OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Governance 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
State or family? Navigating the changing public attitudes towards eldercare responsibilities in China	24
Performance management and environmental governance in China	20
The career characteristics of China’s prefectural environmental protection bureau heads with implication for the environmental governance	15
Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China	15
Geographic location, development of higher education and donations to Chinese non-public foundations	13
Natural resource balance sheet compilation: a land resource asset accounting case	12
Social ties and citizen-initiated contacts: the case of china’s local one-stop governments	10
China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking	10
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	10
Participatory budgeting and the party: Generating ‘citizens orderly participation’ through party-building in Shanghai	9
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	9
Nudge citizen participation by framing mobilization information: a survey experiment in China	9
Local government competition and centralised urban growth management policy implementation: evidence from China	9
Varieties of public–private co-governance on cybersecurity within the digital trade: implications from Huawei’s 5G	8
The emergence of Chinese high- and new-technology companies in the global arena: challenges and opportunities for governance innovation	8
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	7
Collaboration, accountability pressure, and local air pollution governance: evidence from China	7
Party-led public participation in neighborhood governance: a comparative analysis of two forms of social networks	7
Evaluating the coordinated development between digital technology and local safety management capability: evidence from 31 provinces in China	7
Does online privacy self-efficacy help promote e-participation for rights protection?	6
Scaling innovation: unveiling urban factors shaping creativity	6
Industrial citizenship, workplace deliberation and participatory management in China: the deliberative polling experiment in a private firm	5
What values are evaluated? An exploratory empirical study of the public values structure in Chinese local government performance evaluation through the case of the ‘Hangzhou model’	5
Aspiring rule-makers: Chinese business actors in global governance	5
Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai	5

Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China	5
The government-business relations: how Chinese business leaders take part in government policy formulation in the National People’s Congress	4
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	4
Public participation in China: the case for environmental enforcement	4
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Governance, legitimacy, and decision-making capability of the Chinese national social security fund-against the backdrop of international comparison	3
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	3
The changing credibility of institutions: how household registration systems (hukou) in Mainland China and Taiwan define immigrants’ social benefits	3
What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China	2
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	2
Property rights and market participation: evidence from the land titling program in rural China	2
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	2
A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change: the case of process-tracing China’s central government infrastructure PPP policies between 1988 and 2017	2
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	2
Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation	2
Industrial ecology and local citizenship of migrant children in urban China	2
Improvement of environmental performance and optimization of industrial structure of the Yangtze River economic belt in China: going forward together or restraining each other?	2
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	2