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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement	31
After the Grab? Land Control and Regime Survival in Cambodia since 2012	16
The Actual Gujarat Model: Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Hindu Nationalism and Populism in the Time of Modi	16
The Turkish Variety of State-Permeated Capitalism and Mutually Dependent State-Business Relations	15
Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction	13
The Strategic Logics of State Investment Funds in Asia: Beyond Financialisation	12
Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the “Death of Development” in the Philippines	12
To Whom Does the City Belong? Obstacles to Right to the City for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh	12
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance	11
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar	10
Sick Tiger: Social Conflict, State–Business Relations and Exclusive Growth in Thailand	10
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area	9
The War of Terror in Praetorian Pakistan: The Emergence and Struggle of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement	8
Local Versus National Identity in Hong Kong, 1998–2017	8
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar	8
Globalisation, Inequality and Institutions in West Sumatra and West Java, 1800–1940	7
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy	7
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	7
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands	6
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	6
China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society	6
The Eyes and Ears of the Authoritarian Regime: Mass Reporting in China	5
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	5
Capitalism, Conflict and Contradiction: Southeast Asia’s Development and the Reorganisation of Production	5
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies	5

Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction	4
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China	4
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?	4
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	4
Adaptive Authoritarian Resilience: Cambodian Strongman’s Quest for Legitimacy	4
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain	4
Neo-Liberalism, the Rise of the Unelected and Policymaking in Thailand: The Case of the Medical Tourism Industry	4
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	4
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 2019	4
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia	4
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	4
Capitalist Accumulation, Contradictions and Crisis in China, 1995–2015	4
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	3
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	3
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis	3
After Personalism: Rethinking Power Transfers in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan	3
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay	3
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories	3
Challenging Hegemony: Nurhadi-Aldo and the 2019 Election in Indonesia	3
Japanese Agriculture and Capital Expansion: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Global Food Value Chain Strategy	3
Royal Succession and the Politics of Religious Purification in Contemporary Thailand	3
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	3
Cycles of Accumulation and Industrial Slowdown in Malaysia: Rents, Social Forces and the Political Settlement	3
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition	2
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	2
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam	2
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	2
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry	2
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	2
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism	2
Transnational Labour Regimes and Neo-Liberal Development in Cambodia	2
A Noble Protagonist of the Proletariat and the Peasantry: A Tribute to Bruce McFarlane	2
Foreign Labour Policy and Employment in Manufacturing: The Case of Malaysia	2
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	2
The Vernacularisation of Human Rights Discourse in Myanmar: Rejection, Hybridisation and Strategic Avoidance	2
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism	2
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	2
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia	2