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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Jun Liu, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China	25
Lily L. Tsai, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity	23
Getting Past Old Models of PRC Diversity: Understand the Empire to Understand the Imperial Nation State	19
Rana Mitter, China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism	18
Daniel R. Hammond, Politics and Policy in China’s Social Assistance Reform; Providing for the Poor?	17
Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Xiao Tang, Shenglong Liu, 2050 China Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country	16
Thomas B. Gold and Sebastian Veg, eds., Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong	15
Do the “Dragon’s Gifts” Improve China’s National Image? An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Relations and Public Perceptions of China in Africa	15
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	15
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe	15
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	14
Public Opinion and Social Justice in China	14
“Bringing Home the Bacon”: Distributive Politics in China’s National People’s Congress	14
Shiwei Zhang, The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy	14
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	13
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	13
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	13
Chinese University Major Decision and Its Effect on Wages: Modeling Interaction Between Major Specificity and Education-Job Relevancy Using Machine Learning Approaches	11
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	11
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	10
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	9
Policy Innovation of Local Officials in China: the Administrative Choice	9
Viewing Persistent Individual Complainants in China Through the Lens of Everyday Politics	9
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	9
Too Cynical: why the Stock Market in China Dismissed Initial Anticorruption Signals	9

Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States	8
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	8
André Sapir and Petros C. Mavroidis, eds., China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters	8
China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century	8
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	8
Alister Miskimmon, Ben O’Loughlin and Jinghan Zeng, eds., One Belt, One Road, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative	8
William Hurst, Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia	7
Identity, Social Exclusion and Perceived Performance of Local Government — Evidence from Urban China	7
Etel Soligen, ed., Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and International Relations in East Asia	7
Julia Strauss, State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance	7
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	7
Non-institutional Factors in Shaping Rural Elections and Governance in China: a Pragmatist Perspective	6
To Engage or Not to Engage? Explaining the Logic of the US’s China Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era	6
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	6
China’s Campaign-Style Implementation Regime: How is “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” being achieved locally?	5
Dawn C. Murphy, China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa and Beijing’s Alternative World Order	5
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	5
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	5
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	5
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	5
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	5
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	5
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	5
Policy Reinvention and Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Governments	5
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	4
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for A Troubled Planet	4
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	4
Factors Influencing China’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations	4
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	4
COVID-19 and the Wuhan Diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?	4
Retraction Note: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Expressions of Nationalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cyberspace	4
Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel, eds., Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China	4
Xuezhi Guo, The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy and Power	4
Yanzhong Huang, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State	4
The Impacts of U.S. Foreign Policy on Taiwanese Public Support for Independence	3
No Common Ground: A Spatial-Relational Analysis of EU-China Relations	3
The Remaking of China–EUrope Relations in the New Era of US–China Antagonism	3
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	3
Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: A Firm-Level Study of Sub-Saharan African SMEs	3
Debating China beyond the Great Firewall: Digital Disenchantment and Authoritarian Resilience	3
Environmental Civil Society Organizations and the State in China: Institutional Analysis of the Dynamics, 1980s-2010s	3
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	3
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	3
Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?	3
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	3
Ten Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bibliometric Review	3
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	3
U.S.-China Technology Competition and the Emergence of Techno-Economic Statecraft in East Asia: High Technology and Economic-Security Nexus	3
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	3
Michael Mintrom, Dayashankar Maurya, and Alex Jingwei He, eds., Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective	3

Xian Huang, Social Protection under Authoritarianism	3
Vassilis K. Fouskas, Shampa Roy-Mukherjee, Qingan Huang and Ejike Udeogu, China & the USA: Globalisation and the Decline of America’s Supremacy	3
Thomas Fingar and Jean C. Oi, eds., Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future	3
Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell. Invisible China: How the Urban–Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise	3
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations	3
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	2
Kristen Hopewell, Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance	2
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	2
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	2
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	2
The Global Times and The China Threat Narrative: An Empirical Analysis	2
Angela Poh, Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics: Rhetoric and Restraint in China’s Diplomacy	2
Suzanne E. Scoggins, Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest	2
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	2
U.S.-China 5G Competition, the Economy-Security Nexus, and Asia	2
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	2
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	2
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	2
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	2
Fuzuo, Wu. Energy and Climate Policies in China and India: A Two-Level Comparative Study	2
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)	2
Demarketization and Corruption in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	2