OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Sociological Review is 2. 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
Bane or bonus? Class hukou composition and the paradox of rural children’s growth	18
Combined nutrition and psychosocial stimulation intervention for child development in rural China: the role of parental resources	12
Migrant children’s digital divide in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from Stone School in Hangzhou, China	10
Normalization, parent–child relationships and identity: becoming parents with tongxinglian (same-sex loving) sons/daughters in PFLAG China	9
Parental education and children’s subjective wellbeing in China: the roles of educational attainment and educational assortative mating	8
Is patriarchy undermined in urbanization? Rural families and housing properties in relocated villages in the urbanizing northwestern China	8
Vibe researching: can AI agents with skills replace or augment social scientists?	7
Fathering, living arrangements, and child development in China	7
Household financialization, debt expansion, and low fertility in China	5
Is shadow education a myth? How schools affect private tutoring in China	5
Social competition and the contingent legitimation of pay differentials in reform-era China	5
Gender, beauty and the future of neoliberalism: aesthetic labour and women’s (anti)aspirationalism in Taiwan	5
An alternative perspective on the Second Demographic Transition in East Asia: the relationship between pregnancy intentions and trajectories of cohabitation, marriage, and pregnancy in Japan	5
Stalled and uneven? A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis of gender attitudes in the public sphere in China 1995–2018	5
Fight, flight or friction? The effect of population density on general trust in China	5
Investing in disadvantaged children for common prosperity in China	5
Parental migration and peer victimization: implications for school and psychological adjustment of left-behind adolescents in rural China	5
“Just a virus” or politicized virus? Global media reporting of China on COVID-19	5
Preschool advantage: economic disparities in the long-term effects of early childhood education on cognitive development in China	5
Marriage chances and international migration from Fujian to the US, 1978–2000	5
Migrants’ reference group selection: insights from the multidimensional assimilation framework	4
Conditioned by the system: student selection and parental involvement in high school admissions in Taiwan	4
Intra-clan marriage in modern times: the role of elite education in assortative mating	4
The double burden of malnutrition among young Chinese children: a hierarchical structure of socioeconomic inequality indicators	4
Employers’ resources and experiences of employing live-in foreign domestic workers	4

Acculturation and fertility transitions: evidence from China’s rural-urban migrants	4
Macro-level gender inequality and child health outcomes in China	3
Who cares? Childcare support and women’s labor supply in Hong Kong	3
Changes in family investment in children’s out-of-school education in China, 2010–2018	3
From status to soul: gendered ideals and quests for compatibility in contemporary relationships	3
Gender and intergenerational support in east Asian families	3
Community-based education and child development work for migrant children in China: a multi-dimensional citizenship approach	3
Dual pathways of intergenerational influence over multiple generations	3
The increasing importance of changes in nuptiality: policy mismatch and fertility decline in low-fertility Asian societies	3
Spatial mobility as a governance tool in the Chinese bureaucracy: mechanisms, patterns, and distributions	3
Changing socialization values for children in China, 1990–2012	3
Chasing a phantom: a re-evaluation of China’s “trust crisis”	2
From work unit segmentation to occupational segmentation: non-smooth structural changes in China’s labor market from 1994 to 2018	2
“Accept it or not?”: young people’s struggles with parental financing for property-purchase in Hong Kong	2
Party membership and community participation in urban China	2
Gender egalitarian attitudes toward family roles and ability, study time, and the academic performance of rural Chinese adolescents	2
Income inequality between local-born Chinese and mainland migrant adults in Hong Kong: a comparison of baby boom and millennial generations	2
A decade of Hong Kong panel data (2011–2021): HKPSSD Phase II within a comparative Chinese Urban Research Program	2
Secure but depressed? Welfare participation and mental health in Hong Kong	2
Can information transparency strengthen authoritarian accountability? An empirical study of open-government-information litigation in China (2008–2018)	2