OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Heritage Studies 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	49
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw	30
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene	27
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	24
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth	21
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand	21
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts	18
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts	17
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society	16
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach	16
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining Virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy	15
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania	14
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin	13
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage	12
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives	12
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription	11
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership	11
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self	11
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance	11
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe	10
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China	10
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China	10
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List	10
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)	9
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future	9

Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont	9
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage	9
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong	9
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation	9
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model	9
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas	9
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan	8
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes	8
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance	8
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	8
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	8
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe	8
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework	8
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	8
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research	8
Against authenticity	7
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes	6
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world	6
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals	6
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	6
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	6
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands	6
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	6
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves	6
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing	6
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall	6
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach	6
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?	6
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily	6
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes	5
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage	5
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage	5
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center	5
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments	5
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze	5
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda	5
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige	5
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage	5
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	5
Distinct aesthetics of democratic memory: Thailand’s 14th of October 1973 memorial and the Philippines’ Bantayog ng mga Bayani	5
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	5
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	5
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events	5
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia	4
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states	4
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums	4
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia	4
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution	4
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization	4

Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal	4
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies	4
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories	4
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter	4
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia	4
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity	4
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach	4
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	4
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha	4
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history	4
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	3
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park	3
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–2001	3
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives *Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve*	3
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	3
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu	3
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo	3
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy	3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	3
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education	3
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia	3
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene	3
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years	3
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	3
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary	3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	3
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data	3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	3
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)	3
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island	3
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique	3
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	3
Constructing national identity through World Heritage: the international and intranational politics of the built environment in Ahmadabad	3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory	3