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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
State or family? Navigating the changing public attitudes towards eldercare responsibilities in China	24
Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China	15
The career characteristics of China’s prefectural environmental protection bureau heads with implication for the environmental governance	15
Nudge citizen participation by framing mobilization information: a survey experiment in China	14
Geographic location, development of higher education and donations to Chinese non-public foundations	13
Local government competition and centralised urban growth management policy implementation: evidence from China	10
Social ties and citizen-initiated contacts: the case of china’s local one-stop governments	9
Participatory budgeting and the party: Generating ‘citizens orderly participation’ through party-building in Shanghai	9
Performance management and environmental governance in China	9
E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities	9
China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking	8
Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations	8
Impact of government officials’ imprints on public–private collaboration	8
Varieties of public–private co-governance on cybersecurity within the digital trade: implications from Huawei’s 5G	7
The emergence of Chinese high- and new-technology companies in the global arena: challenges and opportunities for governance innovation	7
Collaboration, accountability pressure, and local air pollution governance: evidence from China	7
Evaluating the coordinated development between digital technology and local safety management capability: evidence from 31 provinces in China	6
Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China	6
Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China	5
Does online privacy self-efficacy help promote e-participation for rights protection?	5
Scaling innovation: unveiling urban factors shaping creativity	5
How central policy signals promote the implementation of public–private partnership policies: an empirical analysis of 257 prefecture-level cities in China	5
The government-business relations: how Chinese business leaders take part in government policy formulation in the National People’s Congress	4
Party-led public participation in neighborhood governance: a comparative analysis of two forms of social networks	4
Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China	4

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’	4
Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform	4
Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China	4
Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19	4
Public participation in China: the case for environmental enforcement	3
Industrial ecology and local citizenship of migrant children in urban China	3
Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters	3
What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China	3
Industrial citizenship, workplace deliberation and participatory management in China: the deliberative polling experiment in a private firm	2
A conditional crowd out/in model of government funding on giving of money and time: evidence from social service organizations in China	2
Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai	2
Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China	2
Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation	2
Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design	2