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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the role of professional disruption in Chinese journalists’ embrace of public relations: a social identity perspective	20
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	19
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	14
China in symbolic communication	13
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	12
Globalization in international tensions: the impact of military conflicts on the cultural orientations of multinational corporations’ advertising in modern China (1932–1937)	12
Equivalence framing and its effects on truth judgments: evidence from China	12
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era	11
Internet addiction among cyberkids in China: Risk factors and intervention strategies	10
Made in Italy by Chinese: fashionability and transnational Chinese entrepreneurs	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
Communicating LGBTQ-supportive CSR for corporate legitimacy: a cultural discourse analysis in Hong Kong	9
High wire: how China regulates big tech and governs its economy	8
Communicating via gold medal: Chinese Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on the social media platform Douyin	7
From perception to intention: exploring perceived value in Chinese-language podcast platforms	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
Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China	6
Social media amplification of risk perceptions of and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among older Chinese adults	6
Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong	6
Tencent: the political economy of China’s surging internet giant	6
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	5
Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang	5
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	5
What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms	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
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	5
Communication, technology and development at a critical juncture: revisiting Dallas Smythe in China	4
Techno-nationalism as the cultural logic of global infrastructural capitalism: media spectacles and cyber-situations in Huawei Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case	4
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	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
To learn or to have fun? How paratexts of entertainment education programs affect fans’ informal learning	3
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	3
The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society	3
Underwater carnival: explaining how Thai boys’ love drama series “sneak” into Chinese media cyberspace	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
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	3