OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	35
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	33
Linking Legislative Activity To Policy Implementation: The Role of Consultative Bodies in China’s Environmental Policy	22
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	22
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	21
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	20
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	19
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	19
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	18
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	18
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	18
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	18
Ka Zeng, and Xiaojun Li, Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States	16
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution	14
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	14
History Rhymes: The Shou-Fang Cycle in Chinese Politics	13
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	13
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	13
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	13
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	12
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power	12
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	12
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	12
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	11
Living With Digital Government: Effects of Technology Anxiety on Public Support for Policy in China	11

Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	11
Expanding China’s Influence via Membership: Examining the Influence of Chinese-Led International Institutions on Responses to Human Rights Issues in China	11
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	10
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	10
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	10
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	10
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	10
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	10
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	9
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	9
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	9
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	9
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	9
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	9
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	9
Sino-U.S. Decoupling: The Roles of U.S. Congress	9
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	9
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	9
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	9
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	9
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	9
AI as a Tool for Surveillance: China’s Concave Trilemma	8
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	8
The Silicon Sword Hanging Over China’s Head	8
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	7
Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond, eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years	7
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	7
Konstantinos Tsimonis, The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization	7
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	7
Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First	7
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	6
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	6
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	6
Demarketization and Corruption in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	6
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States	6
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe	6
William Hurst, Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia	6
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	6
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	6
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	6
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	5
Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Immediate Effects of the Pandemic on Institutional Trust	5
The Belt and Road Initiative and National Economic Development: a Multidimensional Power Analysis	5
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	5
Are the Defense Policy and Military Expenditure in China Economically or Politically Driven?	5
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	5
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	4
Power and Poverty in China: Why Some Counties Perform Better in Poverty Alleviation?	4
Correction: The Digital Masons: Technology Providers and Social Credit System Construction in China	4
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China	4

National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	4
Steering a Developmental Party-State: Why Has China Chosen Centralization of Power to Fight Corruption?	4
What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis	4
The Role of China’s County-level Research Offices in Policy Adaptation	4
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	3
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	3
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	3
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	3
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space	3
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	3
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	3
Lily L. Tsai, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity	3
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	3
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	3