| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Urban pluvial flooding and stormwater management: A contemporary review of China’s challenges and “sponge cities” strategy | Environmental Science and Policy | 2018 | 275 |
| 2 | Public–private partnership in Public Administration discipline: a literature review | Public Management Review | 2018 | 255 |
| 3 | The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention | Scientometrics | 2015 | 164 |
| 4 | PESTEL analysis of the development of the waste-to-energy incineration industry in China | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2017 | 157 |
| 5 | Coupling and coordinated development of new urbanization and agro-ecological environment in China | Science of the Total Environment | 2021 | 139 |
| 6 | The moderating role of governance environment on the relationship between risk allocation and private investment in PPP markets: Evidence from developing countries | International Journal of Project Management | 2019 | 74 |
| 7 | International scientific collaboration of China: collaborating countries, institutions and individuals | Scientometrics | 2013 | 68 |
| 8 | Usage patterns of scholarly articles on Web of Science: a study on Web of Science usage count | Scientometrics | 2016 | 68 |
| 9 | Public–private partnership as a driver of sustainable development: toward a conceptual framework of sustainability-oriented PPP | Environment, Development and Sustainability | 2021 | 65 |
| 10 | Demand for Long-Term Care Insurance in China | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2018 | 51 |
| 11 | Reducing the medical economic burden of health insurance in China: Achievements and challenges | BioScience Trends | 2018 | 48 |
| 12 | Exploring scientists’ working timetable: Do scientists often work overtime? | Journal of Informetrics | 2012 | 45 |
| 13 | Mix and match: Configuring different types of policy instruments to develop successful low carbon cities in China | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2021 | 43 |
| 14 | Assessing and explaining interagency collaboration performance: a comparative case study of local governments in China | Public Management Review | 2019 | 41 |
| 15 | A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector: comparing barriers and governance strategies of digital and non-digital open innovation | Public Management Review | 2022 | 38 |
| 16 | Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements | Public Management Review | 2023 | 36 |
| 17 | Is China's industrial policy effective? An empirical study of the new energy vehicles industry | Technology in Society | 2020 | 35 |
| 18 | Tracing scientist’s research trends realtimely | Scientometrics | 2013 | 30 |
| 19 | Prevalence, awareness, and treatment of depressive symptoms among the middle‐aged and elderly in China from 2008 to 2015 | International Journal of Health Planning and Management | 2018 | 30 |
| 20 | A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Global Community Resilience Research | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2021 | 30 |
| 21 | Sentiment Analysis With Comparison Enhanced Deep Neural Network | IEEE Access | 2020 | 28 |
| 22 | Mapping key features and dimensions of the inclusive city: A systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study | International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology | 2022 | 26 |
| 23 | Tracking the digital footprints to scholarly articles from social media | Scientometrics | 2016 | 24 |
| 24 | Bounded Rationality in the Developmental Trajectory of Environmental Target Policy in China, 1972–2016 | Sustainability | 2018 | 23 |
| 25 | Preferences for long-term care insurance in China: Results from a discrete choice experiment | Social Science and Medicine | 2021 | 22 |
| 26 | Pareto optimization of public-private partnership toll road contracts with government guarantees | Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice | 2018 | 19 |
| 27 | Diversification or convergence | Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management | 2020 | 19 |
| 28 | What organizational conditions, in combination, drive technology enactment in government-led smart city projects? | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2022 | 18 |
| 29 | Editorial behaviors in peer review | SpringerPlus | 2016 | 16 |
| 30 | How does public-private collaboration reinvent? A comparative analysis of urban bicycle-sharing policy diffusion in China | Cities | 2020 | 16 |
| 31 | Mix leading to success? Exploring the innovative development model in peri-urban China | Habitat International | 2018 | 15 |
| 32 | Striving for global cities with governance approach in transitional China: Case study of Shanghai | Land Use Policy | 2020 | 15 |
| 33 | Resilient City: A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization | Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society | 2021 | 15 |
| 34 | Patent research in the field of library and information science: Less useful or difficult to explore? | Scientometrics | 2017 | 14 |
| 35 | Coupling of Problems, Political Attention, Policies and Institutional Conditions: Explaining the Performance of Environmental Targets in the National Five-Year Plans in China | Sustainability | 2018 | 13 |
| 36 | An artificial intelligence based model for evaluation of college students’ ability and characteristics through teaching evaluation | Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems | 2021 | 13 |
| 37 | Dual constraints and adversarial learning for fair recommenders | Knowledge-Based Systems | 2022 | 13 |
| 38 | How far does scientific community look back? | Journal of Informetrics | 2014 | 12 |
| 39 | Responsible innovation in port development: the Rotterdam Maasvlakte 2 and the Dalian Dayao Bay extension projects | Water Science and Technology | 2015 | 12 |
| 40 | The psychology of local officials: explaining strategic behavior in the Chinese Target Responsibility System | Journal of Chinese Governance | 2018 | 11 |
| 41 | Social Media Attention Increases Article Visits: An Investigation on Article-Level Referral Data of PeerJ | Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics | 2017 | 10 |
| 42 | A Sustainable Community of Shared Future for Mankind: Origin, Evolution and Philosophical Foundation | Sustainability | 2021 | 10 |
| 43 | A Content Analysis of the Strictest Water Resources Management Policy in China | Water Economics and Policy | 2022 | 10 |
| 44 | Role of Law, Position of Actor and Linkage of Policy in China’s National Environmental Governance System, 1972–2016 | Sustainability | 2018 | 9 |
| 45 | Exploring Coordinative Mechanisms for Environmental Governance in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: An Ecology of Games Framework | Sustainability | 2019 | 8 |
| 46 | The Poor Altmetric Performance of Publications Authored by Researchers in Mainland China | Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics | 2016 | 7 |
| 47 | Barriers to Tobacco Control in China: A Narrative Review | Societies | 2020 | 7 |
| 48 | Do Health Insurance Schemes Heterogeneously Affect Income and Income Distribution? Evidence from Chinese Agricultural Migrants Survey | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2020 | 7 |
| 49 | A network representation approach for COVID-19 drug recommendation | Methods | 2022 | 7 |
| 50 | Combining project and process management in PPP network: Relationship between management style and outcome | Australian Journal of Public Administration | 2022 | 7 |
