OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Consumer Culture 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	49
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	45
What is in a bag? Doing and becoming subjectivity	41
Legitimating taste in cultural fields: Generational classifications and symbolic struggles in representations of ‘natural’ wine	36
Consumer parenting, cultural processes, and the reproduction of class inequality	32
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	22
Book Review: Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and The Birth of a Local Scene	16
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	11
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	11
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	11
Naive, connected, and counselor tween girl identity groups: Consumption practices and social identity constructions within consumer culture	10
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	10
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	10
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	10
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	9
Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice	9
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	8
Is there a relationship between implicit motives and eating action types: An exploratory study in Germany	8
Book Review: Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess	6
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	6
Post-digital prosumption and the sharing economy of space: The pay-per-minute cafe	6
‘We can’t participate like this at football, can we’? Exploring in-person performative prosumer fandom at live PDC darts events	5
#BecomingYou: Discourses of authenticity, work, and success in South African consumer culture	5
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	5
Trajectories towards a voluntary simplicity lifestyle and inner growth	5

Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	5
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe	4
A model who looks like me: Communicating and consuming representations of disability	4
Alice in… buying: The consumption of experiences in the worldly experience and aspects of socialization	4
“Inspiring” and configuring consumer experience in times of crisis: An analysis of the discursive practices of an Athenian shopping mall’s promotional system	4
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	3
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	3
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	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
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	3
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	3
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	3
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	3
Book Review: Deciphering Markets and Money. A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions	3
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation	3