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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Kenneth Kwok (Ministry of National Development, Singapore): in conversation	72
In the labyrinth of culture. Professional development paths for public cultural organizations’ workers	44
Street art as a paradox: urban regeneration and tourist attraction in Porto	18
Model of cultural policy and the governance and management of cultural institutions: comparative analysis of three European opera houses	13
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	13
Co-op mode: the emancipatory potential of freelancer co-operatives in the UK videogames industry following the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Whose lens? Gender behind the camera in Pacific filmmaking	11
Artists’ hidden heart on labor income and working hours in South Korea	10
Care in creative work: exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods	10
The “music city” paradigm and its policy side: a focus on Brisbane and Melbourne	9
Chasing happiness? The meaning of wellbeing-oriented cultural heritage interventions in museums and cultural heritage institutions	8
Navigating creative partnerships and cross-cultural collaboration: a case study between China and the UK	8
Artrepreneurs and the autonomy paradox	7
Museum educators’ views on digital museum education: opportunities and challenges	7
The impact of COVID-19 on the cultural and creative industries: determinants of vulnerability and estimated recovery times	7
Embracing the messiness: a creative approach to participatory arts evaluation	7
Basic income, post-precarious outcome? How creative workers perceive participating in an experiment with basic income	7
Welcome to the inner circle? Earnings and inequality in the creative industries	7
Performing the self in contemporary rural China: voice from a villager	6
#WeAreViable, aren’t we? Music careers, state support, and the political feasibility of a Basic Income for the Arts	6
Negotiating hybridity, inequality, and hyper-visibility: museums and galleries’ social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
“Squeezing money out of a rock”: diverse economies of contemporary theatre in Ghana	6
Who cares for creative and cultural workers? The role of intermediaries in Europe’s creative economy	6
Practice and policies of classical music in Chile and the challenges of cultural democracy: the case of FOJI	6
Negotiating participation: investigation of an informal art and urban development initiative in Norway	5

The four worlds of creative employees: the role of education level and job-education match	5
Play against the informality? Institutional reliance and strategic adaption in Chinese cultural governance	5
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America	5
Precarious labour and unpaid work: the processes that fragment cultural democracy	5
Heritage conservation and the limitation of public-private partnerships	5
Addressing causality: participatory evaluation on improvisational drama workshops for people with dementia and their carers	5
Culture is not an industry: reclaiming art and culture for the common good	5
The return of the prodigal B-boy: from marginalised subculture to protected Korean cultural institution	4
Cultural branding of cities: the role of live music in building a city’s brand	4
Creative men, organised women: labour narratives, gender stereotypes and precarity among film festival women professionals	4
Cultural value as meaning-making	4
Towards a paradigm for online heritage: cyber communities and digital educommunication	4
The symphony orchestra in the time of COVID-19: will American orchestras rise from the ashes?	4
Capturing value: researching funded art for reconciliation	4
Cultivating progressive development in the cultural industries: challenges and support needs identified by the creative workforce in the United Kingdom	4
The benefits and attractiveness of local theatres. Comedy or Shakespeare – does it matter?	4
Private art collectors on motivations to donate, deposit, or lend out artworks in Norway	4
People or place? Towards a system of holistic locational values for creative workers	3
Making genre: the aesthetic affordances of governmental funding and its effects on emerging interdisciplinary artists in the Netherlands	3
Fashion as Creative Economy	3
Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme – an Irish case study	3
On the role of “tactile value” in cultural consumption: an empirical research in the live music industry	3
“Feeling things happen”: Evaluating the Playhouse Theatre and Peace-building Academy (2018–2020)	3
Explaining unwelcoming attitudes toward LGBTQI+ festivals in Sibiu and their implications for regional cultural change	3
Understanding the factors that affected the resilience of performing arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The DCMS Committee’s inquiry on the economics of music streaming and its implications for artists	3
Creating growth: Labour’s plan for the arts, culture and creative industries	3
Queer workers, diversity data and the UK television industry: Is more data always better?	3
Correction	3
Conceptualizing Malaysian creative hubs: traversing normalcy to pandemicity and beyond	3
Legitimating cultural policy after the 2008 crisis: learnings from France, the UK, Spain and Greece	3
The social organization of arts, a theoretical compendium	3
“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy	2
Public libraries as social infrastructures: libraries’ response to the COVID crisis in the Emilia-Romagna region	2
Queer creative Indian city: queer film festivals, precarious cultural work and community making in Kolkata	2
Cultural policy, cultural democracy and the right to the city in the Brazilian context	2
“A place for my art”: independent artist-run spaces as incubators of artistic careers in Italy	2
A value based approach to assessing changes in cultural policies	2
Cultural “levelling up” through the music corporation? The case of EMI North	2
Editorial	2
Global art markets: History and current trends	2
fayemi shakur (City of Newark, New Jersey): in conversation	2
(De)politicising Argentinian cultural policy? an analysis of Macri’s cultural policy (2015–19)	2
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	2
Justifying creative work: Norwegian business support and the conflicting narratives of creative industries	2
Avatar is a “drama” and Squid Game is a “movie”: a new era of convergence	2
“Where is your fixed point?” Dealing with ambiguous freelance musician careers	2
Promoting culture and creativity in Ghana: bottom-up strategies for creative industries development	2
Cakes and ale: the role of culture in the new municipalism	2
Cultural and creative ecosystems: a review of theories and methods, towards a new research agenda	1

“This is how I pictured it”: film industry perspectives on producing Scottish cinematic landscapes	1
James Hickey (European Film Academy): in conversation	1
Precarity and second job-holding in the creative economy	1
Screen monopoly and diversity: a comparative study between the Korean and French film industries	1
Correction	1
Transnational cultural networks: soft mechanisms for cultural diversity and frictionless mobility: tools for EU legitimacy?	1
Introduction	1
Cracking up: the pandemic effect on visual artists’ livelihoods	1
The impacts of digital initiatives on musicians during COVID-19: examining the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall	1
From host to guest settings: how the music festival has changed over time	1
The mutability of cultural value: a critical analysis	1
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts	1
Factors associated with the attendance at cultural events in Mexico during the covid-19 pandemic	1
Correction	1
Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management and Cultural Policy	1
Long COVID for the craft industry: findings from China's “Porcelain Capital” pre and post COVID	1
Building mutual rewarding sponsor relationships between museums and corporations	1
Bollywood and slum tours: poverty tourism and the Indian cultural industry	1
Researching the Creative and Cultural Industries. A Guide to Qualitative Research	1
The moral foundations of public funding for the arts; Funding the arts: politics, economics and their interplay in public policy	1
Democracy as creative practice: weaving a culture of civic life	1
Correction	1
Beyond the “good story” and sales history: where is the reader in the publishing process?	1
Array collective (2021 Turner prize winners): in conversation	1
Cultural capitals and creative labour of short video platforms: a study of wanghong on Douyin	1
Performance, cultural resistance and social justice: India’s creative economies since the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Beyond the “substitution effect”: the impact of digital experience quality on future cultural participation	1