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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand38
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons32
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis21
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia20
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy20
The Integration of Immigrant-origin Youth in Japan: Theoretical Insights from Narratives on School Experiences19
Towards the Indonesian Republic: Marxist Lineages in the National Revolution17
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi16
Marx’s Literary Style16
China’s Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and Market15
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace15
Toppling the First Ministry: Kerala, the CIA, and the Struggle for Social Justice14
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India13
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies12
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway12
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward12
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 12
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity11
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia11
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka11
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab10
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore’s Developmental State10
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 202310
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China10
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn10
Institutions, Culture and the Chinese City: The Unique Urban Development Trajectories of Modern China10
Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality: A Comparative Analysis in the Southern Chinese Seaboard9
Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests.9
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
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative8
Contextualising the 2025 Indonesian Protests: Authoritarian Statism, Militarisation, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction8
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest8
Market Society as a Liberal Utopia8
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages7
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction7
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools7
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia7
Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives: Progressive and Equitable Futures7
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–20146
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20256
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations6
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
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai6
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution5
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India5
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence from Japan and China5
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka5
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)5
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China5
War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia4
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
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat4
Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversification: Tea Farmers in the Black Sea Region of Turkey4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India4
Banditry in the Sundarbans: The Political Economy of a Mangrove Frontier3
Corrupt But Functioning: Legal Brokerage in Indonesia’s Criminal Justice System3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange3
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
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years3
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan3
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