OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pacific Affairs is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing Social Security Schemes for Small Island Economies: Lessons from Fiji's COVID-19 Experience	46
Decline, Fall, and Resurrection of a Dominant-coalition System: Malaysia's Tortured Partisan Path	20
Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet	9
Social Media and the DIY Politics in Thailand's 2023 Election	7
The Real Deal: Results versus Outcomes of the 2023 Thai General Election	7
The Role of Fear and Memory in West Papua's Ethnonationalist Conflict	5
Multicultural at the Meso-Level: Governing Diversity within the Family in South Korea	4
The Politics of Compromise: Analyzing the Repeal of Section 377A in Singapore	3
Mobilized and Polarized: Social Media and Disinformation Narratives in the 2022 Philippine Elections	3
"Our Cry as Women Leaders": Crisis Response Intervention, Customary Governance, and the Masculinization of Peace in Solomon Islands	3
Social Media and Malaysia's 2022 Election: The Growth and Impact of Video Campaigning	3
We Are Brothers but Not Allies: The Sino-DPRK Alliance Revisited	3
Mutual Perceptions and China-South Korea Relations: A Comparative Study of the Academic Literature	3
Documenting China's Garment Industry: Wang Bing's Portrayal of Migrant Workers' Suspended Lives within the Contract Labour System	2
Understanding Mistrust and Instability in East Asia	2
Are Economic Sanctions against North Korea Effective? Assessing Nighttime Light in 25 Major Cities	2
Moderation of Sarawak Regionalism in Malaysia's 15th General Election	2
Entanglements of Mobility and Immobility: A Review of Eight Documentaries	2
The Political Origins of Persistent Elderly Poverty in South Korea	2
Comparing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia by Affiliation to Muslim Organizations	2
Understanding Election Violence in the Philippines: Beware the Unknown Assassins of May	2
Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia: Shifting Capacity under a Fragmented Political Leadership	1
Silences of the Dam: The Intimate Geographies of Ethnic Lao Well-Being on the Sesan River	1
Identity, Participation, and Democracy in East Asia	1
Feeling "Superstitious": Affect and the Land in the Marquesas Islands	1

Life of a Nation's Text: The Travels and Travails of the Indian Constitution	1
Syncretism in the Hindu Right as Intentionally Incomplete Proximity	1
Education, Control, and the Knowledge Economy in Southeast Asia's Hybrid Regimes	1
Continuity, History, and Identity: Why Bongbong Marcos Won the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election	1
"Temporary Couples" among Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore	1
In and Out of Plain Sight: Interrogating Power in the Mekong Riverscape	1
Violence and Impunity: Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines and the 2022 Elections	1
Climate Change and The Production of Knowledge	1
Post-democratizing Politics in Southeast and Northeast Asia	1
Cynical and Celebratory Sensibilities in South Korea's 2022 Presidential Election	1
Goldilocks' Purgatory: The Public Transcript of Performative Governance in Singapore	1
The Don Sahong Dam in Laos: Political Ecology, Infrastructure, and the Changing Spatialities of Impacts on Fish and People	1
The Forgotten Victims of the Atomic Bomb: North Korean Pipokja and the Politics of Victimhood in Japan-DPRK Relations	1
Presidential Personality and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Sunshine Policy under Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003)	1
India's Authoritarian Turn: Understanding the Emergency (1975–1977) and Its Afterlife	1
Beyond Mall Christianity: Megachurches Navigating Southeast Asian Urbanism	1
Economic Policy Uncertainty, Bilateral Investment Treaties, and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment	1
Covid-19 in Asia: Governance And The Politics of the Pandemic	1
Why Was the Pandemic Poorly Managed by the Government of India? A State-in-Society Approach	1
Censoring Speech in Democracies: South Korea	1
Fast Finance and the Political Economy of Catastrophic Dam Collapse in Lao PDR: The Case of Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy	1
Finding a Chulu (Way Out): Rural-origin Chinese Students Studying Abroad in South Korea	0
Changing Triangular Relationships: A Historical Analysis of Labour Relations at a Chinese Mine in Papua New Guinea	0
Globalization of Arms Production And Hierarchical Market Economies: Explaining the Transformation of the South Korean Defense Industry	0
We Are Brothers but Not Allies: The Sino-DPRK Alliance Revisited	0
Contours of Precarity: A Perspective on Vulnerability and Insecurity in Southeast Asia	0
"Ambiguous" Network Monarchy as Problematic Euphoric Couplet	0
Suspension 2.0: Segregated Development, Financial Speculation, and Waiting among Resettled Peasants in Urban China	0
The Politics of Pakistan's COVID-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach	0
The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election and the Gender Divide among the Youth	0
Failed Autocratization: Malaysia under Najib Razak (2009–2018)	0
A Bridge over Troubled Waters?: New Developments in Chinese Foreign Relations	0
From Human Rights to Citizens' Rights? Democratic Framing Contests and Refugee Politics in South Korea	0
Japan's Revolutionary Military Change: Explaining Why It Happened Under Kishida	0
The Asian Monetary Fund and De-Dollarization: The Reshaping of the Global Order	0
"To Be a Little More Realistic": The Ethical Labour of Suspension among Nightclub Hostesses in Southeast China	0
"This is Not the 90s": Myanmar and Change in ASEAN's Normative Order	0
Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Singapore as a Migration Hub for Students from China	0
Spaces of Suspension: Construction, Demolition, and Extension in a Beijing Migrant Neighbourhood	0
Hegemony and Legitimacy: US-China Competition in a Contested Indo-Pacific	0
Cross-Party Presidential Dynasticism in Indonesia: Evidence from the 2024 Presidential Elections	0
The Geographic Scope Of Opposition Challenges In Malaysia's Parliament	0
"China's Chernobyl": COVID-19 Narratives of Collapse and Global Domination	0
Chinese Workers in Ethiopia Caught between Remaining and Returning	0
The Art of Thai Diplomacy: Parables of Alliance	0
Fiji's 2022 Election: The Defeat of the Politics of Fear	0
Democratic Breakdown through Lawfare by Constitutional Courts: The Case of Post-"Democratic Transition" Thailand	0
Food Security or Food Sovereignty? Agricultural Technology Reforms after the Famine in North Korea	0
Suspension: Seeking Agency for Change in the Hypermobile World	0
Conversations on Violence in India	0

A Politics of Mobility and B/ordering in a Changing Riverscape in Cambodia	0
The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI): Did It Help or Harm a Friend?	0
Third Time's the Charm:The Youth Vote and Prabowo's Victory in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election	0
Evolution of Our Times: Developing Democratic Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan	0
Age and Ideology: The Emergence of New Political Cleavages in Thailand's 2566 (2023) Election	0
Squeezed between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam	0
Keep On Moving: Rural University Graduates as Sales Workers in South and Central China	0
Vietnam's War Against COVID-19	0
India’s Democracy: The Competitive Authoritarian Propensity? Rahul Mukherji and Seyed Hossein Zarhani	0
Controlling the Opposition Abroad: Cambodia's Extraterritorial Activities in Long Beach, California	0
Hidden Flows: Hydropower and the Rhythms of Development on the Mekong	0
Uncoupling Conceptual Understandings and Political Preferences: A Study of Democratic Attitudes among Singapore's Highly Educated Young People	0
Indonesia's Promotion of UN Migrant Protection Norms in ASEAN	0
Fear and Chameleon Politics in Papua, Indonesia	0
Between Surveillance and Freedom: Techno-Politics in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
The Politics of Claim-Making in India	0
Economic Coercion and Grey Zone Competition: Reassessing the China-Australia Case	0
China's Policy Response to Nancy Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan: The Influence of Nationalism Revisited	0