OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pacific Review 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise of China’s status: a relational approach	18
Not listening to big brother: testing hypotheses on Taiwanese defense	17
Balance of power, balance of alignment, and China’s role in the regional order transition	16
Special issue on the ‘sources of peace and peaceful change in East Asia’¹	12
China-Russia technology cooperation in space: Mutually needed or mutually exclusive?	12
China’s rise in Latin America and the Caribbean 1990–2019: navigating perceptions in the relationship	12
Beyond the ‘North’-’South’ impasse: self-effacing Japan, emancipatory movements of the Global South and West-Engineered aid architecture	10
Embrace or repress? Explaining China’s responses to nationalism in international incidents	9
Correction notice	8
The security policy community and the consensus on the US–Japan alliance: the role of think tanks, experts and the alliance managers	8
China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South	8
Japan in the Indo-Pacific: domestic politics and foreign policy	7
The new security grey zone: export controls, emerging technologies and US-China technological rivalry	7
Vietnam’s growing agency in the twenty-first century	7
Middle powers as ‘peacemaking entrepreneurs’ in Myanmar’s peace process 2011–2021	6
What is Taiwan’s China policy? Unpacking a mystery	6
State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers	5
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia	5
Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development	5
Between market and state: the evolution of Australia’s economic statecraft	5
Economic statecraft, interdependence, and Sino-Japanese ‘rivalry’	5
Learning from the competition – Chinese and Japanese infrastructure export strategies in Asia with the evidence from railway projects in Indonesia	5
US perspectives on the power shift in the Indo-Pacific	5
Map evidence for the Philippines’ territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysis	5
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics: explaining Indonesia’s foreign policy failure	5

Rising sun in the cyber domain: Japan’s strategic shift toward active cyber defense	5
Seeking shelter in the anthropocene: challenges and opportunities for Taiwan	5
Deter together or deter separately?: time horizons and peacetime alliance cohesion of the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances	5
Informal governance and China’s influence in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	4
Navigating between China and Japan: Indonesia and economic hedging	4
The Indonesian state and the strategic use of foreign capital	4
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific	4
Hybrid minilateralism: explaining the logic of the United States’ containment of China in Indo-Pacific	4
Realism, liberalism and regional order in East Asia: toward a hybrid approach	4
Responding to the crisis: Japan’s changing foreign policy and ODA to Ukraine (2014–2023)	4
The restriction of Japan’s coal-fired power plants export: explaining the shift in Abe Shinzō’s posture towards the overseas promotion of energy infrastructure	4
Refugee protection and the role of civil society: a comparative study of Japan and South Korea	3
Explaining the difference between Australia-Japan and Japan-ROK security cooperation	3
Against strategic threats at sea: South Korea’s naval strategy and unmanned maritime systems	3
India and order transition in the Indo-Pacific: resisting the Quad as a ‘security community’	3
Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021	3
Shades of grey: riskification and hedging in the Indo-Pacific	3
The agency-structure problem in peacebuilding: constructing a niche in the Korean conflict	3
Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	3
Charting the evolution of the ASEAN’s consensus on human rights, 2007–2021	3
Mediation and Mongolia’s foreign policy	3
Indonesia’s hedging plus policy in the face of China’s rise and the US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region	3
Beyond hedging: China’s strategic ‘outbidding’ strategy in the semi-hierarchical Gulf region	3
Regionalism, membership and leadership: insights from Asia and beyond	3