OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Security Journal is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Transit crime and sexual violence in cities: international evidence and prevention	30
High school gun carrying: the role of disorder, collective efficacy, and police efficacy at school in a predominantly black sample	21
The planning and reflection of police use of force training: a German case study	20
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	18
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	13
The great American car crime decline	12
A family affair? Exploratory insights into the role of family members of those who joined jihadist groups	11
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	10
Review of Sutton, B. 2023. Bulletproof fashion: security, emotions, and the fortress body	10
A bibliometric study on recent trends in artificial intelligence-based suspicious activity recognition	10
The age of terror: how to combine efforts for counteraction at the level of international and national law?	9
Comparative analysis of the activities of authorities to ensure the prevention of offenses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and other world countries	9
How effective are residential CCTV systems: Evaluating the impact of natural versus mechanical surveillance on house break-ins and theft in hotspots of Penang Island, Malaysia	8
The effect of unreported gun-related violent crime on crime hot spots	8
Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries	8
Protests and blood on the streets: repressive state, police brutality and #EndSARS protest in Nigeria	7
The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America	7
Crime prevention through environmental design and its challenges in reducing crime: a case of Selangor, Malaysia	7
International cooperation in police training: evaluation of a European Union programme for African gendarmes	6
Assessment of performance during cybersecurity tabletop exercises	6
Will the future policing of fraud be ‘a fundamental shift in our approach to tackling fraud’ or largely more of the same? Reviewing the 2023 UK fraud strategy through evidence on the ground	6
Herders without borders: transhumance securitisation and the challenges of national security in Ghana and Nigeria	6
Fraudsters target the elderly: Behavioural evidence from randomised controlled scam-baiting experiments	6
Industrial security protection in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack: failures to prepare, presidential executive orders, and guard force militarization	5
Measuring the adoption of Enterprise Security Risk Management in Kenya’s higher education using the ASIS ESRM Maturity Model	5

Assessing the time-varying spatial influence of bus stops on crime by context: a street network analysis	5
The influence of pledging allegiance on terrorist attacks: the case of Boko Haram and Islamic State	5
Missing targets: which entities are affected by UN counter-terrorism sanctions?	5
Effects of socioeconomic and digital inequalities on cybersecurity in a developing country	5
Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan	4
Using hotspot analysis to prioritize security efforts in Colombian critical infrastructure, a focus on the power grid	4
Consciousness towards religious belief and re-radicalization in societies	4
Correction to: Reliability: understanding cognitive human bias in artificial intelligence for national security and intelligence analysis	4
Police recruits’ wants and needs in police training in Germany	3
Prediction of male inmate infractions in Taiwan prisons	3
Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic	3
The crime drop in South Africa: an exploratory research note	3
The (in)security and educational perspectives of child sexual abuse: insights from Nigerian newspaper records	3
What is the role of architects and urban planners in crime prevention?	3
A comparison of target types, weapon types, and attack types in suicide-terrorism incidents before and after 9/11 terrorist attacks	3
External auditors’ use and perceptions of fraud factors in assessing fraudulent financial reporting risk (FFRR): Implications for audit policy and practice	3
Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety	3
Identifying cyber security competencies and skills from online job advertisements through topic modeling	2
A survey of extremism online content analysis and prediction techniques in twitter based on sentiment analysis	2
The dimensions of ‘forensic biosecurity’ in genetic and facial contexts	2
Bruneau, T. C.: Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors are Providing Public Services	2
Exploring the physical risks and security mechanisms for Chinese companies operating under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project	2
Understanding the consideration of strategies for coping with locality violence in Arab society in Israel	2
The asymmetric effect of environmental pollution and macroeconomic indicators on interpersonal violence across OECD countries	2
Balancing campus security and student rights: the case of the University of Botswana	2
Detection of price manipulation fraud through rational choice theory: evidence for the retail industry in Taiwan	2
Role of esthetic judgment on perceived safety of urban parks’ users	2
Community-based vigilante violence and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil-producing region	2
Socio-spatial structure of urban communities and the distribution of crime in Makurdi, Nigeria	2
The use of home security technology by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence: an exploratory study	2
The realpolitik of jihad: an anatomy of transnational Islamist terrorism in East Africa	2
Assessing cybersecurity dynamics: a comparative analysis of data breaches in urban and rural hospitals in the United States	2
What really works in preventing fraud against organisations and do decision-makers really need to know?	2
Security and urban satisfaction: developing a model based on safe urban park design components extracted from users' preferences	2
Examining the simultaneous use of home protection methods	2
Open-source intelligence and great-power competition under mediatization	2
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and its potential for campus safety: a qualitative study	2
Population distribution and terrorist attack preference: evidence from Xinjiang, China	1
Students care “who” carries: probing attributes associated with college students’ attitudes toward campus carry	1
Specifics of the legal regulation of the prevention of the taking and killing of hostages in the context of terrorist threats	1
The money laundering and terrorist financing risks of new and disruptive technologies: a futures-oriented scoping review	1
‘We shall triumph like the Jews’: unveiling the implicit side of IPOB’s armed separatism in Southeast Nigeria	1
State or private security supply? An analysis from the institutional economics perspective	1
Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization	1
Introducing Bayesian belief updating as a method to counter improvised explosive devices: a qualitative case study on identifying human behaviours associated with explosive chemical precursor diversio	1
Correction to: Football as a national security threat for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	1
Standardisation of investigative process in invasive and destructive techniques of mobile forensics in India	1
Exploring socio-demographic factors, avoiding being a victim and fear of crime in a Nigerian university	1
Tabletop scenario exercises as a training tool for improving response to workplace violence	1
PISA: A proximity-based social networking (PBSN) protection model	1

Developing and implementing social engineering-prevention policies: a qualitative study	1
Business e-mail compromise scam, cyber victimization, and economic sustainability of corporate organizations in Nigeria	1
Shadow of death: the criminal economy of banditry and kidnapping in northwest Nigeria	1
Addressing cybersecurity and safety disconnects in United States army aviation: an exploratory qualitative case study	1
Issues with the application of CPTED in urban development: a case of City X, Malaysia	1
Card-not-present fraud: using crime scripts to inform crime prevention initiatives	1
Integrated security management model: a proposal applied to organisational resilience	1
The effects of organizational images on security compliance intention: focused on affection and job security in South Korea	1
Disruptive behavior of young people in shopping malls: a security provider perspective	1
Frauds and forgeries in banking industry in Africa: a content analyses of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation annual crime report	1
Reimagining the familiar stranger as a source of security: generating guardianship through everyday mobility	1
The word mobile phone missing in the Cyber Crime Act, 2015	1
Cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes and their modus operandi in South Korea	1
The virtual "Caliphate" strikes back? Mapping the Islamic State's information ecosystem on the surface web	1
Should firearms be allowed in K-12 public schools? An analysis of law enforcement’s perceptions of armed teacher policies	1
Susceptibility for criminal facilitation in social housing: a psychological perspective	1
Retraction Note: Formation of a legislative framework in the field of combating cybercrime and strategic directions of its development	1
Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities experienced by small-scale African migrant traders in Southern Africa	1
Terrorism, democracy and human security: a communication model. Ronald Crelinsten. 2021. Abingdon, Routledge, ISBN 978-036786089-9	1
Prevention and mitigation measures against phishing emails: a sequential schema model	1
Embedding information security management in organisations: improving participation and engagement through intra-organisational Liaison	1
Exploring banditry in Nigeria	1