OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Lily L. Tsai, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity	31
“Bringing Home the Bacon”: Distributive Politics in China’s National People’s Congress	28
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	22
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	21
Thomas B. Gold and Sebastian Veg, eds., Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong	19
Do the “Dragon’s Gifts” Improve China’s National Image? An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Relations and Public Perceptions of China in Africa	18
Shiwei Zhang, The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy	16
Chinese University Major Decision and Its Effect on Wages: Modeling Interaction Between Major Specificity and Education-Job Relevancy Using Machine Learning Approaches	16
Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Xiao Tang, Shenglong Liu, 2050 China Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country	15
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	15
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	15
Public Opinion and Social Justice in China	14
Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe	14
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	13
Daniel R. Hammond, Politics and Policy in China’s Social Assistance Reform; Providing for the Poor?	13
Getting Past Old Models of PRC Diversity: Understand the Empire to Understand the Imperial Nation State	13
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	12
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	12
Rana Mitter, China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism	11
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	10
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	10
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	10
William Hurst, Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia	9
Julia Strauss, State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance	9
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	9

Etel Soligen, ed., Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and International Relations in East Asia	9
Viewing Persistent Individual Complainants in China Through the Lens of Everyday Politics	9
Non-institutional Factors in Shaping Rural Elections and Governance in China: a Pragmatist Perspective	8
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	8
China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century	8
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	7
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	7
Too Cynical: why the Stock Market in China Dismissed Initial Anticorruption Signals	7
Retraction Note: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Expressions of Nationalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cyberspace	7
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	6
Dawn C. Murphy, China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa and Beijing’s Alternative World Order	6
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	6
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States	6
China’s Campaign-Style Implementation Regime: How is “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” being achieved locally?	6
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	6
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	6
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	6
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	6
André Sapir and Petros C. Mavroidis, eds., China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters	6
Xuezhi Guo, The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy and Power	5
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	5
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	5
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	5
Michael Mintrom, Dayashankar Maurya, and Alex Jingwei He, eds., Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective	5
Yanzhong Huang, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State	5
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)	5
Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua A. Fogel, eds., Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China	5
The Remaking of China–EUrope Relations in the New Era of US–China Antagonism	5
U.S.-China 5G Competition, the Economy-Security Nexus, and Asia	5
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	5
The Global Times and The China Threat Narrative: An Empirical Analysis	5
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	5
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	5
Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: A Firm-Level Study of Sub-Saharan African SMEs	5
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for A Troubled Planet	5
Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell. Invisible China: How the Urban–Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise	5
No Common Ground: A Spatial-Relational Analysis of EU-China Relations	4
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	4
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	4
COVID-19 and the Wuhan Diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?	4
Debating China beyond the Great Firewall: Digital Disenchantment and Authoritarian Resilience	4
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations	4
Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?	4
Ten Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bibliometric Review	3
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	3
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	3
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	3
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	3
Demarketization and Corruption in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	3
Environmental Civil Society Organizations and the State in China: Institutional Analysis of the Dynamics, 1980s-2010s	3

Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	3
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	3
Factors Influencing China’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations	3
The Impacts of U.S. Foreign Policy on Taiwanese Public Support for Independence	3
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	3
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	3
Digital Corporatism: State-Business Dynamics of Digital State Capacity Building in China	3
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	3
U.S.-China Technology Competition and the Emergence of Techno-Economic Statecraft in East Asia: High Technology and Economic-Security Nexus	3
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	3
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	2
Data, Big Tech, and the New Concept of Sovereignty	2
Stuck Between the Great Powers: Secondary Countries’ Responses to Soft Power Competition Between the US and China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	2
Ka Zeng, and Xiaojun Li, Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States	2
Angela Poh, Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics: Rhetoric and Restraint in China’s Diplomacy	2
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	2
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	2
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	2
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	2
Kristen Hopewell, Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance	2
The Political Economy of State Sector Restructuring in China: Cross-Provincial Evidence 2008–2017	2
Cost-Saving or Cream-Skimming? Partner Ownership and the Project Returns of Public-Private Partnerships in China	2
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	2
Suzanne E. Scoggins, Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest	2
Testing the Correlation between Eco-environmental Performance and Provincial Official Promotion in China	2