OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Curator-The Museum Journal is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Talking to Strangers About Science: Youth Facilitators and Family Learning at the Natural History Museum	58
Apart/Together: Challenges and opportunities for exhibition curation during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Exploring virtual museums: Pre‐service teachers' experiences of virtual museums in gifted and talented education	14
Materializing mortality: Re‐enchanting grave goods in the British Museum using mixed‐method approaches to audience research	12
Desarrollo de una Réplica Táctil Para Experiencias Inclusivas de Artefactos Religiosos	10
The unfinished promise of infrastructure in post‐apartheid South Africa	10
Définir le Musée: Aux Prises avec une Nouvelle Identité	10
Issue Information	10
What Science Communication for Equitable Communication? From Conceptualizations to Reconceptualizations and Practices	8
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Zum Sammeln und Ausstellen von traditioneller und populärer Volksmusik in Österreich – die Fallstudie Sammlung Wiesenhofer vor dem Hintergrund der internationalen Forschungssituation	6
The art museum as activist: A case study	5
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Issue Information	4
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Evaluating Organizational Identity of Zoos to Enhance Conservation	4
Creating Accessible Digital Images for Vision Impaired Audiences and Researchers	4
BOOK REVIEW: The Art of Curating: Paul Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard by Sally Anne Duncan and Andrew McClellan. Getty Publications, 2018. Hardcover: $49.95 USD	4
Listening, hearing, and taking authority	4
Becoming a Better ME: Chinese science museum educators' expectations for professional growth	3
Introduction: MoHoA guest editorial	3
Biodiversity Data Curation as a Profession in South African Natural Science Museums	3
Issue Information	3
Lost and Found Property: Evaluating Efforts to Resurrect and Resuscitate ‘Institutionalised Garbage’ in Post‐Colonial Zimbabwean Museums	3
Disrupting Museum Authority: Art, Voice and the Museum	3

Questioning modernity and heritage: The case of the River Club development in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Harnessing Instagram's “platform vernacular” during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case study of Philbrook Museum of Art	3
Transmodern Heritage as Radical Delinking from Modernity	3
A Bodies‐On Museum: The Transformation of Museum Embodiment through Virtual Technology	3
Leadership Legitimacy	2
Steps Toward a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Museum Literature	2
Dismantling the diorama: A case study in “unknowable” human remains	2
The image of modernity: An examination of early republic housing projects in Turkey 1930–1939	2
Generating modern heritage through changing urban environments and identities: A case study from Prato's (Italy) industrial district, history, and multiculturalism in a polycentric urban setting	2
Correction to “Keeping voices in the room: Values clarification in codesign for equitable science and technology education”	2
Amazonian Activism for European Museum Audiences: Critical Reflections on the Development of an “Amazonia” Exhibition at the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands	2
Critical consciousness, heritage, and the shape of museum practice	2
Proximity, wholeness, and animality: The case of Little Sorrel's repatriation	2
Memo to University Leadership: Why “Monetizing” the Museum Collection is a Truly Bad Idea	2
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Our place, our stories: Public history journeys from Belfast to Dhiban, and back	2
What we've learned: A research agenda for a museum, 7 years later	2
A museum of international standard in Patna, India: The predicament of loss and revival	1
Authorship, Ethics, and Community‐based Museum Research	1
Early concrete bridges in China as (dissonant) modern heritage: A case study of the double‐curved bridges in Nanjing	1
Racial equity, reflection, and organizational change in museums	1
Issue Information	1
The role of visitor studies in shaping visitor‐centered museums	1
Invisible victims: How children's museums are strengthening families through partnerships with correctional facilities	1
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The Conflict about the Restitution of Art Works: A Solomonic Proposal	1
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Young Children's Engagement with Objects in Science Museums: A Rapid Evidence Assessment of Research	1
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Incorporating smell into children's museums: Insights from a case study in Norway	1
From connoisseur to the good manager. Perspectives in managerial curatorship from Canada and Brazil	1
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Mythby BryanBurrough, ChrisTomlinson and JasonStanford. Penguin Press, 2021. 386 Pages. Hardcover: $32.00.	1
An exhibition about a well‐known architect: Challenge or opportunity? Beyond: Tadao Ando and Art	1
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“Tracing the Everyday Sensory Heritage of Kolkata Streets”—“Sohorer Songbedon”: A museological review	1
Reconsidering People as the Institution: Empathy, Pay Equity, and Deaccessioning as Key Leadership Strategies in Art Museums	1
Museum Educators Perspective of Failure: A Collective Frame Analysis	1
Creating Middle Ground: Transforming Outdoor Informal Learning Landscapes	1
Redefining crisis in museums: Insiders perspectives on digital engagement	1
Iny Karajá Presence: Material and Visual Culture of Ritxoko Dolls in Museums	1
Mausoleum or museum: Engaging the significance of cultural museum collections for heritage tourism in the 21st century	1
Redefining Curatorial Leadership and Activating Community Expertise to Build Equitable and Inclusive Art Museums	1
Exploring Monumental Architecture in Post‐independence Côte d'Ivoire: The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro	1
Staring at Signs: Biology Undergraduates Pay Attention to Signs More Often than Animals at the Zoo	1
Collecting and Exhibiting Traditional and Popular Alpine Folk Music in Austria—A Case Study	1
Community‐informed design: Blending community engagement and museum design approaches for sustainable experience development	1
Safeguarding and inheriting intangible cultural heritage music in the Chongqing Three Gorges Reservoir area: A case study on Lore	1
LEARN: Essential Elements of Museum Education Programs for Young Children	1
Accessible digital images: AltText guidelines for authors and museum professionals	1
What do we mean by “agency”? A framework and tools for supporting visitors' agency in museums and science centers	1

Curatorial Omissions in Virtual War Museum Displays: Uncovering Racial and Gendered Tensions in Canadian WWI Exhibitions	1
New media, new connections: Building Reddit's MuseumPros	1
What American children's museum mission statements say about Lifelong Competencies	1
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Space–Detail–LightBy EdgarStach. Basel, CH: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH. 2021. 160 pages. $36.44 (hardcover)	1
Re‐Imagining the Collection Through Medical Imaging: Collaboration Between Radiology and the Museum	1