Table 6 List of the most globally and locally cited documents on soft power.

From: Global soft power in the 21st century: a two-decade global perspective

Papers

Citationsa

LC/GC Ratio (%)

Normalized Local Citations

Normalized Global Citations

Local Citations

Global Citations

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. 2008. “Public Diplomacy and Soft Power.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616 (1): 94–109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716207311699.

185

876

21.12

12.78

12.87

Filipe Santos and Kathleen Eisenhardt. 2009. “Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields.” Academy of Management Journal 52 (4): 643–71. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2009.43669892.

5

673

0.74

0.81

14.45

Eytan Gilboa. 2008. “Searching for a Theory of Public Diplomacy.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616 (1): 55–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716207312142.

47

361

13.02

3.25

5.30

Barry M. Blechman. 2004. “Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics.” Political Science Quarterly 119 (4): 680–81. https://doi.org/10.1002/J.1538-165X.2004.TB01291.X.

56

354

15.82

5.25

5.51

Adrian Hyde-Price. 2006. “‘Normative’ Power Europe: A Realist Critique.” Journal of European Public Policy 13 (2): 217–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501760500451634.

8

298

2.68

1.38

6.49

Andreas Georg Scherer, Andreas Rasche, Guido Palazzo, and André Spicer. 2016. “Managing for Political Corporate Social Responsibility: New Challenges and Directions for PCSR 2.0.” Journal of Management Studies 53 (3): 273–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/JOMS.12203.

0

267

0.00

0.00

18.93

Judith G. Kelley, and Beth A. Simmons. 2015. “Politics by Number: Indicators as Social Pressure in International Relations.” American Journal of Political Science 59 (1): 55–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/AJPS.12119.

0

242

0.00

0.00

14.75

Janice Bially Mattern. 2005. “Why ‘Soft Power’ Isn’t So Soft: Representational Force and the Sociolinguistic Construction of Attraction in World Politics.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 33 (3): 583–612. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298050330031601.

63

229

27.51

12.95

9.39

Ben Crewe. 2011. “Soft Power in Prison: Implications for Staff–Prisoner Relationships, Liberty and Legitimacy.” European Journal of Criminology 8 (6): 455–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370811413805.

7

214

3.27

17.37

26.78

Yiwei Wang. 2008. “Public Diplomacy and the Rise of Chinese Soft Power.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616 (1): 257–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716207312757.

59

202

29.21

4.08

2.97

James F. Paradise. 2009. “China and International Harmony: The Role of Confucius Institutes in Bolstering Beijing’s Soft Power.” Asian Survey 49 (4): 647–69. https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2009.49.4.647.

64

174

36.78

10.38

3.74

Bates Gill and Yanzhong Huang. 2006. “Sources and Limits of Chinese ‘Soft Power.’” Survival: Global Politics and Strategy 48 (2): 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396330600765377.

62

181

34.25

10.73

3.94

Young Nam Cho and Jong Ho Jeong. 2008. “China’s Soft Power: Discussions, Resources, and Prospects.” Asian Survey 48 (3): 453–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2008.48.3.453.

52

115

45.22

3.59

1.69

Hongying Wang and Yeh Chung Lu. 2008. “The Conception of Soft Power and Its Policy Implications: A Comparative Study of China and Taiwan.” Journal of Contemporary China 17 (56): 425–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670560802000191.

49

96

51.04

3.39

1.41

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. 2009. “Get Smart: Combining Hard and Soft Power.” Foreign Affairs 88 (4): 63–66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20699631.

47

177

26.55

7.62

3.8

  1. aDocuments were initially sorted based on the number of global and local citations. Subsequently, it was observed that some documents were cited both locally and globally, prompting the merging of these entries. The most globally cited documents are arranged in descending order of citation count, whereas the most locally cited documents are indexed numerically.