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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Museums as agents for social change: collaborative programmes at the Mutare museum	29
Inclusivity and digital technologies in museums: lessons from an Italian experience	26
Beyond numbers: visual and textual diversity in the online art database	21
Editorial	19
Latent dimensions of museum experience: assessing cross-cultural perspectives of visitors from tripadvisor reviews	16
Editorial	14
Investigating parent attitudes from the perspective of learning experiences in a museum	14
The use of social media in Greek museums during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
‘We cannot, nor do we have the right to speak forgiveness for the grandmothers’: a study of visitor comment books at the Chinese Comfort Women Historical Museum in Shanghai	13
Disaster and emergency preparedness in Istanbul museums	12
Adult family members’ roles in mediating children’s visits at a Chinese science museum	10
An exploratory study on children with special needs experiencing museum services: research data and lessons from being art museums	10
Industrial museums with Chinese characteristics: theories and practices	10
Limitations and ethical reflection on the application of big data in museum visitor research	8
Robots onboard? Investigating what individual predispositions and attitudes influence the reactions of museums’ employees towards the adoption of social robots	8
Editorial	8
‘I felt I was right there with them’: the impact of sound-enriched audio description on experiencing and remembering artworks, for blind and sighted museum audiences	8
Diversity as a matter of reality or a perception at the museum: samples of approaches and practices through research and analysis	7
Whose culture is it anyway? Perceptions of accessibility in museums by professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities in Greece	7
Editorial	7
Would the employment of advanced technology and online presence help museums in the Middle East achieve their organizational goals?	7
Join the Dots: assessing a collection of 80 million items at The Natural History Museum, London	7
Museum-based research: a typological exploration	7
Comfort stations and their legacy: exhibitions of negative heritage	6
Tourism marketing in a metaverse context: the new reality of European museums on meta	6

Behind the words: a quantitative analysis of museums’ tweets	6
Editorial	6
Editorial	5
Revolutionary exhibition and youth identity: a visitor study of the Shanghai Sihang warehouse battle memorial	5
Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects	5
The myth of ‘pink collaring’: blaming women for pay inequity in art museums	5
Re-reading collections. A sustainable toolkit to achieve gender equality in museums	5
Sick building syndrome in air-conditioned museum	5
The slow museum: the affordances of a university art museum as a nurturing and caring space for young children and their families	4
Practice architectures for bridging the semantic gap in museum documentation	4
What is the gap between curator’s plan and visitors’ perception of the palace museum?	4
Quantifying factors influencing the interest in museums with the use of marketing mix modelling	4
Towards human-centric AI in museums: practitioners’ perspectives and technology acceptance of visitor-centered AI for value (co-)creation	4
Short but meaningful: visitors’ experiences underlying time spent looking at artworks and labels	4
Copyright protection: a key element in realizing the development potential of digital cultural and creative products in museums	4
Correction	4
The museum of other people. From colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions	4
Museum text translation in the Chinese context: the museum role and text production	4
Meeting of collaborators: projection of an experimental exhibition ‘The Toys in My Money Box Are in My Playground' (2021–2024)	3
Diversified visitors’ participation roles as an innovation factor: a case study of the ‘Seoul Museum of Art Group’	3
Social inequality determines science museums attendance in Latin America: a quantitative analysis of data from seven countries	3
Editorial	3
Visitor orientation as a game changer for the digital transformation of museums	3
Academic writing in museums	3
Digitalization in Chinese museums: a policy evolution perspective	3
Exploring information practices in Greek museums: a qualitative study	3
The relationship between interactive kiosk design towards usage intention in the National Music Museum of Malaysia	2
Revisiting museums of contemporary art: what factors affect visitors with low and high levels of revisit intention intensity?	2
Humanized museums? How digital technologies become relational tools	2
The museum accessibility spectrum: re-imagining access and inclusion	2
The value of technology and interactive systems in cultural heritage interpretation: a study based on existing empirical research	2
Institutional policing of western heritage: the case of Shanghai Symphony Museum	2
Awe in the museum: casting light on the role of the curator	2
Understanding virtual museum visits: generation Z experiences	2
Editorial	2
Following community guidelines in publishing Native American archaeological collections online	2
Building culturally sustainable communities. Community museums and transmedia storytelling	2
‘Critically disruptive’ museum interpretation as a methodology for challenging popular perceptions of Roman Britain	2
The employment of dialogic principles in the websites and social media platforms of museums in China	2
Understanding levels of online participation in the U.K. museum sector	2