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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)	18
Images among images: a map scholar response	15
Ephemeral literacies: reflecting on the impermanence of maize reading divination	12
Photography and reality. Reflections around the role of the photographer among photo students in Russia and Sweden	11
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box	10
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive	7
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color	6
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks	6
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey	6
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin	6
Editorial	5
Editorial	5
Reweaving memory: Taiwan’s last coal miners	5
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India	5
Typophoto: New typography and the reinvention of photography	5
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong	5
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City	5
Drawing (in) the margins: decolonising human rights and political frames in Indian comics on indigeneity	4
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 2019	4
Editorial	4
Prosody: an ode to the city	4
Dressing and undressing Duchamp	4
Capital modernisation: a photographic analysis of Lisbon’s urban transformation from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War I	4
The shape of Utopia: the architecture of radical reform in nineteenth-century America	4
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?	4

Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures	4
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world	4
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics a	4
Turning to the imaginary: Stuart Hall’s interventions in visual arts and cultural studies	4
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	3
Being specific about ‘digital images’	3
Interpreting visual meaning: analysing photo-elicitation interviews through the levels of visual framing	3
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis	3
Designing Chineseness: an interview with Mingxuan Shen on the New Wonton typeface	3
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies	3
Visual studies: A social scientific perspective	3
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation	3
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec	3
Editors’ introduction	3
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia	3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK	3
Visualising enclosure: the architecture of separation in campus life	3
Copyright as an ethical dimension of visual research: preserving ownership across the research process	3
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology	3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)	3
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal	3
Looking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of ‘madness’	2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media	2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities: Mountain View ’s (2021) advertisement as a case study	2
Kejawen tradition and sacred water practices in Central Java, Indonesia	2
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach	2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites	2
Mothering myths. An ABC of art, birth and care	2
The social life of private thoughts	2
Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza	2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain	2
Editorial	2
Wake up, this is Joburg	2
Dandelions in the mirror: identity construction and family dynamics in a case study of Chinese lesbians	2
Preserving indigenous cultural narratives through mixed-media and digital animation	2
Visualizing entrenched historical trauma and inherited fear: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of Jakarta’s traditional Chinatown Glodok	2
Visual stratification and algorithmic hegemony in digital visual culture of China	2
Editorial	2
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create	2
Editorial	2
Graphic interventions on child sexual abuse: the case of Indian narratives	2
Curating visual materials in sociological research: sensing cruise aquamobilities and urban change	2
Making a scene!: How visionary individuals created an international photography scene in Houston, Texas	2
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes	1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine	1
Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results	1
Decoding visual culture	1
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast: aesthetic reading of infrastructural materiality and island integration	1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira	1
Emoji and social media paralanguage	1

‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information	1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay	1
Visual ethnography of the Dandari Gusadi festival of the Raj Gonds of Telangana, India: focusing on the social and ceremonial cultural expressions	1
Sociomateriality and infrastructure in action: the politics of border design through ethnographic photography	1
#EverydayNile Correspondences	1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies	1
Representing the unrepresentable. An interpretative study of Ukraine war photojournalism	1
Topologies of air	1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco	1
Imagining the city	1
Dirty pictures	1
What is an image in the digital age?	1
Visionary art and the limits of social constructivism	1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok	1
Lettuce grow in the city	1
The eye of capital. Jonathan Crary and the history of attention	1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis	1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram	1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny	1
Finding the local (meta)picture	1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution	1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries	1
A theory of assembly: From museums to memes	1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus	1
Whom to Follow: The Staged Satire of Chinese Education in Wang Qingsong’s Photography	1
Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth	1
Editorial	1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies	1
The Unfinished Business of Astley Castle: interdisciplinarity, palimpsest and contemporaneities	1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal	1
The image is a cure	1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil	1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world	1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography	1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G20	1
Visions and divisions of the world: the case of the Pallaqueras in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mines in Southern Perù	1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel	1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China	1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China	1
Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland	1