Ming‐Cheng M. Lo

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Ming‐Cheng M. Lo is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Emergency Medical Services. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming‐Cheng M. Lo has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Emergency Medical Services. Recurrent topics in Ming‐Cheng M. Lo's work include Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (5 papers) and Cultural Competency in Health Care (5 papers). Ming‐Cheng M. Lo is often cited by papers focused on Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (5 papers) and Cultural Competency in Health Care (5 papers). Ming‐Cheng M. Lo collaborates with scholars based in United States and Taiwan. Ming‐Cheng M. Lo's co-authors include Laura Grindstaff, John R. Hall, Clare L. Stacey, Eileen M. Otis, Bin Xu, S HSIEH and Michael Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Science & Medicine and Sociology of Health & Illness.

In The Last Decade

Ming‐Cheng M. Lo

26 papers receiving 971 citations

Hit Papers

The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
    2010 452 citations Ming‐Cheng M. Lo Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ming‐Cheng M. Lo United States 12 675 318 234 102 79 29 1.0k
Sean P. Hier Canada 17 770 1.1× 110 0.3× 116 0.5× 108 1.1× 172 2.2× 51 991
Mark Elchardus Belgium 16 773 1.1× 475 1.5× 128 0.5× 104 1.0× 15 0.2× 176 1.2k
Erik Bleich United States 19 967 1.4× 536 1.7× 208 0.9× 65 0.6× 24 0.3× 58 1.3k
Dina G. Okamoto United States 20 1.0k 1.5× 237 0.7× 72 0.3× 100 1.0× 44 0.6× 41 1.5k
Godfríed Engbersen Netherlands 18 1.2k 1.7× 219 0.7× 108 0.5× 264 2.6× 24 0.3× 81 1.6k
Marie Gillespie United Kingdom 15 681 1.0× 147 0.5× 371 1.6× 18 0.2× 88 1.1× 49 1.1k
Rory McVeigh United States 18 718 1.1× 331 1.0× 121 0.5× 72 0.7× 18 0.2× 31 991
Aitor Gómez Spain 15 427 0.6× 71 0.2× 111 0.5× 167 1.6× 47 0.6× 45 1.2k
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan United States 18 1.2k 1.8× 605 1.9× 245 1.0× 133 1.3× 45 0.6× 42 1.5k
Mabel Berezin United States 17 609 0.9× 379 1.2× 79 0.3× 40 0.4× 39 0.5× 39 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ming‐Cheng M. Lo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming‐Cheng M. Lo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M. & S HSIEH. (2025). Countering populism through emotive transformation: political performances during Taiwan’s 2021 COVID outbreak. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 14(1). 50–75. 1 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M.. (2025). Toward a hybrid democratic culture: moral codes in public narratives about COVID in Taiwan. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 13(4). 663–687.
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2024). Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience.
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Xu, Bin & Ming‐Cheng M. Lo. (2022). Toward a cultural sociology of disaster: Introduction. Poetics. 93. 101682–101682. 2 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2021). How narratives of disaster impact survivors’ emotionality: The case of Typhoon Morakot. Poetics. 93. 101579–101579. 2 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2021). Resisting the racialization of medical deservingness: How Latinx nurses produce symbolic resources for Latinx immigrants in clinical encounters. Social Science & Medicine. 270. 113677–113677. 3 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2020). The “Societalization” of pandemic unpreparedness: lessons from Taiwan’s COVID response. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 8(3). 384–404. 28 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M.. (2020). Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 49(6). 515–517. 28 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M.. (2020). How Taiwan’s Precautionary Approach Contained COVID-19. Contexts. 19(4). 18–21. 6 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2018). Caring and Carrying the Cost: Bicultural Latina Nurses’ Challenges and Strategies for Working with Coethnic Patients. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 4(1). 149–171. 14 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M.. (2015). Conceptualizing “unrecognized cultural currency”: Bourdieu and everyday resistance among the dominated. Theory and Society. 44(2). 125–152. 11 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2013). Resisting the colonization of the lifeworld? Immigrant patients' experiences with co-ethnic healthcare workers. Social Science & Medicine. 87. 68–76. 22 indexed citations
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Grindstaff, Laura, Ming‐Cheng M. Lo, & John R. Hall. (2010). Handbook of Cultural Sociology. 219 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M.. (2010). Cultural brokerage: Creating linkages between voices of lifeworld and medicine in cross-cultural clinical settings. Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine. 14(5). 484–504. 42 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2010). Hybrid Cultural Codes in Nonwestern Civil Society: Images of Women in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Sociological Theory. 28(2). 167–192. 10 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2009). Civic Solidarity in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The China Quarterly. 197. 183–203. 5 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M. & Clare L. Stacey. (2008). Beyond cultural competency: Bourdieu, patients and clinical encounters. Sociology of Health & Illness. 30(5). 741–755. 53 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2006). Deploying Weapons of the Weak in Civil Society: Political Culture in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Social Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order. 33(2). 77. 4 indexed citations
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M., et al.. (2006). Civil Passions: Cultural Challenges of Public Spheres amidst National Identity Controversies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. eScholarship (California Digital Library).
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Lo, Ming‐Cheng M.. (2002). Between Ethnicity and Modernity: Taiwanese Medical Students and Doctors Under Japan's Kominka Campaign, 1937–1945. positions asia critique. 10(2). 285–332. 5 indexed citations

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