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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and the arts and cultural sectors: investigating countries’ contextual factors and early policy measures	58
Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics	25
Art, antiquities, and blockchain: new approaches to the restitution of cultural heritage	23
Cultural and creative work in rural and remote areas: an emerging international conversation	23
VOD service providers and regulation in the European Union: an audiovisual diversity approach	22
Silk road diplomacy: Geopolitics and histories of connectivity	22
A comparative analysis of US and EU regulatory frameworks of crowdfunding for the cultural and creative industries	16
The UNESCO convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: a critical analysis	15
Survey evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on Australian musicians and implications for policy	15
Cultural policies in illiberal democracies: a conceptual framework based on the Polish and Hungarian governing experiences	14
The pandemic politics of cultural work: collective responses to the COVID-19 crisis	13
Street art as a sustainable tool in mature tourist destinations: a case study of Barcelona	12
Policy-making as an emotionally-charged arena: the emotional geographies of urban cultural policy-making	11
Failure seems to be the hardest word to say	11
‘Demand’ for culture and ‘allied’ industries: policy insights from multi-site creative economy research	11
Cultural policy, the public sphere, and public libraries: a comparison of Norwegian, American, and Japanese models	9
Original live music venues in hyper-commercialised nightlife precincts: exploring how venue owners and managers navigate cultural, commercial and regulatory forces	9
Does automatic funding suck? The cost and value of automatic funding in small nation screen industries in Northern Europe	8
Cultural policies in cities of the ‘global South’: a multi-scalar approach	8
Practices and challenges of developing handicrafts as a core tourism product in Chencha and Konso, southern Ethiopia	8
Geocultural diplomacy	7
Pursuing decentralisation: regional cultural policies in Finland and Sweden	6
EU cultural policy and audience perspectives: how cultural value orientations are related to media usage and country context	6
Becoming a ‘Cultural Destination of Choice’: lessons on vernacularization from Beirut and Buenos Aires	6
The Covid-19 crisis and ‘critical juncture’ in cultural policy: a comparative analysis of cultural policy responses in South Korea, Japan and China	6

Effective cultural policy in the 21^st century: challenges and strategies from Australian television	6
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?	6
China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage	6
Chicken dance (off): competing cultural diplomacy in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest	6
Cultural participation in digital environments: goals and stakes for Quebec cultural policies	6
Content quotas and prominence on VOD services: new challenges for European audiovisual regulators	6
Public opinion on government funding of the arts in the United States: demographic and political factors	6
The true impact of shorter and longer copyright durations: from authors’ earnings to cultural creativity and diversity	5
Balancing Act: motivation and creative work in the lived experience of writers and musicians	5
Integrating music and sound into efforts to advance the sustainable development goals in the Asia-Pacific: case studies from Indonesia, Vanuatu and Australia	5
Constructing Hungarian ‘good-will ambassadors’: the collaborative soft power efforts of Hungary’s Balassi Institute and the Hungarian community in Australia	5
A cultural turn in urban governance: cultural practices of governance in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area	5
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	5
Paradoxical autonomy in cultural organisations: an analysis of changing relations between cultural organisations and their institutional environment, with examples from libraries, archives and museums	5
Producing multiple imaginations of the Silk Road in Xi’an, China’s urban development	5
Iran’s soft power in Azerbaijan: shifting cultural dynamics in the post-Soviet era	5
Culture is Digital and the shifting terrain of UK cultural policy	4
Bridging, nudging and translating: facilitators of local creative industries in Norway	4
Culture and trade: Chinese practices and perspectives	4
Dating apps: towards post-romantic love in digital societies	4
From problem to solution? Why it is difficult to restrict the remit of public broadcasters	4
Translation as cultural diplomacy: a Chinese perspective	4
Shaping cultural policy discourse in Germany: the case of ‘Cultural Education’	4
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security	4
Scandinavian success as European policy dilemma: creative Europe’s funding for TV drama co-productions, 2014-20	4
Ethics, values and legality in the restoration of cultural artefacts: the case of South Africa	4
Indeterminacy in the cultural property restitution debate	4
Civilisations in dialogue? UNESCO and the politics of building East and West relations	4
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship	4
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	4
From cultural policy towards cultural politics? The case of the Hungarian cultural sphere	4
Contingent availability: a case-based approach to understanding availability in streaming services and cultural policy implications	3
Governing creative industries in the post-normative cultural condition	3
Cool, warm, soft and sharp: paradigms of cultural exchange in Japan–China relations	3
Implementing gender equality policies in the Spanish film industry: persistent prejudices and a feminist will to ‘exploit the centre into concentric circles’	3
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	3
The platformisation of culture: challenges to cultural policy	3
Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg	3
Exporting European values? Political myths of liberal democracy and cultural diversity in creative Europe’s literary translation projects	3
Can the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor help Beijing Win Pakistanis’ hearts and minds? Reviewing higher education as an instrument of Chinese soft power in Pakistan	3
License to stream? A study of how rights-holders have responded to music streaming services in Norway	3
How to make the white elephant work: findings from ethnographic research into Polish new cultural institutions	3
Promoting tangible and intangible hidden cultural heritage: local communities influencing civic decision-making and international cultural policy	3
Role of universities in preserving cultural heritage in areas of conflict	3
Private taste and public space: the heated media debate about a privately initiated sculpture park in Oslo	3
Digital cultural policy. The story of a slow and reluctant revolution	3
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	3
Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier	3
Exploring the dynamics of EDI leadership in the Irish screen industries: policy, practice and perspective	3
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	3

The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities: shifting heritage-making from nation-building to city branding in South Korea and Taiwan