OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Policy 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	30
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events	25
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	23
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	15
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	14
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	13
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	13
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	13
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	12
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	12
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	11
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	11
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	11
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran	10
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	9
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	9
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	9
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	8
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?	8
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	8
Culture is bad for you: inequality in the cultural and creative industries	7
UK Music before and after Covid-19	7
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi	7
The balancing act of minority cultural identity expression policy: palestinian cultural struggles at the Israeli local government level	7
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy	7

‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure	7
Cultural equality and policy in Taiwan: the case studies on children/adolescents and the people with disabilities	7
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	7
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy	7
Canadian cultural policy in transition	7
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy	7
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control	6
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy	6
Red creative: culture and modernity in China	6
From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries	6
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore	6
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	6
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security	6
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II	6
Effective cultural policy in the 21^stcentury: challenges and strategies from Australian television	6
Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production	6
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation	6
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	6
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park	6
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports	5
The moral economy of the cultural sector	5
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities	5
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	5
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	5
Cultural values in political economy	5
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice	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
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, parade	5
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland	5
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	5
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	4
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump	4
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund	4
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	4
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	4
National disability strategies as rights-based cultural policy tools	4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	4
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry	4
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	4
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	3
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 industry	3
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	3
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	3
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	3
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia	3
Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa to sustainable development. An empirical research of creative intermediaries in Accra’s contemporary art sector	3
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	3
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	3

Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	3
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 Brazil	3
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	3
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	3
Cross-cultural collaboration and cultural production within China’s public museums: examining the challenges and practices guiding administration	3
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	3
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	3