OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Caught in the crossfire: multi-stakeholder governance challenges and platform responses in the Chinese context	35
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	30
Unveiling digital narratives of transnational migration to China: foreign wanghong on Douyin and Xiaohongshu	19
China in symbolic communication	17
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	15
Daily expression of madness as a communication practice: an interaction ritual chain analysis of hysterical literature	14
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	14
Negotiated authenticity and sisterhood under platformed patriarchy: female rappers in Chinese hip-hop reality shows	11
Youth culture of self-mockery: bodily memes and economies of affect in China’s online space	11
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	10
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	8
Mob censorship in China: ChiRenxueMantou , digital press criticism, and journalists’ failed jurisdiction	8
Transparency, citations, and speed: how design nudges drive adoption in AI health consultations	7
Algorithmic identity performance: self-censorship and the politics of visibility on Chinese short-video platforms	6
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	5
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia	5
Propaganda persuasion, critical learning, and social recreation: investigating relationships between media use, science knowledge, and attitudes in China	5
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	5
Language, Celebrity fandom, and Political Activism in Chinese Media: battling for Idols Online	5
From click to boom: the political economy of E-Commerce in China	4
The construction of gender temperaments through ambivalent gendered humor: a study of humorous comments on the Chinese platform Pipixia	4
Trading time for discretion: grassroots officials’ response dynamics on digital administrative platforms in China	4
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	4
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	4
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 un	3

Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	3
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	3
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	3
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S.	3
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	3
From surveillance to taste-making: exploring the influence of algorithmic agency on consumer experiences in casual leisure	3
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	3
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	3
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	3
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	3
Between national development and personal precarity: the social construction of robotaxis from taxi drivers’ perspective in China	2
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	2
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	2
Social media engagement and social integration of Vietnamese female marriage migrants in China: a sociocultural analysis	2
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	2
Testing the bidirectional causation among media attention and the protest scale: the case of Hong Kong	2
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong	2
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	2
The effects of worry, risk perception, information-seeking experience, and trust in misinformation on COVID-19 fact-checking: a survey study in China	2
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay	2
Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	2
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community	2
Understanding eHealth use among older adults in Singapore: the roles of personal, social, and cultural factors	2
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law	2
Social media platform swinging and teenagers’ academic performance: a serial mediation model examining the roles of sleep deficits and burnout	2
Policing intimacy, defending the nation: a feminist critical discourse analysis of the “easy girl” label in Chinese social media	2
Between WeChat and WhatsApp: translocal belonging among mainland Chinese professional migrants in Hong Kong	2
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	2
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	2
Infinity and Beyond : a Foucauldian analysis of talent shows as instruments of governmentality and memory reprogramming	2
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	2
“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 practices	2
“Who benefits, who is left behind, and who controls the narrative?”: E-commerce livestreaming and digital gentrification in contemporary rural China	2
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	2
Boy’s love drama exposure and attitudes toward same-sex relationships: Applying a moderated mediation model in the Chinese context	2
Perceived stress increases online aggressive behavior among Chinese adolescents: evidence from a moderated mediation analysis	1
The digital silk road: China’s quest to wire the world and win the future	1
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China	1
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China: A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902–1910	1
Whither China?: Chinese communication research at the new conjuncture	1
Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition)	1
Toxic behavior in multiplayer online games: the role of witnessed verbal aggression, game engagement intensity, and social self-efficacy	1
How adult children mediate the impacts of antivaccine information on elderly people’s acceptance of flu vaccines	1
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression	1
The newsworthiness of Gu Ailing: a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and American media reports	1
Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan	1
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	1
When chitchat fosters trust: phatic communication and personal connections facilitate patient trust in China through patient-centered communication	1
The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy	1
How a corporate online crisis response affects public communication behavior: the mediating role of emotions	1

Moral framing and issue-based framing of #StopAsianHate campaigns on Twitter	1
Captivated but threatened by ethnosexuality: decoding online hate speech on interracial marriage in China	1
Tiered moderation on Chinese platforms: content security, quality, and user protection	1
Mediatized governance in environmental disasters: self-organizing community rescue through collaborative online documents	1
The Wuhan Lockdown	1
“Journalism is dead”? Digital press criticism and challenges to media legitimacy in China	1
When politics meets dating: how moral concern, utopianism, and communication competence predict willingness to date across the political divide	1
The effects of social media advertising in China: Theory, practices and implications	1
How algorithmic encounters re-map culture: boundary work, and community ordering on the Chinese platform Douban	1