OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Policy 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
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	25
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	23
The Covid-19 crisis and ‘critical juncture’ in cultural policy: a comparative analysis of cultural policy responses in South Korea, Japan and China	20
Cultural policy aspirations and the turn in Saudi Arabia’s video game industry	19
Resilience and adaptation of the UK’s arts sector during the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	14
Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age	13
Sport as social policy: Midnight Football and the governing of society	12
Disentangling economics and culture in European policies for cinema: what can we learn from Portugal and non-commercial exhibition?	12
Cultural policy beyond the economy: work, value and the social	11
Transformational governance framework for institutions of cultural diplomacy: the case of the Chinese Confucius Institute	11
Democratizing opera. Accessibility to opera in the digital age among Swedish-speaking Finns	9
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	8
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	7
The platformisation of culture: challenges to cultural policy	7
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice	7
Emergent film production in the Pacific: Oceanic strategies of connection and exchange	7
The future of creative work– creativity and digital disruption	7
Review of cultural industries and the COVID-19 pandemic: a European focus	7
The normative role of experts in policy development: a comparison of two Scandinavian cultural policy reports	7
Reimagining the cultural impact of neoliberalism: an analysis of Istanbul and Liverpool biennials	7
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	6
The dynamics of EU cultural policies in post-socialist urban regeneration strategies: a case study of Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023	6
Mentoring as affective practice	6
Democratising access to domestic audiovisual production in the digital environment: the case of the Argentinian VOD service Cine.Ar Play	6
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	6

Cultural policy and cultural industries in Africa: from culture as a commodity to culture as praxis	6
Between tradition and innovation: a comparative analysis of the publishing industry in Spain and France in the digital age	6
Problematizing Iranian university autonomy: a historical-institutional perspective	5
Creative work: conditions, contexts and practices	5
The rise of Chinese animation: policy evolution and industry development since the 1990s	5
China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage	5
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	5
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 not	5
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	5
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	5
Present absence: when cultural participation goes digital	5
Authenticity of cultural heritage vis-à-vis heritage reproducibility and intangibility: from conservation philosophy to practice	5
The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities: shifting heritage-making from nation-building to city branding in South Korea and Taiwan	5
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	5
The road to censorship: the case of digital audiovisual industries in India	5
Cultural and economic dynamics of digital immersive art in China’s creative industries	5
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran	4
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	4
Heritage diplomacy through the lens of the European Capitals of Culture programme	4
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry	4
Opera houses: from democratization to plutocratic control? Lyric production, economic management, and elite control in the main Spanish opera houses during the period of austerity (2009–2018)	4
Failures in cultural participation	4
Indeterminacy in the cultural property restitution debate	4
Dating apps: towards post-romantic love in digital societies	4
The Eurovision song contest as a cultural phenomenon: from concert halls to the halls of academia	4
The ambivalence in the ambiguity of UNESCO’s cultural policy remit: a structural description of the Common Heritage of Mankind in the Cultural Diversity Convention	4
Arts and cultural management: sense and sensibilities in the state of the field	4
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	4
Histories of cultural participation, values and governance	4
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	4
Heritage diplomacy; an afterword	4
Survey evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on Australian musicians and implications for policy	4
Agonistic articulations in the ‘creative’ city: on new actors and activism in Berlin’s cultural politics	3
Comparing landscape values and heritage stakeholders: a case study of West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, China	3
Whose culture is it? Recovering illegally excavated Chinese bronze wares from Japan	3
National disability strategies as rights-based cultural policy tools	3
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	3
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund	3
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	3
Ours or yours? Localizing the ‘mixed sites’ concept for the sustainable preservation of heritage in Africa: the case of Chongoleani Peninsular, Tanzania	3
Tears in the classroom: teaching and learning cultural policy in a multicultural environment. Can the subaltern talk?	3
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	3
Cultural survival amid disaster: support for artists in New Orleans	2
Ethics, values and legality in the restoration of cultural artefacts: the case of South Africa	2
Culture is Digitaland the shifting terrain of UK cultural policy	2
Trading devil Fish and Monkey kings: French and Chinese film industry policies and exchanges 1978-1993	2
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	2
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	2
Accounting for non-economic loss: climate displacement and the meaningful omission of the intangible	2
Corporate sponsorship as cultural policy: tax incentives in Brazilian contemporary art	2

From aims to results: justifying and implementing Japanese cultural policies in Southeast Asia	2
The fragility of cultural philanthropy: why private art museums close	2
The making of a dissonant heritage: the Foro Italico in Rome	2
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	2
To receive and to give something back – director’s perspectives on public – private collaborations in Norwegian art museums	2
Accomplishing cultural policy in Europe. Financing, governance and responsiveness	2
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	2
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	2
Deploying destruction: Islamic State, international actors, and public opinion in Mosul	2
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	2
Contributions to a future law on cultural rights in Catalonia: challenges and reflections from the artistic, cultural and creative sectors	2
Examining restitution and repatriation options for cultural artefacts: an empirical enquiry in South Africa	2
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	2
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	2
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	2
Putting creative labour in its place in the shadow of the Korean Wave	2
An evaluation of the web accessibility of China’s national-level museums	2
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	2
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump	2
Cooperation among intergovernmental organizations in global cultural governance: Towards an actor-centered constructivist approach	2