OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Journal is 2. 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
Transit crime and sexual violence in cities: international evidence and prevention	34
High school gun carrying: the role of disorder, collective efficacy, and police efficacy at school in a predominantly black sample	31
The planning and reflection of police use of force training: a German case study	23
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	21
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	20
The great American car crime decline	14
Risk, regulation, and governance: evaluating artificial intelligence across diverse application scenarios	14
A bibliometric study on recent trends in artificial intelligence-based suspicious activity recognition	12
Review of Sutton, B. 2023. Bulletproof fashion: security, emotions, and the fortress body	11
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	11
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	10
Comparative analysis of the activities of authorities to ensure the prevention of offenses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and other world countries	10
The effect of unreported gun-related violent crime on crime hot spots	10
Comparing safety perceptions and active mobility in two urban settings: a case study	9
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
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	7
International cooperation in police training: evaluation of a European Union programme for African gendarmes	7
Herders without borders: transhumance securitisation and the challenges of national security in Ghana and Nigeria	7
Assessing the time-varying spatial influence of bus stops on crime by context: a street network analysis	6
Assessment of performance during cybersecurity tabletop exercises	6
Policing AI-generated crimes: an ethnographic study on anti-cybercrime police in China	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

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	5
Missing targets: which entities are affected by UN counter-terrorism sanctions?	5
Cyber-enabled imposter scams against older adults in the United States	5
The influence of pledging allegiance on terrorist attacks: the case of Boko Haram and Islamic State	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
Measuring the adoption of Enterprise Security Risk Management in Kenya’s higher education using the ASIS ESRM Maturity Model	4
Effects of socioeconomic and digital inequalities on cybersecurity in a developing country	4
Prediction of male inmate infractions in Taiwan prisons	4
The (in)security and educational perspectives of child sexual abuse: insights from Nigerian newspaper records	3
Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan	3
Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic	3
The crime drop in South Africa: an exploratory research note	3
Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety	3
Balancing campus security and student rights: the case of the University of Botswana	3
Perception toward autonomous ride-pooling services and public buses in Pakistan: perspectives in crime and victimization	3
Police recruits’ wants and needs in police training in Germany	3
The realpolitik of jihad: an anatomy of transnational Islamist terrorism in East Africa	3
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and its potential for campus safety: a qualitative study	2
Risk perceptions and safe behaviours on the internet among older adults in India	2
Exploring the physical risks and security mechanisms for Chinese companies operating under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project	2
Should firearms be allowed in K-12 public schools? An analysis of law enforcement’s perceptions of armed teacher policies	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
Assessing cybersecurity dynamics: a comparative analysis of data breaches in urban and rural hospitals in the United States	2
The use of home security technology by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence: an exploratory study	2
Identifying cyber security competencies and skills from online job advertisements through topic modeling	2
The shadow of digital society: why the elderly are vulnerable to online phishing—a case study from South Korea	2
Role of esthetic judgment on perceived safety of urban parks’ users	2
The money laundering and terrorist financing risks of new and disruptive technologies: a futures-oriented scoping review	2
‘We shall triumph like the Jews’: unveiling the implicit side of IPOB’s armed separatism in Southeast Nigeria	2
Bruneau, T. C.: Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors are Providing Public Services	2
Campus security and students’ perceptions of safety: an evaluation of security practices	2
Detection of price manipulation fraud through rational choice theory: evidence for the retail industry in Taiwan	2
Tactical and psychological aspects of interrogation using new digital technologies and Gesell spy mirror	2
The asymmetric effect of environmental pollution and macroeconomic indicators on interpersonal violence across OECD countries	2
The dimensions of ‘forensic biosecurity’ in genetic and facial contexts	2
External auditors’ use and perceptions of fraud factors in assessing fraudulent financial reporting risk (FFRR): Implications for audit policy and practice	2
Specifics of the legal regulation of the prevention of the taking and killing of hostages in the context of terrorist threats	2
Shadow of death: the criminal economy of banditry and kidnapping in northwest Nigeria	2
Examining the simultaneous use of home protection methods	2
What really works in preventing fraud against organisations and do decision-makers really need to know?	2
Open-source intelligence and great-power competition under mediatization	2
Understanding the consideration of strategies for coping with locality violence in Arab society in Israel	2
A survey of extremism online content analysis and prediction techniques in twitter based on sentiment analysis	2
What is the role of architects and urban planners in crime prevention?	2