OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science 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 Politics of Blaming: the Narrative Battle between China and the US over COVID-19	63
From Globalization to Regionalization: The United States, China, and the Post-Covid-19 World Economic Order	60
Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak	51
Is Nationalism Rising in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Individual-Level Evidence from the United States	35
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China	34
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas	33
The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19	27
The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era	27
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Expressions of Nationalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cyberspace	23
The Pandemic and the Transformation of Liberal International Order	21
China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century	20
Testing the Relationship between Land Approval and Promotion Incentives of Provincial Top Leaders in China	16
Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: A Firm-Level Study of Sub-Saharan African SMEs	15
Policy Reinvention and Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Governments	15
Sino-US Competition in the South China Sea: Power, Rules and Legitimacy	15
COVID-19 and American Attitudes toward U.S.-China Disputes	15
A Community of Practice for Chinese NGOs	15
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	15
The Elusive Pursuit of Incentive Systems: Research on the Cadre Management Regime in Post-Mao China	14
The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Nationalist Emulation during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
To Engage or Not to Engage? Explaining the Logic of the US’s China Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era	13
Many Nationalisms, One Disaster: Categories, Attitudes and Evolution of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media during the COVID -19 Pandemic	13
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	13
Testing the Correlation between Eco-environmental Performance and Provincial Official Promotion in China	13
Policy Innovation of Local Officials in China: the Administrative Choice	12

Power and Poverty in China: Why Some Counties Perform Better in Poverty Alleviation?	12
Public Trust as a Driver of State-Grassroots NGO Collaboration in China	12
The Rite to Vote: Community Interactions and Grassroots Voter Participation in China	10
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	10
Power Struggle or Strengthening the Party: Perspectives on Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign	10
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	10
What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis	10
China’s Rise as an Advanced Technological Society and the Rise of Digital Orientalism	9
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	9
A Rural-Urban Divide? Reassessing Voting in Chinese Villagers’ Committee and Residents’ Committee Elections	8
Public Opinion and Social Justice in China	8
National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	8
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	8
Rules Consciousness or Rights Consciousness? A Structural Equation Model of the Relationship between Sociopolitical Values and the Protest Potential among Chinese Citizens	8
The Global Times and The China Threat Narrative: An Empirical Analysis	7
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	7
Corruption Experience and Public Perceptions of Anti-corruption Crackdowns: Experimental Evidence from China	7
Identity, Social Exclusion and Perceived Performance of Local Government — Evidence from Urban China	7
Ganging up on Trump? Sino-German Relations and the Problem with Soft Balancing against the USA	6
The Remaking of China–EUrope Relations in the New Era of US–China Antagonism	6
The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America	6
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	6
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	6
The Effect of Political Participation and Village Support on Farmers Happiness	6
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	6
How Large-Scale Land Protests Succeed in China: the Role of Domestic Media	6
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	6
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	6
Formation of Relational Poverty Governance and its Impacts: How Chinese Local Governments Implement Poverty Alleviation Programs	5
Stuck Between the Great Powers: Secondary Countries’ Responses to Soft Power Competition Between the US and China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	5
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	5
China’s ‘New-Type’ Private Think Tanks: Is ‘New’ Better?	5
Budget Structure Discontinuity: Unveiling Mechanism and Connecting Logic in China’s Context	5
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	5
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	5
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	5
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	5
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	5
A Typology of Political Trustors in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Authoritarian Culture and Perceived Institutional Performance	4
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	4
Do the “Dragon’s Gifts” Improve China’s National Image? An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Relations and Public Perceptions of China in Africa	4
The Role of China’s County-level Research Offices in Policy Adaptation	4
Data, Big Tech, and the New Concept of Sovereignty	4
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	4
Non-institutional Factors in Shaping Rural Elections and Governance in China: a Pragmatist Perspective	4
Sino-U.S. Decoupling: The Roles of U.S. Congress	3
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	3
Decoding Xieshang Minzhu in Chinese Politics: Chinese vs. Western Conceptions of Deliberative Democracy	3
No Common Ground: A Spatial-Relational Analysis of EU-China Relations	3

Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?	3
A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism	3
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	3
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	3
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for A Troubled Planet	3
COVID-19 and the Wuhan Diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?	3
Dimitar D. Gueorguiev, Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China	3
Do Social Contacts Alter the National Identity? Evidence from a Panel Study among Taiwanese Students that Visited Mainland China	3
Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis, and Stevan Harrell, eds., Greening East Asia: the Rise of the Eco-developmental State	3
U.S.-China 5G Competition, the Economy-Security Nexus, and Asia	3
Yanzhong Huang, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State	3
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations	3
Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai, and Chun-chih Chang, eds., Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism	2
Kristen Hopewell, Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance	2
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	2
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	2
Daniel C. Mattingly. The Art of Political Control in China	2
China’s Campaign-Style Implementation Regime: How is “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” being achieved locally?	2
Daniel A. Bell & Pei Wang, Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World	2
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	2
The Political Economy of State Sector Restructuring in China: Cross-Provincial Evidence 2008–2017	2
Bridging Chinese Foreign Policy Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Research Agenda for Mutual Gains	2
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	2
Debating China beyond the Great Firewall: Digital Disenchantment and Authoritarian Resilience	2
Dawn C. Murphy, China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa and Beijing’s Alternative World Order	2
The Role and Logic of Nontraditional Security in China’s Engagement in Global Governance Mechanisms under Xi Jinping’s Regime	2
Supreme Leaders, Provincial Leaders, and Factional Competition in China’s Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Regional- and City-Level Evidence	2
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	2
Ten Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bibliometric Review	2
U.S.-China Technology Competition and the Emergence of Techno-Economic Statecraft in East Asia: High Technology and Economic-Security Nexus	2
Environmental Civil Society Organizations and the State in China: Institutional Analysis of the Dynamics, 1980s-2010s	2
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	2
Stratified Political Trust in a Nondemocratic Society: Magnitude, Forms, and Sources of Political Trust in Urban China	2
Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views? Evidence from Racial Prejudice and Anti-China Sentiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Jing Wang, The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web	1
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	1
Huiyun Feng, Kai He and Xiaojun Li, How China Sees the World: Insights from China’s International Relations Scholars	1
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	1
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	1
Yue Hou, The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China	1
Jun Liu, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China	1
Getting Past Old Models of PRC Diversity: Understand the Empire to Understand the Imperial Nation State	1
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	1
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	1
Understanding the Challenge of China’s Rise: Fixing Conceptual Confusion about Intentions	1
How Do Online Public Messages Affect Local Government Responsiveness in China? A Multilevel Analysis Based on the Message Board for Leaders	1
Correction to: the Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era	1
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	1
Etel Soligen, ed., Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and International Relations in East Asia	1
Viewing Persistent Individual Complainants in China Through the Lens of Everyday Politics	1
“Bringing Home the Bacon”: Distributive Politics in China’s National People’s Congress	1
Jennifer Pan, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers	1
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	1
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	1
Olayiwola Abegunrin and Charity Manyeruke, China’s Power in Africa: A New Global Order	1
Fuzuo, Wu. Energy and Climate Policies in China and India: A Two-Level Comparative Study	1
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	1
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	1
Carl Minzner, The End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its Rise	1
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	1
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	1