OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	39
Linking Legislative Activity To Policy Implementation: The Role of Consultative Bodies in China’s Environmental Policy	36
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	25
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	24
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	23
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	22
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	21
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	20
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	19
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	19
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	17
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	16
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	15
History Rhymes: The Shou-Fang Cycle in Chinese Politics	14
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution	14
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	14
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	14
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power	13
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	13
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	13
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	13
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	12
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	12
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	11
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	11

Expanding China’s Influence via Membership: Examining the Influence of Chinese-Led International Institutions on Responses to Human Rights Issues in China	11
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	11
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	11
Living With Digital Government: Effects of Technology Anxiety on Public Support for Policy in China	11
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	10
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	10
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	10
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	10
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	10
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	9
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	9
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	9
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	9
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	9
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	9
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	9
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	9
AI as a Tool for Surveillance: China’s Concave Trilemma	8
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	8
Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond, eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years	8
The Silicon Sword Hanging Over China’s Head	8
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	8
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	8
Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First	7
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	7
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	7
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe	7
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	7
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	7
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	7
William Hurst, Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia	7
Demarketization and Corruption in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	6
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	6
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	6
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	6
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	6
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States	6
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	6
Correction: The Digital Masons: Technology Providers and Social Credit System Construction in China	5
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	5
The Belt and Road Initiative and National Economic Development: a Multidimensional Power Analysis	5
What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis	5
Are the Defense Policy and Military Expenditure in China Economically or Politically Driven?	5
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	5
Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Immediate Effects of the Pandemic on Institutional Trust	5
The Role of China’s County-level Research Offices in Policy Adaptation	4
Steering a Developmental Party-State: Why Has China Chosen Centralization of Power to Fight Corruption?	4
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China	4
National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	4
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space	3

Lily L. Tsai, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity	3
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	3
Xuezhi Guo, The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy and Power	3
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	3
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	3
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	3
Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel, eds., Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China	3
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	3
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	3
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	3
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	3
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	3
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)	3