OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Chinese Political Science is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of China Among American Elites: Sources and Change 1979–2022	35
The Factors that Shape Chinese Officials’ Political Attitudes: An Experimental Intergenerational Approach	28
Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, eds., Children of Migrants in China	23
Judicial Resilience: How Judges Manage Pressures in China’s Anti-crime Campaigns	22
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	19
Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: the Modernization of Rural East Asia	18
Your Honey, My Poison: Patronage, Promotion and Local Implementation in China	17
The Impact of Digital Governance Efficiency on Regional Social Capital: A Panel Data Analysis of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China	17
Seeing Politics Through Popular Culture	17
From Revolutionary to Stakeholder: Looking at Identity Discourses to Understand the 2016 Short-term Change in China’s North Korea Policy	17
Ka Zeng, and Xiaojun Li, Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States	16
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, eds., Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations	16
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution	15
China’s Perspective on Internet Governance: a more Integrated Role in the Global Discussion?	15
Runya Qiaoan, Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	15
Party-building and Government Funding: The Effect of the Chinese Communist Party on Non-governmental Organizations	14
Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey	13
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power	13
Explaining China’s Budget Punctuations: Empirical Evidence Based on Cadre Management System	13
Manfred Elfstrom, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness	12
The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies	12
Institutional Isolation: A Network Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Inspection Tour	12
Sino-US Competition: Is Liberal Democracy an Asset or Liability?	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 Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19	11
Living With Digital Government: Effects of Technology Anxiety on Public Support for Policy in China	11
Incentivized Inequality: Career Incentives and Investment Allocation in China	10
Wolf Warrior Spreads Superior: The narrative and effectiveness of Chinese public diplomacy behaviours on Twitter	10
Thomas B. Gold and Sebastian Veg, eds., Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong	10
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China?	10
Southeast Asian Responses to U.S.-China Tech Competition: Hedging and Economy-Security Tradeoffs	9
Air Pollution Coverage, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, and Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in South Korea	9
Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers	9
Organizing for Ontological Security: Rethinking Authoritarian International Organizations	9
Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	9
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	9
The Shift of China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyberwarfare Since the 1990s	8
Correction to: Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus	8
Sören Urbansky, Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border	8
Cosmetic Responsiveness: Why and How Local Authorities Respond to Mundane Online Complaints in China	8
Correction to: Poverty Reduction in A Transforming China: A Critical Review	8
Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations	8
Authoritarian Policing Under Xi Jinping	7
Konstantinos Tsimonis, The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization	7
The Silicon Sword Hanging Over China’s Head	7
Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First	7
Does Poverty Relief Breed Corruption? An Evaluation of China’s Poverty Alleviation Program	7
Political Incentives, Bureaucratic Behaviors and Political Budget Cycles in China	7
From Quantity to Quality: Do the Political Incentives matter for Green Transformation in China?	7
Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond, eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years	7
AI as a Tool for Surveillance: China’s Concave Trilemma	7
Sino-U.S. Decoupling: The Roles of U.S. Congress	7