Selected publications and papers

Peer-reviewed publications:

Scoggins, Bermond and Matthew P. Robertson. 2024. "Measuring transparency in the social sciences: political science and international relations." Royal Society Open Science 11: 240313. Link
Smith, Tobias, Matthew P. Robertson, and Susan Trevaskes. 2022. "(Not) Talking about Capital Punishment in the Xi Jinping Era." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 11(3): 79-91.
Robertson, Matthew P. and Jacob Lavee. 2022. "Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China." American Journal of Transplantation. Link
Robertson, Matthew P. "Predatory Biopolitics: Organ Harvesting and Other Means of Monetizing Uyghur 'Surplus'." In Michael Clarke, ed., The Xinjiang emergency: Exploring the causes and consequences of China's mass detention of Uyghurs. Manchester University Press, 2022.
Robertson, Matthew P., Raymond L. Hinde, and Jacob Lavee. 2019. "Analysis of Official Deceased Organ Donation Data Casts Doubt on the Credibility of China's Organ Transplant Reform." BMC Medical Ethics 20(1): 79.
Rogers, Wendy A., Matthew P. Robertson, Angela Ballantyne, et al. 2019. "Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review." BMJ Open 9:e024473.
Rogers, Wendy A., Matthew P. Robertson, and Jacob Lavee. 2017. "Engaging with China on Organ Transplantation." BMJ 356:j665.

"Compensation by any other name: semantic recoding and mock compliance in China's organ donation reforms."
"Command and committee: measuring centralised control in China's People's Daily editorial chain."
With Victor A. Ferguson and Andrew Chubb. "State Media Rhetoric and China's Use of Economic Sanctions."
"Extractive repression: political violence and rent creation in China's transplant sector."

Invited white paper for the National Bureau of Asian Research programme on China's global health ambitions. 2022.
With Jacob Lavee. "China's Killer Doctors: How the PRC's lucrative transplant industry kills donors by removing their organs." Tablet. June 28, 2022.
With Jacob Lavee. "In China, New Evidence That Surgeons Became Executioners." The Wall Street Journal. May 31, 2022.
Robertson, Matthew P. 2020. "Counterterrorism or Cultural Genocide? Theory and Normativity in Knowledge Production About China's 'Xinjiang Strategy'." Made in China Journal. Link

Tohti, Ilham. We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks. Verso Books, 2022.
China Change, 2015-2019.