OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Culture is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	79
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	61
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	19
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	18
Conspicuous prosumption: Expressing class via materially productive leisure	15
The garden party: Refrains on literature as consumer research	13
Social representations of pleasure in gambling among young adults: Between homo ludens and homo economicus	13
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	13
Governing individuals’ imaginaries and conduct in personal finance: The mobilization of emotions in financial education	12
Book Review: Review of diners, dudes, and diets: How gender and power collide in food media and culture	12
Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances	11
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	9
Men becoming fighters: Exploring processes of consumer socialization	8
Consumption, migration, and urban life	8
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	7
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	7
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	6
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	6
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	6
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	6
Negotiating patriotic cosmopolitanism in post-reform China: Identity, social capital, and transnational sport fandom among Chinese college students	6
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	5
Art in the digital dimension: Trivialization of the effects of creative work and the identity conflict of artists	5
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	5
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	5

Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	5
Book Review: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Polity	5
Dreaming of “Homeownership”: Real estate advertising and housing dissonance in Santiago de Chile	5
Vulgar things: Moral dilemmas of luxury consumption in an unequal society	5
The co-optation of Scottish cold-water surfing: An exemplar of how using indigenous relational power to share knowledge averts value co-destruction in western capitalist markets	4
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production	4
Cross-cultural perspectives on ethical consumption: A study of Swedish and Iranian citizens	4
Reshaping female consumer subjectivity: Beauty consumption practices in Li Jiaqi’s livestream room	4
Feeding masculine norms: Representations of (non-) meat and masculinities in food advertising	4
Entitlements, Payments, Enterprise: framing pocket money in teenage girls’ consumption practices	4
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us	3
Supermarket tribes and the temple of Aldi: A comparison between the UK and Australia	3
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	3
Consumer sovereignty and the Greek economic crisis: (Dis)continuity of consumer sovereignty repertoires	3
Exploring the process of remote enculturation through heritage possessions: A case study of transracial international adoptees	3
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	3
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	3
The making of the upgrade money: Home, Turkish housewives and digital secondhand marketplaces	3
(Un)sustainable everyday practices sociomateriality shaping sustainability in an urban district	3
Servicescapes emplacing masculinity: Pursuing fighter identity at the martial arts gym	3
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	3
Performing balanced aspirations through identity capital: A case study of Chinese Ivy League influencers on RedNote	2
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	2
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	2
Marking humans for consumption, whilst erasing others: Affective becomings and the workings of (dis)comfort	2
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion	2
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil	2
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	2
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	2
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	1
Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective	1
Book Review: Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games	1
Book Review: Deciphering Markets and Money. A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions	1
Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games	1
Tennis and accelerated culture: Post-athlete as a media performer	1
Breaking through banal consumerism? Representations of postconsumerist perspectives in mainstream press media	1
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	1
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	1
Book Review: Profit over privacy review	1
Comfort, modernity and gender equality at home. Discourses on the modernization of the family and household in Poland from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s	1