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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Promoting culture and creativity in Ghana: bottom-up strategies for creative industries development	54
(De)politicising Argentinian cultural policy? an analysis of Macri’s cultural policy (2015–19)	51
Editorial	32
Performance, cultural resistance and social justice: India’s creative economies since the COVID-19 pandemic	25
The four worlds of creative employees: the role of education level and job-education match	24
Avant-garde or democracy? Transformations and dilemmas of the U.S. public art programme in the 1970s	17
A value based approach to assessing changes in cultural policies	16
The REED typology: understanding market-orientation and instrumental values in cultural policy across Europe	15
The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged	14
Understanding Well-Being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research	13
Editorial	13
Get back: analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Lowlands festival	12
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America	9
Heritage conservation and the limitation of public-private partnerships	9
Kenneth Kwok (Ministry of National Development, Singapore): in conversation	9
Audience Development and Cultural Policy	7
Editorial	7
Relocation, relocation, relocation: examining the narratives surrounding the Channel 4 move to regional production hubs	7
Negotiating participation: investigation of an informal art and urban development initiative in Norway	7
Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum – reflections from practice	6
The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain	6
Mark Katz and Junious “House” Brickhouse (Next Level, USA): in conversation	5
Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers	5
Cracking up: the pandemic effect on visual artists’ livelihoods	5
Cakes and ale: the role of culture in the new municipalism	5

Making it big in live music: a multilevel analysis of careers in live music	4
Developing craft business in Russia: capitals and tactics of young cultural entrepreneurs	4
Geopolitics of Digital HeritageGeopolitics of Digital Heritage, by Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 94 pp., £17.00 (paperback), £49.99 (hardback	4
What is an independent art space? Using a text-mining approach to describe independent art spaces	4
“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy	4
Music and wellbeing vs. musicians’ wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health	4
Tracing policy change of the NEA in urban design through the advocacy coalition framework	4
Precarious work and creative placemaking: freelance labour in Bristol	4
Introduction	4
Do not forget the state! The supposed state free self-regulatory system in post-war Japan	4
Addressing causality: participatory evaluation on improvisational drama workshops for people with dementia and their carers	3
“A place for my art”: independent artist-run spaces as incubators of artistic careers in Italy	3
Collecting and classifying data on audience identity: the cultural background of festival audiences	3
Transnational cultural networks: soft mechanisms for cultural diversity and frictionless mobility: tools for EU legitimacy?	3
Towards a paradigm shift? The potential of participatory arts practices in a context of post-crisis reconstruction	3
In the labyrinth of culture. Professional development paths for public cultural organizations’ workers	3
Public libraries as social infrastructures: libraries’ response to the COVID crisis in the Emilia-Romagna region	3
Understanding changes to perceived socioeconomic and psychosocial adversities during COVID-19 for UK freelance cultural workers	3
Cultural capitals and creative labour of short video platforms: a study of wanghong on Douyin	3
Building mutual rewarding sponsor relationships between museums and corporations	3
Future of culture: financing and governance in the digital age	3
The “music city” paradigm and its policy side: a focus on Brisbane and Melbourne	3
Multiple narratives in museum theme-based exhibitions: combining digital technology and tangible heritage	2
Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management and Cultural Policy Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management and Cultural Policy , edited by Steve	2
Queer creative Indian city: queer film festivals, precarious cultural work and community making in Kolkata	2
Between engagement and disengagement in contemporary global culture. Types of cultural consumers among youth in Adriatic Croatia	2
Long COVID for the craft industry: findings from China's “Porcelain Capital” pre and post COVID	2
Cultural branding of cities: the role of live music in building a city’s brand	2
Entrepreneurial, precarious or leaving altogether? Work trajectories in the creative industries in the Netherlands	2
Towards a paradigm for online heritage: cyber communities and digital educommunication	2
Editorial	2
The symphony orchestra in the time of COVID-19: will American orchestras rise from the ashes?	2
Dynamics of cultural policy valuations in contemporary Europe	2
Avatar is a “drama” and Squid Game is a “movie”: a new era of convergence	2
Glorifying my gods: cultural politics of statue making, Hindu symbolism, and power iconography	2
The benefits and attractiveness of local theatres. Comedy or Shakespeare – does it matter?	2
Getting louder: music, “feedback loops” and social change in the Tamil transnational music scene	2
Play against the informality? Institutional reliance and strategic adaption in Chinese cultural governance	2