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

Article	Citations
Acoustancy: experiments in sensory museology	28
What blind people can teach sighted viewers about art	22
The anthropocentric sensorium: how an anthropocentric distribution of the sensible makes us human	22
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding: from polarity to plurality	17
The historical ear: ‘what is auditory history?’ The inaugural conference of the IMS Study Group auditory history	16
The tinnital sublime	13
Adventures in the bodily interior	10
Neurological imaginaries: sensorial experiences among patients and clinicians	10
Sensory studies 2026: a state-of-the-art review	10
Education of the senses: the art of noticing, self-improvement, or the grooming of paying customers?	9
Climate of spectacle	7
Gripping words: sensing the world beyond the page in Victorian literature	7
Disturbance (The Aesthetics of Tinnitus)	7
Picturing sensory moments: an ethnomethodological approach to cheese shop interactions	6
English Heritage Gardener-Led Immersive Sensory Tours English Heritage Gardener-Led Immersive Sensory Tours , Down House, Kent, and other locations, June 2023	6
Provocation: stop replicating and start reimagining digital communication for the sensing body	6
Paul B. Preciado’s queer hospital: healthcare architectures for pleasure, transformation and subversion	5
Zora Neale Hurston’s synaesthetic ethnography	4
The five senses in the medieval law of evidence	4
Somnambience: composing restful spaces for overstimulating times	4
What does lockdown smell like? Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through smell	4
Car driving as inverted quarantine and the sensory response to collective threats: challenges for public transport	3
Sensory perception in cultural studies—a review of sensorial and multisensorial heritage	3
The Adriatic sound world: listening to the sea (1300–1650)	3
Challenging ocularcentric fairness assumptions of the video assistant referee (VAR) system in football	3

Social robots and the futures of affective touch	3
An anaesthesiology of water treatment	3
Odor: Immaterial Sculptures	2
The role of the physical environment in formal and informal mindfulness: the sensory retreat experience	2
Crosstalk of the senses: a meet the author roundtable	2
Jeremy Shaw: Towards Logarithmic Delay	2
Aislinn Thomas, QUIET PARADE	2
Introduction to synaesthetics	2
New phenomenologies of pain and the re-conceptualization of health in the digital arts	1
Making and exhibiting: reflections from the sensing spaces of healthcare exhibition	1
Re-adorning clothes through the slow fashion movement in France: The role of touch in mending garments	1
Trust as a sensory mode of engaging culturally diverse communities in net zero futures	1
Material expressions and a theory for sensing energy	1
Renata Carvalho, Transpofagic Manifesto	1
The Milk of Dreams	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
Introduction to multisensory ethnography	1
Sensing pesticides. Corporally embodied experiences with chemical plant protection products in Norwegian horticulture, 1945–2021	1
How can scents enhance the impact of guided museum tours? towards an impact approach for olfactory museology	1
How do we feel? Embodied simulation, attention, and the pursuit of transcendence in Jeremy Shaw’s Phase Shifting Index	1
The concept of sensory space as a historical reality	0
Infernal tastes and visions of wellness: taking the waters at a Tuscan drinking spa	0
From song into stone and glass: laudesi devotions and the stained-glass imagery of Orsanmichele	0
Hospital blues: reflections on writing and hearing healthcare histories through blues and folk music performance	0
Alison O’Daniel, The Tuba Thieves	0
“I’ve adopted it as my smell”: transgender identity and the olfactory	0
Zack Russell, Someone Lives Here	0
Embracing water, healing pine: touch-walking and transcorporeal worldings	0
Within the sublime absence of light: toward an architecture of formlessness	0
Reading the air: toward multisensory literacy for the Anthropocene	0
Gendered enskilment: becoming women through recreational running	0
What is affective technotouch (and why does it matter)?	0
“Hacking the senses” to mitigate hotel food waste	0
The sense of sensory terms and use of the senses in central Flores (Indonesia)	0
Food and (curry) culture in Indian diaspora: a comparative study of the racial “other” in select culinary narratives of women writers	0
Bringing awareness of the sensing body – Dance for Health at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0
Decoding the sensory mixes of cultural artifacts: Harley Parker’s semio-affective indices	0
Toward a sensual theory of the extended sensorium	0
Integrating smell in teaching Universal Design	0
Lumitopes and lumitopias : feeling light and place in writing between moonlight, candlelight and gaslight	0
Activating the senses: the aesthetics and politics of the transpecies society	0
Tinnitus, speaking: listening in with Daniel Fishkin	0
Clay tips of thought	0
Sensorium: the definitive guide for sensory studies scholars	0
Recuperating the bad outcome: reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis	0
To stomach the spirit	0
Multimodal generative AI: remodelling the sensorium	0
DisplayCult, portraits as portals: psychic mediums read unknown artists, Art Windsor-Essex, July 18–October 20, 2024	0
Sleeping and lying-in-bed in underwater hotels: sensing (dis-)comfort in an alloútopian space	0

Melancholic militancy: arabesk sampling, cultural hybridity, and sonic resistance in contemporary Turkish rap	0
Creative reflections on embodied filmmaking: in, through and between the senses and spaces of the medicalized body	0
Gridding bodies: a topographical survey of teaching touch in medical school	0
Claire-Louise Bennett, Nightflowers , Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, May 12, 2023 – January 21, 2024Claire-Louise Bennett, Nightf	0
Aromas of knowledge, networks of scent: tracing the olfactory imagination of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler	0
Music, marbling and multisensory trancing	0
Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens	0
Mapping tinnitus	0
Touching imaginaries: otherwise worlds and speculative techno-touch in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi	0
Cold colonialism and sensory infrastructures	0
Charlie Haden’s earplugs	0
The mention of flies: chance, environment, depiction	0
Colour of Noise	0
Sharpening our olfactory gaze	0
Scenes of terror, scenes of art	0
Creation from Creature: Plants and Animals on the Silk Roads	0
Ephemeral modernity: olfaction, shock and time in late nineteenth century literature	0
Field recording of urban sonic environments: a framework for qualitative analysis	0
Robotic technologies, touch and posthuman embodiment in queer dementia care	0
Reading with the Senses	0
Crafting a ‘senseplace’: the touch, sound and smell of graffiti	0
Exploring socio-cultural, neurocognitive and embodied foundations for aesthetic perception: reception of selected examples of Polish contemporary art	0
Understanding urban green spaces through lenses of sensory experience: a case study of neighborhood parks in Dhaka city	0
Tasting life and energy with the body: the biodynamic resonance of wine	0
Joie noire	0
Deep listening the ancient fora of Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia	0
The new intersensory music and art history	0
The flavor of Cuban movement and the deliciousness of embodied skills	0
Caroline Monnet, Pizandawatc/The One Who Listens/Celui qui écoute	0
Haptic and deep sensing in ballet class	0
Listening to hauntological time: Chinese Dreamcore, millennial memories, and the temporal crisis in the Anthropocene	0
Sensory ecologies: the refinement of movement and the senses in sport	0
Translating migrancy through the senses: migrant objects as tangible translation	0
Interwoven Sights: Early Photography in East Asia	0
Senses and spaces of modern health/care: special issue editorial	0
Smelling Indonesia: navigating smell-based architectural trajectories	0
Highlighting elephant’s perspective through umwelt exploration: textual analysis of the novella River Storm	0
Sarindar Dhaliwal: When I grow up I want to be the namer of paint colors	0
From cookbooks to ASMR: significance of sound and hearing in culinary recipes	0
Gravel cycling craft and the senses: scenes, sounds, vibrations, fatigue and typifications on off-road tracks	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
The presence of the absence: sensory aesthetics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging	0
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century	0
Intersensory communication in a deaf-blind theater: ethnography of sensory diversity	0
Smell and the not-quite human: the olfactory scaffolding behind social structures in southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
The body beyond the face: rethinking multispecies connections through sensory ethnography	0
Hiroshi Sugimoto – The Descent of the Kasuga Spirit	0
Keyuan Garden (可园) (ca. 1730), built by Yin Jishan, Cang Lang Qu, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, visited in 2025	0
Sensing the societal development and cultural transformation in China	0
Chrysanne Stathacos, Chrysanne	0
Sensory attunements of caregivers and care receivers: the value of an embodied and emplaced approach in everyday care encounters	0
Get Up and Tie Your Fingers : affective choreography emphasizing touch within community storytelling performances	0
Sensational Books	0
Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage	0
Attuned visibility and the ambiguity of demanding public spaces in Copenhagen	0
Sensing the city on skateboards	0
Cloud Walkers	0
Introduction: The aesthetics of tinnitus	0
Exploring non-Western sensoria	0
The quality of water: perception and senses of fluid movement	0
“A familiar, not fearful place”: sensory histories of hospital birth in twentieth-century North America	0
Sonic waves and scented skies: perceptions of power, protest, and partition in the Cold War	0
Conditional Sundays: sensory arrhythmia and compressed leisure in Singapore’s migrant enclaves	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
‘An experiment with the self’: sensory experience, self-analysis, and object relations theory in Oliver Sacks’ A Leg to Stand On (1984)	0
Toward an African sensory psychology	0
Jónsi, Hrafntinna (Obsidian) Jónsi , Hrafntinna (Obsidian) , Art Gallery of Ontario,	0
The Ghost Train: a disappearing fairground entertainment	0
Exploring sonic experiences in church spaces: a psycholinguistic analysis	0
Infrastructure and deaf futurism Sensory futures: deafness and cochlear implants in urban India , by Michele Friedner, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2022,	0
Touching to connect, explore, and explain: how the human brain makes social touch meaningful	0
‘A hand reached out’: entangled histories of touch	0
ROSEMARY Skool	0
Sensory pleasures and displeasures of the outdoors: somatic learning and the 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
“Hearing with the eyes” visual hearing in (a trio) music rehearsals	0
Song Yuan 颂元: Sniffing as the Path: Olfactory and Transmedia Art	0
Walking, the body, and the pandemic: the public value of walking art in China	0