OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural Studies is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	102
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	43
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	31
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	30
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	26
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	25
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	22
Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation	22
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	21
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	16
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	15
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	14
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	13
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	13
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	13
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	12
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	10
‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	10
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	9
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	9
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	8
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	8
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	8
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	7
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	7

Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	7
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	6
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	6
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	6
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	6
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	6
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	6
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	6
Lolcows and the mediation of digital freakshows	6
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	6
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	5
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	5
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	5
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	5
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	5
Publication Notice	5
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	5
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	5
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	5
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	5
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	5
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	4
Research on power in musical practices and institutions	4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	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
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	4
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
‘It’s almost as good as going to a very good concert!’: But is everyone invited? Examining the cultural world of the Death Café neo-tribe	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	4
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Making the invisible visible	3

Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	3
‘Nobody would believe the protagonist of my story’: From assessing credibility to co-creating (un)reliability in the context of queer asylum narratives	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Theory, culture, care	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
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements	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
No room! Of course there’s room	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	3
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	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
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	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
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	3
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan	2
Erratum to “Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads”	2
Calibrated structures of feeling: Cultural citizenship and the reproduction of the military in Singapore	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
‘Navigating the travel blogger dispositif’: The importance of aesthetic labour within the digital work of British travel bloggers	2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
Space invading at the museum	2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas	2
Conceptualising change in equality, diversity and inclusion: A case study of the Irish film and television sector	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	2
The consequences of the television closet: It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television	2
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances RibkeNahuel, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographie	2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Europe, Islam and the Roma: Liberalism and the manufacture of cultural difference	2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Book Review: Antonio A Casilli, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation CasilliAntonio A, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation. Chicago, IL: The U	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	2