OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Visual Studies 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Stencil in the centre of Athens	14
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)	10
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History	8
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive	7
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box	7
Images among images: a map scholar response	7
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin	6
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India	6
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong	6
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity	6
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey	5
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France	4
In light of #MeToo: reconsidering the art/artist relationship for better futures	4
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color	4
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks	4
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition	4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures	4
Future City, 2021	3
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City	3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK	3
Prosody: an ode to the city	3
La sociologie filmique: Théories et pratiques	3
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world	3
Editorial	3
A pictured Africa: drawing as a visual qualitative research methodology for examining British African Diaspora imaginings of their ancestral ‘home’	3

Visual framing in the German movements for gay liberation and against nuclear energy	3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	3
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology	3
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space	3
Dressing and undressing Duchamp	3
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 2019	3
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students	3
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?	3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)	3
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture	2
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis	2
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation	2
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec	2
Remembering and forgetting: using photographs as social artefacts in an aged care setting	2
Wake up, this is Joburg	2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites	2
Editorial	2
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey	2
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal	2
Being specific about ‘digital images’	2
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan	2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers	2
Counter narrative of President Buhari’s narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook	2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain	2
The social life of private thoughts	2
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia	2
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin	2
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies	2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study	2
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels	2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media	2
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies	1
Finding the local (meta)picture	1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal	1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries	1
The people are not an image: Vernacular video after the Arab spring	1
Where are the students?	1
Miao traditional patterns: the origins and design transformation	1
Bridging memories: training the imagination to go visiting in Israel/Palestine	1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny	1
Coming off fossil fuels: Visual recollection of fossil fuel dependency	1
Performing for the camera: queer migration, sex work, and objecthood	1
What is an image in the digital age?	1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world	1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus	1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information	1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G20	1
Editorial	1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies	1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira	1

Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China	1
Decoding visual culture	1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China	1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create	1
The image is a cure	1
Editorial	1
The whiteboard: visualising personal agency in a lockdown microcosm	1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis	1
Editorial	1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco	1
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city	1
The eyes of scallops and the creativity of submarine animals: convergence and conflict in science, philosophy and art	1
Emoji and social media paralanguage	1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution	1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay	1
Dirty pictures	1
Topologies of air	1
Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog	1
The hidden messages concealed in the 1970s stamp series ‘Landscapes of Israel’	1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine	1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel	1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil	1
Corona de Flores; some visual issues of coronavirus	1
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach	1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography	1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes	1
Imagining the city	1
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula	1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok	1
No selfies: the social world of autistic male adults as depicted in their everyday photographic practices	1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram	1
#EverydayNile Correspondences	1
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations	1