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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence	29
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa	26
The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam	23
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome	21
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking	19
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	18
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	18
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	17
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution	16
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany	15
Remembering Carlo Morselli	15
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	13
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators	13
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong	12
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations	12
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime	12
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach	11
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2023	11
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case	10
A comparison of Vietnamese and Chinese human smuggling networks transporting people to the UK; similarities and differences in methods used and the experience of migrants travelling to and living in t	10
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants	9
“Journey into hell […where] migrants froze to death”; a critical stylistic analysis of European newspapers’ first response to the 2019 Essex Lorry deaths	9
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys	8
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate	8
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs	8

Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom	7
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	7
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK	7
A tainted reputation it deserves? Crime in the trotting sector of Dutch horse racing	7
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT	6
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions	6
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities	6
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram	5
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?	5
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda	5
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology	5
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru	4
Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy	4
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam	4
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece	4
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace	4
Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence	4
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue	4
Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market	4
Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms	4
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands	4
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime	4
Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice	4
Correction to: Organized crime‑related disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila	4
A living financial fossil, hawala: the evolution of informal fund transfer systems in Korea	4
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects	3
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands	3
‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia	3
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform	3
Green criminological perspectives on dog-fighting as organised masculinities -based animal harm	3
Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle	3
A relational approach to organised crime	3
Correction to: Contract killings: a crime script analysis	3
Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering	3
It’s a man’s world but it would be nothing without a woman: The involvement of women in Belgian synthetic drugs trafficking	3
Countering the illicit trading of cultural goods: Recent trends, emerging issues, and LEA responses in Turkey	3
The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence	3
Organised crime and animals	3
Unravelling the Zheyun Ye football scandal: A crime script analysis of the modus operandi to commit money laundering and tax fraud	3
Marshalling the traffic: a preliminary exploration of the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine during martial law	2
COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue	2
Correction: ‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia	2
The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships	2
Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law	2
An examination of hybrid organized criminal groups’ alliances with terrorist groups	2
A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands	2
Empty pack survey to estimate Illicit Tobacco Trade in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina	2
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 2022	2
Media’s role in (un)covering organised match-fixing in Brazil	1
Professor Etannibi Alemika’s Interview on Organized Crime in West Africa	1

Power and domination relationships in match fixing networks in Portuguese professional football	1
Cocaine and the Emerald Isle	1
Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019)	1
Inside the Dutch Hells Angels: an empirical study into the club’s entry mechanisms	1
Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean	1
Walls of silence and organized crime: a theoretical and empirical exploration into the shielding of criminal activities from authorities	1
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents	1
Introduction to the special issue: The different faces of corruption and organised crime in sport	1
Shared Sovereignties and Criminal Governances in the Context of the Pandemic in Colombia	1
The nexus of women and ‘Clan Crime’: unravelling the dynamics and constraints	1
State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway	1