OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Journal of Communication is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	26
Caught in the crossfire: multi-stakeholder governance challenges and platform responses in the Chinese context	23
China in symbolic communication	19
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	17
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	16
Youth culture of self-mockery: bodily memes and economies of affect in China’s online space	15
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	14
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	13
Mob censorship in China: ChiRenxueMantou , digital press criticism, and journalists’ failed jurisdiction	12
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	12
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	12
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era	12
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia	11
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	11
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	11
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	10
Trading time for discretion: grassroots officials’ response dynamics on digital administrative platforms in China	9
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	8
From click to boom: the political economy of E-Commerce in China	8
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	8
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	7
Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China	7
From surveillance to taste-making: exploring the influence of algorithmic agency on consumer experiences in casual leisure	7
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	6
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	6

Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	6
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	5
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	5
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	4
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	4
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	4
Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	4
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	4
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	4
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S.	4
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	3
The effects of worry, risk perception, information-seeking experience, and trust in misinformation on COVID-19 fact-checking: a survey study in China	3
The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society	3
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	3
Between national development and personal precarity: the social construction of robotaxis from taxi drivers’ perspective in China	3
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	3
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay	3
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	3
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	3
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community	2
Boy’s love drama exposure and attitudes toward same-sex relationships: Applying a moderated mediation model in the Chinese context	2
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong	2
Understanding eHealth use among older adults in Singapore: the roles of personal, social, and cultural factors	2
How do Chinese scientists maintain their discourse authority? Critical discourse analysis of discourse “boundary work” in genetically modified organisms discussion on a Chinese knowledge-sharing netwo	2
Mediatized governance in environmental disasters: self-organizing community rescue through collaborative online documents	2
Social media platform swinging and teenagers’ academic performance: a serial mediation model examining the roles of sleep deficits and burnout	2
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	2
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law	2
Confronting COVID-19: constructing and contesting legitimacy through the media in Chinese contexts	2
The digital silk road: China’s quest to wire the world and win the future	1
Testing the bidirectional causation among media attention and the protest scale: the case of Hong Kong	1
Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan	1
How adult children mediate the impacts of antivaccine information on elderly people’s acceptance of flu vaccines	1
When politics meets dating: how moral concern, utopianism, and communication competence predict willingness to date across the political divide	1
The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy	1
The effects of social media advertising in China: Theory, practices and implications	1
The newsworthiness of Gu Ailing: a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and American media reports	1
Chinese cinema culture: a scene in the fog	1
Social media live streaming as affective news in the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong	1
Tiered moderation on Chinese platforms: content security, quality, and user protection	1
Whither China?: Chinese communication research at the new conjuncture	1
Perceptions of food safety, access to information, and political trust in China	1
Moral framing and issue-based framing of #StopAsianHate campaigns on Twitter	1
When chitchat fosters trust: phatic communication and personal connections facilitate patient trust in China through patient-centered communication	1
Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition)	1
Captivated but threatened by ethnosexuality: decoding online hate speech on interracial marriage in China	1
Engaging Social Media in China	1
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China	1
“I quit because I couldn’t get what I wanted” and “I’m back because I want more”: Chinese women’s unfulfilled romantic desires in otome gaming practices	1

The Wuhan Lockdown	1
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China: A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902–1910	1
Contesting legitimacy in China’s crisis communication: a framing analysis of reported social actors engaging in SARS and COVID-19	1
Intercultural aesthetics in traditional Chinese theatre: from 1978 to the presentIntercultural aesthetics in traditional Chinese theatre: from 1978 to the present, by Feng Wei, New York, Palgrave Macm	1
Toxic behavior in multiplayer online games: the role of witnessed verbal aggression, game engagement intensity, and social self-efficacy	1
Perceived stress increases online aggressive behavior among Chinese adolescents: evidence from a moderated mediation analysis	1
Does social media keep me alarmed? The effects of expectations surrounding social media attributes and exposure to messages of social (in)stability on substitutive social media news use	1