OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 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
The Real Deal: Results versus Outcomes of the 2023 Thai General Election	7
Social Media and the DIY Politics in Thailand's 2023 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
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
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
Comparing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia by Affiliation to Muslim Organizations	2
Understanding Election Violence in the Philippines: Beware the Unknown Assassins of May	2
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
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

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