OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Blaming: the Narrative Battle between China and the US over COVID-19	63
From Globalization to Regionalization: The United States, China, and the Post-Covid-19 World Economic Order	59
Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak	51
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Lockdown: Evidence from COVID-19 Prevention and Control in China	34
Is Nationalism Rising in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Individual-Level Evidence from the United States	34
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas	31
The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19	27
The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era	26
US-China Trade War: Is Winter Coming for Global Trade?	24
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Expressions of Nationalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cyberspace	22
The Pandemic and the Transformation of Liberal International Order	21
China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century	20
Testing the Relationship between Land Approval and Promotion Incentives of Provincial Top Leaders in China	16
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	15
Policy Reinvention and Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Governments	15
The Elusive Pursuit of Incentive Systems: Research on the Cadre Management Regime in Post-Mao China	14
The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Nationalist Emulation during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
COVID-19 and American Attitudes toward U.S.-China Disputes	14
A Community of Practice for Chinese NGOs	14
Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: A Firm-Level Study of Sub-Saharan African SMEs	14
Testing the Correlation between Eco-environmental Performance and Provincial Official Promotion in China	13
Many Nationalisms, One Disaster: Categories, Attitudes and Evolution of Chinese Nationalism on Social Media during the COVID -19 Pandemic	13
Sino-US Competition in the South China Sea: Power, Rules and Legitimacy	13
Censorship, the Media, and the Market in China	12
Policy Innovation of Local Officials in China: the Administrative Choice	12

Power and Poverty in China: Why Some Counties Perform Better in Poverty Alleviation?	12
Power in the Age of Datafication: Exploring China’s Global Data Power	12
To Engage or Not to Engage? Explaining the Logic of the US’s China Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era	12
Public Trust as a Driver of State-Grassroots NGO Collaboration in China	12
The Rite to Vote: Community Interactions and Grassroots Voter Participation in China	10
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach	10
What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis	10
Power Struggle or Strengthening the Party: Perspectives on Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign	10
The CCP, Campaign Governance and COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai	9
China’s Rise as an Advanced Technological Society and the Rise of Digital Orientalism	9
Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China’s Challenge to the West/Democracies	9
A Rural-Urban Divide? Reassessing Voting in Chinese Villagers’ Committee and Residents’ Committee Elections	8
Engineering Representation in A Single-Party Regime: A Mobilizational Model of Political Representation in China’s Local Congresses	8
National Identity of Locality: The State, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Cyber China	8
Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)	8
Rules Consciousness or Rights Consciousness? A Structural Equation Model of the Relationship between Sociopolitical Values and the Protest Potential among Chinese Citizens	8
Identity, Social Exclusion and Perceived Performance of Local Government — Evidence from Urban China	7
Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World	7
Corruption Experience and Public Perceptions of Anti-corruption Crackdowns: Experimental Evidence from China	7
Public Opinion and Social Justice in China	7
The Effect of Political Participation and Village Support on Farmers Happiness	6
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	6
The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America	6
How Large-Scale Land Protests Succeed in China: the Role of Domestic Media	6
Ganging up on Trump? Sino-German Relations and the Problem with Soft Balancing against the USA	6
The Global Times and The China Threat Narrative: An Empirical Analysis	6
Integrating Devolution with Centralization: A Comparison of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India, Mexico, and China	6
Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China	6
The Remaking of China–EUrope Relations in the New Era of US–China Antagonism	6
Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction	6
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	5
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	5
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK	5
Formation of Relational Poverty Governance and its Impacts: How Chinese Local Governments Implement Poverty Alleviation Programs	5
Budget Structure Discontinuity: Unveiling Mechanism and Connecting Logic in China’s Context	5
China’s ‘New-Type’ Private Think Tanks: Is ‘New’ Better?	5
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	5
The US Way or Huawei? An Analysis of the Positioning of Secondary States in the US-China Rivalry	5
Do the “Dragon’s Gifts” Improve China’s National Image? An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Relations and Public Perceptions of China in Africa	4
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	4
Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	4
The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese International Political Influence: An Empirical Study Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach	4
Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context	4
A Typology of Political Trustors in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Authoritarian Culture and Perceived Institutional Performance	4
Stuck Between the Great Powers: Secondary Countries’ Responses to Soft Power Competition Between the US and China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Non-institutional Factors in Shaping Rural Elections and Governance in China: a Pragmatist Perspective	4
The Role of China’s County-level Research Offices in Policy Adaptation	4
Responsive Propaganda: The Sharp Shift in the Propaganda of Human Gene Editing in China	4
Why Do Firms Obey?: the State of Regulatory Compliance Research in China	4
Sino-U.S. Decoupling: The Roles of U.S. Congress	3

Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	3
Decoding Xieshang Minzhu in Chinese Politics: Chinese vs. Western Conceptions of Deliberative Democracy	3
U.S.-China 5G Competition, the Economy-Security Nexus, and Asia	3
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for A Troubled Planet	3
A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism	3
Data, Big Tech, and the New Concept of Sovereignty	3
COVID-19 and the Wuhan Diary –how does the overseas Chinese community react to group criticism?	3
No Common Ground: A Spatial-Relational Analysis of EU-China Relations	3
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations	3
Dimitar D. Gueorguiev, Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China	3
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	3
Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis, and Stevan Harrell, eds., Greening East Asia: the Rise of the Eco-developmental State	3
Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?	3
Yanzhong Huang, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State	3
The Role and Logic of Nontraditional Security in China’s Engagement in Global Governance Mechanisms under Xi Jinping’s Regime	2
Stratified Political Trust in a Nondemocratic Society: Magnitude, Forms, and Sources of Political Trust in Urban China	2
Supreme Leaders, Provincial Leaders, and Factional Competition in China’s Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Regional- and City-Level Evidence	2
Kristen Hopewell, Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance	2
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	2
U.S.-China Technology Competition and the Emergence of Techno-Economic Statecraft in East Asia: High Technology and Economic-Security Nexus	2
Debating China beyond the Great Firewall: Digital Disenchantment and Authoritarian Resilience	2
China’s Campaign-Style Implementation Regime: How is “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” being achieved locally?	2
Bridging Chinese Foreign Policy Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Research Agenda for Mutual Gains	2
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	2
Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai, and Chun-chih Chang, eds., Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism	2
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	2
Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations	2
Environmental Civil Society Organizations and the State in China: Institutional Analysis of the Dynamics, 1980s-2010s	2
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	2
Dawn C. Murphy, China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa and Beijing’s Alternative World Order	2
Do Social Contacts Alter the National Identity? Evidence from a Panel Study among Taiwanese Students that Visited Mainland China	2
Daniel A. Bell & Pei Wang, Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World	2
The Political Economy of State Sector Restructuring in China: Cross-Provincial Evidence 2008–2017	2
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	2
Daniel C. Mattingly. The Art of Political Control in China	2
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	2
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	1
Etel Soligen, ed., Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and International Relations in East Asia	1
Viewing Persistent Individual Complainants in China Through the Lens of Everyday Politics	1
“Bringing Home the Bacon”: Distributive Politics in China’s National People’s Congress	1
Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views? Evidence from Racial Prejudice and Anti-China Sentiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Jing Wang, The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web	1
How Do Online Public Messages Affect Local Government Responsiveness in China? A Multilevel Analysis Based on the Message Board for Leaders	1
Huiyun Feng, Kai He and Xiaojun Li, How China Sees the World: Insights from China’s International Relations Scholars	1
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	1
Ontological Security Dilemma: a Practical Model of Relational Deterrence	1
Carl Minzner, The End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its Rise	1
Is the WTO Dispute Settlement System a Disaster for the U.S.? An Evaluation of U.S. – China WTO Disputes	1
Jennifer Pan, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers	1
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	1
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	1
Olayiwola Abegunrin and Charity Manyeruke, China’s Power in Africa: A New Global Order	1
Correction to: the Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era	1
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition	1
Fueling the Taking Charge Behaviors of Civil Servants: the Different Roles of Workload and Non-Economic Reward	1
Yue Hou, The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China	1
Getting Past Old Models of PRC Diversity: Understand the Empire to Understand the Imperial Nation State	1
Jun Liu, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China	1
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	1
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	1
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	1
Fuzuo, Wu. Energy and Climate Policies in China and India: A Two-Level Comparative Study	1
Ten Years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Bibliometric Review	1