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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	52
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene	37
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society	34
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts	25
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts	24
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw	22
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand	21
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth	21
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	20
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives	17
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach	17
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage	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
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining Virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy	12
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription	12
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership	12
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China	11
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self	11
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong	11
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List	11
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe	11
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance	11
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	10
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas	10

Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model	10
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future	10
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation	10
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)	10
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage	10
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	9
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	9
Political reconciliation and emancipatory reinterpretations of Jakarta’s Pancasila Sakti Monument through heritage tourism: an exploratory study	9
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan	9
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework	9
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont	9
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China	9
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe	8
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine	8
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes	8
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research	8
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach	8
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance	8
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes	8
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	7
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals	7
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands	7
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall	7
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	7
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world	7
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes	6
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily	6
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	6
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	6
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda	6
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves	6
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	6
Distinct aesthetics of democratic memory: Thailand’s 14th of October 1973 memorial and the Philippines’ Bantayog ng mga Bayani	6
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage	6
Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hölleland (2025)	6
Against authenticity	6
The evolving house museum: art collectors and their residences, then and now	6
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?	6
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing	6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze	6
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage	5
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization	5
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states	5
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center	5
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events	5
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums	5
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories	5
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history	5
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige	5
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies	5

Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha	5
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	5
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	4
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity	4
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia	4
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data	4
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal	4
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution	4
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia	4
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy	4
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter	4
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia	4
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage	4
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo	4
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	4
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities	3
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia	3
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu	3
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–2001	3
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education	3
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives *Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve*	3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory	3
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities	3
Authors’ reply to Peter Bridgewater, ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hølleland (2025)’	3
ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right	3
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique	3
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	3
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	3
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary	3
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums	3
Urban textile mills: conservation and conversion	3
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages	3
On problems of the ‘double standard’ when localising critical heritage studies in China	3
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene	3
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)	3
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	3
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park	3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	3
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island	3
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years	3
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards	3
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality: the case of Hrušov, Slovakia	3
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden	3