OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Affairs is 1. 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
Populist Appeal or Fearful Support? Examining the War on Drugs in the Philippines under Duterte	26
Social Media and Malaysia's 2022 Election: The Growth and Impact of Video Campaigning	15
Understanding Mistrust and Instability in East Asia	13
Goldilocks' Purgatory: The Public Transcript of Performative Governance in Singapore	10
Comparing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia by Affiliation to Muslim Organizations	8
Democratic Resilience and Vulnerability in South Korea: Lessons from South Korea's 2024 – 2025 Constitutional Crisis	7
"Ambiguous" Network Monarchy as Problematic Euphoric Couplet	5
Post-democratizing Politics in Southeast and Northeast Asia	5
Changing Triangular Relationships: A Historical Analysis of Labour Relations at a Chinese Mine in Papua New Guinea	5
The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election and the Gender Divide among the Youth	4
Third Time's the Charm:The Youth Vote and Prabowo's Victory in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election	4
Together and Apart: The Evolving Sino-Russian Relationship	3
Age and Ideology: The Emergence of New Political Cleavages in Thailand's 2566 (2023) Election	3
Entanglements of Mobility and Immobility: A Review of Eight Documentaries	3
Hidden Flows: Hydropower and the Rhythms of Development on the Mekong	3
The Don Sahong Dam in Laos: Political Ecology, Infrastructure, and the Changing Spatialities of Impacts on Fish and People	3
Cynical and Celebratory Sensibilities in South Korea's 2022 Presidential Election	3
Conversations on Violence in India	2
Fiji's 2022 Election: The Defeat of the Politics of Fear	2
Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet	2
The Real Deal: Results versus Outcomes of the 2023 Thai General Election	2
The "Hub-and-Spokes Plus Model": A Case Study of AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	2
Japan's Revolutionary Military Change: Explaining Why It Happened Under Kishida	2
Squeezed between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam	2
The Politics of Pakistan's COVID-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach	2

The Political Origins of Persistent Elderly Poverty in South Korea	2
Mutual Perceptions and China-South Korea Relations: A Comparative Study of the Academic Literature	2
Cross-Party Presidential Dynasticism in Indonesia: Evidence from the 2024 Presidential Elections	2
"Our Cry as Women Leaders": Crisis Response Intervention, Customary Governance, and the Masculinization of Peace in Solomon Islands	2
The Politics of Compromise: Analyzing the Repeal of Section 377A in Singapore	2
Censoring Speech in Democracies: South Korea	2
Presidential Personality and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Sunshine Policy under Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003)	1
Beyond Mall Christianity: Megachurches Navigating Southeast Asian Urbanism	1
Fear and Chameleon Politics in Papua, Indonesia	1
Uncoupling Conceptual Understandings and Political Preferences: A Study of Democratic Attitudes among Singapore's Highly Educated Young People	1
Hegemony and Legitimacy: US-China Competition in a Contested Indo-Pacific	1
Evolution of Our Times: Developing Democratic Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan	1
India’s Democracy: The Competitive Authoritarian Propensity? Rahul Mukherji and Seyed Hossein Zarhani	1
Covid-19 in Asia: Governance And The Politics of the Pandemic	1
Flight to Quality and a New Prime Minister’s Mandate: Singapore’s 2025 General Election	1
The Art of Thai Diplomacy: Parables of Alliance	1
Deterring the Right to Justice: Structural Coercion and the Trafficking of Filipino Female Entertainers in South Korea	1
"This is Not the 90s": Myanmar and Change in ASEAN's Normative Order	1
Social Media and the DIY Politics in Thailand's 2023 Election	1
Life of a Nation's Text: The Travels and Travails of the Indian Constitution	1
India's Authoritarian Turn: Understanding the Emergency (1975–1977) and Its Afterlife	1
Democratic Breakdown through Lawfare by Constitutional Courts: The Case of Post-"Democratic Transition" Thailand	1
The Role of Fear and Memory in West Papua's Ethnonationalist Conflict	1
Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Singapore as a Migration Hub for Students from China	1
Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan	1
Between Surveillance and Freedom: Techno-Politics in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1