OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Asian Public Policy is 3. 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
Perceived government-expert discord and evaluation of COVID-19 policies in Hong Kong	51
Exploring ‘ritualized institutions’: public health emergency plans in China’s rural communities	48
Changing family’s role in long-term care provision in China from the defamilialisation perspective: empirical evidence from Guangzhou	24
Between stringency and slack: how does climate policy uncertainty influence corporate innovation in China?	20
Policy beliefs, governance mismatch, and instrument choices: explaining health policy failure in India	12
The influence of GenAI on the effectiveness of argumentative writing in higher education: evidence from a quasi-experimental study in China	10
Design-driven innovation in the public sector: insights from case studies of initiatives in Taiwan	10
Rolling out the red carpet but finding no guests: administrative burden and settlement intentions in talent housing policy	10
Exploring citizen participation and network collaboration: the observation action of air pollution policy	9
Seeking for revenue or promotion? Incentives of Chinese governments in urban land conveyance	9
Is the public willing to provide personal information for processing by government AI? An experimental study based on regulatory commitment and algorithmic transparency	9
COVID-19 and welfare attitudes in South Korea: between the metropolitan governments of Seoul and Busan	9
The impact of fiscal decentralization on health outcome in Vietnam: a focus on the role of public service delivery and corruption	8
Understanding the public participation among disadvantaged citizens: how does dynamics of policy transparency matter?	8
Socio-economic inequalities in climate policies: unpacking energy efficiency barriers in low-income households	8
Policy stringency and social trust in China: COVID-19 as a case	8
Transparency, participation, and responsiveness in Hong Kong consultative policymaking	8
Social protection responses in times of distress in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review and research agenda	8
Local variation and central-local relations in China’s pandemic management	8
Determinants of regional social security programme innovation: focusing on policy reinvention, termination, and budget change decision-making	8
When fiscal and administrative decentralization vary in pace: the impact of fiscal decentralization on local environment performance	7
Comparing Sino-Nordic systems of higher education: ideology, institutional logics, subaltern governance, and emergent identities	7
Technological social enterprises as instruments for integrated public problem-solving - a multiple case study in China	7
Relaxing internal migration restrictions and the pressure on public education services provision: evidence from China	7
Network evolution in subnational epistemic learning during crises: a mixed-methods study of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong	7

South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake	7
The double-edged effect of political trust on the COVID-19 pandemic: empirical evidence from China	7
‘Dual Carbon Goals’ enhances policy integration: analysing recent changes in China’s national climate policy	7
Promoting sustainability through competencies? An explorative case study on higher education in Norway	6
Can co-production enhance professional public service provision? evidence from vocational training programme for people with disabilities in China	6
The impact of China’s big data pilot zone policy on public service quality: a mixed methods study	6
Investor responses to government startup support: an experimental auction study of stage-specific policy effects on venture capital investment in South Korea	6
Correction	5
How inclusive welfare reforms shape political trust: understanding the feedback effects in China’s urban-rural health insurance integration	5
The political selection logic of department heads at the provincial level: an organizational size perspective	5
Government-organized non-governmental organizations in policy networks: the case of China association for science and technology	5
Strategic heterogeneity: the impact of stakeholders on local government resource allocation in China	5
Re-coupling security and rights in humanitarian engagement in South Asia: the example of Afghanistan	5
Policy priorities to rebalance after fiscal crises: evidence from China’s county-level cities after the 2019 land-market shock	5
Pension reform and equality: the impact on pension quality in old age in Taiwan	5
Managing the rise of older adults in East Asia: critical reflections on public-private-community partnership in long-term care	5
Experiences of working women in India under family-friendly policies: straight from the horse’s mouth	4
“Hard” and “soft” signals: Bounded rationality and weighing performance versus compliance in multi-level governance	4
Public policy education in Asia: convergence and divergence	4
Issue uncertainty and selections of policy instruments in policy pilots: evidence from China’s long-term care insurance	4
Narrative framing and adoption of evidence-based policy: Indonesia’s response to Covid-19	4
Factors affecting the acceptance of online tax filing and payment system by micro small medium enterprises in Vietnam	4
Anticipatory policy design for robots in public spaces	4
Social protection, labour regulation and market creation: welfare capitalism’s institutional embeddedness of platform work and services in Hong Kong	4
Does welfare participation improve older adults’ mental health? Evidence from Dibao program in China	3
Trust equilibrium, trust inflection point, and trust reconstruction: a case study of political trust transitions in China (1990–2021)	3
Why does algorithmic transparency matter for policy acceptance? The mediating role of intent attributions under varying organizational reputations	3
An empirical study of contractual informality and governance of sub-divided units in Hong Kong	3
Correction	3
Neither fish nor fowl? Examining institutional hybridity of cross-border joint universities in China	3
China’s ‘bad citizens’: understanding non-participation in philanthropic and voluntaristic activities	3
Generative AI and the future of connectivist learning in higher education	3
Understanding the Chinese−Foreign cooperation in running schools: from the perspective of loose coupling theory	3
Digital regulation, enforcement attitudes, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats during a pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China	3
China “striving for achievement” in the humanitarian space?	3
From attention allocation to policy coherence: evaluating the evolution of the Yellow River Floodplain Resettlement in China	3
Riding the tide of generative artificial intelligence in higher education policy: an Asian perspective	3
Policy education in South Korea and Japan: similar beginnings but different directions?	3
Street-level tax officials’ willingness to implement Cambodia’s value-added tax policy for e-commerce	3
Changing welfare solidarity: social policy and solidarity ventures during COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia	3
The impact of pensions on the income gap among the elderly: the case of Taiwan’s National Pension	3
Overwork without an employer: fictitious autonomy and algorithmic control in South Korea’s platform economy	3
Embracing generative artificial intelligence tools in higher education: a survey study at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	3