OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Journal of Communication 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Caught in the crossfire: multi-stakeholder governance challenges and platform responses in the Chinese context	34
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	32
Unveiling digital narratives of transnational migration to China: foreign wanghong on Douyin and Xiaohongshu	27
China in symbolic communication	18
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	16
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	15
Youth culture of self-mockery: bodily memes and economies of affect in China’s online space	14
Daily expression of madness as a communication practice: an interaction ritual chain analysis of hysterical literature	13
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	13
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	13
Mob censorship in China: ChiRenxueMantou , digital press criticism, and journalists’ failed jurisdiction	12
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	10
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia	9
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	9
Propaganda persuasion, critical learning, and social recreation: investigating relationships between media use, science knowledge, and attitudes in China	8
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	7
Trading time for discretion: grassroots officials’ response dynamics on digital administrative platforms in China	7
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	7
From click to boom: the political economy of E-Commerce in China	6
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	5
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	5
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	5
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	4
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	4
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	4

Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	4
Investigating the mediating role of self-regulation in the association between smartphone addiction and academic performance: a nationally representative study of Taiwanese students from primary to un	4
From surveillance to taste-making: exploring the influence of algorithmic agency on consumer experiences in casual leisure	4
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	4
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay	3
The effects of worry, risk perception, information-seeking experience, and trust in misinformation on COVID-19 fact-checking: a survey study in China	3
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S.	3
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	3
Between national development and personal precarity: the social construction of robotaxis from taxi drivers’ perspective in China	3
Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	3
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	3
Social media engagement and social integration of Vietnamese female marriage migrants in China: a sociocultural analysis	3
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	3
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	3
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	3
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community	2
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	2
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong	2
Testing the bidirectional causation among media attention and the protest scale: the case of Hong Kong	2
Social media live streaming as affective news in the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong	2
How do Chinese scientists maintain their discourse authority? Critical discourse analysis of discourse “boundary work” in genetically modified organisms discussion on a Chinese knowledge-sharing netwo	2
Understanding eHealth use among older adults in Singapore: the roles of personal, social, and cultural factors	2
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	2
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law	2
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China	2
Boy’s love drama exposure and attitudes toward same-sex relationships: Applying a moderated mediation model in the Chinese context	2
Infinity and Beyond : a Foucauldian analysis of talent shows as instruments of governmentality and memory reprogramming	2
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	2
Social media platform swinging and teenagers’ academic performance: a serial mediation model examining the roles of sleep deficits and burnout	2
Mediatized governance in environmental disasters: self-organizing community rescue through collaborative online documents	2
“I quit because I couldn’t get what I wanted” and “I’m back because I want more”: Chinese women’s unfulfilled romantic desires in otome gaming practices	2
Whither China?: Chinese communication research at the new conjuncture	1
Toxic behavior in multiplayer online games: the role of witnessed verbal aggression, game engagement intensity, and social self-efficacy	1
Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition)	1
When chitchat fosters trust: phatic communication and personal connections facilitate patient trust in China through patient-centered communication	1
Captivated but threatened by ethnosexuality: decoding online hate speech on interracial marriage in China	1
Perceived stress increases online aggressive behavior among Chinese adolescents: evidence from a moderated mediation analysis	1
The digital silk road: China’s quest to wire the world and win the future	1
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China: A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902–1910	1
The effects of social media advertising in China: Theory, practices and implications	1
Moral framing and issue-based framing of #StopAsianHate campaigns on Twitter	1
When politics meets dating: how moral concern, utopianism, and communication competence predict willingness to date across the political divide	1
Does social media keep me alarmed? The effects of expectations surrounding social media attributes and exposure to messages of social (in)stability on substitutive social media news use	1
The Wuhan Lockdown	1
Intercultural aesthetics in traditional Chinese theatre: from 1978 to the presentIntercultural aesthetics in traditional Chinese theatre: from 1978 to the present, by Feng Wei, New York, Palgrave Macm	1
Evaluation across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles	1
“Journalism is dead”? Digital press criticism and challenges to media legitimacy in China	1
How adult children mediate the impacts of antivaccine information on elderly people’s acceptance of flu vaccines	1
The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy	1

Tiered moderation on Chinese platforms: content security, quality, and user protection	1
Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan	1
Engaging Social Media in China	1
The newsworthiness of Gu Ailing: a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and American media reports	1