International Journal of Heritage Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Heritage Studies is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts44
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science36
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society29
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand24
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth22
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts21
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura21
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene20
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives19
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw19
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage16
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania15
Assessing the social values of heritage: methods in theory and practice14
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach14
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List13
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription13
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance13
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining Virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy13
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self13
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin13
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership12
Heritage as emancipation?12
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China12
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future12
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe12
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong12
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)11
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model10
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage10
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas10
From assessment to implementation: knowledge-action asymmetry in post-disaster heritage recovery in Beirut10
Political reconciliation and emancipatory reinterpretations of Jakarta’s Pancasila Sakti Monument through heritage tourism: an exploratory study10
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan10
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?9
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation9
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria9
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont9
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework9
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China9
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research8
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance8
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race8
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine8
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe8
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes8
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world8
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes8
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall8
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands8
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals7
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy7
Against authenticity7
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach7
Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hölleland (2025)7
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration7
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves7
Distinct aesthetics of democratic memory: Thailand’s 14th of October 1973 memorial and the Philippines’ Bantayog ng mga Bayani7
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage6
The evolving house museum: art collectors and their residences, then and now6
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?6
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes6
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events6
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage6
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze6
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily6
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige6
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece6
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage6
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda6
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization5
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies5
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center5
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage5
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia5
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo5
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums5
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)5
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia5
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London5
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity5
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha5
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states5
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories5
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history5
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution5
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter5
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary4
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums4
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia4
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education4
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland4
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship4
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal4
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park4
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory4
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy4
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore4
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data4
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu3
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan3
Authors’ reply to Peter Bridgewater, ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hølleland (2025)’3
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics3
Understanding the role of local stories in living archaeological heritage sites: the case of Stratonikeia3
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada3
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities3
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique3
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards3
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years3
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice3
Digital museum objects and digital ecologies3
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia3
On problems of the ‘double standard’ when localising critical heritage studies in China3
Mapping the research on gender, LGBTQI minorities and heritage across social sciences and humanities3
The role of communities in preserving, using and remembering heritage: archaeological monuments and dark heritage sites in Estonia3
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies3
The Aeschylus Museum as a collections-free institution of the Muses: community consultation and values assessment3
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages3
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene3
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island3
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality: the case of Hrušov, Slovakia3
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)3
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–20013
ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right3
Putting the Illegal into heritage practice3
Seeing the glass half-empty: implications for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through formal education in Türkiye3
The paradoxes of heritage participation3
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities3
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden3
Dissonance and disobedience in Brazilian quilombola heritages3
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums3
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve3
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China3
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage2
Contextualising digital cultural heritage: Bininj GIS and 3D modelling for conservation at Ubirr rock art complex, Kakadu National Park, Australia2
Heritage as boundary object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar2
Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach2
Walk slowly, listen carefully, tread softly: enhancing participation in architectural conservation practice2
50 years World Heritage Convention: shared responsibility – conflict & reconciliation2
The Demoscene: from digital subculture to UNESCO intangible cultural heritage2
The political life of post-industrial objects: aesthetic re-signification in the Russophone Estonia2
“For God and Country”: memory of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike2
Heritage as city vision leverage: the suspended transformation of the railway landscape in Changhua City2
The Mediterranean moment of Namibian rock art, or the legitimisation of colonial presence through heritage-making (1948–1954)2
Maboo Liyan Boorroo – Good Spirit Country: using participatory research frameworks to manage Indigenous cultural landscapes in a time of environmental and political uncertainty2
Making a white city: race, space, and heritage in the production of the historic centre of Cartagena in the twentieth century2
Why collections matter: impacts of cultural heritage collections on people’s lives2
Examining interwoven narratives: multidirectional memory between enslaved labourers and mill workers in Northern England heritage sites2
Disability activism and institutional heritage2
Social Landscape Characterisation: a people-centred, place-based approach to inclusive and transparent heritage and landscape management2
Theatre heritage in pre-WWII Hong Kong: a postcolonial reading2
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm: advances of conservative memory in Chile2
Islam exhibited: In pursuit of representation in pluralistic societies2
Heritage without community: rethinking conservation through relational infrastructure in post-Confucian Vietnam2
Cultural dissonance: heritage protests and their implications for heritage-making in settler colonial cities2
Poly-spatial experiences of the past at European cultural heritage sites2
Digital storytelling for emotional engagement in museums: design and evaluation of the Hunterian Antonine Wall EMOTIVE experiences2
Participation and the Post-Museum2
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa2
Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimensional heritage2
Perspectives on social justice among US historic preservation practitioners: roles, actions and organisational responsibilities2
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera2
Objects, memory, and power: the transformation of intimacy in virtual heritage spaces1
Heritage imaginaries and imaginaries of heritage: an analytical lens to rethink heritage from ‘alter-native’ ontologies1
Virtual repatriation as a methodological reframing for museum learning in the digital age: repositioning, digital transformation, and collaborative meaning-making1
Integration of cultural heritage in architecture: a national study of Jordanian higher education1
The Australian orphanage museum: heritage and activism1
Heritage-making in the capitalocene: deconstructing fishing heritage and regeneration in an English fishing port1
Familiar new histories: promenade theatre and local amateur actors in a creative heritage project1
Transforming legacies, habits and futures: reshaping the collection at the Museum of European Cultures1
Endangered cultural heritage in the Russia–Ukraine war: comparing and critiquing interventions by international cultural heritage organizations1
Re-framing authorised heritage discourse (AHD) within a realist explanatory framework: towards a dialectical relationship between discourse and the extra-discursive1
Heritage route as pilgrimage. Visiting the battlefield in Ossów1
The Algorithmically Authorised Heritage Discourse: how Big Tech ‘uses of heritage’ help to build Big Tech power1
Reclaiming Indigenous knowledge for sustainability: Afrocentric perspectives on Indigenous intangible cultural heritage and climate adaptation in rural Zimbabwe1
Collective memory and identity of a rebranded ‘Chinatown’1
Postcolonial communities at the intersection of heritage-making and security-making1
A maritime turn and ocean ontologies in critical heritage studies1
Heritageinandasdiplomacy: a practice based study1
Populist truth-making: a conceptual approach to populism in the context of European museums1
Modalities of heritage–border relations in a multipolar world order1
Who cares for heritage? A feminist critique centred on care work in heritage regimes1
Heritage ecologies1
Redress, memorials and activism: can heritage be activism?1
Exploration of the value of Japanese-style gardens in incarceration camps during world war II: the case of the Amache, Colorado, U.S.1
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization: a case study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive1
Stakeholder perspectives on the World Heritage and development in Africa1
The ecomuseum as a platform for territorial development: the case of Greek ecomuseums1
Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)1
An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats1
Building a Common Past: World Heritage in Russia under Transformation 1965-20001
Humour as cultural heritage1
Contesting urban monuments: future directions for the controversial monumental landscapes of civic grandeur1
Places of recreation, places of memory: tourism in the heritagisation of LGBT+ identities1
Soviet music heritage as a discursive middle ground in Belarusian political conflict1
Illustration and Heritage1
Cultural heritage conservation and the colonial past in Tanzania: collaborative approaches towards German colonial administrative buildings and military stations (Bomas)1
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes1
The ambivalence of cultural heritage policies: creative cities and gentrification in Florence1
Heritage and religion in East Asia1
From overlooked objects to digital ‘icons’: evaluating the role of social media in exhibition making and the creation of more participatory and democratic museums1
Mobile media, urban nostalgia and memory politics: media archaeological study of their mutual shaping in Narva, Estonia1
Rethinking heritage in precarious times: coloniality, climate change, and Covid-191
The role of conservation policies in local understandings of heritage in living heritage places: a Greek testimony1
Latte in the Marianas: By the community for the community1
Recognising menhu as a community within Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage1
Experiencing ‘Taiwanese’ nationhood in the ambivalent heritage from the Japanese colonial era1
Researching heritage values in social media environments: understanding variabilities and (in)visibilities1
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research1
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain: making the local1
Heritage practice communities: what are they and why are we talking about them?1
Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult Heritage1
Reconceptualising continuity in living heritage: the case of gers and their diverse communities1
Heritage at transnational work: a belated acceptance of “Love and Peace” upon the 1871 shipwreck and 1874 wars across islands between Taiwan and Okinawa1
“What is our role? Will we be able to work on equal terms?” collaboration and controversies over the renovation of AfricaMuseum (Tervuren)1
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