OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 7. 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
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	33
Daniel R. Hammond, Politics and Policy in China’s Social Assistance Reform; Providing for the Poor?	23
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	22
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	22
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	20
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	19
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	16
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	16
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	16
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	15
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	15
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	15
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	14
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	14
Ka Zeng, and Xiaojun Li, Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States	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?	13
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	12
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	12
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	12
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	12
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	12
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power	12
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	11
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	11

Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	10
Expanding China’s Influence via Membership: Examining the Influence of Chinese-Led International Institutions on Responses to Human Rights Issues in China	10
Living With Digital Government: Effects of Technology Anxiety on Public Support for Policy in China	9
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	9
Thomas B. Gold and Sebastian Veg, eds., Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong	9
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	9
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	9
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	8
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	8
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	8
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	8
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	8
The Silicon Sword Hanging Over China’s Head	7
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	7
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	7
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	7
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	7
Sino-U.S. Decoupling: The Roles of U.S. Congress	7
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	7
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	7
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	7
AI as a Tool for Surveillance: China’s Concave Trilemma	7
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	7
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	7