OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Trends in Organized Crime 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Differentiating criminal networks in the illegal wildlife trade: organized, corporate and disorganized crime	52
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs	23
Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle	21
Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands	18
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime	16
Economic geographies of the illegal: the multiscalar production of cybercrime	12
Making sense of professional enablers’ involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation	10
Getting a foot in the door. Spaces of cocaine trafficking in the Port of Rotterdam.	8
The poverty business: landlords, illicit practices and reproduction of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Czechia	8
Unraveling the crime scripts of phishing networks: an analysis of 45 court cases in the Netherlands	7
More Amazon than Mafia: analysing a DDoS stresser service as organised cybercrime	7
Shaping space. A conceptual framework on the connections between organised crime groups and territories	7
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic	7
Coyotes, caravans, and the Central American migrant smuggling continuum	6
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT	6
Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019)	6
A world fit for money laundering: the Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control	6
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace	6
The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam	6
Networked territorialism: the routes and roots of organised crime	6
Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking: a comparative analysis of two cases	6
Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market	5
Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines	5
Your files have been encrypted: a crime script analysis of ransomware attacks	5
Comparing operational terrorist networks	5

Organised crime and animals	4
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?	4
Identifying sex trafficking in Adult Services Websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	4
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram	4
Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime	4
Fishy business: regulatory and enforcement challenges of transnational organised IUU fishing crimes	4
State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway	4
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	3
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects	3
Cross-jurisdictional review of Australian legislation governing outlaw motorcycle gangs	3
The organization of Danish gangs: a transaction cost approach	3
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform	3
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands	3
Entrepreneurial elements of human smuggling rings: findings from a multiple case study	3
Green criminological perspectives on dog-fighting as organised masculinities -based animal harm	3
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants	3
Phantom state in Haiti: criminal sovereignty and the mercenary remedy	3
Mexican organized crime and the illegal trade in totoaba maw	3
The dynamics of criminal cooperation between the police and gangs in Honduras	3
Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay	3
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	3
From prison gangs to transnational mafia: the expansion of organized crime in Brazil	3
Walls of silence and organized crime: a theoretical and empirical exploration into the shielding of criminal activities from authorities	3
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda	3
On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime	2
Contract killings: a crime script analysis	2
An exploration of organized crime in Italian ports from an institutional perspective. Presence and activities	2
Firearms and Injuries during Home Robberies in Mexico, 2010–2017	2
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	2
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents	2
From horticulture to psychonautics: an analysis of online communities discussing and trading plants with psychotropic properties	2
Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms	2
The production of the Mafioso space. A spatial analysis of the sack of Palermo	2
Bloody investment: misaligned incentives, money laundering and violence	2
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece	2
Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law	2
A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands	2
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology	2
Safety, intimacy and defiance in the context of border control and counter-smuggling: Algeria’s ghettos, maquis and ngandas	2
Understanding support for Mano Dura strategies: Lessons from Brazil and Colombia	2
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom	1
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands	1
“Journey into hell […where] migrants froze to death”; a critical stylistic analysis of European newspapers’ first response to the 2019 Essex Lorry deaths	1
The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships	1
The processes, logics and economies of violence in organised crime	1
Incapacity, pathology, or expediency? Revisiting accounts of data and analysis weaknesses underpinning international efforts to combat organised crime	1
Remembering Carlo Morselli	1
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK	1
Who are the enforcers? The motives and methods of muscle for hire in West Scotland and the West Midlands	1
Empty pack survey to estimate Illicit Tobacco Trade in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina	1

From payday to payoff: Exploring the money laundering strategies of cybercriminals	1
New challenges in financial supervision: environmental crime terrorism financing	1
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators	1
‘Through a glass darkly’: organised crime and money laundering policy reflections - an introduction to the special issue	1
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	1
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru	1
Exploring the relationship between super bowls and potential online sex trafficking	1
Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering	1
Organized crime-related disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila	1
Co-offending networks among members of outlaw motorcycle gangs across types of crime	1
The perfect storm. An analysis of the processes that increase lethal violence in Mexico after 2006	1