OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Governance 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	30
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	24
Pressure-driven or resource-driven: configurational pathways and evolution for the government environmental information disclosure	23
Consensus vs divide: perceptions of digital governance between elites and mass	17
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	15
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	15
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China	15
Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai	15
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	14
Mandatory targets and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: analyzing government-driven environmental policy in China	13
Public administration with , of , and through AI: toward a	13
Information collection, public attitudes, and supportive behavior tendencies in the urban digital transformation: a survey experiment in a facial recognition scenario	12
How does government environmental information disclosure matter for public environmental participation intention?	11
How do fiscal decentralization and transfer payment disparities widen inequities in elderly care access and utilization in China?	10
When rivals collaborate: the effect of resource constraints on intergovernmental collaboration	10
Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China	10
Unraveling the balance between personal data protection and public interest: a theoretical framework and its empirical application in personal data processing	9
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	9
Amplifying voice in crisis: examining the role of social support on civil servants’ voice behavior through a moderated mediation model	9
Platform policy reinvention: evidence from China’s ride-hailing policy	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	8
Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design	8
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	8
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	7

State policy initiatives and impacts on rural entrepreneurship in South China	7
How policy advocacy shapes public supportive behavior tendencies in urban smart transformation: a vignette experiment on autonomous driving taxi policy	7
Performance management and environmental governance in China	7
Property rights and market participation: evidence from the land titling program in rural China	6
Thirty years of grassroots governance: changing characteristics of village heads in China	6
Beyond state law: everyday rules and the fragile public	6
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	6
Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China	5
Bridging international and domestic factors in climate multilevel governance: a qualitative comparative analysis of low-carbon pilot cities in China	5
The hierarchical structure of public value: a citizen-centric pyramid model and its validation	5
The impact of vertical and horizontal pressures on policy diffusion: evidence from APLS adoption in China	5
China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking	4
Designing service blueprint for chatbots: experimental evidence on public preference for design components	4
How usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance: evidence from a survey experiment	4
Public data openness and urban resilience governance: evidence from China	4
To join the top and the bottom: the role of provincial governments in China's top-down policy diffusion	4
Does central environmental protect inspection system reduce air pollutant emissions?	3
Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation	3
Administrative states as moral hazards: four dimensions	3
Move toward citizens: third-party professionals’ coping strategies in public legal e-service delivery in China	3
A conditional crowd out/in model of government funding on giving of money and time: evidence from social service organizations in China	3
Influence of gamification affordance on young citizens’ motivation and learning performance toward digital civic education	3
Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China	3
Debating China’s common prosperity with evidence from policy practice	3
Influencing factors of spatial conflicts in the Chinese urban environment from the perspective of spatial politics: empirical study based on NCA and fsQCA	3