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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	36
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	26
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events	18
‘The more it changes’: state scripting, local mediation, and civic voices in the transformation of China’s disaster memoryscapes	17
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	16
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	15
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	15
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	15
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	14
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	14
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	14
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	13
Colony: culture, people and wildlife extraction as faces of the same medal. The case of ‘Cameroon’ (1884–1916)	12
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	12
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	12
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	12
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	11
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	11
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	11
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	11
Doing screen diversity in Australia: a review of existing policy approaches	10
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy	10
Platformisation and precarity: the restructuring of creative labour in South Korea’s webtoon industry	10
Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi	10
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	9

Canadian cultural policy in transition	9
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy	9
UK Music before and after Covid-19	8
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control	8
‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure	8
Conceptualising K-pop as cultural heritage and content: institutionalisation within South Korea’s cultural policy framework	8
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy	8
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	8
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II	7
Reel politics: political ecology and cinematic geography in the Massachusetts film industry	7
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy	7
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park	7
Embedding the protection of cultural heritage into a security agenda: China’s and Russia’s heritage diplomacy	7
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports	6
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore	6
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	6
Analogue and digital future imaginaries in an accelerated society: Norway’s national library digitalisation programme and the future library artwork	6
Cultural heritage in modern conflict: past, propaganda, parade	6
European Networks and Cultural Governance. How Culture Makes Policy	6
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation	6
Risky business: policy legacy and gender inequality in Australian opera production	6
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland	6
Les Belles étrangères (1987–2010): cultural policy and France’s literary cultural diplomacy	6
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	6
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
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	5
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	5
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities	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
The moral economy of the cultural sector	5
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	5
Digital transformation and cultural policies in Europe	5
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	4
The legal boundaries of creativity: exploring how China’s copyright law regulates AI-generated content in video game development	4
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	4
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	4
Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic	4
Things, practices & policies: relationality and the early stages of the international promotion of Dutch design, 1920s–1970s	4
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund	4
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	4
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump	4
Finally, beyond status quo? Analysis of steps taken to improve gender equality in the European audiovisual sector in light of the #MeToo movement	4
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	4
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	4
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	4
Netflix’ Spain: critical perspectives	3
Cultural policies in turbulent times	3
Centring the audience: attitudes and behaviours in Australian arts organisations	3
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden	3
Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan	3

Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	3
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	3
Nativist nationalism, cultural homogenisation and bullfighting: VOX’s cultural policy as an instrument for cultural battle (2019–2023)	3
The hybridisation of public libraries: a comparative study between Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm	3
Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review	3
Reframing instrumentality: from New Public Management to New Public Governance	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
Between distinction and ‘common prosperity’: how Chinese designers navigate Shanzhai and China’s intellectual property policy	3
The Berardo Collection Museum of modern and contemporary art: lessons from a failed public-private partnership (2007–2022)	3
Not just Kangaroos and Koalas: evaluating the operation and outcomes of Australian local content regulation on pay-TV	3
Geopolitical dimensions of the National Museum of China: strategic narratives and the construction of socialist citizenship (1949–1981)	3
Invisible cultural policy in America	3
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia	3
Possibilities for reconciliation in heterotopic spaces of Australian frontier massacre	3
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry	3
Enabling as the anchor for regenerative cultural policy	3
Multinormativity of a place: the ‘meaning system’ of Ordam Mazar and its relevance as ‘global cultural heritage’*	3
Regenerative cultural policy: sustainable development, cultural relations, and social learning	3
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	3
Funding art in post-conflict society: a ‘peace dividend’?	3
Green’s the word. Cultural policies and the ecological turn	3
Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements	3
Religion in the cultural and political discourse of the Council of Europe	3
Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship	3
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil	3
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	3
Video-on-demand affordability: the cultural costs of unequal access to online film and television	3
The (Un)protected memory of modern architecture in Turkey: conservation debates on the archaeological museums through the modern architectural heritage	3
Digital cultural policy. The story of a slow and reluctant revolution	3
The unsung: examining how contracts affect session musicians’ remuneration in Australia	3
Acting on cultural policy: arts practitioners, policy-making and civil society	3