OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking Legislative Activity To Policy Implementation: The Role of Consultative Bodies in China’s Environmental Policy	47
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	37
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	27
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	26
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	26
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	25
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	24
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	24
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	22
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	20
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	19
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	17
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution	17
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power	17
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	17
History Rhymes: The Shou-Fang Cycle in Chinese Politics	17
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	17
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	16
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	16
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	15
Expanding China’s Influence via Membership: Examining the Influence of Chinese-Led International Institutions on Responses to Human Rights Issues in China	14
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	13
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	12
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	12
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	11

Living With Digital Government: Effects of Technology Anxiety on Public Support for Policy in China	11
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	11
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	11
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	11
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	10
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	10
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	10
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	10
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	10
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	10
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	10
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	10
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	10
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	10
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	10
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	9
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	9
AI as a Tool for Surveillance: China’s Concave Trilemma	9
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe	8
Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First	8
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	8
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	8
Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond, eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years	8
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	8
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	8
The Silicon Sword Hanging Over China’s Head	8
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	7
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	7
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	7
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	7
William Hurst, Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia	7
Demarketization and Corruption in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	7
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States	7
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	7
Are the Defense Policy and Military Expenditure in China Economically or Politically Driven?	6
Correction: The Digital Masons: Technology Providers and Social Credit System Construction in China	6
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	6
The Belt and Road Initiative and National Economic Development: a Multidimensional Power Analysis	6
Steering a Developmental Party-State: Why Has China Chosen Centralization of Power to Fight Corruption?	6
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	6
Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Immediate Effects of the Pandemic on Institutional Trust	6
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	6
Towards an Innovative Leviathan? “Made in China” Remade -- Evidence from Firm Value Decomposition Analysis	6
Lily L. Tsai, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity	5
National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	5
Three Faces of the State in Local Cyberspace Administrations: Development, Regulation, and Surveillance in China’s Internet Governance	5
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	5
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China	5
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	5
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space	5

Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	4
Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel, eds., Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China	4
The South China Sea: the Flashpoint of War Between China and the United States	4
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	4
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	4
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	4