OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Trends 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In the labyrinth of culture. Professional development paths for public cultural organizations’ workers	64
Kenneth Kwok (Ministry of National Development, Singapore): in conversation	37
Street art as a paradox: urban regeneration and tourist attraction in Porto	30
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	29
Artists’ hidden heart on labor income and working hours in South Korea	17
Care in creative work: exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods	17
Co-op mode: the emancipatory potential of freelancer co-operatives in the UK videogames industry following the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Whose lens? Gender behind the camera in Pacific filmmaking	13
Model of cultural policy and the governance and management of cultural institutions: comparative analysis of three European opera houses	12
Welcome to the inner circle? Earnings and inequality in the creative industries	11
The “music city” paradigm and its policy side: a focus on Brisbane and Melbourne	11
Navigating creative partnerships and cross-cultural collaboration: a case study between China and the UK	8
Basic income, post-precarious outcome? How creative workers perceive participating in an experiment with basic income	8
Chasing happiness? The meaning of wellbeing-oriented cultural heritage interventions in museums and cultural heritage institutions	8
Artrepreneurs and the autonomy paradox	8
The impact of COVID-19 on the cultural and creative industries: determinants of vulnerability and estimated recovery times	7
Museum educators’ views on digital museum education: opportunities and challenges	7
“Squeezing money out of a rock”: diverse economies of contemporary theatre in Ghana	7
Embracing the messiness: a creative approach to participatory arts evaluation	7
Who cares for creative and cultural workers? The role of intermediaries in Europe’s creative economy	6
Developing craft business in Russia: capitals and tactics of young cultural entrepreneurs	6
Negotiating hybridity, inequality, and hyper-visibility: museums and galleries’ social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America	6
Performing the self in contemporary rural China: voice from a villager	6
Editorial	6

The four worlds of creative employees: the role of education level and job-education match	5
Addressing causality: participatory evaluation on improvisational drama workshops for people with dementia and their carers	5
Relocation, relocation, relocation: examining the narratives surrounding the Channel 4 move to regional production hubs	5
Heritage conservation and the limitation of public-private partnerships	5
The symphony orchestra in the time of COVID-19: will American orchestras rise from the ashes?	5
Negotiating participation: investigation of an informal art and urban development initiative in Norway	5
Culture is not an industry: reclaiming art and culture for the common good	5
Private art collectors on motivations to donate, deposit, or lend out artworks in Norway	4
The benefits and attractiveness of local theatres. Comedy or Shakespeare – does it matter?	4
Conceptualizing Malaysian creative hubs: traversing normalcy to pandemicity and beyond	4
Play against the informality? Institutional reliance and strategic adaption in Chinese cultural governance	4
Cultivating progressive development in the cultural industries: challenges and support needs identified by the creative workforce in the United Kingdom	4
The return of the prodigal B-boy: from marginalised subculture to protected Korean cultural institution	4
Queer workers, diversity data and the UK television industry: Is more data always better?	4
Towards a paradigm for online heritage: cyber communities and digital educommunication	4
Cultural branding of cities: the role of live music in building a city’s brand	4
Cultural value as meaning-making	4
Capturing value: researching funded art for reconciliation	4
Making genre: the aesthetic affordances of governmental funding and its effects on emerging interdisciplinary artists in the Netherlands	3
On the role of “tactile value” in cultural consumption: an empirical research in the live music industry	3
Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme – an Irish case study	3
Understanding the factors that affected the resilience of performing arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
People or place? Towards a system of holistic locational values for creative workers	3
Fashion as Creative Economy *Fashion as Creative Economy* by Angela McRobbie, Daniel Strutt and Carolina Bandinelli, 2023, Cambridge, Po	3
Correction	3
The social organization of arts, a theoretical compendium	3
Legitimating cultural policy after the 2008 crisis: learnings from France, the UK, Spain and Greece	3
Explaining unwelcoming attitudes toward LGBTQI+ festivals in Sibiu and their implications for regional cultural change	3
“Feeling things happen”: Evaluating the Playhouse Theatre and Peace-building Academy (2018–2020)	3
Digital access, skills, and dollars: applying a framework to digital exclusion in cultural institutions	3
Creating growth: Labour’s plan for the arts, culture and creative industries	3
Promoting culture and creativity in Ghana: bottom-up strategies for creative industries development	3
The DCMS Committee’s inquiry on the economics of music streaming and its implications for artists	3
The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois	3
“A place for my art”: independent artist-run spaces as incubators of artistic careers in Italy	2
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	2
“Where is your fixed point?” Dealing with ambiguous freelance musician careers	2
Queer creative Indian city: queer film festivals, precarious cultural work and community making in Kolkata	2
“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy	2
A value based approach to assessing changes in cultural policies	2
fayemi shakur (City of Newark, New Jersey): in conversation	2
Global art markets: History and current trends	2
Cultural “levelling up” through the music corporation? The case of EMI North	2
(De)politicising Argentinian cultural policy? an analysis of Macri’s cultural policy (2015–19)	2
Cakes and ale: the role of culture in the new municipalism	2
Editorial	2
Avatar is a “drama” and Squid Game is a “movie”: a new era of convergence	2
What does Emily in Paris say about the “Netflix quota” and the “Netflix tax”?	1
Esme Ward (Manchester Museum): in conversation	1
The impacts of digital initiatives on musicians during COVID-19: examining the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall	1

Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management and Cultural Policy	1
Cultural and creative ecosystems: a review of theories and methods, towards a new research agenda	1
Beyond the “good story” and sales history: where is the reader in the publishing process?	1
“This is how I pictured it”: film industry perspectives on producing Scottish cinematic landscapes	1
Correction	1
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts	1
Public libraries as social infrastructures: libraries’ response to the COVID crisis in the Emilia-Romagna region	1
The moral foundations of public funding for the arts; Funding the arts: politics, economics and their interplay in public policy	1
The UK museum boom: continuity and change 1960–2019	1
Living theatrical approach to creative placemaking: the case of Xisan Film Studio project in China	1
Turning post-materialism on its head: self-expression, autonomy and precarity at work in the creative industries	1
Beyond the “substitution effect”: the impact of digital experience quality on future cultural participation	1
Long COVID for the craft industry: findings from China's “Porcelain Capital” pre and post COVID	1
The mutability of cultural value: a critical analysis	1
Transnational cultural networks: soft mechanisms for cultural diversity and frictionless mobility: tools for EU legitimacy?	1
Screen monopoly and diversity: a comparative study between the Korean and French film industries	1
James Hickey (European Film Academy): in conversation	1
Justifying creative work: Norwegian business support and the conflicting narratives of creative industries	1
Introduction	1
The arts of prison cultures	1
A guide for the analysis of cultural scenes: a measurement proposal and its validation for the Spanish case	1
Factors associated with the attendance at cultural events in Mexico during the covid-19 pandemic	1
Cracking up: the pandemic effect on visual artists’ livelihoods	1
Array collective (2021 Turner prize winners): in conversation	1
Valuing Culture and Heritage Capital: A framework towards informing decision making	1
Bollywood and slum tours: poverty tourism and the Indian cultural industry	1
Cultural capitals and creative labour of short video platforms: a study of wanghong on Douyin	1
Correction	1
Correction	1
Performance, cultural resistance and social justice: India’s creative economies since the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Unknown pleasures: techniques of taste in the algorithmic recommendation of unfamiliar art music	1
Building mutual rewarding sponsor relationships between museums and corporations	1