OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary China is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Chinese Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance during COVID-19	39
Rhetoric and Reality of China’s Global Leadership in the Context of COVID-19: Implications for the US-led World Order and Liberal Globalization	38
Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China	36
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	26
Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals	22
The Indo-Pacific Strategy and US Alliance Network Expandability: Asian Middle Powers’ Positions on Sino-US Geostrategic Competition in Indo-Pacific Region	20
The Rise of China and Japan’s ‘Vision’ for Free and Open Indo-Pacific	18
The Political Logic of Protest Repression in China	18
Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society	16
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	15
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	15
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents	15
A Strong Leader for A Time of Crisis: Xi Jinping’s Strongman Politics as A Collective Response to Regime Weakness	15
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	15
A Partocracy with Chinese Characteristics: Governance System Reform under Xi Jinping	15
The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America	14
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	14
China’s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping	14
The Quad’s Search for Non-Military Roles and China’s Strategic Response: Minilateralism, Infrastructure Investment, and Regional Balancing	13
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	12
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	12
Rural Reform in Contemporary China: Development, Efficiency, and Fairness	11
China’s Institutional Statecraft under Xi Jinping: Has the AIIB Served China’s Interest?	11
The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy	11
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	10

The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	10
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	10
Domestic Contestation, International Backlash, and Authoritarian Resilience: How Did the Chinese Party-state Weather the COVID-19 Crisis?	9
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era	9
How China Builds the Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative	9
Chinese Multinational Enterprises Operating in Western Economies: Huawei in the US and the UK	8
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion	8
Conditional Justice: Evaluating the Judicial Centralization Reform in China	8
The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms	8
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)	7
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	7
Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power	7
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’: The Dragon’s Anchorage in Djibouti	7
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	7
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia	6
Emotional Mobilization of Chinese Veterans: Collective Activism, Flexible Governance and Dispute Resolution	6
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration	6
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	6
The Influence of Perceptions of Promotion Opportunities on Job Performance and Its Mechanisms: A Case Study of Chinese Junior Civil Servants	6
China’s Belt and Road Initiative as Nascent World Order Structure and Concept? Between Sino-Centering and Sino-Deflecting	6
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	6
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	5
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	5
China’s Global Investment and Maritime Flows in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative	5
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping: The Effects of the 2018 Constitutional Revision	5
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	5
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	5
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	5
Constructing a U.S.-China Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific and Beyond	5
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	4
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: Half-way Localization and Internationalization	4
Statecraft in the Steppes: Central Asia’s Relations with China	4
Upward Targeting and Social Protests in China	4
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	4
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage	4
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	4
<China Dream> and <Root-seeking>: The Rhetoric of Nationalism in The Voice of China	4
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	4
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	4
From Political Power to Personal Wealth: Privatization and Elite Opportunity in Post-Reform China	4
China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy?	4
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
‘Gratitude Education:’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance	4
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	4
Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Historical Perspective	4
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China	4
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	4