OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chinese Journal of Communication 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	26
Caught in the crossfire: multi-stakeholder governance challenges and platform responses in the Chinese context	23
China in symbolic communication	19
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	17
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	16
Youth culture of self-mockery: bodily memes and economies of affect in China’s online space	15
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	14
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	13
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	12
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era	12
Mob censorship in China: ChiRenxueMantou , digital press criticism, and journalists’ failed jurisdiction	12
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	12
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	11
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	11
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia	11
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	10
Trading time for discretion: grassroots officials’ response dynamics on digital administrative platforms in China	9
From click to boom: the political economy of E-Commerce in China	8
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	8
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	8
Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China	7
From surveillance to taste-making: exploring the influence of algorithmic agency on consumer experiences in casual leisure	7
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	7
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	6
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	6

Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	6
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	5
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	5
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	4
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	4
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S.	4
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	4
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	4
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	4
Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	4
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay	3
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	3
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	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 effects of worry, risk perception, information-seeking experience, and trust in misinformation on COVID-19 fact-checking: a survey study in China	3
The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society	3
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	3
Between national development and personal precarity: the social construction of robotaxis from taxi drivers’ perspective in China	3
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	3