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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control	45
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	35
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	35
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	26
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	25
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	25
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	24
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	22
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	20
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	18
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	17
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	15
The Sino-American Struggle for Normative Security: The Strategic Framing and Shaping of Alignment of Belief in the Human Rights Council During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	13
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	13
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	12
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	12
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	11
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	11
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	11
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	11
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	10
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	10
The Dynamics of Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China: An Empirical Study of the Official Rank-Punishment Nexus in the Context of Political and Legal Changes	10
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	10

Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	10
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	10
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China	10
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	10
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	9
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	9
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	9
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	8
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	8
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	7
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	7
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	7
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	7
Bereaved Single-Child Parents as the Focus of Family Planning Officials: State Support, Social Stability, and the Unresolved Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy	6
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	6
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	6
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	6
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	6
How Politics ‘Messed up with’ Institutionalization: A Case Study of the Investigation into the Death of Li Wenliang during the Initial Months of COVID-19	6
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	6
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	6
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	6
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	5
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	5
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	5
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	5
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	5
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	5
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	5
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	5
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	5
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	5
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	5
How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter	4
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	4
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	4
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	4
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	4
The Chinese Restrictive Approach to the Law on the Use of Force and Its Application in Cyberspace	4
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	4
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	4
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	4
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	4
Correction	4
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	4
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	4
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	4
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	4
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	4

Securing Legitimacy Through Poverty Alleviation: How China’s Communist Party Strengthens Grassroots Control