OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary China is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	51
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	35
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	30
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	25
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	23
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	22
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	21
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	18
The Sino-American Struggle for Normative Security: The Strategic Framing and Shaping of Alignment of Belief in the Human Rights Council During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	16
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	16
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	16
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	15
NPC Amendments: Understanding Drivers of Bill Revision in the Chinese National Legislature	14
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	14
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	13
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	13
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	12
The Logic of Stability Maintenance in China’s NGO Governance: Balancing Weiwen Through Incorporation and Suppression	11
Toward a Perfection of Nuclear Strategy: China’s Adoption of Limited Nuclear Deterrence in the Xi Jinping Era	11
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	11
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	11
Navigating Uncertainty: The Use of Expert Deliberation in China’s Policymaking	10
Peaceful Reunification or Else: Untangling the China-Taiwan Gordian Knot	10
The Dynamics of Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China: An Empirical Study of the Official Rank-Punishment Nexus in the Context of Political and Legal Changes	9

Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	9
The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Causes of Hits and Misses in China’s Industrial Policies	9
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	9
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	8
‘I Am Patriotic, but…’: The Political Disclaimer as a Social Media Strategy in China	8
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	8
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	8
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	8
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	8
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	8
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	8
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	8
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	7
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	7
Bereaved Single-Child Parents as the Focus of Family Planning Officials: State Support, Social Stability, and the Unresolved Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy	7
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	7
How Politics ‘Messed up with’ Institutionalization: A Case Study of the Investigation into the Death of Li Wenliang during the Initial Months of COVID-19	7
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	7
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	7
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	7
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	7
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	6
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	6
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	6
Financial Statecraft in the Digital Age: FinTech and the Institutional Shifts in China’s Cross-Border Payment Sector Since 1993	6
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	6
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	6
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	6
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	6
Marketization, Authoritarian Government, and Nonprofit Scaling-Up in China: A Case of Adolescent Sexuality Education	6
Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: A Text-As-Data Approach	6
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	6
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	6
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	6
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	5
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	5
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	5
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	5
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	5
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	5
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	5
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	5
Digital Governance, Dataveillance, and Participatory Panopticon: Public Health Surveillance in China from 2020 to 2022	5
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	5