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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision	32
Strategic responses of NGOs to the new party-building campaign in China	15
Humour and TikTok memes during the 2020 pandemic lockdown: Tensions of gender and care faced by Chinese mothers working from home	14
COVID-19 nationalism and the visual construction of sovereignty during China’s coronavirus crisis	13
Information control by public punishment: The logic of signalling repression in China	10
Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Decadence and relational freedom among China's gay migrants: Subverting heteronormativity by ‘lying flat’	10
The politics of emotion during COVID-19: Turning fear into pride in China's WeChat discourse	8
COVID-19 and sonic governmentality: Can we hear the virus speak?	7
‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy	6
Digital activism and collective mourning by Chinese netizens during COVID-19	6
Carbon emission rush in response to the carbon reduction policy in China	4
China’s response to the 2014–2016 Ebola crisis: Enhancing Africa’s soft security under Sino-US competition	4
The policy implementation strategies of county cadres: Political instrument and flexible local governance	4
Pandemic diplomacy and patron–client relations in Sino-Serbian cooperation	3
Citizens’ strategic responses to affective governance in China	3
The politics of care during COVID-19: The visibility of anti-virus measures in Wuhan	3
Changing memory of the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan: From patriotism to universal values (1989–2019)	3
Contested administrative capacity in border management: China and the Greater Mekong Subregion	2
Chinese NGOs at the interface between governmentality and local society: An actor-oriented perspective	2
Contending fan engagement strategies in China's translocal economy: The case of Tibetan cyber star Ding Zhen	2
Social media, fear, and support for state surveillance: The case of China’s social credit system	2
The operations of contemporary Han Chinese privilege	2
Dark intimacy and the moral economy of sex: Rural migrants and the cultural politics of transgression	2
COVID-19 in China: Imagination and deep mediatization	2

Negotiating identity by transnational Chinese students during COVID-19	2
Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development: Urban sculpture planning in Shanghai	2
The time–space tactics of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist believers under state–religion tension	1
Internationalizing Chinese standards through infrastructure experimentation: Engineering a pumped storage hydropower project in Israel	1
Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing	1
Transnational labour contractor regime in the China–Myanmar borderland: Mitigating hyper-precarity in the sugar cane cutting industry	1
Mediation and grassroots policing in China: Conflict resolution or social control?	1
Court finance and floundering judicial reform in China	1
Guest workers and development–security conflict: Managing labour migration at the Sino-Vietnamese border	1
Food media in China’s convergence culture: A Bite of China and digital poaching	1
Gendered social address in China’s convergence culture: The case ofmeinü(beautiful woman)	1
Listening to thunder in the silence on Tiananmen: Politics and ethics of the memory of the June Fourth Movement	1
Ethnonationalism and the changing pattern of ethnic Kazakhs’ emigration from China to Kazakhstan	1
Storytelling and counter-storytelling in China’s convergence culture	1
Mobility–ethnicity nexus in the China–North Korea borderland of Yanbian: Migration infrastructure and multi-directional flows	1
Localism in Internet governance: The rise of China's provincial web	1
The platformization of digital philanthropy in China: State, tech companies, and philanthropy engineering	1
Negotiating standards in Sino-Mongolian industrial relations	1
Images of ‘Africa’ in China–Africa cooperation	1