse in Hong Kong	2
Hand-drawn concept-mapping as a participatory visual method	2
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship	2
Documentary photography as vocation: reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies	2
Visual bodies, ritualised performances: an offline-online analysis of Extinction Rebellion’s protests in Finland and Portugal	1
Let Dr Ai’s story flee: a minor practice against China’s internet censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory	1
Editorial	1
Memory passages: Holocaust memorials in the United States and Germany	1
Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages	1
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color	1
Seemingly innocent pictures. Visual representations of migrants and refugees circulating through the Czech Facebook nationalistic universe	1
Images of older people in Chinese fashion magazines: a visual assemblage analysis	1
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 2019	1
COVID diaries: quotidian snapshots of life during the pandemic	1
The value of parenting: gendered time expectations among the Spanish middle class	1
Coffee + COVID: people, place, and pandemic	1
Understanding social critique in graffiti art from a (non-)Western perspective: Chinese students comparing Banksy and Zato through photo-elicitation	1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China	1

An international football match experienced from within a 'working quarantine' – a photographic journey	1
Short videos as affective contagion: (Un)locked WeChat chatlogs on viral videos	1
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping	1
Sharing and redefining power with Vice President Harris: the visual framing by the Biden White House	1
Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation	1
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels	1
Editorial	1
Counter narrative of President Buhari’s narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook	1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny	1
Building material languages of trauma: in conversation with Laura Magnusson	1
Iconoclash and the climate movement	1
Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices	1
Majoritarianism and digital rights: understanding Kashmir and the ‘Othering of Other’ in the context of India	1
Visualising gendered space and informality: a photo essay	1
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	1
Images among images: a map scholar response	1
Merging landscapes: socio-spatial intersections and formations of belonging among African migrant youth in the US	1
A visual exploration of resource curse in East Kalimantan	1
The graffiti within: the reactivation and politicisation of Sydney’s subterranean	1
Everett Hughes: a moment on film	1
The visual opportunity spaces of oil: in promotion, protest, and warning	1
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France	1
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities	1
Thinking with Sarah Kaufman’s Devil’s Pool	1
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism	1
Building Shanghai in the borderlands: a visual approach to the restructuring of the Uyghur City in Xinjiang	1
Self-portrait in the photo booth: self-representation in the selfie era, a Photo-based Educational Research Project	1
Visuality and Parrēsia : Ai Weiwei’s countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi’s image	1
Framing urbanities: invisible/visible urban assemblages	1
Questionnaire: visual studies now	1
Being specific about ‘digital images’	1
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity	1
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches	1
Three stories of one truth? Visual framing of AP, CNN & FOX news Instagram coverage of the 2020 US presidential candidates	1
Methodology and Indigenous memory: using photographs to anchor critical reflections on Indian residential school experiences	1
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain	1
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students	1
Smells: A cultural history of odours in early modern times	1
Engaging young people in architectural research: three visual methods for understanding the impact of the built environment on children’s wellbeing	1
Jewish identity in American art: A golden age since the 1970s	1
Semantic macro-structures and macro-rules in visual discourse processing	1
Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practices	1
Visual studies now	1
COVID-19 grassroots memorial practices in the UK	1
Shooting occupation: the sociology of visual representation	1
Does she still recognise you?	1
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal	1