OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Asia 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement	36
The Actual Gujarat Model: Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Hindu Nationalism and Populism in the Time of Modi	22
The Strategic Logics of State Investment Funds in Asia: Beyond Financialisation	18
The Turkish Variety of State-Permeated Capitalism and Mutually Dependent State-Business Relations	17
Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the “Death of Development” in the Philippines	16
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area	15
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance	14
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar	13
Sick Tiger: Social Conflict, State–Business Relations and Exclusive Growth in Thailand	11
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	10
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar	10
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar	10
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies	10
China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society	9
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy	9
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia	9
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	9
Adaptive Authoritarian Resilience: Cambodian Strongman’s Quest for Legitimacy	8
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	8
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	8
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands	8
Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction	7
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	6
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	6
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar	5

The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	5
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain	5
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	5
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries	5
A Regal Authoritarian Turn in Cambodia	5
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	5
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 2019	5
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China	5
Capitalist Accumulation, Contradictions and Crisis in China, 1995–2015	4
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories	4
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?	4
Royal Succession and the Politics of Religious Purification in Contemporary Thailand	4
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries	4
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay	4
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	4
Transnational Labour Regimes and Neo-Liberal Development in Cambodia	3
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance	3
Multiple Careers: Towards a Post-Work Way of Life	3
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?	3
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation	3
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam	3
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis	3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power	3
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	3
The Vernacularisation of Human Rights Discourse in Myanmar: Rejection, Hybridisation and Strategic Avoidance	3
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	3
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution	3
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles	3
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–2014	3
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism	3
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar	2
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition	2
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism	2
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan	2
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry	2
Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia	2
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part I: The Colonial Period	2
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)	2
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia	2
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period	2
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	2
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	2
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea’s Global Saemaul Undong	2
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	2
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka	2