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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science45
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw27
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene27
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura23
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts21
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand20
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth17
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts16
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society14
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage14
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach14
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy14
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania13
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives13
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin10
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self10
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China10
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership10
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance10
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China10
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription10
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List10
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future9
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont9
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong9
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas9
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation9
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe9
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework9
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model8
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance8
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan8
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities8
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)8
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?8
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage8
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria8
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration8
Against authenticity7
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe7
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research7
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine7
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes7
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands6
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage6
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?6
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world6
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall6
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race6
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals6
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes6
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach6
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze5
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments5
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes5
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy5
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events5
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda5
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily5
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing5
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage5
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece5
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage5
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)4
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums4
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha4
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage4
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach4
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia4
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history4
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London4
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories4
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization4
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter4
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states4
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia4
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies4
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige4
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia4
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution4
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center4
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal4
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore3
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary3
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education3
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia3
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice3
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan3
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island3
Constructing national identity through World Heritage: the international and intranational politics of the built environment in Ahmadabad3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland3
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity3
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–20013
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China3
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years3
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park3
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory3
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo3
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data3
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)3
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu3
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera2
Seeing the glass half-empty: implications for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through formal education in Türkiye2
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage2
The role of communities in preserving, using and remembering heritage: archaeological monuments and dark heritage sites in Estonia2
Cultural dissonance: heritage protests and their implications for heritage-making in settler colonial cities2
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality: the case of Hrušov, Slovakia2
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities2
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages2
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities2
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics2
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies2
Plans for Uncertain Futures: Heritage and Climate Imaginaries in Coastal Climate Adaptation2
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm: advances of conservative memory in Chile2
Putting the Illegal into heritage practice2
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada2
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards2
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique2
Dissonance and disobedience in Brazilian quilombola heritages2
The Aeschylus Museum as a collections-free institution of the Muses: community consultation and values assessment2
Heritage as city vision leverage: the suspended transformation of the railway landscape in Changhua City2
The paradoxes of heritage participation2
Mapping the research on gender, LGBTQI minorities and heritage across social sciences and humanities2
Understanding the role of local stories in living archaeological heritage sites: the case of Stratonikeia2
Urban textile mills: conservation and conversion2
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums2
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene2
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden2
Postcolonial communities at the intersection of heritage-making and security-making1
Heritage ecologies1
Endangered cultural heritage in the Russia–Ukraine war: comparing and critiquing interventions by international cultural heritage organizations1
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa1
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes1
Perspectives on social justice among US historic preservation practitioners: roles, actions and organisational responsibilities1
Recognising menhu as a community within Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage1
Heritage as boundary object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar1
Heritage route as pilgrimage. Visiting the battlefield in Ossów1
Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimensional heritage1
Walk slowly, listen carefully, tread softly: enhancing participation in architectural conservation practice1
Heritageinandasdiplomacy: a practice based study1
Why collections matter: impacts of cultural heritage collections on people’s lives1
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain: making the local1
Transforming legacies, habits and futures: reshaping the collection at the Museum of European Cultures1
Rethinking heritage in precarious times: coloniality, climate change, and Covid-191
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization: a case study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive1
An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats1
The Australian orphanage museum: heritage and activism1
The role of conservation policies in local understandings of heritage in living heritage places: a Greek testimony1
Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)1
Theatre heritage in pre-WWII Hong Kong: a postcolonial reading1
Places of recreation, places of memory: tourism in the heritagisation of LGBT+ identities1
The Mediterranean moment of Namibian rock art, or the legitimisation of colonial presence through heritage-making (1948–1954)1
Collective memory and identity of a rebranded ‘Chinatown’1
The political life of post-industrial objects: aesthetic re-signification in the Russophone Estonia1
Redress, memorials and activism: can heritage be activism?1
“For God and Country”: memory of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike1
Contesting urban monuments: future directions for the controversial monumental landscapes of civic grandeur1
Forgotten ‘Bicycle king of the East’: sports hero Um Bok-dong and the formation of sports heritage in South Korea1
Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach1
Heritage imaginaries and imaginaries of heritage: an analytical lens to rethink heritage from ‘alter-native’ ontologies1
Poly-spatial experiences of the past at European cultural heritage sites1
Familiar new histories: promenade theatre and local amateur actors in a creative heritage project1
Latte in the Marianas: By the community for the community1
Re-framing authorised heritage discourse (AHD) within a realist explanatory framework: towards a dialectical relationship between discourse and the extra-discursive1
From overlooked objects to digital ‘icons’: evaluating the role of social media in exhibition making and the creation of more participatory and democratic museums1
Building a Common Past: World Heritage in Russia under Transformation 1965-20001
Researching heritage values in social media environments: understanding variabilities and (in)visibilities1
Exploration of the value of Japanese-style gardens in incarceration camps during world war II: the case of the Amache, Colorado, U.S.1
50 years World Heritage Convention: shared responsibility – conflict & reconciliation1
Integration of cultural heritage in architecture: a national study of Jordanian higher education1
Disability activism and institutional heritage1
The ecomuseum as a platform for territorial development: the case of Greek ecomuseums1
Social Landscape Characterisation: a people-centred, place-based approach to inclusive and transparent heritage and landscape management1
Mobile media, urban nostalgia and memory politics: media archaeological study of their mutual shaping in Narva, Estonia1
The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’1
Heritage and religion in East Asia1
Virtual repatriation as a methodological reframing for museum learning in the digital age: repositioning, digital transformation, and collaborative meaning-making1
Examining interwoven narratives: multidirectional memory between enslaved labourers and mill workers in Northern England heritage sites1
New approach to cultural heritage: profiling discourse across borders1
Taking control of the production of heritage: Country and cultural values in the assessment of Aboriginal cultural heritage significance1
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research1
Experiencing ‘Taiwanese’ nationhood in the ambivalent heritage from the Japanese colonial era1
The ambivalence of cultural heritage policies: creative cities and gentrification in Florence1
Heritage-making in the capitalocene: deconstructing fishing heritage and regeneration in an English fishing port1
“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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