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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw	49
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	41
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	34
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene	34
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts	22
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	19
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach	15
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society	15
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin	14
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania	14
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives	14
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect	14
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List	13
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership	13
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription	12
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance	12
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance	10
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China	10
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China	10
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self	10
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe	10
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont	9
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan	9

The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future	9
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	9
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong	9
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)	8
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas	8
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage	8
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework	8
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation	8
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model	8
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	8
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’	7
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	7
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes	7
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance	7
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research	7
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	7
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe	7
Against authenticity	7
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes	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
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine	6
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands	6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze	6
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals	6
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall	6
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	6
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves	6
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda	5
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments	5
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center	5
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	5
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	5
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes	5
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events	5
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage	5
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	5
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily	5
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage	5
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	4
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization	4
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage	4
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal	4
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history	4
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia	4
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha	4
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories	4
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies	4
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach	4
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia	4

Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution	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
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 museums	4
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige	4
The Brutish museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution	4
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states	4
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter	4
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway	4
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)	3
Constructing national identity through World Heritage: the international and intranational politics of the built environment in Ahmadabad	3
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo	3
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data	3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	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
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory	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
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	3
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts	3
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary	3