OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Senses & Society is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Poetic listening, writing, and knowing the cry of the senses: listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics	13
“I tasted sweetness, and I tasted affliction”: pleasure, pain, and body in medieval Sufi food practices	12
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding: from polarity to plurality	11
Mestizaje, transculturation, anthropophagy, and the lower senses	11
What blind people can teach sighted viewers about art	10
Multisensory experience of public interiors	9
Any Port in a Storm; how the sounds of the ocean played through sound conditioners offer more than just a sleep aid	8
Education of the senses: the art of noticing, self-improvement, or the grooming of paying customers?	7
The tinnital sublime	7
Climate of spectacle	7
Adventures in the bodily interior	7
Provocation: stop replicating and start reimagining digital communication for the sensing body	6
Gripping words: sensing the world beyond the page in Victorian literature	6
English Heritage Gardener-Led Immersive Sensory Tours English Heritage Gardener-Led Immersive Sensory Tours , Down House, Kent, and other locations, June 2023	6
Disturbance (The Aesthetics of Tinnitus)	6
The five senses in the medieval law of evidence	5
Paul B. Preciado’s queer hospital: healthcare architectures for pleasure, transformation and subversion	5
Picturing sensory moments: an ethnomethodological approach to cheese shop interactions	5
What does lockdown smell like? Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through smell	4
Zora Neale Hurston’s synesthetic ethnography	4
Medieval islamicate aromatherapy: medical perspectives on aromatics and perfumes	4
Details of Pollock’s White Light	4
The senses of cholera: transformations of gustation and olfaction in 19th-century Iran	3
“You were not commanded to stroke it, but to pray nearby it”: debating touch within early Islamic pilgrimage	3
Challenging ocularcentric fairness assumptions of the video assistant referee (VAR) system in football	3

Social robots and the futures of affective touch	3
Sensory perception in cultural studies—a review of sensorial and multisensorial heritage	3
An anaesthesiology of water treatment	3
Car driving as inverted quarantine and the sensory response to collective threats: challenges for public transport	2
Sensitive subjects	2
New phenomenologies of pain and the re-conceptualization of health in the digital arts	2
Introduction to synaesthetics	2
Odor: Immaterial Sculptures	2
Regina José Galindo: *Ríos de Gente*, produced by Maiz de vida, for the festival Libertad para el Agua, various locations including Monte Olivo, Comunidad Nuevo Montecristo, Lanquín	2
Extreme VR: strategies of sensorial immersion and the intensities of experience	2
Matthew Wong: Blue View	2
Renata Carvalho, Transpofagic Manifesto	1
Making and exhibiting: reflections from the sensing spaces of healthcare exhibition	1
Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens	1
“Hearing with the eyes” visual hearing in (a trio) music rehearsals	1
Introduction to multisensory ethnography	1
How can scents enhance the impact of guided museum tours? towards an impact approach for olfactory museology	1
The Milk of Dreams	1
Sensing the pandemic: revealing and re-ordering the senses	1
Trust as a sensory mode of engaging culturally diverse communities in net zero futures	1
“To Be so Like a Bird in a Cage”: touch, comfort and connecting with the eighteenth-century madhouse	1
Christina Battle, the air we breathe	1
Material pleasures: the solace of lockdown retail therapy	1
The body beyond the face: rethinking multispecies connections through sensory ethnography	1
Hospital blues: reflections on writing and hearing healthcare histories through blues and folk music performance	0
A sense of space: the separation of dress and body in microgravity	0
“A familiar, not fearful place”: sensory histories of hospital birth in twentieth-century North America	0
Creative reflections on embodied filmmaking: in, through and between the senses and spaces of the medicalized body	0
The sense of sensory terms and use of the senses in central Flores (Indonesia)	0
To speak is to touch	0
Creation from Creature: Plants and Animals on the Silk Roads	0
Sensational Books	0
From the fairground sensorium to the digitalization of bodily entertainment: commercializing multisensory entertainments involving the bodily senses	0
Is revitalizing culture a beautiful dream? Objects, archives, and images of indigenous Taiwan in Hu Tai-Li’s documentary Returning Souls (2012)	0
Sensorium: the definitive guide for sensory studies scholars	0
Senses and spaces of modern health/care: special issue editorial	0
Understanding urban green spaces through lenses of sensory experience: a case study of neighborhood parks in Dhaka city	0
Crafting a ‘senseplace’: the touch, sound and smell of graffiti	0
Connoisseurs of the senses: tobacco smoking, poetic pleasures, and homoerotic masculinity in Ottoman Damascus	0
Toward a sensual theory of the extended sensorium	0
Bringing awareness of the sensing body – Dance for Health at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0
To stomach the spirit	0
Caroline Monnet, Pizandawatc/The One Who Listens/Celui qui écoute	0
Who feels it knows it: Black bodies and the sensory experience of the dance-hall	0
Sleeping and lying-in-bed in underwater hotels: sensing (dis-)comfort in an alloútopian space	0
The new intersensory music and art history	0
Introduction: The aesthetics of tinnitus	0
Touching to connect, explore, and explain: how the human brain makes social touch meaningful	0
Exploring sonic experiences in church spaces: a psycholinguistic analysis	0
Sense, sensibility, and psychophysics	0

Sensory pleasures and displeasures of the outdoors: somatic learning and the senses	0
Introduction: The sensory history of the Islamic world	0
The quality of water: perception and senses of fluid movement	0
Darren Bader: fruit, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad	0
Aromas of knowledge, networks of scent: tracing the olfactory imagination of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler	0
The mention of flies: chance, environment, depiction	0
Gravel cycling craft and the senses: scenes, sounds, vibrations, fatigue and typifications on off-road tracks	0
“I’ve adopted it as my smell”: transgender identity and the olfactory	0
Intersensory communication in a deaf-blind theater: ethnography of sensory diversity	0
Sensing the societal development and cultural transformation in China	0
Colour of Noise	0
“Ι don’t like the taste of that smell!” the edible and the non-edible in Greece: within reach but beyond the bite	0
Robotic technologies, touch and posthuman embodiment in queer dementia care	0
Attuned visibility and the ambiguity of demanding public spaces in Copenhagen	0
Howie Tsui, From swelling shadows, we draw our bows, curated by Justine Kohleal, The Power Plant, Toronto, September 26, 2020 - January 3, 2021	0
Gendered enskilment: becoming women through recreational running	0
Interrogating glamour: piercing visual pleasure, an antidote to passive spectatorship	0
Sensory attunements of caregivers and care receivers: the value of an embodied and emplaced approach in everyday care encounters	0
Smell and the legacy of scientific racism	0
Scenes of terror, scenes of art	0
Smells, intimate labor and domestic work in Delhi, India	0
The Ghost Train: a disappearing fairground entertainment	0
“Hacking the senses” to mitigate hotel food waste	0
The flavor of Cuban movement and the deliciousness of embodied skills	0
Sonic waves and scented skies: perceptions of power, protest, and partition in the Cold War	0
Tasting life and energy with the body: the biodynamic resonance of wine	0
Jónsi, Hrafntinna (Obsidian) Jónsi , Hrafntinna (Obsidian) , Art Gallery of Ontario,	0
Listening to clothing: from sonic fashion archive to sonic fashion library	0
Infrastructure and deaf futurism Sensory futures: deafness and cochlear implants in urban India , by Michele Friedner, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2022,	0
‘An experiment with the self’: sensory experience, self-analysis, and object relations theory in Oliver Sacks’ A Leg to Stand On (1984)	0
Tinnitus, speaking: listening in with Daniel Fishkin	0
Highlighting elephant’s perspective through umwelt exploration: textual analysis of the novella River Storm	0
Charlie Haden’s earplugs	0
Toward an African sensory psychology	0
A matter of taste? On the significance of aesthetic judgement for morality	0
Al-Jāḥiẓ on the senses: sensory moderation and Muslim synesthesia	0
Sarindar Dhaliwal: When I grow up I want to be the namer of paint colors	0
“Hearing” ahead of the sound: How musicians listen via proprioception and seen gestures in performance	0
Cold colonialism and sensory infrastructures	0
The presence of the absence: sensory aesthetics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging	0
Embracing water, healing pine: touch-walking and transcorporeal worldings	0
Alison O’Daniel, The Tuba Thieves	0
Joie noire	0
Music, marbling and multisensory trancing	0
Perception metaphors in cognition, language, and communication	0
Scenting the imperial residence: objects from the Topkapı Palace Museum collections	0
Gridding bodies: a topographical survey of teaching touch in medical school	0
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers : affective choreography emphasizing touch within community storytelling performances	0
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Better Nature	0
From cookbooks to ASMR: significance of sound and hearing in culinary recipes	0
What is affective technotouch (and why does it matter)?	0
Zack Russell, Someone Lives Here	0
Touch in Contact Improvisation: proximity/distance under intimate circumstances	0
Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage	0
Claire-Louise Bennett, Nightflowers , Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, May 12, 2023 – January 21, 2024Claire-Louise Bennett, Nightf	0
Exploring non-Western sensoria	0
Cloud Walkers	0
Writing Sillage in Nineteenth-Century FrancePerfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France, by Cheryl Krueger, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023, 364 pp., $36.95, (paperback), ISBN 9	0
Activating the senses: the aesthetics and politics of the transpecies society	0
Correction	0
Interwoven Sights: Early Photography in East Asia	0
Sensing time and potential in a speed skating development program	0
Mapping tinnitus	0
Reading with the Senses	0
Recuperating the bad outcome: reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis	0
Sharpening our olfactory gaze	0
Ways of seeing: the reflection of history in contemporary Chinese photography	0
Haptic and deep sensing in ballet class	0
Sound atmospheres in architecture: a case study in the South of Italy	0
Touching imaginaries: otherwise worlds and speculative techno-touch in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi	0
No hearing without signals: imagining and reimagining transductions through the history of the cochlear implant	0
Sensory ecologies: the refinement of movement and the senses in sport	0
Hiroshi Sugimoto – The Descent of the Kasuga Spirit	0
Walking, the body, and the pandemic: the public value of walking art in China	0