OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of China Information is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-10-01 to 2023-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Civil society organizations in China: Navigating the local government for more inclusive environmental governance	17
The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision	16
Mobilizing cadre incentives in policy implementation: Poverty alleviation in a Chinese county	10
Information control by public punishment: The logic of signalling repression in China	9
COVID-19 nationalism and the visual construction of sovereignty during China’s coronavirus crisis	9
Strategic responses of NGOs to the new party-building campaign in China	8
Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
From authoritarian development to totalist urban reordering: The Daxing forced evictions case	7
Humour and TikTok memes during the 2020 pandemic lockdown: Tensions of gender and care faced by Chinese mothers working from home	7
State–society relations under a new model of control in China: Graduated control 2.0	7
The politics of emotion during COVID-19: Turning fear into pride in China's WeChat discourse	5
NIMBYism, waste incineration, and environmental governance in China	4
The policy implementation strategies of county cadres: Political instrument and flexible local governance	4
Decadence and relational freedom among China's gay migrants: Subverting heteronormativity by ‘lying flat’	4
China’s rural urbanization and the state: Putting the countryside first?	4
COVID-19 and sonic governmentality: Can we hear the virus speak?	3
The politics of care during COVID-19: The visibility of anti-virus measures in Wuhan	3
Honour of Kings as Chinese popular heritage: Contesting authorized history in a mobile game	3
Digital activism and collective mourning by Chinese netizens during COVID-19	3
Chinese New Age milieu and the emergence of homo sentimentalis in the People’s Republic	3
How the ideology of ‘quality’ protects civil society in Xi Jinping’s China	3
Carbon emission rush in response to the carbon reduction policy in China	2
Shadow operations in wildlife trade under China’s Belt and Road Initiative	2
Underwater cultural heritage and the disputed South China Sea	2
Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development: Urban sculpture planning in Shanghai	2

Changing memory of the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan: From patriotism to universal values (1989–2019)	2
Pandemic diplomacy and patron–client relations in Sino-Serbian cooperation	2
The moralization of philanthropy in China: NGOs, voluntarism, and the reconfiguration of social responsibility	2
Rescaling China’s rural–urban frontier: Exception as norm in the access to development	2
China’s response to the 2014–2016 Ebola crisis: Enhancing Africa’s soft security under Sino-US competition	2
Dark intimacy and the moral economy of sex: Rural migrants and the cultural politics of transgression	2
Chinese NGOs at the interface between governmentality and local society: An actor-oriented perspective	1
The over-cascading system of cadre evaluation and China’s authoritarian resilience	1
The time–space tactics of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist believers under state–religion tension	1
The official reappraisal of May Fourth intellectuals: Hu Shi in the Sinicization of Marxism	1
Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing	1
Mediation and grassroots policing in China: Conflict resolution or social control?	1
Social empowerment through knowledge transfer: Transborder actions of Hong Kong social workers in mainland China	1
Mobility–ethnicity nexus in the China–North Korea borderland of Yanbian: Migration infrastructure and multi-directional flows	1
Negotiating identity by transnational Chinese students during COVID-19	1
Mediating state–society disputes in China: Outsourced lawyers and their selective responses	1
‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy	1
Images of ‘Africa’ in China–Africa cooperation	1
From unionism to youth activism: Taiwan’s politics of working hours	1
Book review: China and the West: Crossroads of Civilisation	1