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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	20
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	18
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
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	15
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	13
Information collection, public attitudes, and supportive behavior tendencies in the urban digital transformation: a survey experiment in a facial recognition scenario	12
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	12
An empirical study on collaborative grassland governance in Inner Mongolia, China	12
How does government environmental information disclosure matter for public environmental participation intention?	11
Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China	11
How do fiscal decentralization and transfer payment disparities widen inequities in elderly care access and utilization in China?	10
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China	9
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	8
Public participation in China: the case for environmental enforcement	7
Unraveling the balance between personal data protection and public interest: a theoretical framework and its empirical application in personal data processing	7
Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design	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
The three legal dimensions of China’s big data governance	6
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	6
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	6
Performance management and environmental governance in China	5
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	5

Participatory budgeting and the party: Generating ‘citizens orderly participation’ through party-building in Shanghai	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
Tenure of office, political rotation and the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in China	4
Property rights and market participation: evidence from the land titling program in rural China	4
Thirty years of grassroots governance: changing characteristics of village heads in China	4
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	4
Beyond state law: everyday rules and the fragile public	4
Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China	3
Temporal changes in sectoral carbon productivity and corresponding driving factors: implications for carbon governance in Zhejiang province	3
The impact of vertical and horizontal pressures on policy diffusion: evidence from APLS adoption in China	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
How usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance: evidence from a survey experiment	2
Move toward citizens: third-party professionals’ coping strategies in public legal e-service delivery in China	2
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