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 2022-08-01 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
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	17
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	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
Risk factors for intimate partner violence leading to homicide	12
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	12
The great American car crime decline	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
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
Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries	9
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
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

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
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
Freight fraud in UK supply chains: practitioner perspectives on trends, risks, and mitigation strategies	6
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
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
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
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
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
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