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Museology papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 79 papers from Museology (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

  • Most cited: 22nd AUTEX World Textile Conference (2024, 1,609 citations).
  • The 20 papers listed have 14,345 citations between them.
  • 4 of the 4 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
  • 1 have a free full text (open access).
  • Most frequent journals: Choice Reviews Online, Advances in Science and Technology, Children s Geographies.
  • Published between 2012 and 2024.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

  • 22nd AUTEX World Textile Conference

    Advances in Science and Technology · 2024 · FWCI 923.17 · 1,609 citations

    This book compiles selected papers from the AUTEX 2023 conference, focusing on ecological textile production, supply chain management, and modern fashion design.

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  • Design Justice

    The MIT Press eBooks · 2020 · FWCI 291.09 · 1,517 citations

    Design Justice is an approach led by marginalized communities that explicitly challenges structural inequalities, rather than reproducing them, by connecting design to broader struggles for liberation and ecological sustainability.

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  • The Gender of the Gift

    2019 · FWCI 122.67 · 1,336 citations

    This book argues that Western anthropological and feminist assumptions have distorted the understanding of gender relations in Melanesian scholarship.

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  • Fast Fashion, Sustainability, and the Ethical Appeal of Luxury Brands

    Fashion Theory · 2012 · Q1 · FWCI 263.16 · 919 citations

    This paper hypothesizes that actual luxury brands, emphasizing authenticity and quality, can paradoxically unite fashion ideals with environmental sustainability, contrasting with fast fashion's unsustainable practices.

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  • Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

    2020 · FWCI 100.03 · 843 citations

    This multi-disciplinary study proposes a new concept, the 'post-museum,' challenging traditional museum practices of artifact selection, arrangement, and knowledge construction.

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  • The Museum Experience

    2016 · FWCI 47.56 · 820 citations

    This book revolutionized museum understanding by adopting a visitor-centric perspective, integrating diverse research to explain visitor motivations, behaviors, learning, and how to enhance their experiences.

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  • Sustainable fashion and textiles: design journeys

    Choice Reviews Online · 2014 · 776 citations

    This book synthesizes lifecycle sustainability impacts, practical alternatives, and design concepts in fashion and textiles, challenging conventional views with a pluralistic and forward-looking approach.

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

    Oxford University Press eBooks · 2012 · FWCI 154.15 · 701 citations

    This handbook synthesizes interdisciplinary thinking in material culture studies, presenting 28 commissioned articles that explore contemporary issues and debates.

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  • El espectador emancipado

    Imagofagia · 2015 · FWCI 960.25 · 638 citations

    This is a review of Jacques Ranciere's book, 'The Emancipated Spectator', published in 2010.

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  • The Fashion System

    2020 · 533 citations

    Roland Barthes analyzes fashion magazines, arguing that their elaborate descriptions of women's clothing are driven by economics. He posits that industrial society needs to create non-calculating consumers to ensure continuous purchasing.

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  • Talking about Machines

    Cornell University Press eBooks · 2016 · FWCI 14.45 · 532 citations

    Field service technicians' success in repairing complex machines like photocopiers relies heavily on their informal talk and storytelling, which serve as a crucial mechanism for knowledge sharing and problem-solving.

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  • The Megaphone Effect: Taste and Audience in Fashion Blogging

    Journal of Consumer Research · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 11.00 · FWCI 219.29 · 528 citations

    Fashion bloggers gain audiences by repeatedly demonstrating aesthetic taste in clothing selection and combination, accumulating cultural capital that translates into economic and social rewards.

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  • The Maker Movement

    Innovations Technology Governance Globalization · 2012 · FWCI 198.60 · 523 citations

    This abstract introduces the 'Maker Movement,' a broad cultural and technological trend characterized by individuals and communities engaging in hands-on creation, fabrication, and innovation.

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  • The Museum Experience Revisited

    2016 · FWCI 54.30 · 497 citations

    This updated edition of "The Museum Experience" offers a comprehensive look at visitor behavior and learning in museums, drawing on twenty years of research and practice.

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  • What is sustainable fashion?

    Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 147.39 · 481 citations

    Sustainable fashion is interpreted differently by micro-organizations, experts, and consumers, depending heavily on context and individual perspectives.

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  • Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience

    2016 · FWCI 65.29 · 476 citations

    A new predictive model identifies five key visitor types and their internal drivers, enabling museums to better meet visitor needs and enhance their meaningfulness.

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  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    University of Michigan Press eBooks · 2013 · FWCI 17.19 · 437 citations

    This ethnography explores Ballroom culture as a queer formation that challenges dominant ideas of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community among inner-city LGBT individuals.

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  • Decolonizing museums: representing Native America in national and tribal museums

    Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 415 citations

    Museum exhibitions on Native American history are shifting from curator control to Indigenous self-determination, with museums increasingly incorporating Indigenous worldviews and addressing historical trauma.

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  • NİTEL BİR VERİ ANALİZİ YÖNTEMİ OLARAK DOKÜMAN ANALİZİ

    2020 · FWCI 557.57 · 386 citations · Open access

    This paper clarifies the role and function of document analysis in qualitative research, aiming to promote its understanding and application.

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  • Children who carry stones in their pockets: on autotelic material practices in everyday life

    Children s Geographies · 2013 · Q1 · FWCI 250.84 · 378 citations

    Children's practice of collecting and carrying stones is presented as an autotelic (intrinsically rewarding) activity that challenges the artificial nature-culture divide.

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Journals in this field

The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

JournalQuartileSJRh-indexIn this fieldSummaries
Journal of Fashion Marketing and ManagementQ11.007933
Museum Management and CuratorshipQ1—4733
Journal of Consumer ResearchQ111.0024826
Educational PsychologistQ16.0017513
Annual Review of SociologyQ13.0023018
American Educational Research JournalQ12.0015913
International Journal of Human-Computer InteractionQ11.0011015
Acta PsychologicaQ1—12217

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