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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving towards an integrated approach to fight against illicit trafficking of cultural heritage for the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao	29
Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events	26
Dialogic approach in the EU’s international cultural relations: joint EUNIC-EU delegation projects as heritage diplomacy	24
Creative hubs: an anomaly in cultural policy?	20
Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account	16
Global arts world and the worlding of Wynwood, Miami, Florida	15
Changes in the governance of the reading subject: Swedish reading policy, c .1949–1984	14
Art-oriented reconstruction movement and governance in rural China: illustrated by cases in Guangdong Province	12
Developing a sense of place. The role of the arts in regenerating communities	12
Global creative ecosystems. A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production	11
Public deliberation and the justification of public service media	10
“Do not forget your pain”: identities, affect and emotions in Russian and EU cultural diplomacy in Armenia	10
How culture became digital: editor’s introduction	10
‘Contact zones’ of heritage diplomacy: transformations of museums in the (post)pandemic reality	9
Folk soft power in nation-state building: the political use of folk culture in post-Mao China	9
Mainstreaming heritages: abstract heritage values as strategic resources in EU external relations	9
They expand their own language; God bless them: positions of Iranian cultural activists on English in Iran	9
From a contracted market to an expanding horizon: an analysis of Indonesia’s film production chain and accessibility	9
Perceptions of e-lending in Scandinavian libraries: tension and harmony between institutional logics	9
Cultural equality and policy in Taiwan: the case studies on children/adolescents and the people with disabilities	8
The political ideology underlying Israel’s national cultural heritage policy	8
UK Music before and after Covid-19	8
Towards a sustainable cultural diplomacy	8
Creativity and the curriculum: educational apartheid in 21st Century England, a European outlier?	8
Canadian cultural policy in transition	8

Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi	8
Social enterprises in culture and the arts: institutional trajectories of hybridisation in the Portuguese changing cultural mix	8
Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe	7
The public library as a political symbol: a post-political reading of the demise of the consensus-model in Swedish cultural policy	7
From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries	7
Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy	7
Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy	7
‘Are you being served?’ Public service media: audience conceptions of value in UK critical media infrastructure	7
Culture is bad for you: inequality in the cultural and creative industries	7
Late Ottoman Empire reforms: the musical policies of Sultan Mahmud II	6
Rethinking ‘collective effervescence,’ post-COVID-19: what Japanese punks can teach us about crowd control	6
Africa’s soft power. Philosophies, political values, foreign policies and cultural exports	6
The moral economy of the cultural sector	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
Cultural values in political economy	6
Cultural policy beyond economy: democratising access to the arts through cultural policy in Singapore	6
Conceptualising K-pop as cultural heritage and content: institutionalisation within South Korea’s cultural policy framework	6
Culture, participation and policy in the municipal public park	6
Effective cultural policy in the 21^stcentury: challenges and strategies from Australian television	6
Cultural heritage in modern conflict: past, propaganda, parade	6
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate	5
European Networks and Cultural Governance. How Culture Makes Policy	5
Digital cultural politics: from policy to practice	5
Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia	5
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland	5
Left off the circuit: the impact of shrinking live music tours on cities	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
Culture–tourism entanglements: moving from grassroots practices to regenerative cultural policies in smaller communities	5
The role of experience and reputation in the performance of Australian films	5
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo	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
Digital transformation and cultural policies in Europe	4
Cultural diversity and cultural trade: theory and an application to the motion picture industry	4
The last paradise for creative workers? The case of Shueisha and Weekly Shōnen Jump	4
‘Constructing’ heritage diplomacy in Central Asia: China’s Sinocentric historicisation of transnational World Heritage Sites	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
Cultural governance: Current and future European perspectives	4
Mediations of cultural policymaking during COVID-19: British newspaper reporting of the Culture Recovery Fund	4
What price culture? – a taxonomy of the admission pricing policy at museums	4
The hybridisation of public libraries: a comparative study between Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm	3
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law: intellectual property as a cultural policy tool	3
Acting on cultural policy: arts practitioners, policy-making and civil society	3
Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism	3
The development of Ukrainian cultural policy in the context of Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine	3
National disability strategies as rights-based cultural policy tools	3
Cultural democracy now. What it means and why we need it	3
China’s ‘new cultural diplomacy’ in international broadcasting: branding the nation through CGTN Documentary	3

Possibilities for reconciliation in heterotopic spaces of Australian frontier massacre	3
Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden	3
The Berardo Collection Museum of modern and contemporary art: lessons from a failed public-private partnership (2007–2022)	3
Cross-cultural collaboration and cultural production within China’s public museums: examining the challenges and practices guiding administration	3
Multilingualism, diversity, and performing arts. A home for Spanish language theatre in post-Brexit gentrified London	3
Geopolitical dimensions of the National Museum of China: strategic narratives and the construction of socialist citizenship (1949–1981)	3
When the whole-nation system meets cultural heritage in China	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
The Bolsonaro effect on audiovisual promotion policy in Brazil	3
Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements	3
EU heritage diplomacy: entangled external and internal cultural relations	3
Between strong and weak copyright: their impacts on the Korean music industry	3
From standardising cultural data to coordinating data cultures: the history and politics of digital heritage aggregation in Australia	3