OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cultural Economy 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	37
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	30
Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance	25
Outlining startup culture as a global form	24
Gendered Relational Work: How gender shapes money attitudes and expectations of young adults	23
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	22
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms	21
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction	19
Genres are the drive belts of the job market	17
Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America , by Brendan Ballou, New York, PublicAffairs, 2023, 368 pp., $30.00 (	16
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	16
Environmentalism polluted: consumerism and complicity in Studio Ghibli’s media mix	15
Prototyping to turn policy into design. (Co)modification of a serious game in the French education system	15
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	15
The plot to disembed: markets in the subjunctive tense	12
The politics of mediation: subjectivity, value and power in the digital grid of Aadhaar	11
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	11
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	9
Charitable assets: social outcomes, financial values, and the new, nonprofit funding regime	9
Cultural work and contributive justice	9
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market	9
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing	8
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	8
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	8
How to be not economic: abundance and the history of strolling	7

A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	7
Reflections on representing Black Britain	7
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	7
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	6
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism	6
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry	5
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance	5
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy	5
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)	5
Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis	5
The stakes of religious fundraising: economic transition and religious resurgence in Irish Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism	5
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis	5
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria	5
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds	5
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	5
Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa	4
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	4
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	4
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	4
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	4
Market devices and infrastructures: how they differ and why it matters	4
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?	4
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	4
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)	4
Transmuting solidarity: hybrid-economic practices in the social economy in Greece	4
Making uncertainty operable: social coordination through game theory in decentralized finance	4
Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making	3
The mutability of economic things	3
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors	3
The story of work: a new history of Humankind	3
Alternatives to the performance of economics	3
Lagging and leading genres of the new economy	3
Infrastructural power: discretion and the dynamics of infrastructure in action	3
Economy shall (no longer) mean economisation	3
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	3
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment	3
Knowing and governing America: the micro-foundations of a calculative infrastructure	3
Mediating lifestyle movements: the ethical ecologies of digital veganisms	3
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	3
The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems	3
Review Symposium: Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation . Zone Books	3
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory	3
Shares, land, and market	3
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	3
Postcapitalist composting: reverse logistics and organic waste, designing for diverse livelihoods	2
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	2
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	2
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	2
Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets	2
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app	2

Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	2
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential	2
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing	2
The figural space of the business simulacrum: examining an educative change management simulation	2
The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia	2
Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America	2
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	2
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education	2
Financial untouchability: a polysemic narrative of digital financial inclusion in Modi’s India	2
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	2
Re use value: economies and philosophies of durability	2
Labeling future markets: the making of the French repairability index	2
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?	2
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media	2
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	2
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	2
‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod	2
Compounding financial frontiers: capital seeds and seeds for capital	2