OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Asia is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
E-Commerce and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Apparel Value Chain	50
Sustaining Ready-made Garment Exports from Bangladesh	36
India: Transition from feudalism to colonial capitalism	35
From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar	33
China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning	29
Living in an Age of Precarity in 21st Century Asia	27
The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China’s Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-Border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation	24
Dalits and Dispossession: A Comparison	24
Authoritarian Co-optation in the Age of Globalisation: Evidence from Hong Kong	24
Precarity and Political Immobilisation: Migrants from Burma in Chiang Mai, Thailand	20
Globalisation and the state revisited: A view from provincial Vietnam	19
Ready-made Garment Exports from Sri Lanka	19
Cross-Border Trade and “the Market” between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan	18
Precarious Work and its Complicit Network: Migrant Labour in Singapore	18
Two Decades of Ideological Contestation in Indonesia: From Democratic Cosmopolitanism to Religious Nationalism	16
Putting the Chinese State in its Place: A March from Passive Revolution to Hegemony	16
The Sukumbasi movement in Nepal: The fire from below	16
Shadow Economies and the State: A Comparison of Cassava and Timber Networks on the Cambodia-Vietnam Frontier	16
Past, present and future of China: From semi-colony to world power?	15
Between Border and Bazaar: Central Asia’s Informal Economy	14
Vietnam’s and China’s Diverging Industrial Relations Systems: Cases of Path Dependency	14
Precarity and Vulnerability: Rubber Plantations in Northern Laos and Northern Shan State, Myanmar	13
Lineages of the Authoritarian State in Thailand: Military Dictatorship, Lazy Capitalism and the Cold War Past as Post-Cold War Prologue	13
The Politics of Land Acquisition in Haryana: Managing Dominant Caste Interests in the Name of Development	12
Navigating Small-Scale Trade Across Thai-Lao Border Checkpoints: Legitimacy, Social Relations and Money	12

Indonesia’s Restrained State Capitalism: Development and Policy Challenges	12
“Land Grabbing” in an Autocracy and a Multi-Party Democracy: China and India Compared	11
Narratives of the Dispossessed and Casteless: Politics of Land and Caste in Rajarhat, West Bengal	11
Agrarian relations in Burdwan district, West Bengal: From the economics of green revolution to the politics of Panchayati Raj	11
Shifting from International to “Indonesian” Justice Measures: Two Decades of Addressing Past Human Rights Violations	11
The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges	10
From Miracle to Crisis and Back: The Political Economy of South Korean Long-Term Development	10
Rising Inequality and Shifting Class Boundaries in South Korea in the Neo-Liberal Era	10
Can Garment Exports from Cambodia, Laos and Burma be Sustained?	10
Facebook, Contestation and Poor People’s Politics: Spanning the Urban–Rural Divide in Cambodia?	10
Adivasiness as Caste Expression and Land Rights Claim-Making in Central-Eastern India	9
Coloured Judgements? The Work of the Thai Constitutional Court, 1998–2016	9
The “Servants” of Dehradun: A Changing Relationship between Municipal Councillors and Voters in India	9
From Varna to Jati: The Indian caste system, from the Asiatic to the feudal mode of production	9
Work and Family Life among Migrant Factory Workers in China and Vietnam	9
Moving Beyond European and Latin American Typologies: The Peculiarities of AKP’s Populism in Turkey	9
The double transition from underdevelopment and from socialism in Vietnam	9
Chinese Overseas Remittances to China: The Perspective from Southeast Asia	8
Asian capitalist accumulation: From sectoral to vertical integration	8
Organised Informality and Suitcase Trading in the Pearl River Delta Region	8
Windows of Opportunity, Capability and Catch-Up: The Chinese Game Industry	8
Crazy Rich Thais: Thailand’s Capitalist Class, 1980–2019	8
States of Legal Denial: How the State in Myanmar Uses Law to Exclude the Rohingya	8
From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: Recovery Amidst Expanding Labour Precarity	8
Reproducing Academic Insularity in a Time of Neo-liberal Markets: The Case of Social Science Research in Indonesian State Universities	8
The Politics of Conditional Citizenship in South Korea: An Analysis of the Print Media	7
Poverty Reduction in Vietnam and the Role of Public Administration	7
Two Decades ofReformasiin Indonesia: Its Illiberal Turn	7
The Emergence of Filipino Technocrats as Cold War “Pawns”	7
Organised Labour, Dualisation and Labour Market Reform: Korean Trade Union Strategies in Economic and Social Crisis	7
Caste in Stone? Exploring Caste and Class Dimensions of Conservation Displacement in Central India	7
The Legacies of the Indonesian Counter-Revolution: New Insights and Remaining Issues	7
Secondary Precarity in Asia: Family Vulnerability in an Age of Unfree Labour	7
Old Wine in New Bottles? How Competitive Connectivity Revitalises an Obsolete Development Agenda in Asia	7
Building Governance from Scratch: Myanmar and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative	7
Networks of Reciprocity: Precarity and Community Social Organisations in Rural Myanmar	7