OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 5. 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
Sino-US Competition in the South China Sea: Power, Rules and Legitimacy	17
Many Nationalisms, One Disaster: Categories, Attitudes and Evolution of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media during the COVID -19 Pandemic	17
COVID-19 and American Attitudes toward U.S.-China Disputes	16
Power and Poverty in China: Why Some Counties Perform Better in Poverty Alleviation?	16
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	15
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
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
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
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
To Engage or Not to Engage? Explaining the Logic of the US’s China Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era	13
What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis	11
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	11

Public Opinion and Social Justice in China	10
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
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
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
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
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
Identity, Social Exclusion and Perceived Performance of Local Government — Evidence from Urban China	7
Ten Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bibliometric Review	6
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
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
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