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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	46
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	29
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	26
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	24
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	24
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	22
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	19
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	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	17
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	15
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	15
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	14
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	14
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	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
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	11
Toward a Perfection of Nuclear Strategy: China’s Adoption of Limited Nuclear Deterrence in the Xi Jinping Era	11
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	11
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	11
Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	10
Navigating Uncertainty: The Use of Expert Deliberation in China’s Policymaking	10
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	10

China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	9
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	9
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	9
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	9
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	9
‘I Am Patriotic, but…’: The Political Disclaimer as a Social Media Strategy in China	9
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	8
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	8
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	8
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	8
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
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
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	7
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	7
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	7
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	6
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	6
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	6
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	6
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	6
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	6
Marketization, Authoritarian Government, and Nonprofit Scaling-Up in China: A Case of Adolescent Sexuality Education	6
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	6
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	6
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	6
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	6
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	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
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	6
Financial Statecraft in the Digital Age: FinTech and the Institutional Shifts in China’s Cross-Border Payment Sector Since 1993	5
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	5
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	5
Digital Governance, Dataveillance, and Participatory Panopticon: Public Health Surveillance in China from 2020 to 2022	5
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	5
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	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
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	5
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	5