Most cited papers in Museology

Museology

What are the most cited papers in Museology?

The most cited paper in Museology is "Culture and Consumption: A Theoretical Account of the Structure and Movement of the Cultural Meaning of Consumer Goods" (Grant McCracken, 1986), with 2,834 citations. Next come "Evolution and Tinkering" (2,741) and "Consumption and Theories of Practice" (2,614).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 403 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Culture and Consumption: A Theoretical Account of the Structure and Movement of the Cultural Meaning of Consumer Goods Grant McCracken · Journal of Consumer Research Open access	Jun 1986	2,834
2	Evolution and Tinkering François Jacob · Science	10 Jun 1977	2,741
3	Consumption and Theories of Practice Alan Warde · Journal of Consumer Culture	15 Jun 2005	2,614
4	Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ulla Hofmann Book chapter	2001	2,268
5	Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online Stephanie O’Donohoe · International Journal of Advertising	2010	1,999
6	Materialism: Trait Aspects of Living in the Material World Russell W. Belk · Journal of Consumer Research	Dec 1985	1,956
7	Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety Katrina Rolley, Marjorie B. Garber · Feminist Review	1993	1,749
8	Virtual reality: Applications and implications for tourism Daniel A. Guttentag · Tourism Management	24 Aug 2009	1,739
9	The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale Nita Mary McKinley, Janet Shibley Hyde · Psychology of Women Quarterly	Jun 1996	1,714
10	The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics Richard Handler · Museum Anthropology	Sep 1996	1,539
11	Introduction: Inventing Traditions Eric Hobsbawm · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	26 Mar 2012	1,369
12	Human Communication Research Jake Harwood, Michelle Ortiz · Human Communication Research	Jul 2006	1,291
13	Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world Sarah J. Whatmore · Cultural Geographies Open access	20 Aug 2006	1,218
14	Management Fashion: Lifecycles, Triggers, and Collective Learning Processes Eric John Abrahamson, Gregory B. Fairchild · Administrative Science Quarterly	Dec 1999	1,141
15	Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory Stephanie Takaragawa · Visual Anthropology Review	Sep 1998	1,119
16	Personal taste and family face: Luxury consumption in Confucian and western societies Nancy Wong, Aaron Ahuvia · Psychology and Marketing	Aug 1998	1,034
17	Fast Fashion, Sustainability, and the Ethical Appeal of Luxury Brands Annamma Joy, John F. Sherry, Alladi Venkatesh et al. · Fashion Theory	8 Aug 2012	950
18	Special Possessions and the Expression of Material Values Marsha L. Richins · Journal of Consumer Research	Dec 1994	924
19	Bridging In-school and Out-of-school Learning: Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Education Haim Eshach · Journal of Science Education and Technology	18 Dec 2006	865
20	Menstrual cycle alters face preference Ian S. Penton‐Voak, David Ian Perrett, D. L. Castles et al. · Nature Open access	Jun 1999	842
21	The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments Allen Carlson, Denis E. Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1989	830
22	Creativity and tourism Greg Richards · Annals of Tourism Research	11 Sep 2011	827
23	THE RISE OF THE CORPORATION IN A CRAFT INDUSTRY: CONFLICT AND CONFORMITY IN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS. Patricia Thornton · Academy of Management Journal	Feb 2002	774
24	Material Culture and Mass Consumption Claire Smith · Journal of Design History	1988	773
25	Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection Herbert Blumer · Sociological Quarterly	Jun 1969	743
26	Development and Validation of a New Body-Image Assessment Scale Marjorie A. Thompson, James J. Gray · Journal of Personality Assessment	Apr 1995	740
27	Photo tourism Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski Conference paperOpen access	2006	696
28	Sustainable fashion consumption and the fast fashion conundrum: fashionable consumers and attitudes to sustainability in clothing choice Lisa S. McNeill, Rebecca Moore · International Journal of Consumer Studies	21 Feb 2015	686
29	The indiscipline of tourism John Tribe · Annals of Tourism Research	1997	660
30	The Consumer Quest for Authenticity: The Multiplicity of Meanings Within the MG Subculture of Consumption Thomas W. Leigh · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	6 Sep 2006	650
31	Fast fashion: response to changes in the fashion industry Vertica Bhardwaj, Ann E. Fairhurst · The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research	Feb 2010	642
32	Photography in Anthropology: A Report on Two Experiments John Payne Collier · American Anthropologist	Oct 1957	630
33	Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardisation in Spaces of Consumption Sharon Zukin · Urban Studies	May 1998	621
34	After taste: Culture, consumption and theories of practice Alan Warde · Journal of Consumer Culture Open access	25 Aug 2014	617
35	Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory Karin E. Peterson, Alfred Gell · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	Mar 2000	615
36	Male facial attractiveness: evidence for hormone-mediated adaptive design Victor S. Johnston, Rebecca Hagel, M. Franklin et al. · Evolution and Human Behavior	Jul 2001	615
37	Fashion clothing consumption: antecedents and consequences of fashion clothing involvement Aron O’Cass · European Journal of Marketing	Jul 2004	610
38	Located accountabilities in technology production Lucy A. Suchman · Journal of the Association for Information Systems Open access	Sep 2002	609
39	The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage Emma Waterton, Laurajane Smith · International Journal of Heritage Studies	2010	606
40	Clothing and Embodiment: Men Managing Body Image and Appearance. Hannah Frith, Kate Gleeson · Psychology of Men & Masculinity	2004	598
41	“Having it All” on Social Media: Entrepreneurial Femininity and Self-Branding Among Fashion Bloggers Brooke Erin Duffy, Emily Hund · Social Media + Society Open access	Jul 2015	585
42	Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory A. CULLIS · Journal of Design History	1989	579
43	Towards an epistemology of consumer culture theory Søren Askegaard, Jeppe Trolle Linnet · Marketing Theory	Dec 2011	578
44	Transmedia Storytelling: Implicit Consumers, Narrative Worlds, and Branding in Contemporary Media Production Carlos Alberto Scolari · Hispana Open access	10 Jun 2009	573
45	Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Carolyn Anne Hamilton, Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer et al. · Journal of American History	Dec 1993	572
46	Traditional medicine in Turkey X. Folk medicine in Central Anatolia Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yeşilada, Gisho Honda et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology	May 2001	569
47	Veiling in Style: How Does a Stigmatized Practice Become Fashionable? Özlem Sandıkçı, Gülız Ger · Journal of Consumer Research Open access	16 Dec 2009	562
48	Visitors’ memories of wildlife tourism: Implications for the design of powerful interpretive experiences Roy Ballantyne, Jan Packer, Lucy A. Sutherland · Tourism Management	11 Jul 2010	560
49	The role of the mass media in promoting a thin standard of bodily attractiveness for women Brett Silverstein, Lauren Perdue, Barbara L. Peterson et al. · Sex Roles	May 1986	550
50	Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship: Language, Law and History in the French Renaissance Donald R. Kelley, Clemens Rathe · Renaissance and Reformation Open access	31 Dec 1969	548

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