Trends in Organized Crime

Papers
(The H4-Index of Trends in Organized Crime is 13. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence30
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome27
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa21
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions21
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking18
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany17
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform17
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution16
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling14
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators13
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force13
Criminological definitions of organized crime on the digital test bench: towards a physical–digital framework13
Real estate anti-money laundering in the Global South – are the laws and policies covering the actors they should cover?13
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong13
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