OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Museum Management and Curatorship 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
Museums as agents for social change: collaborative programmes at the Mutare museum	31
Editorial	25
The museum of other people. From colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions	24
Understanding levels of online participation in the U.K. museum sector	21
Editorial	19
Re-reading collections. A sustainable toolkit to achieve gender equality in museums	16
Towards human-centric AI in museums: practitioners’ perspectives and technology acceptance of visitor-centered AI for value (co-)creation	16
The influence of visitors’ self-protective behaviors on social carrying capacity in museums during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Revolutionary exhibition and youth identity: a visitor study of the Shanghai Sihang warehouse battle memorial	13
Assembling bones, becoming dinosaur: guests’ relationships to museum objects via Deleuzian assemblage within a dinosaur gallery	12
Editorial	12
The undervalued power of museum-guided tours: a case study of Xuhui Art Museum in China	11
Copyright protection: a key element in realizing the development potential of digital cultural and creative products in museums	11
Editorial	11
Short but meaningful: visitors’ experiences underlying time spent looking at artworks and labels	11
What is the gap between curator’s plan and visitors’ perception of the palace museum?	10
Beyond numbers: visual and textual diversity in the online art database	10
Sick building syndrome in air-conditioned museum	8
In what ways can Rapid Response Collecting be utilised by museums as a curatorial approach in advocating increased democratic and egalitarian approaches towards art within society?	8
Mediated identity politics and museum visitors: a comparative analysis of Macedonian museums in Greece	8
How to address a ‘curation crisis’: rethinking collection storage at the Museum of Tropical Queensland	7
Making the case for the value of museum experiences	7
Inclusivity and digital technologies in museums: lessons from an Italian experience	7
The myth of ‘pink collaring’: blaming women for pay inequity in art museums	7
Image metadata. From information management to interpretative practice	6

The role of the museum shop in sustainable futures	6
Encoding object-oriented democracy in Swedish museums: implementing method of the thing in exhibition-making	6
Practice architectures for bridging the semantic gap in museum documentation	5
Art museum visitors: how do they perform class distinction?	5
Behind the words: a quantitative analysis of museums’ tweets	5
Editorial	4
Understanding and harnessing the potential of front-line employees’ self-governance in technologised museums and theme parks: insights from a qualitative study	4
Editorial	4
Reinterpreting museums’ intended experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from Italian University Museums	4
Play in museums: a scoping review	4
Storytelling in heritage tourism: an exploration of co-creative experiences from a tourist perspective	4
Civil war, museum and iconoclasm in Northern Ethiopia: Dessie and Merho Museums in focus	4
The temporary exhibition as a tool for communication and relationship between science and society: the case study of the Darwin-Dohrn Museum in Naples (Italy)	4
Flourishing in museums: towards a positive museology	4
Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects	4
Editorial	3
The museums and collections of higher education	3
Foundling museums: exhibition design and the intersection of the vital materiality of foundling tokens and affective visitor experience	3
Meeting of collaborators: projection of an experimental exhibition ‘The Toys in My Money Box Are in My Playground' (2021–2024)	3
The adoption of virtual technology in museums: the case of a modern and contemporary museum in Indonesia	3
Digitally enriched museum experiences – what technology can do	3
Editorial	3
Art crime: the challenges of provenance, law and ethics	3
A mixed-methods study of how university museums use outreach to build community relationships and deliver value to the university	3
Academic writing in museums	3
Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory	3
Memories in quarantine: reconstructing museum visitors’ experiences in uncertain times	3
A cup of tea in history: visitors’ perception of the Iran Tea Museum and the Ho Yan Hor Museum in the modern age (a comparative study)	3
Social inequality determines science museums attendance in Latin America: a quantitative analysis of data from seven countries	2
Design demand of souvenirs to improve the brand value of museums	2
‘We want to know more than that’: lessons learnt from the public workshop on collections data at the V&A	2
Interactive communication using social media – the case of museums in Southern Poland	2
The efficient use of new cultural management tools in the adaptation of public heritage during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Investigating parent attitudes from the perspective of learning experiences in a museum	2
Museum text translation in the Chinese context: the museum role and text production	2
Editorial	2
Museums’ perspectives and actions regarding children with autism spectrum disorder participation and access	2
How museums with historical art collections deal with the past: a typology	2
Developing operational environments and educational activities for early childhood development students in museums	2
Complicating difficult heritage and the politics of institutionalized memory in post-Accord Colombia	2
Latent dimensions of museum experience: assessing cross-cultural perspectives of visitors from tripadvisor reviews	2