OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Museum Management and Curatorship is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Museums as agents for social change: collaborative programmes at the Mutare museum	37
Beyond numbers: visual and textual diversity in the online art database	35
Inclusivity and digital technologies in museums: lessons from an Italian experience	32
Free-choice visitor engagement through play in cultural heritage museums	31
From cognition to emotion: mechanisms of Participatory Museum Interpretation	28
Editorial	24
Investigating parent attitudes from the perspective of learning experiences in a museum	21
Latent dimensions of museum experience: assessing cross-cultural perspectives of visitors from tripadvisor reviews	20
Reframing exhibition accessibility: multisensory curatorship and non-visual experience of visual impairment	18
Art and culture in the multiverse of metaverses: immersion, presence, and interactivity in the digital age	16
Editorial	15
China's hidden century in Chinese visitors' eyes: a sequential explanatory mixed methods study	15
Diversity and inclusion in museum studies: an analysis of current trends and practices through a systematic review of the literature	13
The use of social media in Greek museums during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Industrial museums with Chinese characteristics: theories and practices	12
‘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	12
An exploratory study on children with special needs experiencing museum services: research data and lessons from being art museums	11
Enhancing parent–child interaction and satisfaction in cultural heritage exhibitions through multisensory experiences: a mixed-methods study	11
Adult family members’ roles in mediating children’s visits at a Chinese science museum	11
Robots onboard? Investigating what individual predispositions and attitudes influence the reactions of museums’ employees towards the adoption of social robots	10
Curating AI-driven Art: actors, institutional strategies and organisational change	10
‘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	10
Editorial	9
Limitations and ethical reflection on the application of big data in museum visitor research	9
Would the employment of advanced technology and online presence help museums in the Middle East achieve their organizational goals?	8

Caring exhibitions: integrating care theory in museum practices and curatorship in Southern Europe	8
Unveiling the influence: multiple superposition attributes of museum digital technology on visitors’ online engagement behavior	7
Editorial	7
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
Tourism marketing in a metaverse context: the new reality of European museums on meta	7
Sick building syndrome in air-conditioned museum	6
Comfort stations and their legacy: exhibitions of negative heritage	6
Curated polyrhythms at the museum of screen culture: rethinking agency in digital museum experiences	6
Commoning the museum: participation and the civic role of contemporary art museums in global cities	6
The role of leadership behaviors in organizational citizenship behaviors at Vietnamese museums: workplace incivility and work engagement as mediators	6
The museum of other people. From colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions	5
Communities of transformation: an example from the museum field	5
Editorial	5
The myth of ‘pink collaring’: blaming women for pay inequity in art museums	5
Revolutionary exhibition and youth identity: a visitor study of the Shanghai Sihang warehouse battle memorial	5
Short but meaningful: visitors’ experiences underlying time spent looking at artworks and labels	5
Re-reading collections. A sustainable toolkit to achieve gender equality in museums	5
Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects	5
Towards human-centric AI in museums: practitioners’ perspectives and technology acceptance of visitor-centered AI for value (co-)creation	4
Correction	4
Who stays late? Institutional practices and audience engagement in late-night museum programming: the case of Greece	4
Social inequality determines science museums attendance in Latin America: a quantitative analysis of data from seven countries	4
The slow museum: the affordances of a university art museum as a nurturing and caring space for young children and their families	4
Behind the words: a quantitative analysis of museums’ tweets	4
Copyright protection: a key element in realizing the development potential of digital cultural and creative products in museums	4
Museum text translation in the Chinese context: the museum role and text production	4
Mapping generation Z visitor experience priorities in small museums in China: an importance–performance analysis	4
Exploring information practices in Greek museums: a qualitative study	4
Practice architectures for bridging the semantic gap in museum documentation	4
Quantifying factors influencing the interest in museums with the use of marketing mix modelling	4
Queer as a method in museum practice: inspiration from Queer Museums: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology	4
Participatory research with children in Liangzhu Museum: co-developing a ‘child-friendly’ museum evaluation toolkit	4
Meeting of collaborators: projection of an experimental exhibition ‘The Toys in My Money Box Are in My Playground' (2021–2024)	4
What is the gap between curator’s plan and visitors’ perception of the palace museum?	4
Building culturally sustainable communities. Community museums and transmedia storytelling	3
Digitalization in Chinese museums: a policy evolution perspective	3
Following community guidelines in publishing Native American archaeological collections online	3
Diversified visitors’ participation roles as an innovation factor: a case study of the ‘Seoul Museum of Art Group’	3
Inventors and demolishers: children disrupting the museum from within	3
The relationship between interactive kiosk design towards usage intention in the National Music Museum of Malaysia	3
Plunder? How museums got their treasures	3
Visitor orientation as a game changer for the digital transformation of museums	3
‘Views for perverts!’: the threat of upskirting in the New Acropolis Museum, Athens	3
Emotion-based indexing of cultural heritage: demographic differences in aesthetic vocabulary	3