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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	26
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	16
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	16
Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai	15
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China	15
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	13
Industrial ecology and local citizenship of migrant children in urban China	12
An empirical study on collaborative grassland governance in Inner Mongolia, China	11
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	11
Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China	10
How does government environmental information disclosure matter for public environmental participation intention?	10
Information collection, public attitudes, and supportive behavior tendencies in the urban digital transformation: a survey experiment in a facial recognition scenario	10
Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China	10
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	9
Industrial citizenship, workplace deliberation and participatory management in China: the deliberative polling experiment in a private firm	9
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Public participation in China: the case for environmental enforcement	8
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	7
Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design	7
Experimentalist governance in China: The National Innovation System, 2003–2018	6
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	6
Urban vacant land in rapidly urbanized areas: Status, micro-level drivers, and implications	6
Do citizen participation programs help citizens feel satisfied with urban redevelopment policy in China?	6
Performance management and environmental governance in China	5
The three legal dimensions of China’s big data governance	5

The career characteristics of China’s prefectural environmental protection bureau heads with implication for the environmental governance	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
Participatory budgeting and the party: Generating ‘citizens orderly participation’ through party-building in Shanghai	5
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	4
Tenure of office, political rotation and the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in China	4
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	4
Beyond state law: everyday rules and the fragile public	4
Property rights and market participation: evidence from the land titling program in rural China	4
How usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance: evidence from a survey experiment	3
Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China	3
The impact of vertical and horizontal pressures on policy diffusion: evidence from APLS adoption in China	3
Temporal changes in sectoral carbon productivity and corresponding driving factors: implications for carbon governance in Zhejiang province	3
Debating China’s common prosperity with evidence from policy practice	2
Designing service blueprint for chatbots: experimental evidence on public preference for design components	2
China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking	2
Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation	2
To join the top and the bottom: the role of provincial governments in China's top-down policy diffusion	2
Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China	2
Social ties and citizen-initiated contacts: the case of china’s local one-stop governments	2