OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 2. 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
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China	38
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas	37
The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19	29
China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century	25
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	23
Testing the Relationship between Land Approval and Promotion Incentives of Provincial Top Leaders in China	22
Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: A Firm-Level Study of Sub-Saharan African SMEs	19
Policy Reinvention and Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Governments	18
Many Nationalisms, One Disaster: Categories, Attitudes and Evolution of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media during the COVID -19 Pandemic	17
Sino-US Competition in the South China Sea: Power, Rules and Legitimacy	17
Power and Poverty in China: Why Some Counties Perform Better in Poverty Alleviation?	16
COVID-19 and American Attitudes toward U.S.-China Disputes	16
The Rite to Vote: Community Interactions and Grassroots Voter Participation in China	15
Policy Innovation of Local Officials in China: the Administrative Choice	15
Data, Big Tech, and the New Concept of Sovereignty	15
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	15
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	14
Testing the Correlation between Eco-environmental Performance and Provincial Official Promotion in China	14
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	14
The Elusive Pursuit of Incentive Systems: Research on the Cadre Management Regime in Post-Mao China	14
To Engage or Not to Engage? Explaining the Logic of the US’s China Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era	13
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	13
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	13
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	11
What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis	11

Public Opinion and Social Justice in China	10
China’s Rise as an Advanced Technological Society and the Rise of Digital Orientalism	9
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	9
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	9
National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	9
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	9
The Global Times and The China Threat Narrative: An Empirical Analysis	8
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	8
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	8
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	8
How Do Online Public Messages Affect Local Government Responsiveness in China? A Multilevel Analysis Based on the Message Board for Leaders	8
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	8
Identity, Social Exclusion and Perceived Performance of Local Government — Evidence from Urban China	7
Formation of Relational Poverty Governance and its Impacts: How Chinese Local Governments Implement Poverty Alleviation Programs	7
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	7
The Remaking of China–EUrope Relations in the New Era of US–China Antagonism	7
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	6
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	6
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	6
Ten Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bibliometric Review	6
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	5
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	5
A Typology of Political Trustors in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Authoritarian Culture and Perceived Institutional Performance	5
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	5
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	5
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	5
The Role of China’s County-level Research Offices in Policy Adaptation	5
Stuck Between the Great Powers: Secondary Countries’ Responses to Soft Power Competition Between the US and China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Do the “Dragon’s Gifts” Improve China’s National Image? An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Relations and Public Perceptions of China in Africa	5
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	5
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	4
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations	4
Non-institutional Factors in Shaping Rural Elections and Governance in China: a Pragmatist Perspective	4
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	4
Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?	4
Sino-U.S. Decoupling: The Roles of U.S. Congress	4
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	4
China’s Campaign-Style Implementation Regime: How is “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” being achieved locally?	4
Official Turnover and Sustainable Development in China	3
The US–China Chip War, Economy–Security Nexus, and Asia	3
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	3
Kristen Hopewell, Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance	3
U.S.-China 5G Competition, the Economy-Security Nexus, and Asia	3
No Common Ground: A Spatial-Relational Analysis of EU-China Relations	3
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for A Troubled Planet	3
Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views? Evidence from Racial Prejudice and Anti-China Sentiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Dimitar D. Gueorguiev, Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China	3
A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism	3
Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Immediate Effects of the Pandemic on Institutional Trust	3
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	3

U.S.-China Technology Competition and the Emergence of Techno-Economic Statecraft in East Asia: High Technology and Economic-Security Nexus	3
COVID-19 and the Wuhan Diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?	3
Dawn C. Murphy, China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa and Beijing’s Alternative World Order	3
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	3
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	3
Supreme Leaders, Provincial Leaders, and Factional Competition in China’s Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Regional- and City-Level Evidence	3
Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis, and Stevan Harrell, eds., Greening East Asia: the Rise of the Eco-developmental State	3
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)	3
Debating China beyond the Great Firewall: Digital Disenchantment and Authoritarian Resilience	3
Yanzhong Huang, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State	3
Stratified Political Trust in a Nondemocratic Society: Magnitude, Forms, and Sources of Political Trust in Urban China	2
Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai, and Chun-chih Chang, eds., Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism	2
Are the Defense Policy and Military Expenditure in China Economically or Politically Driven?	2
Environmental Civil Society Organizations and the State in China: Institutional Analysis of the Dynamics, 1980s-2010s	2
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	2
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	2
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	2
Understanding the Challenge of China’s Rise: Fixing Conceptual Confusion about Intentions	2
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	2
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	2
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	2
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	2
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	2
Voices from within: Tracing Chinese Public Perceptions of Democracy in the New Era	2
Daniel A. Bell & Pei Wang, Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World	2
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	2
The Political Economy of State Sector Restructuring in China: Cross-Provincial Evidence 2008–2017	2
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	2
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	2