OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Journal of Communication is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	21
China in symbolic communication	17
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	13
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	12
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	11
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	11
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era	11
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	11
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	10
Digital transnationalism: Chinese-language media in Australia	10
An eye-tracking study to examine the impacts of happy versus sad program-induced moods on brand attitude: the moderating role of advertising disclosure	10
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	9
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	9
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	9
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	8
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	7
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	7
Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China	7
Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people Digital citizenship in China: everyday online practices of Chinese young people , by Jun	7
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	6
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	6
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	6
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	6
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	6
When digital money meets relational surveillance: overseeing and reshaping people’s ordinary lives, emotions, and social relations in small towns and villages through Alipay	5

Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	5
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S. The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S. by Graham Allison, Kevin Klyman, Karina Barbesino and Hugo Yen. Cambridge: Be	5
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	5
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	5
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	4
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	4
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	4
The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society	3
Who politicized the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: cultural identity and Chinese prejudice in a virtual community	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
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	3
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	3
Revisiting Dallas Smythe’s “cultural screening”: Maoist class politics and the technology revolution in socialist China	3
Social media platform swinging and teenagers’ academic performance: a serial mediation model examining the roles of sleep deficits and burnout	2
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong	2
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law	2
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	2
Embedded data activism: the institutionalization of a grassroots environmental data initiative in China	2
Testing the bidirectional causation among media attention and the protest scale: the case of 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
Boy’s love drama exposure and attitudes toward same-sex relationships: Applying a moderated mediation model in the Chinese context	2
Confronting COVID-19: constructing and contesting legitimacy through the media in Chinese contexts	2
Engaging Social Media in China	1
Tiered moderation on Chinese platforms: content security, quality, and user protection	1
The digital silk road: China’s quest to wire the world and win the future	1
Chinese cinema culture: a scene in the fog	1
From P2P to the cloud: music, platformization, and infrastructural change in China	1
Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition) Cultural Discourse Studies: Researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (<	1
When chitchat fosters trust: phatic communication and personal connections facilitate patient trust in China through patient-centered communication	1
Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan	1
Mediatized governance in environmental disasters: self-organizing community rescue through collaborative online documents	1
Social media live streaming as affective news in the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong	1
The newsworthiness of Gu Ailing: a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and American media reports	1
The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: an Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy	1
The effects of social media advertising in China: Theory, practices and implications	1
The Wuhan Lockdown	1
“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	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
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
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China: A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902–1910	1
Wanghong as social media entertainment in China	0
Contents and determinants of CSR website communication toward international stakeholders: evidence from Chinese MNCs	0
Assignment China: An oral history of journalists in the People’s Republic	0
From industry development to social influence: video games in Chinese newspaper coverage, 2010–2020	0
Moral framing and issue-based framing of #StopAsianHate campaigns on Twitter	0
Fandom nationalism in China: the effects of idol adoration and online fan community engagement	0
Cross-ideological acceptance of the illiberal narrative of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in Japan: aversion to protests as a key facilitator	0
The generation of “instant memory”: the digital memory of Dr. Li Wenliang in the COVID-19 outbreak in China	0
Evaluation across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles	0

List of reviewers	0
How political disagreements undermine intrafamily communication: the case of the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong	0
Exploring freedom in mobile connectivity: a moderated mediation model linking mobile social media modes, availability pressure, and media habits	0
Notice of duplicate publication: Cultural discourse studies: researching Chinese theory, methods and topics (2nd edition) by Shi-Xu, Peking University Press, 2022, US$10.86, 330pp.	0
The silent public: reconsidering online participation and public concern in a context of Chinese podcast community	0
Perceptions of food safety, access to information, and political trust in China	0
Constructing patriotic networked publics: conservative YouTube influencers in Hong Kong	0
When virtual makeovers become “real”: how SNS interactions drive selfie editing and cosmetic surgery	0
Legitimizing viewing publics through nostalgia: the mediated tropicality of Singapore’s ‘kampong spirit’	0
Advertising disclosure in sponsored vlogs: an eye-tracking study on the effects of disclosure timing and the moderating role of disclosure type	0
Understanding the conditional media effects: trust, new media exposure, and preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
The U.S.–China Trade War: Global news framing and public opinion in the digital age	0
The impact of exposure to a scientific role model on Chinese young adults’ compliance with governmental COVID-19 restrictions: a moderated serial mediation model	0
Chinese Internet Buzzwords: Research on Network Language in Internet Group Communication	0
Being present: mobile cinema in Kham Tibetan areas	0
The impacts of locus of crisis outcome control on responsibility attribution in hindsight: focusing on comparisons between the American and Chinese public	0
Public emotional atmosphere during disasters: understanding emotions in short video comments on the Zhengzhou flood	0
Shifting journalistic paradigm in post-2019 Hong Kong: the state–society relationship and the press	0
When politics meets dating: how moral concern, utopianism, and communication competence predict willingness to date across the political divide	0
Switching power or surviving on the margin? Wanda Group as a case study for understanding network power in China	0
Contesting legitimacy in China’s crisis communication: a framing analysis of reported social actors engaging in SARS and COVID-19	0
Digital distinction: class as mediated dispositions in China’s Animal Crossing fever	0
Digital gaming as a proactive choice and a passive resource among older adults in China	0
The de-professionalization of Chinese journalism	0
Native advertising on mobile applications: using eye tracking to investigate the effects of advertising format, user motivation, and advertising disclosure on advertising effects	0
The Labor of Reinvention: entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	0
Public diplomacy via Twitter: opportunities and tensions	0
The unequal others: mediation of distant COVID-19 suffering in Chinese television news	0
How adult children mediate the impacts of antivaccine information on elderly people’s acceptance of flu vaccines	0
Measuring up in a pandemic: information attention, source credibility, and public evaluation of the government COVID-19 response in mainland China	0
Idolizing the nation: Chinese fandom nationalism through the Fangirl Expedition	0
Managing government legitimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a semantic network analysis of state-run media Sina Weibo posts	0
From expansion to exclusion: recalibrating rural e-commerce in the New Era political economy in western China	0
Praise you by my gender: affective resistance of Nisu fandom under contemporary China’s gender politics	0
Immunity as a social practice: Chinese overseas students’ embodied communication in global mobility	0
The impact of agricultural collectivization on participatory communication: a case study of the Maoist literacy movement	0
How does the Chinese Government conduct emotional governance over COVID-19? Content analysis of video blogs	0
Telegram and the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong: reshaping networked social movements through symbolic participation and spontaneous interaction	0
When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China	0
Framing China’s mask diplomacy in Europe during the early covid-19 pandemic: seeking and contesting legitimacy through foreign medical aid amidst soft power promotion	0
Pro-liberalism vs. Nationalism: how critical opinion leaders challenge the persuasive effect of propaganda in China	0
Toward a processual approach to digital platforms’ infrastructuralization: the case of WeChat in China	0
Communicating COVID-19: Everyday life, digital capitalism, and conspiracy theories in pandemic times	0
Chinese antitrust exceptionalism: How the rise of China challenges global regulation	0
Toxic behavior in multiplayer online games: the role of witnessed verbal aggression, game engagement intensity, and social self-efficacy	0
From industrial movies to social media discourses: alternative social imaginaries of industry and technology in China	0
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China	0
Pandemic and memory: Online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors in China	0
Establishing legitimacy through the media and combating fake news on COVID-19: a case study of Taiwan	0
Anti-extradition law and beyond: the role of media and communication in the crisis of Hong Kong—introduction to the special issue	0
Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states	0
Communicating the authentic China: partnership agreements and the use of Chinese sources and voices by Brazilian media	0
Objective socioeconomic status, subjective social status and the digital usage divide: insights from a longitudinal analysis	0
Adaption to authoritarianism: a longitudinal analysis of Dialogue Earth’s nonprofit environmental news in China	0
Chinese creator economies: Labor and bilateral creative workers	0
How do corporate social responsibility perceptions facilitate advocacy behavior? The roles of organizational pride and responsible leadership	0
Feeling ambivalent while using instant messaging: a value-motive-experience framework comparing maximizers and social groomers	0
COVID-19, the Chinese communist party, and the search for legitimacy in the international arena	0
Cyber anti-intellectualism and information seeking about SARS-CoV-2 variants	0
Peer appraisal, participatory surveillance, and experiential mentoring: explicating communicative practices of participatory learning in an online support group for people with binging experiences	0
Techno-biopolitics under a tentative “state of exception”: the institutional logic of the digital governance of inbound travelers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	0
Multimodal Chinese discourse: understanding communication and society in contemporary China	0
Queer attention matters: a study on affordance from queer male media practices on Zhihu	0
Communication and community in the new media age	0
“Widow-style parenting”: the discursive formation of gendered parenting roles and popular feminism on social media in China	0
Measuring Chinese online populist discourse: an automated semantic text analysis method	0