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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	27
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	24
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	21
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	14
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	14
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	13
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	13
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	13
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	12
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	12
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	12
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	11
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	10
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran	10
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	9
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	9
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	8
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy	8
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	8
UK Music before and after Covid-19	7
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?	7
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy	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
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
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	7
Canadian cultural policy in transition	7
Cultural equality and policy in Taiwan: the case studies on children/adolescents and the people with disabilities	7
South Korea’s intangible cultural heritage claims and China’s ontological security	6
Red creative: culture and modernity in China	6
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park	6
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control	6
From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries	6
Culture is bad for you: inequality in the cultural and creative industries	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
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	6
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	6
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation	6
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy	6
Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production	6
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice	5
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities	5
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports	5
The moral economy of the cultural sector	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
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	5
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	5
Cultural values in political economy	5
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	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
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	5
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore	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
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	4
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry	4
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	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
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
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	4
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	3
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	3
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden	3
The justice of visual art. Creative state-building in times of political transition (Series: law in context)	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
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	3
Geopolitical dimensions of the National Museum of China: strategic narratives and the construction of socialist citizenship (1949–1981)	3
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	3
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	3

When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	3
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	3
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil	3
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry	3
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	3