OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Journal of Communication is 0. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the role of professional disruption in Chinese journalists’ embrace of public relations: a social identity perspective	16
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China	15
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	13
Soft power with Chinese characteristics: China campaign for hearts and minds	11
Feeling the 2019 Hong Kong anti-ELAB movement: emotion and affect on the Lennon Walls	10
Anti-extradition law and beyond: the role of media and communication in the crisis of Hong Kong—introduction to the special issue	10
Being present: mobile cinema in Kham Tibetan areas	10
Chinese Internet Buzzwords: Research on Network Language in Internet Group Communication	9
Loyalty to WeChat beyond national borders: a perspective of media system dependency theory on techno-nationalism	9
Evaluation across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles	8
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	8
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	7
List of reviewers	7
The Labor of Reinvention: entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	7
Exploring freedom in mobile connectivity: a moderated mediation model linking mobile social media modes, availability pressure, and media habits	7
Embedded data activism: the institutionalization of a grassroots environmental data initiative in China	6
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law	6
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	6
Framing China’s mask diplomacy in Europe during the early covid-19 pandemic: seeking and contesting legitimacy through foreign medical aid amidst soft power promotion	6
Native advertising on mobile applications: using eye tracking to investigate the effects of advertising format, user motivation, and advertising disclosure on advertising effects	6
The silent public: reconsidering online participation and public concern in a context of Chinese podcast community	5
When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China	5
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	5
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay	5
From industry development to social influence: video games in Chinese newspaper coverage, 2010–2020	5

Contents and determinants of CSR website communication toward international stakeholders: evidence from Chinese MNCs	4
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	4
When virtual makeovers become “real”: how SNS interactions drive selfie editing and cosmetic surgery	3
The unequal others: mediation of distant COVID-19 suffering in Chinese television news	3
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S. The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S. by Graham Allison, Kevin Klyman, Karina Barbesino and Hugo Yen. Cambridge: Be	3
China in symbolic communication	3
The impacts of locus of crisis outcome control on responsibility attribution in hindsight: focusing on comparisons between the American and Chinese public	3
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	3
The Huawei Model: The Rise of China’s Technology Giant	2
COVID-19, the Chinese communist party, and the search for legitimacy in the international arena	2
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	2
The U.S.–China Trade War: Global news framing and public opinion in the digital age	2
Public diplomacy via Twitter: opportunities and tensions	2
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	2
Establishing legitimacy through the media and combating fake news on COVID-19: a case study of Taiwan	2
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong	2
Adaption to authoritarianism: a longitudinal analysis of Dialogue Earth’s nonprofit environmental news in China	2
Multiple news analysis across cultures (element in corpus linguistics)	2
Thread popularity inequality as an indicator of organization through communication in a networked movement: an analysis of the LIHKG forum	2
Objective socioeconomic status, subjective social status and the digital usage divide: insights from a longitudinal analysis	1
Media coverage and public perceptions of the THAAD event in China, the United States, and South Korea: a cross-national network agenda-setting study	1
Chinese creator economies: Labor and bilateral creative workers	1
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	1
Advertising disclosure in sponsored vlogs: an eye-tracking study on the effects of disclosure timing and the moderating role of disclosure type	1
From industrial movies to social media discourses: alternative social imaginaries of industry and technology in China	1
When scientific literacy meets nationalism: Exploring the underlying factors in the Chinese public’s belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories	1
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	1
Feeling ambivalent while using instant messaging: a value-motive-experience framework comparing maximizers and social groomers	1
Access to user data stored by organizations—divides surrounding information security professionals in Chinese IT organizations	1
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	1
Wanghong as social media entertainment in China	1
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	1
Idolizing the nation: Chinese fandom nationalism through the Fangirl Expedition	1
Communication and community in the new media age	1
Testing the bidirectional causation among media attention and the protest scale: the case of Hong Kong	1
The effects of worry, risk perception, information-seeking experience, and trust in misinformation on COVID-19 fact-checking: a survey study in China	1
Legitimizing viewing publics through nostalgia: the mediated tropicality of Singapore’s ‘kampong spirit’	0
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	0
Constructing patriotic networked publics: conservative YouTube influencers in Hong Kong	0
Shifting journalistic paradigm in post-2019 Hong Kong: the state–society relationship and the press	0
Engaging Social Media in China	0
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	0
The de-professionalization of Chinese journalism	0
The digital silk road: China’s quest to wire the world and win the future	0
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China: A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902–1910	0
Communicating the authentic China: partnership agreements and the use of Chinese sources and voices by Brazilian media	0
Fandom nationalism in China: the effects of idol adoration and online fan community engagement	0
When politics meets dating: how moral concern, utopianism, and communication competence predict willingness to date across the political divide	0
Contesting legitimacy in China’s crisis communication: a framing analysis of reported social actors engaging in SARS and COVID-19	0
Switching power or surviving on the margin? Wanda Group as a case study for understanding network power in China	0

Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	0
How political disagreements undermine intrafamily communication: the case of the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong	0
Managing government legitimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a semantic network analysis of state-run media Sina Weibo posts	0
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	0
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China	0
Unified or divided “we-hood”: discursive constructions of heterogeneous national identities under the one country, two systems model	0
Boy’s love drama exposure and attitudes toward same-sex relationships: Applying a moderated mediation model in the Chinese context	0
Telegram and the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong: reshaping networked social movements through symbolic participation and spontaneous interaction	0
Friend or foe? Human journalists’ perspectives on artificial intelligence in Chinese media outlets	0
From expansion to exclusion: recalibrating rural e-commerce in the New Era political economy in western China	0
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	0
Social media platform swinging and teenagers’ academic performance: a serial mediation model examining the roles of sleep deficits and burnout	0
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era	0
The impact of exposure to a scientific role model on Chinese young adults’ compliance with governmental COVID-19 restrictions: a moderated serial mediation model	0
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	0
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	0
Measuring Chinese online populist discourse: an automated semantic text analysis method	0
Intercultural aesthetics in traditional Chinese theatre: from 1978 to the presentIntercultural aesthetics in traditional Chinese theatre: from 1978 to the present, by Feng Wei, New York, Palgrave Macm	0
Mediatized governance in environmental disasters: self-organizing community rescue through collaborative online documents	0
Social media live streaming as affective news in the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong	0
“Widow-style parenting”: the discursive formation of gendered parenting roles and popular feminism on social media in China	0
The effects of social media advertising in China: Theory, practices and implications	0
Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China	0
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	0
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	0
Mapping digital game culture in China: From Internet addicts to esports athletes	0
Internet addiction among cyberkids in China: Risk factors and intervention strategies	0
Chinese antitrust exceptionalism: How the rise of China challenges global regulation	0
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	0
Dynamic power relations in online medical consultation in China: Disrupting traditional roles through discursive positioning	0
Praise you by my gender: affective resistance of Nisu fandom under contemporary China’s gender politics	0
Notice of duplicate publication: Cultural discourse studies: researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition) by Shi-Xu, Peking University Press, 2022, US$10.86, 330pp.	0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	0
Confronting COVID-19: constructing and contesting legitimacy through the media in Chinese contexts	0
Perceptions of food safety, access to information, and political trust in China	0
How do corporate social responsibility perceptions facilitate advocacy behavior? The roles of organizational pride and responsible leadership	0
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	0
Chinese cinema culture: a scene in the fog	0
Does social media keep me alarmed? The effects of expectations surrounding social media attributes and exposure to messages of social (in)stability on substitutive social media news use	0
Peer appraisal, participatory surveillance, and experiential mentoring: explicating communicative practices of participatory learning in an online support group for people with binging experiences	0
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	0
The newsworthiness of Gu Ailing: a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and American media reports	0
Digital distinction: class as mediated dispositions in China’s Animal Crossing fever	0
Pro-liberalism vs. Nationalism: how critical opinion leaders challenge the persuasive effect of propaganda in China	0
Public emotional atmosphere during disasters: understanding emotions in short video comments on the Zhengzhou flood	0
Moral framing and issue-based framing of #StopAsianHate campaigns on Twitter	0
Techno-biopolitics under a tentative “state of exception”: the institutional logic of the digital governance of inbound travelers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	0
The impact of agricultural collectivization on participatory communication: a case study of the Maoist literacy movement	0
The Wuhan Lockdown	0
Communicating COVID-19: Everyday life, digital capitalism, and conspiracy theories in pandemic times	0
Toxic behavior in multiplayer online games: the role of witnessed verbal aggression, game engagement intensity, and social self-efficacy	0
Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition) Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (<	0
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community	0
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	0
The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy	0
Assignment China: An oral history of journalists in the People’s Republic	0
Queer attention matters: a study on affordance from queer male media practices on Zhihu	0
The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society	0
When chitchat fosters trust: phatic communication and personal connections facilitate patient trust in China through patient-centered communication	0
Zoning China: Online video, popular culture, and the state	0
Understanding the conditional media effects: trust, new media exposure, and preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
With greater popularity comes less responsibility: the popularity fallacy of Big Vs’ public participation on Sina Weibo	0
Pandemic and memory: Online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors in China	0
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	0
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	0
How do Chinese scientists maintain their discourse authority? Critical discourse analysis of discourse “boundary work” in genetically modified organisms discussion on a Chinese knowledge-sharing netwo	0
Cyber anti-intellectualism and information seeking about SARS-CoV-2 variants	0
Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan	0
How does the Chinese Government conduct emotional governance over COVID-19? Content analysis of video blogs	0
Measuring up in a pandemic: information attention, source credibility, and public evaluation of the government COVID-19 response in mainland China	0