OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policy and Internet is 7. 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
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	107
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	66
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	51
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	39
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	38
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	31
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	31
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	28
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Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	27
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	24
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	23
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	20
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	20
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	19
Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces	17
Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices	17
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	16
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	15
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	15
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	15
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	15
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	15
Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics	13
Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	13

Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	12
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	12
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	12
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Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	11
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The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	11
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A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	10
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Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework: A Cross‐National Comparative Study Based on the FsQCA Method	10
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	9
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	9
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	9
Geopolitics in Platform Governance: Algorithmic Sovereignty and Data Localization in China and the United States	8
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	8
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	8
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“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	8
A Teleological Interpretation of the Definition of DeepFakes in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act—A Purpose‐Based Approach to Potential Problems With the Word “Existing”	8
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	7
Policy is theft: The state of global Internet policy in an age of revolutions	7
Digitally skilled or digitally competent? Evaluating the impact of e‐Facilitation on young volunteers in Italy	7
Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States	7
Can Facebook's community standards keep up with legal certainty? Content moderation governance under the pressure of the Digital Services Act	7
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Repackaging and Repurposing Digital Objects: A Conceptual Model to Understand the Malleability of Politics in Digital Environments	7
Integrating Civic and Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking: Experimental Insights on Public Perceptions of Policy Proposals	7
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	7
Democracy in the digital era	7
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