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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Transit crime and sexual violence in cities: international evidence and prevention	61
Public perception of CPTED maintenance strategies: a VR study on residential burglary prevention	27
High school gun carrying: the role of disorder, collective efficacy, and police efficacy at school in a predominantly black sample	21
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	17
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	17
Grid-based crisis governance: integrating 4R theory and AGIL model with a keyword-based exploratory analysis	16
A bibliometric study on recent trends in artificial intelligence-based suspicious activity recognition	15
Review of Sutton, B. 2023. Bulletproof fashion: security, emotions, and the fortress body	14
From defensive walls to AI fences: the architectural evolution of borders	13
The great American car crime decline	12
Risk factors for intimate partner violence leading to homicide	12
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	12
Risk, regulation, and governance: evaluating artificial intelligence across diverse application scenarios	11
Unveiling the efficacy of the elaborated social identity model as a lens for understanding crowd psychology in South Korea: an empirical inquiry	10
Comparative analysis of the activities of authorities to ensure the prevention of offenses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and other world countries	10
Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries	9
The anatomy of insider threats: exploring safety consciousness in an adverse recruitment process	9
Enhancing the resilience of state institutions to security threats: strategic approaches for Ukraine	9
Herders without borders: transhumance securitisation and the challenges of national security in Ghana and Nigeria	8
The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America	8
Comparing safety perceptions and active mobility in two urban settings: a case study	8
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	8
International cooperation in police training: evaluation of a European Union programme for African gendarmes	8
The role of individual and situational factors on repeat victimization of online fraud in China	8
Everyone wants to think they’re the good guy: selective moral disengagement in crimes against national security	8

Prenzler, T.: preventing crime and disorder in public places: blending opportunity reduction, guardianship and welfare	7
Paul J. Springer (ed.): Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare, 2nd edn	7
Assessment of performance during cybersecurity tabletop exercises	7
Fraudsters target the elderly: Behavioural evidence from randomised controlled scam-baiting experiments	7
Freight fraud in UK supply chains: practitioner perspectives on trends, risks, and mitigation strategies	6
Policing AI-generated crimes: an ethnographic study on anti-cybercrime police in China	6
Cyber-enabled imposter scams against older adults in the United States	6
Assessing the time-varying spatial influence of bus stops on crime by context: a street network analysis	6
Industrial security protection in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack: failures to prepare, presidential executive orders, and guard force militarization	6
About time? Exploring the temporal dimensions and imperatives to crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) using a construction industry-aligned methodology for more sustainable and resili	6
Measuring the adoption of Enterprise Security Risk Management in Kenya’s higher education using the ASIS ESRM Maturity Model	6
Michael John Williams, James Wesley Hutto & Asli Peker Dogra: Understanding international security: theory and practice	5
Effects of socioeconomic and digital inequalities on cybersecurity in a developing country	5
Fortifying the digital realm: a comprehensive analysis of cyberspace security and the EU legislative framework	5
Missing targets: which entities are affected by UN counter-terrorism sanctions?	5
Cyber war(fare)s: a bibliometric and topic analysis	5
Symbolic authority and emotional governance: the role of tourism policing in contemporary China	5
Factors influencing victim-precipitated burglary in Florida Park, Johannesburg, South Africa	4
Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan	4
Prediction of male inmate infractions in Taiwan prisons	4
Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety	4
The crime drop in South Africa: an exploratory research note	4
I don’t want to be a Zirabzan or Mokhber, but they made me: the informant culture of spying on everyday life of citizens in the Islamic Republic of Iran	4
Can artificial intelligence (AI) predict cybersecurity risks? Qualitative evidence from the banking sector in an emerging economy	4
Perception toward autonomous ride-pooling services and public buses in Pakistan: perspectives in crime and victimization	4
Consciousness towards religious belief and re-radicalization in societies	4
Taking surveillance apart: states, online surveillance, and machines of ambivalent grace	4
Upholding civil rights through commitment to the rule of law in advocacy	3
Open-source intelligence and great-power competition under mediatization	3
External auditors’ use and perceptions of fraud factors in assessing fraudulent financial reporting risk (FFRR): Implications for audit policy and practice	3
The shadow of digital society: why the elderly are vulnerable to online phishing—a case study from South Korea	3
Identifying cyber security competencies and skills from online job advertisements through topic modeling	3
Assessing cybersecurity dynamics: a comparative analysis of data breaches in urban and rural hospitals in the United States	3
Detection of price manipulation fraud through rational choice theory: evidence for the retail industry in Taiwan	3
The use of home security technology by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence: an exploratory study	3
Investigating the data in investor alerting portals	3
What is the role of architects and urban planners in crime prevention?	3
Regional inequality in citizens’ attitudes towards the police and the effect of stop-and-search	3
Understanding the consideration of strategies for coping with locality violence in Arab society in Israel	3
Bruneau, T. C.: Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors are Providing Public Services	3
The asymmetric effect of environmental pollution and macroeconomic indicators on interpersonal violence across OECD countries	3
Balancing campus security and student rights: the case of the University of Botswana	3
Tactical and psychological aspects of interrogation using new digital technologies and Gesell spy mirror	3
Making terrorist content findable: search engines as a key to mitigating Salafi-jihadi persistent presence on the internet	3
Community-based vigilante violence and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil-producing region	2
Management of large shopping and entertainment centres under martial law	2
What really works in preventing fraud against organisations and do decision-makers really need to know?	2
The word mobile phone missing in the Cyber Crime Act, 2015	2
Suslov, Tymur: Rethinking security, the human side of risk management	2
Population distribution and terrorist attack preference: evidence from Xinjiang, China	2

Students care “who” carries: probing attributes associated with college students’ attitudes toward campus carry	2
The money laundering and terrorist financing risks of new and disruptive technologies: a futures-oriented scoping review	2
Exploring the physical risks and security mechanisms for Chinese companies operating under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project	2
Campus security and students’ perceptions of safety: an evaluation of security practices	2
Socio-spatial structure of urban communities and the distribution of crime in Makurdi, Nigeria	2
Risk perceptions and safe behaviours on the internet among older adults in India	2
The dimensions of ‘forensic biosecurity’ in genetic and facial contexts	2
Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud	2
Susceptibility for criminal facilitation in social housing: a psychological perspective	2
The virtual "Caliphate" strikes back? Mapping the Islamic State's information ecosystem on the surface web	2
Hidden players: the role of ‘drops’ in the cybercrime ecosystem	2
Cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes and their modus operandi in South Korea	2
Safety perception across boundaries: comparing gated and open Chinese university towns in pathways to security, satisfaction, and engagement	2
Plural policing in rural contexts: a GPS-based evaluation of multi-entity patrols against fruit theft	2
Quantitative analysis of mega political event’s impact on crime: practical study on military parade in Beijing	2
Digital trust and the adoption of e-government services in Pakistan: a systematic literature review	2
Shadow of death: the criminal economy of banditry and kidnapping in northwest Nigeria	2
Review of Gates, K. 2025. Targeted: corporations and the police surveillance economy. New York: NYU Press. pp. 196. ISBN 9781479829217	2
Reimagining the familiar stranger as a source of security: generating guardianship through everyday mobility	2
Trust to threat: the dynamics of insider risk in network security ecosystems	2
Developing and implementing social engineering-prevention policies: a qualitative study	2
‘We shall triumph like the Jews’: unveiling the implicit side of IPOB’s armed separatism in Southeast Nigeria	2
Frauds and forgeries in banking industry in Africa: a content analyses of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation annual crime report	1
Direct and indirect situational crime prevention: using the COSTS criteria to improve interventions	1
Addressing cybersecurity and safety disconnects in United States army aviation: an exploratory qualitative case study	1
Disruptive behavior of young people in shopping malls: a security provider perspective	1
Towards safer public spaces: a systematic literature review on CPTED strategies in park design	1
Carrying a handgun in public vs. taking a handgun to school among youth: an exploration of the predicting power of risk factors related to delinquency, aggression, and victimization	1
Disposable spies: a proposal for a model	1
Card-not-present fraud: using crime scripts to inform crime prevention initiatives	1
Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization	1
Cyber risks in healthcare and social organizations: analyzing the relationship between cybersecurity profiles and the opinion of protection of managers	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
Exploring banditry in Nigeria	1
Honor, fear, and coercion: cyberbullying and blackmailing in Palestinian society	1
Retraction Note: Formation of a legislative framework in the field of combating cybercrime and strategic directions of its development	1
Snapchat victimization: an exploratory study	1
Integrated security management model: a proposal applied to organisational resilience	1
Old problem, new manifestation: the emergence of cultism in rural secondary schools in Anambra state, Nigeria	1
Schneider, G. (2025). Presilience: how to navigate risk, embrace opportunity, and build resilience	1
Bias and noise in security risk assessments, an empirical study on the information position and confidence of security professionals	1
A general problem-solving matrix (GPSM): combining crime prevention and public health tools	1
Confidence levels of artificial intelligence generated evidence in cybercrime investigations—a survey	1
The effects of organizational images on security compliance intention: focused on affection and job security in South Korea	1
Embedding information security management in organisations: improving participation and engagement through intra-organisational Liaison	1
State or private security supply? An analysis from the institutional economics perspective	1
Terrorism, democracy and human security: a communication model. Ronald Crelinsten. 2021. Abingdon, Routledge, ISBN 978-036786089-9	1
Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities experienced by small-scale African migrant traders in Southern Africa	1
Fraud and cybercrime against older adults in Christian-dominated southern Nigeria	1
Economic espionage via fake social media profiles in the UK: professional workers awareness and resilience	1
Exploring the value of holiday preferences and routine activities for understanding tourist victimisation while on holiday	1
Spatial effects of insecurity on attracting tourists in Middle East countries	1
Identifying and preventing future forms of crimes using situational crime prevention	1
Shifting Cartel powers: an examination of the impact on U.S. and Mexican law enforcement	1
Issues with the application of CPTED in urban development: a case of City X, Malaysia	1