OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Empirical Studies of the Arts 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
Comparative Designs Reveal Preferences for Human-Generated Rather Than AI-Generated art	21
The Relations of Empathy and Gender to Aesthetic Response and Aesthetic Inference of Visual Artworks	16
Musical Activity as Avoidance-Based Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence Across Continents	13
The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences	13
Wikipedia and Shostakovich Meets Goya: Elaborative Narration and Music Enhance Affect Derived From Art	12
An Aesthetic Model for Popular Illustration	10
Examining the Mediating Effects of Cognitive Style on the Relation Between Music Competence and Creativity	8
Artist Names as Human Brands: Brand Determinants, Creation and co-Creation Mechanisms	8
I Love Music! It Harmonizes Me! : Listening to Music Based on Adaptive Function of Music Listening (AFML) and its Influence on Study Engagement in Physical Education – A Cro	8
Detection of Emotions in Artworks Using a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Non-Artistic Images: A Methodology to Reduce the Cross-Depiction Problem	7
Can Narrative Bibliotherapy Reduce Vulnerability to Eating Disorders? Evidence from a Reading Experiment	6
What Elevates Music to a ‘Favorite’? On the Aesthetics of Music from the Perspective of Musical Taste	6
“Listening” to Paintings: Synergetic Effect of a Cross-Modal Experience on Subjective Perception	5
The Impact of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit Titles on Memory for Artist-Created and AI-Generated Art	5
Ethos Theory of Music: Toward An Empirical Confirmation Through Moral Foundations Theory	5
Flourishing Aims of Art Museums: A Survey of Art Museum Professionals	5
AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI	5
Education, Gender, and Blue-Chip Gallery Representation: The Importance of Educational Prestige in a Male-Dominated Art World	5
Emotional Regulation in Dance and Its Role in Emotional Expression: Evidence from Dance Majors	5
Immersed in Art: The Impact of Affinity for Technology Interaction and Hedonic Motivation on Aesthetic Experiences in Virtual Reality	5
The Effects of Psychotic Tendencies on Aesthetic Preferences of Paintings	4
Students’ Personal Experience vis-à-vis Personal Interest Towards Philippine Traditional Dances with Respect to Dance Steps, Music, Costume, and Dance History for Preservation Endeavors: Does it Matte	4
Do Prestige and Animacy Matter to Art Experts? Exploring Social Learning, Signaling, Perceptual, and Cognitive Explanations	4
Preference for Harmony: A Preference for Structural Simplicity, Familiarity, or Both?	4
Humans Prefer to See and Imagine Drawing Curved Objects	4

The Influence of News, Expert and Public Opinion on Painting Prices: An Empirical Analysis	4
The Artistic Characteristics of Modern Calligraphy After 1985: An Exploration Based on Grounded Theory	3
Exposure to Fernando Botero’s Art Is Associated with Lower Implicit Bias Against People with Obesity	3
Psychological Coaching for Performing Artists: Perceptions of and Reflections on Finding Ways to Manage Performance Anxiety	3
Editorial	3
Shades of Grey: Quantifying a Database of 18 Aesthetic Moods in Classical Chinese Poetry	3
Can Fashion Aesthetics be Studied Empirically? The Preference Structure of Everyday Clothing Choices	3
Audiovisual Associations in Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals : A Cross-Cultural Investigation on the Role of Timbre	3
Artists and Mate Preferences: The Effects of Being a Painter and Intellectuality	3
Effect of Pictorial Depth Cues on Illusory Spatial Depth of the Lin Family Garden	3