OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary China is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Chinese Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance during COVID-19	41
Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China	39
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	31
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	26
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents	18
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	18
Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society	18
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	17
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	17
Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power	16
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	16
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	15
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	12
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	12
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	12
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era	10
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)	10
How China Builds the Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative	10
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion	10
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	10
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	9
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia	9
The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms	9
Domestic Contestation, International Backlash, and Authoritarian Resilience: How Did the Chinese Party-state Weather the COVID-19 Crisis?	9
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	9

Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Historical Perspective	9
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping: The Effects of the 2018 Constitutional Revision	8
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	8
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’: The Dragon’s Anchorage in Djibouti	8
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	7
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	7
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration	7
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	7
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	7
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	6
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China	6
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	6
Invented Borders: The Tension Between Grassroots Patriotism and State-led Patriotic Campaigns in China	6
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	6
Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?	6
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China	6
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	6
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	6
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party	6
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	5
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	5
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	5
Upward Targeting and Social Protests in China	5
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	5
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	5
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality	5
‘Gratitude Education:’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance	5
Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam	5
China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy?	5
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations?	5
Statecraft in the Steppes: Central Asia’s Relations with China	5
<China Dream> and <Root-seeking>: The Rhetoric of Nationalism in The Voice of China	4
Exchange Rate Exposure and International Competition: Evidence from Chinese Industries	4
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	4
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage	4
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China	4
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform	4
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: Half-way Localization and Internationalization	4
From Political Power to Personal Wealth: Privatization and Elite Opportunity in Post-Reform China	4
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	4
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict	4
Adapting in Difficult Circumstances: Protestant Pastors and the Xi Jinping Effect	4
Fragmented Soft Power: Bureaucratic Politics and China’s Foreign Aid in Education to Africa	4
“Beautiful Countryside Construction,” Policy Inspection Teams, and Grassroots Political Participation in China	4
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	4
Propagating ‘Democracy’ in China? A Two-Way Communication Explanation	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	4