International Journal of Heritage Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Heritage Studies is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts58
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts48
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw31
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura29
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene28
UNESCO’s institutional drift and normative vacuum: interpreting the failure to protect Palestinian heritage in Gaza27
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science26
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand26
Ontological politics of heritage: forms of humanity and living images in the Amazon24
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society23
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives21
The heritage body: tattoos as sites of personal storytelling20
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage19
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin18
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania17
Heritage as a bellwether for Peace: developing community-based indicators in conflict-affected contexts17
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining Virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy17
Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage17
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach16
Assessing the social values of heritage: methods in theory and practice16
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance16
Heritage as emancipation?15
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China15
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription15
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List15
Beyond national jurisdiction: a proposition for tackling wicked problems through World Heritage sites and practices15
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe14
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership14
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong14
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self14
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage13
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan13
Political reconciliation and emancipatory reinterpretations of Jakarta’s Pancasila Sakti Monument through heritage tourism: an exploratory study12
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model11
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China11
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)11
From assessment to implementation: knowledge-action asymmetry in post-disaster heritage recovery in Beirut11
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont11
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework11
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria10
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance10
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes10
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation10
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes10
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future10
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe10
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research10
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world9
Carbon cultures of progress in history of technology museums9
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall9
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals9
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race9
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes8
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine8
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach8
The evolving house museum: art collectors and their residences, then and now8
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy8
Arts, heritage and performative politics8
Distinct aesthetics of democratic memory: Thailand’s 14th of October 1973 memorial and the Philippines’ Bantayog ng mga Bayani8
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily8
Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hölleland (2025)8
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands8
Against authenticity8
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves8
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage7
Fallowed heritage. The past and presents of the State Agricultural Farms in Poland7
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events7
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda7
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze7
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece7
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage7
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?7
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing7
Considering Sino-Thais’ residual place-rhythms as everyday heritage in Thai cities7
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha6
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization6
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states6
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution6
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center6
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige6
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London6
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums6
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage6
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies6
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history6
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories6
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia6
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia6
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo5
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education5
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy5
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter5
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore5
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal5
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–20015
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia5
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland5
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums5
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data5
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia5
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity5
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory5
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene4
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island4
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)4
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan4
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years4
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics4
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities4
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages4
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards4
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums4
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China4
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park4
Digital museum objects and digital ecologies4
Loving culture, living peace: the link between cultural heritage engagement and peace values in Cambodia4
The Aeschylus Museum as a collections-free institution of the Muses: community consultation and values assessment4
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada4
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality: the case of Hrušov, Slovakia4
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve4
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice4
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique4
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu4
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden4
ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right4
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities4
On problems of the ‘double standard’ when localising critical heritage studies in China4
Authors’ reply to Peter Bridgewater, ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hølleland (2025)’4
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