OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Celebrity Studies is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing entertainment celebrities in China: practices, policies and politics (2005–2020)	11
The rise and fall of the ‘King of Hanmai’—MC Tianyou	10
FromParis is Burningto #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture	9
Internationalising Celebrity Studies: turning towards Asia	9
The art of attracting attention: a process model of Chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands	8
Fifteen seconds of fame: Rupaul’s drag race, camp and ‘memeability’	8
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom	7
Performing nationalist populism in Turkey: an exploration of anti-Western, anti-elite and Muslim conservative undercurrents	6
Celebrity in the #MeToo Era	6
Singaporean Influencers and Covid-19 on Instagram Stories	5
Social media’s commodified, transgender ambassador: Caitlyn Jenner, celebrity activism, and social media	5
‘Assume the position: two queens stand before me’: RuPaul as ultimate queen	5
Filter bubbles and guru effects: Jordan B. Peterson as a public intellectual in the attention economy	4
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes	4
Idols, celebrities, and fans at the time of post-catastrophe	4
‘No one is trash, no one is garbage, no one is cancelled’: the cultural politics of trauma, recovery and rage inRuPaul’s Drag Race	4
National populists: right-wing celebrity politicians in contemporary Europe	3
Celebrity, Inc.: the self as work in the era of presentational culture online	3
‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria	3
Product endorsement on Slovak TV: Generation Y’s recall of celebrity endorsements and brands	3
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out	3
#ModiWithAkshay: ‘Brand Modi’, social media and Bollywood star power	3
We’re all television stars in a pandemic	3
Warburg’s dogs: Nobel laureates and scientific celebrity	3
Performing whiteness: skin beauty as somatechnics in South Korean stardom and celebrity	3

What makes the giant panda a celebrity?	3
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism	3
Analysing celebrity politics from Obama to Trump	3
Representing embodied expertise: anorexia and the celebrity athlete’s lifestyle advice	2
Communication, class and the commodified self: exploring the divergent pathways to celebrity in the electro dance subculture	2
‘Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent’: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the cultural politics of fame	2
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood	2
Working the red carpet: a framework for analysing celebrities’ red carpet labour	2
The world according to Siderov: the rise of the far-right celebrity politician in Bulgaria	2
The concept of an ‘anticelebrity’: a new type of antihero of the media age and its impact on modern politics	2
Aunt Becky goes rogue: de-celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues	2
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era	2
Forever Gor Gor, changing fans: Leslie Cheung posthumous fandom revisited	2
Fame-bridging, stereotypes, and the celebrity labour of Anna Nicole Smith	2
‘Labouring in the image’: celebrity, femininity, and the fully commodified self in the drag of Willam Belli	2
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media	2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame	2
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction	2
Crazy Rich Eurasians: white enough to be acceptable, Asian enough to be an asset	2
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others	2
Rewriting ‘herstory’: Sasha Velour’s drag as art and activism	2
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship	2
Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game	2
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices	2
French after all: the Hollywood career of Marion Cotillard	2