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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking Legislative Activity To Policy Implementation: The Role of Consultative Bodies in China’s Environmental Policy	53
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	41
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	33
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	30
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	30
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	29
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	28
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	27
Governing the Smart City in the Age of AI: A Comparative Study of AI-Powered Hotline Services in Shanghai and New York	27
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	23
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	23
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	23
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	22
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	22
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	20
History Rhymes: The Shou-Fang Cycle in Chinese Politics	20
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	19
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	18
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	17
Expanding China’s Influence via Membership: Examining the Influence of Chinese-Led International Institutions on Responses to Human Rights Issues in China	16
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	15
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	15
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	14
Living With Digital Government: Effects of Technology Anxiety on Public Support for Policy in China	14
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	14

The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	14
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	13
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	12
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	12
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	12
Strategic Narratives and Public Support for Chinese Investment: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Kyrgyzstan	12
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	12
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	12
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	12
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	12
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	12
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	12
The Silicon Sword Hanging Over China’s Head	11
AI as a Tool for Surveillance: China’s Concave Trilemma	11
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	11
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	11
Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First	11
The Paradox of High-level Military Dismissals in China: A Formal Bayesian Model	10
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	10
Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States	10
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	10
Surviving the Pandemic: NGOs’ Strategies to Cope with COVID-19	10
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	10
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	9
Digital Legitimation and Compensation: An Experimental Study on AI-Assisted Decision-Making and Popular Legitimacy in China	9
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	9
To Prevent a Great Power War: Conflict Prevention Efforts and Possibilities by the U.S. and China	9
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	9
Demarketization and Corruption in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment	9
Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Immediate Effects of the Pandemic on Institutional Trust	8
Steering a Developmental Party-State: Why Has China Chosen Centralization of Power to Fight Corruption?	8
State Media Questioning at Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences, 2020–2025	8
The Belt and Road Initiative and National Economic Development: a Multidimensional Power Analysis	8
Are the Defense Policy and Military Expenditure in China Economically or Politically Driven?	8
Correction: The Digital Masons: Technology Providers and Social Credit System Construction in China	7
Towards an Innovative Leviathan? “Made in China” Remade -- Evidence from Firm Value Decomposition Analysis	7
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	6
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space	6
National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	6
Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study	6
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	6
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China	6
World Power Trends and International Relations: Measuring Power with an Entropy-QAP Approach	6
Mary Alice Haddad, Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists	5
Three Faces of the State in Local Cyberspace Administrations: Development, Regulation, and Surveillance in China’s Internet Governance	5
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	5
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	4
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	4
Neil Diamant, Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	4
The South China Sea: the Flashpoint of War Between China and the United States	4

Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	4
Bridging or Widening the Gap? The Role of AI in Shaping Global Research Performance	4
A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)	4
Suzanne E. Scoggins, Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest	4