OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural 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
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	98
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	38
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	26
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	25
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	24
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	23
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	22
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	21
Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation	18
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	17
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	15
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	15
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	15
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	13
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	13
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	13
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	12
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	12
‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	12
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	10
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	10
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	9
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	9
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	8

Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	8
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	8
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	7
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	7
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	6
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	6
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	6
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	6
Publication Notice	6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	6
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	6
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	6
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	6
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	6
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	5
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	5
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	5
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	5
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	5
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	5
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	5
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	5
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	5
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	4
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	4
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	4
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	4
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	4
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating. London: Blooms	3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
Theory, culture, care	3

‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	3
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	3
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	3
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	3
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	3
No room! Of course there’s room	3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	3
Making the invisible visible	3
‘I want to be judged on my work, I don’t want to be judged as a person’: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft	3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3