OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Trends 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In the labyrinth of culture. Professional development paths for public cultural organizations’ workers	57
Kenneth Kwok (Ministry of National Development, Singapore): in conversation	55
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	35
Care in creative work: exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods	28
Co-op mode: the emancipatory potential of freelancer co-operatives in the UK videogames industry following the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Whose lens? Gender behind the camera in Pacific filmmaking	19
Model of cultural policy and the governance and management of cultural institutions: comparative analysis of three European opera houses	15
The “music city” paradigm and its policy side: a focus on Brisbane and Melbourne	14
Welcome to the inner circle? Earnings and inequality in the creative industries	14
Chasing happiness? The meaning of wellbeing-oriented cultural heritage interventions in museums and cultural heritage institutions	13
Basic income, post-precarious outcome? How creative workers perceive participating in an experiment with basic income	11
Navigating creative partnerships and cross-cultural collaboration: a case study between China and the UK	10
An Economic Approach to the Plagiarism of Music	10
Artrepreneurs and the autonomy paradox	9
Museum educators’ views on digital museum education: opportunities and challenges	8
Embracing the messiness: a creative approach to participatory arts evaluation	8
The impact of COVID-19 on the cultural and creative industries: determinants of vulnerability and estimated recovery times	7
An ecological approach to mapping remote creative practices: insights from an Australian Desert region	7
Performing the self in contemporary rural China: voice from a villager	7
Negotiating hybridity, inequality, and hyper-visibility: museums and galleries’ social media response to the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Who cares for creative and cultural workers? The role of intermediaries in Europe’s creative economy	7
Editorial	6
Developing craft business in Russia: capitals and tactics of young cultural entrepreneurs	6
The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain	6
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America	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
The symphony orchestra in the time of COVID-19: will American orchestras rise from the ashes?	5
Relocation, relocation, relocation: examining the narratives surrounding the Channel 4 move to regional production hubs	5
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
Cultural branding of cities: the role of live music in building a city’s brand	4
Cultivating progressive development in the cultural industries: challenges and support needs identified by the creative workforce in the United Kingdom	4
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
Play against the informality? Institutional reliance and strategic adaption in Chinese cultural governance	4
Culture is not an industry: reclaiming art and culture for the common good	4
Towards a paradigm for online heritage: cyber communities and digital educommunication	4
Pathways into Creative Working Lives	3
Digital access, skills, and dollars: applying a framework to digital exclusion in cultural institutions	3
Correction	3
Fashion as Creative Economy *Fashion as Creative Economy* by Angela McRobbie, Daniel Strutt and Carolina Bandinelli, 2023, Cambridge, Po	3
The return of the prodigal B-boy: from marginalised subculture to protected Korean cultural institution	3
Capturing value: researching funded art for reconciliation	3
People or place? Towards a system of holistic locational values for creative workers	3
“Feeling things happen”: Evaluating the Playhouse Theatre and Peace-building Academy (2018–2020)	3
Understanding the factors that affected the resilience of performing arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Cultural value as meaning-making	3
Conceptualizing Malaysian creative hubs: traversing normalcy to pandemicity and beyond	3
The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois	3
Explaining unwelcoming attitudes toward LGBTQI+ festivals in Sibiu and their implications for regional cultural change	3
Queer workers, diversity data and the UK television industry: Is more data always better?	3
Making genre: the aesthetic affordances of governmental funding and its effects on emerging interdisciplinary artists in the Netherlands	2
The social organization of arts, a theoretical compendium	2
Audience Development and Cultural Policy	2
“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy	2
fayemi shakur (City of Newark, New Jersey): in conversation	2
Global art markets: History and current trends	2
On the role of “tactile value” in cultural consumption: an empirical research in the live music industry	2
Legitimating cultural policy after the 2008 crisis: learnings from France, the UK, Spain and Greece	2
“A place for my art”: independent artist-run spaces as incubators of artistic careers in Italy	2
Cakes and ale: the role of culture in the new municipalism	2
Cultural “levelling up” through the music corporation? The case of EMI North	2
A value based approach to assessing changes in cultural policies	2
Promoting culture and creativity in Ghana: bottom-up strategies for creative industries development	2
The DCMS Committee’s inquiry on the economics of music streaming and its implications for artists	2
Creating growth: labour’s plan for the arts, culture and creative industries	2
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	2
(De)politicising Argentinian cultural policy? an analysis of Macri’s cultural policy (2015–19)	2
“Where is your fixed point?” Dealing with ambiguous freelance musician careers	2