International Journal of Heritage Studies

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society51
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science44
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene35
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura27
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts25
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw22
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 rebirth18
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts16
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach15
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania14
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives14
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin13
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage13
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect12
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy12
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership12
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
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List10
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self10
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription10
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation9
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan9
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’9
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future9
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe9
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
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China9
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model8
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas8
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?8
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)8
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities8
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage8
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria8
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance7
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach7
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe7
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration7
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes7
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals7
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research7
Against authenticity7
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands7
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
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework7
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
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves6
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race6
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze6
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
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments5
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy5
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
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events5
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing5
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes5
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage5
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution4
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia4
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity4
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London4
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization4
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige4
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
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway4
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories4
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies4
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia4
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach4
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history4
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
The Brutish museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution4
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
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship3
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary3
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–20013
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland3
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data3
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts3
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education3
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 Ahmadabad3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory3
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo3
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park3
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia3
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums3
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