OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Trends in Organized Crime is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence	39
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa	30
Rethinking the victim–offender binary: victimhood, consent, and complicity in human trafficking in Bangladesh	21
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome	20
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking	20
A crime script analysis of synthetic drug production	19
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	19
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany	18
When sex and drug markets and gang involvement blend: how do sex market facilitators operate and socialize differently?	17
Real estate anti-money laundering in the Global South – are the laws and policies covering the actors they should cover?	17
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 2024	13
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	12
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution	12
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators	11
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	11
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	10
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK?	9
Gendered dynamics of cross-border bride trafficking to China	9
Criminological definitions of organized crime on the digital test bench: towards a physical–digital framework	9
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong	8
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations	8
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	7
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach	7
Corruption in Nigeria: indifference and neglect	7
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime	7

Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case	7
Narcos, Inc.: drug cartels and the architecture of entrepreneurial ecosystems	7
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2023	7
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys	6
Raimo Pullat & Risto Pullat (2024) Vodka sea: the illicit alcohol trade in the Baltic sea region between the world wars. Tallinn: Eesti meremuuseum, pp.592, hardcover, €55, ISBN: 9789916975053	6
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate	6
Employment scams: a crime script and scoping review of prevailing methods, trends and future directions	6
From the street to the internet? Exploring hybrid offending among financially motivated cybercriminals	5
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom	5
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities	5
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	5
Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice	4
Networked corruption and discursive immunity: mapping the structure, actors, and framing of financial crimes in Nigeria (2010–2025)	4
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology	4
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece	4
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions	4
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue	4
Landlords and screens: using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording	4
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam	4
Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China	4
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram	4
Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy	3
Plausibly deniable - Domestic cannabis cultivation and the private rented sector in the UK	3
Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence	3
A relational approach to organised crime	3
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects	3
A living financial fossil, hawala: the evolution of informal fund transfer systems in Korea	3
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands	3
Countering the illicit trading of cultural goods: Recent trends, emerging issues, and LEA responses in Turkey	3
Unravelling the Zheyun Ye football scandal: A crime script analysis of the modus operandi to commit money laundering and tax fraud	3
Nigerian confraternities and mass cross-border fraud	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
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands	3
The role of transit countries in global wildlife trafficking	3
‘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
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 2022	2
Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering	2
The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence	2
Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved	2
Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law	2
COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue	2
A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands	2
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform	2
Marshalling the traffic: a preliminary exploration of the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine during martial law	2
Pretty good privacy turning sour: using closed encrypted communications data to study organized crime	2
Correction: ‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia	2