OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Governance is 4. 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
Pressure-driven or resource-driven: configurational pathways and evolution for the government environmental information disclosure	30
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	26
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	22
Consensus vs divide: perceptions of digital governance between elites and mass	18
Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai	17
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	17
Public administration with , of , and through AI: toward a	17
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	17
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	17
Mandatory targets and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: analyzing government-driven environmental policy in China	15
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China	14
Information collection, public attitudes, and supportive behavior tendencies in the urban digital transformation: a survey experiment in a facial recognition scenario	14
How does government environmental information disclosure matter for public environmental participation intention?	13
When rivals collaborate: the effect of resource constraints on intergovernmental collaboration	11
Platform policy reinvention: evidence from China’s ride-hailing policy	11
How do fiscal decentralization and transfer payment disparities widen inequities in elderly care access and utilization in China?	11
Unraveling the balance between personal data protection and public interest: a theoretical framework and its empirical application in personal data processing	11
Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China	11
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	10
Amplifying voice in crisis: examining the role of social support on civil servants’ voice behavior through a moderated mediation model	10
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design	9
Making the elephant dance: five dimensions for government digital transformation	9
The boundary setting of Chinese netizens’ citizenship identity: social media responses to the Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners	9
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	9

Institutional environment, government hierarchy, and industrial land expansion in China	9
State policy initiatives and impacts on rural entrepreneurship in South China	8
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	8
Performance management and environmental governance in China	8
How policy advocacy shapes public supportive behavior tendencies in urban smart transformation: a vignette experiment on autonomous driving taxi policy	7
Thirty years of grassroots governance: changing characteristics of village heads in China	7
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	7
The hierarchical structure of public value: a citizen-centric pyramid model and its validation	6
Designing service blueprint for chatbots: experimental evidence on public preference for design components	6
Beyond state law: everyday rules and the fragile public	6
Bridging international and domestic factors in climate multilevel governance: a qualitative comparative analysis of low-carbon pilot cities in China	6
Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China	6
To join the top and the bottom: the role of provincial governments in China's top-down policy diffusion	6
China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking	5
The impact of vertical and horizontal pressures on policy diffusion: evidence from APLS adoption in China	5
Move toward citizens: third-party professionals’ coping strategies in public legal e-service delivery in China	5
Public data openness and urban resilience governance: evidence from China	5
How usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance: evidence from a survey experiment	5
Reconfiguring the multiple streams: how focusing events shape agenda setting in China	4
Debating China’s common prosperity with evidence from policy practice	4
Public data openness, agricultural enterprises upgrading and agricultural production: evidence from China	4
Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China	4
Volunteer management: science or arts?	4
Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation	4