| Mapping China’s ‘one belt one road’initiative X Li Springer, 2018 | 136* | 2018 |
| The political economy of Chinese state capitalism X Li, TM Shaw Journal of China and international relations 1 (1), 2013 | 99 | 2013 |
| The rise of China and the capitalist world order X Li Routledge, 2016 | 95* | 2016 |
| China-Africa relations in an era of great transformations X Li, AO Farah Routledge, 2016 | 69 | 2016 |
| China’s Pursuit of the “One Belt One Road” Initiative: A New World Order with Chinese Characteristics? X Li Mapping China’s ‘one belt one road’initiative, 1-27, 2019 | 66 | 2019 |
| East Asian Regional Integration: From Japan-led" Flying-geese" to China-centred" Bamboo Capitalism" X Li CCIS, 2007 | 54 | 2007 |
| The BRICS and beyond: The international political economy of the emergence of a new world order X Li Routledge, 2016 | 53 | 2016 |
| Interpreting and understanding “the Chinese Dream” in a holistic nexus X Li Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 8, 505-520, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| China–Latin America Relations in the 21st Century: The Dual Complexities of Opportunities and Challenges R Bernal-Meza, X Li Springer Nature, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| The transformation of ideology from Mao to Deng: impact on China’s social welfare outcome X Li International Journal of Social Welfare 8 (2), 86-96, 1999 | 45 | 1999 |
| The Drivers of Chinese Arctic Interests: Political Stability and Energy and Transportation Security X Li, RG Bertelsen China’s Arctic Engagement 9, 15, 2021 | 44* | 2021 |
| Chinese Arctic science diplomacy: an instrument for achieving the Chinese Dream? RG Bertelsen, X Li Global Challenges in the Arctic Region, 452-470, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| The international political economy of the BRICS X Li Routledge, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Emerging powers, emerging markets, emerging societies: global responses SF Christensen, X Li Emerging Powers, Emerging Markets, Emerging Societies, 259-267, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Conceptualizing the cultural and political facets of “Chinese Nationalism” in an era of China’s global rise A Bislev, X Li International Communication of Chinese Culture 1, 21-33, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| From “Hegemony and World Order” to “Interdependent Hegemony and World Re-order” X Li Emerging powers, emerging markets, emerging societies, 30-54, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| “Same bed, different dreams” and “riding tiger” dilemmas: China’s rise and international relations/political economy X Li, TM Shaw Journal of Chinese Political Science 19, 69-93, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| Interdependent Hegemony China's Rise Under the Emerging New World Order X Li, Z Shengjun China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 4 (2), 159-175, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Conceptualizing the nexus of “interdependent hegemony” between the existing and the emerging world orders X Li Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 7, 343-362, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| China-US rivalry: a new Cold War or capitalism’s intra-core competition? X Li, R Bernal-Meza Brazilian Journal of International Politics 64 (1), e010, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
