OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chinese Journal of Communication 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Caught in the crossfire: multi-stakeholder governance challenges and platform responses in the Chinese context	22
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	20
China in symbolic communication	16
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	14
Youth culture of self-mockery: bodily memes and economies of affect in China’s online space	12
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
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	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
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
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	10
Mob censorship in China: ChiRenxueMantou , digital press criticism, and journalists’ failed jurisdiction	10
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	9
Trading time for discretion: grassroots officials’ response dynamics on digital administrative platforms in China	9
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	8
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	8
From surveillance to taste-making: exploring the influence of algorithmic agency on consumer experiences in casual leisure	7
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	7
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	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	6
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	6
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	6

Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	5
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	5
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	5
The Great Tech Rivalry: China versus the U.S.	4
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	4
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	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	4
Between national development and personal precarity: the social construction of robotaxis from taxi drivers’ perspective in China	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
Affective polarization in online cross-cutting discussions about traditional Chinese Medicine: national identity’s moderation effect	3
Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens	3
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	3
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	3
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	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