OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia Europe Journal is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A case study of decentralization reform in a Chinese university	24
Securitising regionalism: mega-regional trade blocs, Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and supply chain alliances in Asia	13
The European Union’s investment screening framework and China—a complicated picture	13
Case studies investigating distorted supervisor-postgraduate relationship and solutions in Chinese universities	12
Armenia-India partnership: geopolitical and geo-economic implications in the Eurasian context	11
Beyond confrontation? Comparing the determinants of Chinese and the European Union’s development finance to Africa	10
EU-Korea trade relations in the context of global disruption: political and legal perspectives	9
Geo-economic and geopolitical developments in EU-asia security relations	9
The EU-Japan security cooperation in defence of the liberal international order: achievements and limitations	9
Infrastructural conjunctures under the Belt and Road Initiative: the role of China-Europe Railway Express and evolution of the laptop cluster in Chongqing, China	8
Term limits in Africa between the European Union (EU) and China: Opportunities and challenges of trilateral cooperation in politics and governance	7
Reassessing China’s economic power in Southeast Asia during the 2010 s: insights from the nexus of FDI-driven manufacturing and GVC trade	7
Towards collaborative EU-Indonesia bargaining on palm oil policy: deconstructing the public discourse	6
Correction: The regime complex for digital trade in Asia and China’s engagement	6
Assessing the economic impact of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: a dynamic GTAP analysis Global and regional benefits of RCEP	6
Recasting order in the Indo-Pacific: Europe, Asia, and the future of the Liberal International Order	6
EU–China relations after the 2024 European elections: a European perspective	6
Resetting the energy-transition paths amid the dual crises: the EU-South Korean responses to the war in Ukraine and US-China rivalry	6
Introduction to the special issue on what happens in Europe matters in the Indo-Pacific: the global impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war	6
The EU, China, and the future of climate finance	5
Expanding the study of the EU-centred actorness: ASEAN in the emerging Indo-Pacific construct	5
Navigating minefields and headwinds: National security, demographic shifts, climate change and fiscal policy in Lithuania	5
Geopolitical conflicts and economic disruptions: Germany’s China policy under pressure	5
Russia-Ukraine war and China’s diplomatic signaling to major European powers	5
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in varied frameworks of trust, transparency, and governance capacity: evidence from China, the UK, Hong Kong, and Taiwan	5

Millets for sustainable development in India: a social cost benefit analysis from a policy perspective	5
EU-Korea security cooperation: a new normative partnership?	5
The embrace and resistance of Chinese battery investments in Hungary: The case of CATL	4
Two tigers in one mountain: Europeanising the Western Balkans amid China’s engagement	4
Structural transformation within a neo-liberal state architecture: evidence from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor	4
Pursuing practicality and autonomy in the Indo-Pacific: the case of ROK-India Special Strategic Partnership	4
Impact of EU’s carbon border tax on South Asian trade partners	4
The entangled energy policy reform in the Philippines: a missing link for the regional production network	3
The EU and China in the climate regime: exploring different pathways towards climate justice	3
Bottom-up market-facilitation and top-down market-steering: comparing and conceptualizing green finance approaches in the EU and China	3
Reconciling normativity and geopolitics: analyzing von der Leyen’s de-risking discourse from a practical argumentation perspective	3
South Korea and the EU battling COVID-19: shared contribution to global health governance and human security	3
‘System friction’ in China-EU economic relations and the reaction of the EU	3
The interplay between geopolitics and connectivity: making sense of the EU and China’s shifting approaches to the Middle Corridor	3
“Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU	3
Everybody wins? Chinese perceptions on Europe-China third-party market cooperation in Africa	3
Charting Italy’s Indo-Pacific strategy: from Mare Nostrum to Mare Omnium?	3
Correction to: “Contingent power extension” and regional (dis) integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU	3
Bangladesh amidst great power competition: when middle power meets economic statecraft	3
Major European members’ diverging strategies under NATO’s Indo-Pacific pivot	3
Promise and peril of relational governance for Asian regionalism: evidence from China’s BRI infrastructure development in maritime Southeast Asia	2
The EU-Japan economic partnership agreement in Japanese print media: a “cars-for-cheese deal” or “the black ships of European cheese”?	2
Neighbours under the North Star: Civil wars in Finland and Korea	2
Analyzing Türkiye’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific: opportunities and challenges in the European Union context	2
Asia in flux: network power, new regionalism, and global development	2
China’s partners or US allies: the dual status of major European states and their voting behaviour in the UNGA	2
Structural pressures and catalytic shocks: Japan’s hedging strategy for “Trump 2.0” (2023–2025)	2
Spatial distribution of Japanese affiliates in Italy: a dynamic geo-spatial network analysis	2
A complex challenge: how China shapes Japan’s security partnership with the EU	2
Bridging the communication gap in EU-China relations: policy, media, and public opinion	2
The challenges of Sino-Russian alignment to the liberal international order in Southeast Asia	2
The United Kingdom, the Belt and Road Initiative, and policy amalgams	2
EU’s derisking from China: a daunting task	2
The risks of continuity—pitfalls of the EU’s policy stance on China after the European elections of 2024	2
Populism and the China question: implications for EU foreign policymaking	2
Toward a Eurasian security complex? The two Koreas’ entanglement in the Ukraine war and the conjoining of European and Asian security	2
EU influences on ASEAN forest management: collective solutions or divergent narratives?	2
Not seeing eye to eye: perception of the China-EU economic relationship	2
Allied hedging under pressure: US protectionism, China dependence, and strategic adjustment	1
Digital inclusion or digital illusion? AI, disability, and the politics of financial access in Indonesia	1
The European Parliament’s shifting perspectives on climate justice with regard to China and India	1
From Indo-Pacific back to Euro-Atlantic? The Ukraine War and the EU’s strategic reorientation	1
EU and China’s comparative advantage, trade complementarity and trade specialization dynamics in agricultural products	1
How do international students adjust to new cultural environments? A qualitative study of international students’ experience in Asian universities	1
Evolving concept of strategic autonomy in Europe and Asia: the role of US restraint and simultaneity of conflicts	1
The United Kingdom-Korea-Japan free trade agreement with the reduction in tariffs and non-tariff measures on trade and welfare	1
From infrastructure space to network power: Chinese cross-border collaborative Special Economic Zones in Southeast Asia	1
Between economic openness and strategic caution: Germany’s response to China’s investment	1
Technological intensity in manufacturing trade between ASEAN and the EU: challenges and opportunities	1
Sustainable lending strategies: a framework for enhancing climate resilience in industrial loan portfolios	1

Political convergence between the EU and ASEAN: are they growing more alike in the Indo-Pacific?	1
Diverging perceptions of the “Visegrad Four + ” format and the limits of the V4 + Japan cooperation	1
Examining the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) as a collaborative infrastructure for transcontinental policymaking: an ICIO-LP analysis	1
Construction of environmental discourse concerning Europe in China	1
The influence of Chinese foreign policy think tanks on China’s EU policy: a comparative analysis of CIIS and SIIS	1
EU - China relations after the 2024 European elections	1
Comparative analysis of the connectivity of world cities in Europe and Asia through the lens of advanced producer service networks	1
A ‘network power shift’ or up the value chain? Japan’s changing role in Asian political economy	1
EU-Korea relations at 60: managing cooperation in the context of great power rivalry	1
Correction to: Everybody wins? Chinese perceptions on Europe‑China third‑party market cooperation in Africa	1
Chinese views of ‘Global Britain’: evidence from the government, media, and scholars	1
The road to hell is paved with good intentions—and EU spreadsheets	1
Back to the Cold War era in-betweenness: Italy’s China strategy in the context of the Indo-Pacific framework	1