OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quantitative Criminology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Significance of Duration Weighted Neighborhood Effects for Violent Behavior and Explanation of Ethnoracial Differences	52
Familial Clustering of Trends in Aggression	31
Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis	28
The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Routine Activities and Online Crime	17
Sexual Distance in Victim-Offender Relationships: Expanding the Social Distance Hypothesis for Rape Sentencing in China	15
Causal Effect of Small Businesses on Street Theft: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of the Beijing Cleanup Campaign	14
Chaos Before Peace: The Impact of Exposure to a Prison Riot on Incarcerated Persons	13
Chronic Exposure to Community Violence and Criminal Behavior: A Marginal Structural Modeling Approach	13
Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology	12
Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism	12
The Emergence and Evolution of Problematic Properties: Onset, Persistence, Aggravation, and Desistance	11
Placing Perceptions of Unsafety: Examining Spatial Concentrations and Temporal Patterns of Unsafe Locations at Micro-Places	11
An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions	9
Is There a Long-Term Criminogenic Effect of the Exposure to a Paternal Conviction During Upbringing? An Analysis of Full Siblings Using Swedish Register Data	9
Building the Statistical Evidence Base for Crime Linkage Decision-Support Tools with Sexual Offences	9
Addressing Ethnic Differences in the Validity of Self-reported Criminal Behaviour Through a Social Desirability Measure	9
Correction: Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums	8
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: A Simulation and Illustration of the Importance of Treating Incomplete Data in Estimating Race Effects in Sentencing	7
Racial and Temporal Barriers in the Journey to Crime for Black and White Drug Suspects	7
Where is the Evidence? Comparing the Effects of Evidence Strength and Demographic Characteristics on Plea Discounts	7
Searching for Smurfs: Testing if Money Launderers Know Alert Thresholds	6
Economic Booms and Recidivism	5
Reflecting on the Interaction of Self-Control and Morality in Situational Action Theory: Comparing Absolute and Relative Effects of Self-control in 28 Countries	5
When ‘Eyes on the Street’ Are Not Enough: Insights from Itinerant Street Markets	5
Accounting for Socio-Economic Context in Quantifying the Attractive and Repellent Influence of Built Environment on Firearms Violence in Multiple Cities	5

Hate-Motivated Violence in America: Conceptualizing an Expanded and Updated Typology Using Latent Class Analysis	5
A Robust Measure to Uncover Community Brokerage in Illicit Networks	5