International Journal of Cultural Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Policy is 1. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao30
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events25
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?23
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–198415
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account14
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities13
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida13
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy13
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production12
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia12
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility11
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations11
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction11
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran10
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality9
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province9
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China9
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media8
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics8
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?8
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy7
Culture is bad for you: inequality in the cultural and creative industries7
UK Music before and after Covid-197
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi7
The balancing act of minority cultural identity expression policy: palestinian cultural struggles at the Israeli local government level7
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy7
‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure7
Cultural equality and policy in Taiwan: the case studies on children/adolescents and the people with disabilities7
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix7
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy7
Canadian cultural policy in transition7
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy6
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park6
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control6
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy6
Red creative: culture and modernity in China6
From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries6
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore6
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe6
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security6
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II6
Effective cultural policy in the 21stcentury: challenges and strategies from Australian television6
Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production6
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation6
Is ‘Revive’ a ‘game changer’ or more of the same? Whose needs are addressed in Australia’s new cultural policy and what will change?5
Cultural heritage in modern conflict: past, propaganda, parade5
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland5
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia5
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports5
The moral economy of the cultural sector5
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities5
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate5
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities5
Cultural values in political economy5
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice5
Mirror, mirror on the wall, do I want to know at all? A story about cultural organizations that conduct research on themselves and those that do not5
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement4
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump4
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund4
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films4
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo4
National disability strategies as rights-based cultural policy tools4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic4
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry4
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives4
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations3
Cross-cultural collaboration and cultural production within China’s public museums: examining the challenges and practices guiding administration3
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary3
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism3
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine3
Geopolitical dimensions of the National Museum of China: strategic narratives and the construction of socialist citizenship (1949–1981)3
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry3
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s3
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China3
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London3
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia3
Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa to sustainable development. An empirical research of creative intermediaries in Accra’s contemporary art sector3
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums3
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites3
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it3
The justice of visual art. Creative state-building in times of political transition (Series: law in context)3
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil3
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool3
Libraries, archives, and museums in transition: changes, challenges, and convergence in a Scandinavian perspective2
Netflix’ Spain: critical perspectives2
The commodification of Chinese culture in the English linguistic landscape of the Forbidden City: a field-based case study2
Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg2
Green’s the word. Cultural policies and the ecological turn2
Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan2
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden2
Regenerative cultural policy: sustainable development, cultural relations, and social learning2
Democratizing opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns2
Resilience and adaptation of the UK’s arts sector during the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU2
‘Getting back to my old self’: women and gender non-conforming people restarting DIY careers in music2
Arab music and the changing political imaginaries of cultural citizenship in Israel: the Musrara School as a case study2
Nativist nationalism, cultural homogenisation and bullfighting: VOX’s cultural policy as an instrument for cultural battle (2019–2023)2
Digital cultural policy. The story of a slow and reluctant revolution2
Not just Kangaroos and Koalas: evaluating the operation and outcomes of Australian local content regulation on pay-TV2
Enabling as the anchor for regenerative cultural policy2
Centring the audience: attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations2
Funding art in post-conflict society: a ‘peace dividend’?2
Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review2
Reframing instrumentality: from New Public Management to New Public Governance2
Reimagining the cultural impact of neoliberalism: an analysis of Istanbul and Liverpool biennials2
Can the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor help Beijing Win Pakistanis’ hearts and minds? Reviewing higher education as an instrument of Chinese soft power in Pakistan2
The Music City: popular music’s “policy moment”2
From party politics to governing instruments: an analysis of letters of allocation to the Norwegian and Swedish heritage agencies2
Film subsidies and cultural policy: the status of Hong Kong cinema2
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship2
Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden2
Religion in the cultural and political discourse of the Council of Europe2
Geocultural diplomacy2
The Berardo Collection Museum of modern and contemporary art: lessons from a failed public-private partnership (2007–2022)2
Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements2
Acting on cultural policy: arts practitioners, policy-making and civil society2
Public art debates as boundary struggles2
Review of cultural industries and the COVID-19 pandemic: a European focus2
Mirroring the inequalities of mainstream music platforms: popularity, revenue, and monetization strategies on Bandcamp2
The future of creative work– creativity and digital disruption2
The fuzzy place of interreligious dialogue in the international community’s intercultural dialogue efforts2
‘They need to know that it’s theirs’: considerations for policy and practice when developing a public art trail in remote communities1
Cultural survival amid disaster: support for artists in New Orleans1
Intangible cultural heritage safeguarding policies: a comparative overview of models employed in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina1
Breaking open the black box of narratives on European Capital of culture: social positioning, cultural participation, and success and failure stories (case of ECOC Wrocław 2016)1
Creative and cultural hub sustainability: from theory to practice1
Fundraising policies in cultural and creative industries: public stock market and crowdfunding channels1
European countries’ policies on restitution of colonial cultural property: some comments from a Latin American perspective1
Heritage for identity and as diplomacy: the case of Korean martial arts1
Digital cultural policy in Japan: decentralised digitalisation initiatives and their associated challenges1
‘They all know which way the wind is blowing, which way the money is flowing’: museum actors’ perspectives on involvement in protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict1
The Asian cultural heritage Alliance: a new public good for the protection of underwater cultural heritage in Asia?1
Museums and societal collapse: the museum as lifeboat1
Leveraging popular music heritage as sustainable cultural infrastructure in small cities1
Heritage diplomacy through the lens of the European Capitals of Culture programme1
The making of a dissonant heritage: the Foro Italico in Rome1
Authenticity of cultural heritage vis-à-vis heritage reproducibility and intangibility: from conservation philosophy to practice1
Failures in cultural participation1
Gastrodiplomacy in Turkey: ‘saving the world’ or neoliberal conservative cultural policies at work1
Justifying authoritarian practices: epistemic governance in two opposite interventionist policies on women’s attire in Iran’s pre- and post-revolution 19791
Age, mobility and creative output: prominent authors in 18th and 19th century Germany1
Cultural values as policy directives: techniques, technologies and symbolic work1
The public value blueprint: designing a new public service media in the digital context1
Cultural work and creative subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries1
U.S. public perceptions of artists during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Restitution of material objects and indigenous ontology: towards coloniality of dispossession/theft in Africa1
Recovering cultural heritage: historical insights into Ethiopia’s unique approach1
Policy experimentation, everyday state informality, and contested cultural-creative entrepreneurial practices in urbanizing China1
Ours or yours? Localizing the ‘mixed sites’ concept for the sustainable preservation of heritage in Africa: the case of Chongoleani Peninsular, Tanzania1
Agonistic articulations in the ‘creative’ city: on new actors and activism in Berlin’s cultural politics1
Sport as social policy: Midnight Football and the governing of society1
The Great Tea Road and the Belt and Road Initiative: cultural policy, mobility narratives and route heritage in contemporary China1
Curating War Memory under Constraint: The Chinese ‘Comfort Women’ Museum and the Politics of Remembrance1
Multicologies? The development of multi-racial creative ecologies in East London1
Practices and challenges of developing handicrafts as a core tourism product in Chencha and Konso, southern Ethiopia1
Towards a regenerative approach to cultural policy1
Between tradition and innovation: a comparative analysis of the publishing industry in Spain and France in the digital age1
Health, financial means and cultural participation in Flanders: dissecting complex interaction patterns for nine forms of cultural participation1
Museum diplomacy in the digital age1
Inviting all humanity to an elite club? Understanding tensions in UNESCO’s global heritage regimes through the lens of a typology of goods1
Implementing gender equality policies in the Spanish film industry: persistent prejudices and a feminist will to ‘exploit the centre into concentric circles’1
Arts and cultural management: sense and sensibilities in the state of the field1
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