Chinese Journal of Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Chinese Journal of Communication 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Caught in the crossfire: multi-stakeholder governance challenges and platform responses in the Chinese context36
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication33
Unveiling digital narratives of transnational migration to China: foreign wanghong on Douyin and Xiaohongshu28
China in symbolic communication20
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences17
Daily expression of madness as a communication practice: an interaction ritual chain analysis of hysterical literature15
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu15
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)15
Youth culture of self-mockery: bodily memes and economies of affect in China’s online space14
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China13
Mob censorship in China: ChiRenxueMantou , digital press criticism, and journalists’ failed jurisdiction12
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia10
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs10
Propaganda persuasion, critical learning, and social recreation: investigating relationships between media use, science knowledge, and attitudes in China9
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure8
Language, Celebrity fandom, and Political Activism in Chinese Media: battling for Idols Online7
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy7
From click to boom: the political economy of E-Commerce in China6
Trading time for discretion: grassroots officials’ response dynamics on digital administrative platforms in China6
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong5
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms5
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili4
From surveillance to taste-making: exploring the influence of algorithmic agency on consumer experiences in casual leisure4
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant4
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China4
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults4
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin4
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang4
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun 4
The construction of gender temperaments through ambivalent gendered humor: a study of humorous comments on the Chinese platform Pipixia4
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case3
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace3
Investigating the mediating role of self-regulation in the association between smartphone addiction and academic performance: a nationally representative study of Taiwanese students from primary to un3
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention3
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay3
The effects of worry, risk perception, information-seeking experience, and trust in misinformation on COVID-19 fact-checking: a survey study in China3
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S.3
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China3
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning3
Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect3
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law2
Mediatized governance in environmental disasters: self-organizing community rescue through collaborative online documents2
Social media live streaming as affective news in the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong2
Social media platform swinging and teenagers’ academic performance: a serial mediation model examining the roles of sleep deficits and burnout2
Infinity and Beyond : a Foucauldian analysis of talent shows as instruments of governmentality and memory reprogramming2
Understanding eHealth use among older adults in Singapore: the roles of personal, social, and cultural factors2
Social media engagement and social integration of Vietnamese female marriage migrants in China: a sociocultural analysis2
Boy’s love drama exposure and attitudes toward same-sex relationships: Applying a moderated mediation model in the Chinese context2
Testing the bidirectional causation among media attention and the protest scale: the case of Hong Kong2
“I quit because I couldn’t get what I wanted” and “I’m back because I want more”: Chinese women’s unfulfilled romantic desires in otome gaming practices2
Policing intimacy, defending the nation: a feminist critical discourse analysis of the “easy girl” label in Chinese social media2
Between WeChat and WhatsApp: translocal belonging among mainland Chinese professional migrants in Hong Kong2
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens2
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–20192
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong2
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China2
The digital silk road: China’s quest to wire the world and win the future2
Between national development and personal precarity: the social construction of robotaxis from taxi drivers’ perspective in China2
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community2
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China2
Captivated but threatened by ethnosexuality: decoding online hate speech on interracial marriage in China1
The newsworthiness of Gu Ailing: a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and American media reports1
The Wuhan Lockdown1
“Journalism is dead”? Digital press criticism and challenges to media legitimacy in China1
Whither China?: Chinese communication research at the new conjuncture1
Evaluation across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles1
Moral framing and issue-based framing of #StopAsianHate campaigns on Twitter1
When politics meets dating: how moral concern, utopianism, and communication competence predict willingness to date across the political divide1
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 Macm1
Tiered moderation on Chinese platforms: content security, quality, and user protection1
Perceived stress increases online aggressive behavior among Chinese adolescents: evidence from a moderated mediation analysis1
The effects of social media advertising in China: Theory, practices and implications1
How adult children mediate the impacts of antivaccine information on elderly people’s acceptance of flu vaccines1
Native advertising on mobile applications: using eye tracking to investigate the effects of advertising format, user motivation, and advertising disclosure on advertising effects1
Toxic behavior in multiplayer online games: the role of witnessed verbal aggression, game engagement intensity, and social self-efficacy1
When chitchat fosters trust: phatic communication and personal connections facilitate patient trust in China through patient-centered communication1
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression1
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 use1
Engaging Social Media in China1
Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan1
The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy1
Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states1
Exploring freedom in mobile connectivity: a moderated mediation model linking mobile social media modes, availability pressure, and media habits1
Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition)1
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China: A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902–19101
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