OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Sociology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Right to Meaning: A Syrian Case Study	30
‘You Don’t go to These Kinds of Concerts for Fun’: The Fluid and Emergent Performance of Taste in Contemporary Art Music	16
Deciphering the Iconic: An Inquiry into how Architecture Impacts the Inclusiveness of Cultural Institutions	14
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society: Towards a Hermeneutically Strong Conception	10
Introduction to the Book Review Symposium	10
Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love	10
Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses	9
Book Review: Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism	9
Book Review: Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy	9
Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists	8
Making Sense of Change: Emotive-Cognitive Reframing of Young People in Post-crisis Spain	7
The Body of a Performer as a Form of Capital: Age, Gender and Aesthetics in Theatre Work	7
Exemplary Directors, European Imports, and the Changing Valuation of Films in Hollywood, 1961–1980	7
Book Review: The Sociology of Literature	7
Editorial Statement: Visions for Cultural Sociology in Uncertain Times	7
Adolescents’ Music Tastes in the Streaming Era: The Case of Belgium	7
Reflections on The Culture Trap: On Doing Ethnographic Cultural Sociology Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectation and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	6
The Racialised ‘Second Existence’ of Class: Class Identification and (De-/Re-)construction across the British South Asian Middle Classes	6
Elite Reproduction and Power in the Neoliberal Era: The Image-Making of King Carl XVI Gustaf as ‘Sweden’s Leader’	6
Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture	6
Reactionary Exiles. How Conspiracy Theorists Deal with Socio-Technological Exclusion	6
Book Review: Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education LaneJ.F.Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, EducationPalgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switz	5
Accounting For the Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries	5
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers	5
Voicing Omnivorousness, Assembling the Omnivorous Voice: The American Musical Explored	5

Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	5
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet	5
Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia	5
The Material Dimension of Chinese Hip-Hop: From Tangible Forms to Online Consumption	5
Rampant Abstraction as a Strategy of Singularization: Genre on Spotify	4
‘Eastern Europeanism’: A Rethinking of ‘Race and Racism’ by and Against White People from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine	4
Exploring Digital/Non-digital Entanglements Through Everyday Practice Connections in Young People’s Gaming	4
The Recurrence of the King’s Second Body?	4
The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts	4
(Plat)formatted Creativity: Creating Music in the Age of Streaming	4
Thank You to Referees	4
Cultural Sociology and the Politics of Canonization: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective	3
Shifting Artistic Identity on Canvas: From ‘Painter-Worker’ to ‘Painter-Artist’ in a Commercial Painting Community	3
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	3
‘Oh you’re really good for a girl’: Sexism, Stereotypes and Subcultural Capital in Board Gaming	3
‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance	3
The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality	3
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life	3
Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia	2
‘If You Move in the Same Circles as the Royals, then You’ll Get Stories About Them’: Royal Correspondents, Cultural Intermediaries and Class	2
Why Live Music Matters: Implications from Streaming Music Festivals in the Chinese Indie Music Scene	2
Moral Entrepreneurialism for the Hamburger: Strategies for Marketing a Contested Fast Food	2
‘Supertanker is a Hero, the Government a Villain’: Politicization of Chile’s 2017 Forest Fires in the Media	2
Why Fans of the Evil Genius Remain Fans: The Case of Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival	2
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey	2
Book Review: Matters of Revolution: Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989 by Dominik Bartmanski	2
Resonant Reviews: Experiencing Accurate Readings and Indicators of Literary Accomplishment Among Reviewed Novelists	2
Book Review: A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina SimonettoPatricioA Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of ArgentinaUniversity of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2024, $50 (hbk) (ISBN: 978-1-477	2
Protesting Populist Knowledge Practices: Collective Effervescence at the March for Science London	2
Book Review: The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice	2