OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Chinese Governance 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	20
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	18
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	17
Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai	15
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	12
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	12
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China	12
Information collection, public attitudes, and supportive behavior tendencies in the urban digital transformation: a survey experiment in a facial recognition scenario	12
Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China	11
How does government environmental information disclosure matter for public environmental participation intention?	11
How do fiscal decentralization and transfer payment disparities widen inequities in elderly care access and utilization in China?	10
Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China	10
When rivals collaborate: the effect of resource constraints on intergovernmental collaboration	10
Unraveling the balance between personal data protection and public interest: a theoretical framework and its empirical application in personal data processing	8
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	7
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	6
The boundary setting of Chinese netizens’ citizenship identity: social media responses to the Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners	6
The three legal dimensions of China’s big data governance	6
Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design	6
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	5
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	5
Thirty years of grassroots governance: changing characteristics of village heads in China	5
Participatory budgeting and the party: Generating ‘citizens orderly participation’ through party-building in Shanghai	5
Performance management and environmental governance in China	5

Tenure of office, political rotation and the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in China	5
What values are evaluated? An exploratory empirical study of the public values structure in Chinese local government performance evaluation through the case of the ‘Hangzhou model’	5
Property rights and market participation: evidence from the land titling program in rural China	5
Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China	4
The impact of vertical and horizontal pressures on policy diffusion: evidence from APLS adoption in China	4
Beyond state law: everyday rules and the fragile public	4
Designing service blueprint for chatbots: experimental evidence on public preference for design components	4
To join the top and the bottom: the role of provincial governments in China's top-down policy diffusion	4
How usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance: evidence from a survey experiment	4
Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China	3
China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking	3
Move toward citizens: third-party professionals’ coping strategies in public legal e-service delivery in China	3
Does central environmental protect inspection system reduce air pollutant emissions?	2
Debating China’s common prosperity with evidence from policy practice	2
Influence of gamification affordance on young citizens’ motivation and learning performance toward digital civic education	2
Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation	2
When AI fails, who gets the blame? Citizens’ attribution patterns in AI-induced public service failures	2
Interregional collaboration for food safety governance: the scheme design and performance evaluation with cases in China	2
Influencing factors of spatial conflicts in the Chinese urban environment from the perspective of spatial politics: empirical study based on NCA and fsQCA	2
A conditional crowd out/in model of government funding on giving of money and time: evidence from social service organizations in China	2
Administrative states as moral hazards: four dimensions	2