OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chinese Journal of Communication is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the role of professional disruption in Chinese journalists’ embrace of public relations: a social identity perspective	20
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China	18
Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic	18
Soft power with Chinese characteristics: China campaign for hearts and minds	13
Being present: mobile cinema in Kham Tibetan areas	12
Anti-extradition law and beyond: the role of media and communication in the crisis of Hong Kong—introduction to the special issue	11
Loyalty to WeChat beyond national borders: a perspective of media system dependency theory on techno-nationalism	10
Feeling the 2019 Hong Kong anti-ELAB movement: emotion and affect on the Lennon Walls	10
Chinese Internet Buzzwords: Research on Network Language in Internet Group Communication	9
Evaluation across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles	9
List of reviewers	8
After “BAT,” What? Reimagining the internet for social development in post-crisis China	8
The Labor of Reinvention: entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	7
Exploring freedom in mobile connectivity: a moderated mediation model linking mobile social media modes, availability pressure, and media habits	7
Native advertising on mobile applications: using eye tracking to investigate the effects of advertising format, user motivation, and advertising disclosure on advertising effects	7
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	6
Embedded data activism: the institutionalization of a grassroots environmental data initiative in China	6
Cross-ideological acceptance of the illiberal narrative of the 2019 Hong Kong protests in Japan: aversion to protests as a key facilitator	6
When are consumers more likely to purchase counterfeit products? An exploration from the perspective of information framing in communication	6
When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China	6
Digital gaming as a proactive choice and a passive resource among older adults in China	6
Foreign news, regime type, and framing of China: comparing the world’s media interpretations of the Hong Kong National Security Law	6
From industry development to social influence: video games in Chinese newspaper coverage, 2010–2020	5
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
Non-single dating app use and the cognitive and psychological mechanisms of infidelity: gender differences	5

The silent public: reconsidering online participation and public concern in a context of Chinese podcast community	5
Hanfu as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China: a multimodal discourse analysis of Hanfu videos on Bilibili	5
Contents and determinants of CSR website communication toward international stakeholders: evidence from Chinese MNCs	5
China in symbolic communication	4
The impacts of locus of crisis outcome control on responsibility attribution in hindsight: focusing on comparisons between the American and Chinese public	4
The unequal others: mediation of distant COVID-19 suffering in Chinese television news	4
Gender digilantism and bystanders: networked cyber intimate partner violence in Hong Kong	3
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	3
The Huawei Model: The Rise of China’s Technology Giant	3
The U.S.–China Trade War: Global news framing and public opinion in the digital age	3
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China	3
When virtual makeovers become “real”: how SNS interactions drive selfie editing and cosmetic surgery	3
Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating	2
The making of a livestreaming village: algorithmic practices and place-making in North Xiazhu	2
Establishing legitimacy through the media and combating fake news on COVID-19: a case study of Taiwan	2
Public diplomacy via Twitter: opportunities and tensions	2
Multiple news analysis across cultures (element in corpus linguistics)	2
Media coverage and public perceptions of the THAAD event in China, the United States, and South Korea: a cross-national network agenda-setting study	2
Adaption to authoritarianism: a longitudinal analysis of Dialogue Earth’s nonprofit environmental news in China	2
Thread popularity inequality as an indicator of organization through communication in a networked movement: an analysis of the LIHKG forum	2
Enveloped in mediated pandemic: Immersion as a mediator of the effects of media exposure on perceived severity and behavioral intention	2