OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Journal is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Transit crime and sexual violence in cities: international evidence and prevention	48
The planning and reflection of police use of force training: a German case study	28
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	20
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	17
Public perception of CPTED maintenance strategies: a VR study on residential burglary prevention	16
High school gun carrying: the role of disorder, collective efficacy, and police efficacy at school in a predominantly black sample	14
A bibliometric study on recent trends in artificial intelligence-based suspicious activity recognition	13
Review of Sutton, B. 2023. Bulletproof fashion: security, emotions, and the fortress body	12
The great American car crime decline	12
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	12
Grid-based crisis governance: integrating 4R theory and AGIL model with a keyword-based exploratory analysis	11
Risk, regulation, and governance: evaluating artificial intelligence across diverse application scenarios	10
Comparative analysis of the activities of authorities to ensure the prevention of offenses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and other world countries	8
Unveiling the efficacy of the elaborated social identity model as a lens for understanding crowd psychology in South Korea: an empirical inquiry	8
Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries	8
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
Herders without borders: transhumance securitisation and the challenges of national security in Ghana and Nigeria	7
The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America	7
The effect of unreported gun-related violent crime on crime hot spots	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
Comparing safety perceptions and active mobility in two urban settings: a case study	7
International cooperation in police training: evaluation of a European Union programme for African gendarmes	7
Enhancing the resilience of state institutions to security threats: strategic approaches for Ukraine	7
Fraudsters target the elderly: Behavioural evidence from randomised controlled scam-baiting experiments	6
Assessment of performance during cybersecurity tabletop exercises	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
Policing AI-generated crimes: an ethnographic study on anti-cybercrime police in China	6
Assessing the time-varying spatial influence of bus stops on crime by context: a street network analysis	6
Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety	5
Police recruits’ wants and needs in police training in Germany	5
Industrial security protection in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack: failures to prepare, presidential executive orders, and guard force militarization	5
Missing targets: which entities are affected by UN counter-terrorism sanctions?	5
Fortifying the digital realm: a comprehensive analysis of cyberspace security and the EU legislative framework	5
Effects of socioeconomic and digital inequalities on cybersecurity in a developing country	5
Cyber-enabled imposter scams against older adults in the United States	5
Consciousness towards religious belief and re-radicalization in societies	5
Cyber war(fare)s: a bibliometric and topic analysis	5
Measuring the adoption of Enterprise Security Risk Management in Kenya’s higher education using the ASIS ESRM Maturity Model	5
The crime drop in South Africa: an exploratory research note	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	4
Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan	4
Perception toward autonomous ride-pooling services and public buses in Pakistan: perspectives in crime and victimization	4
Investigating the data in investor alerting portals	3
Regional inequality in citizens’ attitudes towards the police and the effect of stop-and-search	3
What is the role of architects and urban planners in crime prevention?	3
Detection of price manipulation fraud through rational choice theory: evidence for the retail industry in Taiwan	3
Tactical and psychological aspects of interrogation using new digital technologies and Gesell spy mirror	3
Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic	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
Making terrorist content findable: search engines as a key to mitigating Salafi-jihadi persistent presence on the internet	3
A survey of extremism online content analysis and prediction techniques in twitter based on sentiment analysis	3
Balancing campus security and student rights: the case of the University of Botswana	3
The realpolitik of jihad: an anatomy of transnational Islamist terrorism in East Africa	3
Identifying cyber security competencies and skills from online job advertisements through topic modeling	3
Understanding the consideration of strategies for coping with locality violence in Arab society in Israel	3
The asymmetric effect of environmental pollution and macroeconomic indicators on interpersonal violence across OECD countries	3