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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Securitising regionalism: mega-regional trade blocs, Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and supply chain alliances in Asia	23
Case studies investigating distorted supervisor-postgraduate relationship and solutions in Chinese universities	12
A case study of decentralization reform in a Chinese university	11
The European Union’s investment screening framework and China—a complicated picture	10
Geo-economic and geopolitical developments in EU-asia security relations	9
Armenia-India partnership: geopolitical and geo-economic implications in the Eurasian context	9
Beyond confrontation? Comparing the determinants of Chinese and the European Union’s development finance to Africa	9
EU-Korea trade relations in the context of global disruption: political and legal perspectives	7
Term limits in Africa between the European Union (EU) and China: Opportunities and challenges of trilateral cooperation in politics and governance	7
The EU-Japan security cooperation in defence of the liberal international order: achievements and limitations	7
EU–China relations after the 2024 European elections: a European perspective	6
Reassessing China’s economic power in Southeast Asia during the 2010 s: insights from the nexus of FDI-driven manufacturing and GVC trade	6
Assessing the economic impact of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: a dynamic GTAP analysis Global and regional benefits of RCEP	6
Towards collaborative EU-Indonesia bargaining on palm oil policy: deconstructing the public discourse	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	5
Recasting order in the Indo-Pacific: Europe, Asia, and the future of the Liberal International Order	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
Expanding the study of the EU-centred actorness: ASEAN in the emerging Indo-Pacific construct	5
Correction: The regime complex for digital trade in Asia and China’s engagement	5
Geopolitical conflicts and economic disruptions: Germany’s China policy under pressure	4
Navigating minefields and headwinds: National security, demographic shifts, climate change and fiscal policy in Lithuania	4
EU-Korea security cooperation: a new normative partnership?	4
The EU, China, and the future of climate finance	4
Russia-Ukraine war and China’s diplomatic signaling to major European powers	4

Millets for sustainable development in India: a social cost benefit analysis from a policy perspective	4
Impact of EU’s carbon border tax on South Asian trade partners	3
Structural transformation within a neo-liberal state architecture: evidence from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor	3
Everybody wins? Chinese perceptions on Europe-China third-party market cooperation in Africa	3
The entangled energy policy reform in the Philippines: a missing link for the regional production network	3
Pursuing practicality and autonomy in the Indo-Pacific: the case of ROK-India Special Strategic Partnership	3
The embrace and resistance of Chinese battery investments in Hungary: The case of CATL	3
Charting Italy’s Indo-Pacific strategy: from Mare Nostrum to Mare Omnium?	3
Two tigers in one mountain: Europeanising the Western Balkans amid China’s engagement	3
South Korea and the EU battling COVID-19: shared contribution to global health governance and human security	3
The EU and China in the climate regime: exploring different pathways towards climate justice	3
Bridging the communication gap in EU-China relations: policy, media, and public opinion	2
‘System friction’ in China-EU economic relations and the reaction of the EU	2
Bottom-up market-facilitation and top-down market-steering: comparing and conceptualizing green finance approaches in the EU and China	2
The risks of continuity—pitfalls of the EU’s policy stance on China after the European elections of 2024	2
Neighbours under the North Star: Civil wars in Finland and Korea	2
EU influences on ASEAN forest management: collective solutions or divergent narratives?	2
“Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU	2
Major European members’ diverging strategies under NATO’s Indo-Pacific pivot	2
The interplay between geopolitics and connectivity: making sense of the EU and China’s shifting approaches to the Middle Corridor	2
A complex challenge: how China shapes Japan’s security partnership with the EU	2
Toward a Eurasian security complex? The two Koreas’ entanglement in the Ukraine war and the conjoining of European and Asian security	2
The EU-Japan economic partnership agreement in Japanese print media: a “cars-for-cheese deal” or “the black ships of European cheese”?	2
Correction to: “Contingent power extension” and regional (dis) integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU	2
Bangladesh amidst great power competition: when middle power meets economic statecraft	2
Spatial distribution of Japanese affiliates in Italy: a dynamic geo-spatial network analysis	2
Populism and the China question: implications for EU foreign policymaking	2
Analyzing Türkiye’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific: opportunities and challenges in the European Union context	1
Examining the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) as a collaborative infrastructure for transcontinental policymaking: an ICIO-LP analysis	1
A ‘network power shift’ or up the value chain? Japan’s changing role in Asian political economy	1
EU and China’s comparative advantage, trade complementarity and trade specialization dynamics in agricultural products	1
EU-Korea relations at 60: managing cooperation in the context of great power rivalry	1
The impact of the Japan-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement on the trade and income of Japan, the European Union, and South Korea	1
Comparative analysis of the connectivity of world cities in Europe and Asia through the lens of advanced producer service networks	1
Construction of environmental discourse concerning Europe in China	1
EU’s derisking from China: a daunting task	1
The United Kingdom, the Belt and Road Initiative, and policy amalgams	1
The United Kingdom-Korea-Japan free trade agreement with the reduction in tariffs and non-tariff measures on trade and welfare	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
How do international students adjust to new cultural environments? A qualitative study of international students’ experience in Asian universities	1
EU - China relations after the 2024 European elections	1
The road to hell is paved with good intentions—and EU spreadsheets	1
From infrastructure space to network power: Chinese cross-border collaborative Special Economic Zones in Southeast Asia	1
Promise and peril of relational governance for Asian regionalism: evidence from China’s BRI infrastructure development in maritime Southeast Asia	1
Asia in flux: network power, new regionalism, and global development	1
China’s partners or US allies: the dual status of major European states and their voting behaviour in the UNGA	1
Not seeing eye to eye: perception of the China-EU economic relationship	1
Evolving concept of strategic autonomy in Europe and Asia: the role of US restraint and simultaneity of conflicts	1
From Indo-Pacific back to Euro-Atlantic? The Ukraine War and the EU’s strategic reorientation	1

Correction to: Everybody wins? Chinese perceptions on Europe‑China third‑party market cooperation in Africa	1
Diverging perceptions of the “Visegrad Four + ” format and the limits of the V4 + Japan cooperation	1
Chinese views of ‘Global Britain’: evidence from the government, media, and scholars	1
Back to the Cold War era in-betweenness: Italy’s China strategy in the context of the Indo-Pacific framework	1
The influence of Chinese foreign policy think tanks on China’s EU policy: a comparative analysis of CIIS and SIIS	1
The challenges of Sino-Russian alignment to the liberal international order in Southeast Asia	1