OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Asian Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Hashtag activism: social media and the #FreeYouth protests in Thailand	33
From social drama to political performance: China’s multi-front combat with the Covid-19 epidemic	19
Governing (through) trustworthiness: technologies of power and subjectification in China’s social credit system	19
The white ribbon movement: high school students in the 2020 Thai youth protests	15
Disruptors’ dilemma? Thailand’s 2020 Gen Z protests	15
Subterranean infrastructures in a sinking city: the politics of visibility in Jakarta	13
Sticky rice in the blood: Isan people’s involvement in Thailand’s 2020 anti-government protests	11
Gender, labor migration and changes in small-scale farming on Vietnam's north-central coast	11
As far apart as earth and sky: a survey of Chinese and Cambodian construction workers in Sihanoukville	11
Fragmented restrictions, fractured resonances: grassroots responses to Covid-19 in China	11
Defending lands and forests: NGO histories, everyday struggles, and extraordinary violence in the Philippines	10
Myanmar’s military coup and the elevation of the minority agenda?	10
The tiger and the tube well: malevolence in rural India	9
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: nalehmu through multiple ruptures	8
The politicization of everyday life: understanding the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests on pro-democracy protesters’ political participation in Hong Kong	7
North Koreans’ public narratives and conditional inclusion in South Korea	7
Fiction, fraud, and formality: the legal infrastructure of property speculation in Cambodia	7
Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation	7
The ethics of United Nations sanctions on North Korea: effectiveness, necessity and proportionality	7
COVID-19’s impact on Nepalese migrants: families. Vulnerability, coping strategies, and the role of state and non-state actors	6
Policy responses to COVID-19 and discrimination against foreign nationals in South Korea	6
#Papuanlivesmatter: black consciousness and political movements in West Papua	6
The Tongpo case: indigenous institutions and environmental justice in China	6
Network discrimination against LGBTQ minorities in Taiwan after same-sex marriage legalization: a Goffmanian micro-sociological approach	5
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	4

Nostalgic nationalists in South Korea: the flag-carriers’ struggles	4
Averting “Carmageddon” through reform? An eco-systemic analysis of traffic congestion and transportation policy gridlock in Metro Manila	4
“Vision without action is merely a dream”: a conversation with Li Yinhe	3
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	3
Ecological narratives of forced resettlement in Cold War Malaya	3
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh	3
Good attachment in the Asian highlands: questioning notions of “loose women” and “autonomous communities”	3
Localizing global concepts: an exploration of Indigeneity in Cambodia	3
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	3
Precarity and Islamism in Indonesia: the contradictions of neoliberalism	3