Games and Culture

Papers
(The H4-Index of Games and Culture is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture177
Social Realism in Red Orchestra 2 (2011)48
Uses and Gratifications of Biophilic Simulation Games27
Horror Video Games and the “Active-Passive” Debate25
“Fear the Old Blood”: The Gothicism of Bloodborne23
Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)18
The Practice of Oldhammer: Re-Membering a Past Through Craft and Play17
Survey on Localization From the Development Perspective16
Erratum15
Livestreaming History: The Streamer-Historian and Historical Games Outreach15
High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book14
“A Definition of Enchantment”: A New Approach to the Analysis of Magic Systems in Fantasy Games13
Mask of the Translator: Walter Benjamin and Metal Gear Solid’s Difficult Relationship with Localization13
Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?13
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