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

Article	Citations
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	36
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	34
Linking Legislative Activity To Policy Implementation: The Role of Consultative Bodies in China’s Environmental Policy	23
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	23
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	21
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	21
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	20
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	20
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	19
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	19
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	18
Ka Zeng, and Xiaojun Li, Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States	18
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	17
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	16
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	14
History Rhymes: The Shou-Fang Cycle in Chinese Politics	14
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	14
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	14
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution	14
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	13
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power	13
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	12
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	12
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	12
Expanding China’s Influence via Membership: Examining the Influence of Chinese-Led International Institutions on Responses to Human Rights Issues in China	11

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

Lily L. Tsai, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity	4
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	4
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China	4
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space	4
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	3
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	3
Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel, eds., Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China	3
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	3
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	3
Xuezhi Guo, The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy and Power	3
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	3
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	3
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	3
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	3
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	3