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

Article	Citations
The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision	25
Strategic responses of NGOs to the new party-building campaign in China	14
Humour and TikTok memes during the 2020 pandemic lockdown: Tensions of gender and care faced by Chinese mothers working from home	12
From authoritarian development to totalist urban reordering: The Daxing forced evictions case	10
COVID-19 nationalism and the visual construction of sovereignty during China’s coronavirus crisis	10
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	9
Decadence and relational freedom among China's gay migrants: Subverting heteronormativity by ‘lying flat’	6
The politics of emotion during COVID-19: Turning fear into pride in China's WeChat discourse	6
COVID-19 and sonic governmentality: Can we hear the virus speak?	6
Chinese New Age milieu and the emergence of homo sentimentalis in the People’s Republic	5
Digital activism and collective mourning by Chinese netizens during COVID-19	5
The policy implementation strategies of county cadres: Political instrument and flexible local governance	4
Carbon emission rush in response to the carbon reduction policy in China	4
China’s rural urbanization and the state: Putting the countryside first?	4
China’s response to the 2014–2016 Ebola crisis: Enhancing Africa’s soft security under Sino-US competition	4
‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy	3
Shadow operations in wildlife trade under China’s Belt and Road Initiative	3
The politics of care during COVID-19: The visibility of anti-virus measures in Wuhan	3
Pandemic diplomacy and patron–client relations in Sino-Serbian cooperation	3
Rescaling China’s rural–urban frontier: Exception as norm in the access to development	2
Chinese NGOs at the interface between governmentality and local society: An actor-oriented perspective	2
Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development: Urban sculpture planning in Shanghai	2
Citizens’ strategic responses to affective governance in China	2
COVID-19 in China: Imagination and deep mediatization	2

The over-cascading system of cadre evaluation and China’s authoritarian resilience	2
Contested administrative capacity in border management: China and the Greater Mekong Subregion	2
Changing memory of the Tiananmen Incident in Taiwan: From patriotism to universal values (1989–2019)	2
Dark intimacy and the moral economy of sex: Rural migrants and the cultural politics of transgression	2
The platformization of digital philanthropy in China: State, tech companies, and philanthropy engineering	1
Transnational labour contractor regime in the China–Myanmar borderland: Mitigating hyper-precarity in the sugar cane cutting industry	1
Ethnonationalism and the changing pattern of ethnic Kazakhs’ emigration from China to Kazakhstan	1
Images of ‘Africa’ in China–Africa cooperation	1
Mobility–ethnicity nexus in the China–North Korea borderland of Yanbian: Migration infrastructure and multi-directional flows	1
The time–space tactics of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist believers under state–religion tension	1
Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing	1
Negotiating identity by transnational Chinese students during COVID-19	1
Mediation and grassroots policing in China: Conflict resolution or social control?	1
Contending fan engagement strategies in China's translocal economy: The case of Tibetan cyber star Ding Zhen	1
Storytelling and counter-storytelling in China’s convergence culture	1
Localism in Internet governance: The rise of China's provincial web	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
Book review: Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China: Voices from Below	1
Social empowerment through knowledge transfer: Transborder actions of Hong Kong social workers in mainland China	1
Leveraging land values for rural development in China after the Sichuan earthquake	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