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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	21
China in symbolic communication	17
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	13
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	12
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	11
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	11
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era	11
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	11
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	10
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia	10
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	10
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	9
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	9
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	9
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	8
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	7
Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China	7
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	7
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	7
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	6
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	6
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	6
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	6
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	6
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

Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	5
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	5
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	5
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	5
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	4
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	4
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	4
The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society	3
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community	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
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
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	3
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	3