| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Control, curation and musical experience in streaming music services | Creative Industries Journal | 2015 | 148 |
| 2 | Creative Industries Mapping: Where have we come from and where are we going? | Creative Industries Journal | 2008 | 110 |
| 3 | Strategies for creative industries: an international review | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 102 |
| 4 | ‘Let's keep music special. F—Spotify’: on-demand streaming and the controversy over artist royalties | Creative Industries Journal | 2015 | 90 |
| 5 | Creative clusters and city growth | Creative Industries Journal | 2008 | 89 |
| 6 | Location, location, location: exploring the complex relationship between creative industries and place | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 75 |
| 7 | North from here: the collaboration networks of Finnish metal music genre superstars | Creative Industries Journal | 2017 | 57 |
| 8 | The role of handicraft micro-enterprises as a catalyst for youth employment | Creative Industries Journal | 2017 | 54 |
| 9 | Technology roadmap for the Creative Industries | Creative Industries Journal | 2017 | 44 |
| 10 | Creative knowledge workers and location in Europe and North America: a comparative review | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 42 |
| 11 | Creative industries in a rural region: Creative West: The creative sector in the Western Region of Ireland | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 40 |
| 12 | Keeping the market at bay: exploring the loci of innovation in the cultural industries | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 39 |
| 13 | Economic development and the creative industries: a tale of causality | Creative Industries Journal | 2014 | 33 |
| 14 | Developing a regional economy through creative industries: innovation capacity in a regional Australian city | Creative Industries Journal | 2017 | 31 |
| 15 | From aggressively formalised to intensely in/formalised: accounting for a wider range of videogame development practices | Creative Industries Journal | 2019 | 31 |
| 16 | Women and the creative industries: exploring the popular appeal | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 30 |
| 17 | The role of creative industries as a driver for a sustainable economy: a case of South Africa | Creative Industries Journal | 2018 | 26 |
| 18 | Questioning creative work as driver of economic development: the case of Newcastle-Gateshead | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 25 |
| 19 | Queering Practice-Led Research: Subjectivity, performative research and the creative arts | Creative Industries Journal | 2011 | 24 |
| 20 | Young musicians’ career identities: do bohemian and entrepreneurial career identities compete or cohere? | Creative Industries Journal | 2018 | 24 |
| 21 | Realizing capabilities—academic creativity and the creative industries | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 23 |
| 22 | Re-spatializing the creative industries: a relational examination of underground scenes, and professional and organizational lock-in | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 22 |
| 23 | Accessing markets in creative industries—professionalization and social-spatial strategies of culturepreneurs in Berlin | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 21 |
| 24 | Drivers and Processes of Creative Industries in Cities and Regions | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 21 |
| 25 | How to facilitate a brainstorming session: The effect of idea generation techniques and of group brainstorm after individual brainstorm | Creative Industries Journal | 2018 | 21 |
| 26 | From culture to cultural economic power: Rural regional development in small German communities | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 20 |
| 27 | Independent music production: how individuality, technology and creative entrepreneurship influence contemporary music industry practices | Creative Industries Journal | 2017 | 20 |
| 28 | From policy to curriculum: drivers of the growth in creative industries courses in the UK and Australia | Creative Industries Journal | 2019 | 20 |
| 29 | Creative industries and economic growth: stability of creative products exports earnings | Creative Industries Journal | 2018 | 18 |
| 30 | ‘Home taping is killing music’: the recording industries' 1980s anti-home taping campaigns and struggles over production, labor and creativity | Creative Industries Journal | 2015 | 16 |
| 31 | Success factors of motion picture actors – an empirical analysis | Creative Industries Journal | 2016 | 16 |
| 32 | The creative economy, innovation and entrepreneurship: an empirical examination | Creative Industries Journal | 2021 | 15 |
| 33 | The film and television industry in london's suburbs: lifestyle of the rich or losers' retreat? | Creative Industries Journal | 2008 | 14 |
| 34 | Does weaker copyright mean stronger creative industries? Some lessons from China | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 14 |
| 35 | Hobson's choice? Constraints on accessing spaces of creative production in a transforming industrial conurbation | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 14 |
| 36 | Together Through Life—an exploration of popular music heritage and the quest for re-enchantment | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 14 |
| 37 | An overview of the global animation industry | Creative Industries Journal | 2011 | 14 |
| 38 | Precarious creativity: Changing attitudes towards craft and creativity in the British independent television production sector | Creative Industries Journal | 2012 | 14 |
| 39 | Creative industries and the creative economy of the West of Ireland: evidence of sustainable change? | Creative Industries Journal | 2018 | 14 |
| 40 | Copyright, compensation, and commons in the music AI industry | Creative Industries Journal | 2021 | 14 |
| 41 | Creative tourism destination competitiveness: an integrative model and agenda for future research | Creative Industries Journal | 2023 | 13 |
| 42 | New economy, new governance approaches? Fostering creativity and knowledge in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 12 |
| 43 | Cultural consumer and copyright: A case study of anime fansubbing | Creative Industries Journal | 2011 | 12 |
| 44 | Economic reasoning and creative industries progress | Creative Industries Journal | 2018 | 12 |
| 45 | Creative organizations: when management fosters creative work | Creative Industries Journal | 2019 | 12 |
| 46 | Is development possible without cultural policies? Rethinking creative industries and sustainable development in the case of Turkey | Creative Industries Journal | 2020 | 12 |
| 47 | The working life of musicians: mapping the work activities and values of early-career pop musicians in the Dutch music industry | Creative Industries Journal | 2022 | 12 |
| 48 | Crunching creativity: an attempt to measure creative employment | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 11 |
| 49 | An Operational Risk Framework for the Performing Arts and Creative Industries | Creative Industries Journal | 2009 | 11 |
| 50 | Creative industries and global co-development: Lessons from the first successful case in Korean online games | Creative Industries Journal | 2010 | 11 |
