OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Sociology is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Deciphering the Iconic: An Inquiry into how Architecture Impacts the Inclusiveness of Cultural Institutions	35
‘You Don’t go to These Kinds of Concerts for Fun’: The Fluid and Emergent Performance of Taste in Contemporary Art Music	26
Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love	16
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society: Towards a Hermeneutically Strong Conception	15
Book Review: Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy	12
Book Review: Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism	12
Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists	11
Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses	11
Editorial Statement: Visions for Cultural Sociology in Uncertain Times	10
Exemplary Directors, European Imports, and the Changing Valuation of Films in Hollywood, 1961–1980	10
Book Review: The Sociology of Literature	10
Adolescents’ Music Tastes in the Streaming Era: The Case of Belgium	9
The Body of a Performer as a Form of Capital: Age, Gender and Aesthetics in Theatre Work	9
The Racialised ‘Second Existence’ of Class: Class Identification and (De-/Re-)construction across the British South Asian Middle Classes	8
Reflections on The Culture Trap: On Doing Ethnographic Cultural Sociology Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectation and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	8
Making Sense of Change: Emotive-Cognitive Reframing of Young People in Post-crisis Spain	8
Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture	7
The Material Dimension of Chinese Hip-Hop: From Tangible Forms to Online Consumption	7
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	7
Reactionary Exiles. How Conspiracy Theorists Deal with Socio-Technological Exclusion	7
Persecution Capital: Legitimacy, Trauma, and Political Authority	7
Elite Reproduction and Power in the Neoliberal Era: The Image-Making of King Carl XVI Gustaf as ‘Sweden’s Leader’	7
Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia	6
Accounting For the Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries	6
Roots of Distrust: Opposition to Science-Based Policy-Making during the Xylella Emergency in Salento	6

‘Eastern Europeanism’: A Rethinking of ‘Race and Racism’ by and Against White People from Central and Eastern Europe	5
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet	5
Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine	5
Book Review: Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education LaneJ.F.Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, EducationPalgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switz	5
(Plat)formatted Creativity: Creating Music in the Age of Streaming	5
The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts	5
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers	5
Voicing Omnivorousness, Assembling the Omnivorous Voice: The American Musical Explored	5
Exploring Digital/Non-digital Entanglements Through Everyday Practice Connections in Young People’s Gaming	4
‘Oh you’re really good for a girl’: Sexism, Stereotypes and Subcultural Capital in Board Gaming	4
Thank You to Referees	4
The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality	4
Rampant Abstraction as a Strategy of Singularization: Genre on Spotify	4
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life	4
Shifting Artistic Identity on Canvas: From ‘Painter-Worker’ to ‘Painter-Artist’ in a Commercial Painting Community	4
Photographer-Artist or Artist-Photographer? The Permanence of Contestations in the Field of Art Photography in Italy	3
‘Supertanker is a Hero, the Government a Villain’: Politicization of Chile’s 2017 Forest Fires in the Media	3
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	3
Book Review: Matters of Revolution: Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989 by Dominik Bartmanski	3
‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance	3
Book Review: The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice	3