Journal of Contemporary Asia

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Asia is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand36
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons28
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis20
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy20
Marx’s Literary Style18
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia18
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India15
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi14
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward13
Toppling the First Ministry: Kerala, the CIA, and the Struggle for Social Justice13
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace13
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies13
China’s Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and Market13
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia12
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism12
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.11
Highways to the End of the World. Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia 11
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity10
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore’s Developmental State10
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka10
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab9
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn9
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20239
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China9
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway9
L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [Southeast Asia 2022: assessment, challenges and perspectives]. L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [South9
Contextualising the 2025 Indonesian Protests: Authoritarian Statism, Militarisation, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction8
Market Society as a Liberal Utopia8
Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality: A Comparative Analysis in the Southern Chinese Seaboard7
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction7
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages7
Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives: Progressive and Equitable Futures7
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools7
Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests.7
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia7
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest7
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City6
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition . Yi-Lin Chiang. Princeton: Pri6
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism6
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative6
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20256
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)5
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence from Japan and China5
Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversification: Tea Farmers in the Black Sea Region of Turkey5
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–20145
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution5
War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World5
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia4
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka4
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China4
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?4
The Malayan Communist Party and the Question of Hegemony: A Response to Lockwood’s The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party From 1930 to 19484
Banditry in the Sundarbans: The Political Economy of a Mangrove Frontier3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat3
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years3
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations3
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