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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence	30
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome	27
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	21
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa	21
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking	18
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	17
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany	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
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	14
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 Kong	13
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators	13
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	13
Criminological definitions of organized crime on the digital test bench: towards a physical–digital framework	13
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK?	11
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations	10
Corruption in Nigeria: indifference and neglect	9
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime	9
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2023	9
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	8
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case	8
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach	8
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys	7
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants	7
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate	7

Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom	6
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities	6
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	6
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK	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
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology	5
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue	5
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam	5
Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China	5
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram	5
Landlords and screens: using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording	5
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions	5
A living financial fossil, hawala: the evolution of informal fund transfer systems in Korea	4
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru	4
Nigerian confraternities and mass cross-border fraud	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
Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy	4
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece	4
Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence	4
‘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
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects	3
Countering the illicit trading of cultural goods: Recent trends, emerging issues, and LEA responses in Turkey	3
The role of transit countries in global wildlife trafficking	3
Organised crime and animals	3
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace	3
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands	3
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands	3
Unravelling the Zheyun Ye football scandal: A crime script analysis of the modus operandi to commit money laundering and tax fraud	3
A relational approach to organised crime	3
Plausibly deniable - Domestic cannabis cultivation and the private rented sector in the UK	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
A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands	2
Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law	2
Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved	2
The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence	2
Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering	2
Shared Sovereignties and Criminal Governances in the Context of the Pandemic in Colombia	2
Marshalling the traffic: a preliminary exploration of the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine during martial law	2
The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships	2
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 2022	2
Introduction to the special issue: The different faces of corruption and organised crime in sport	1
Inside the Dutch Hells Angels: an empirical study into the club’s entry mechanisms	1
Walls of silence and organized crime: a theoretical and empirical exploration into the shielding of criminal activities from authorities	1
Co-offending networks among members of outlaw motorcycle gangs across types of crime	1
The nexus of women and ‘Clan Crime’: unravelling the dynamics and constraints	1
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2021	1
Power and domination relationships in match fixing networks in Portuguese professional football	1
An examination of hybrid organized criminal groups’ alliances with terrorist groups	1

Media’s role in (un)covering organised match-fixing in Brazil	1
Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean	1
Cocaine and the Emerald Isle	1
Mexican organized crime and the illegal trade in totoaba maw	1
Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade: Violence and Vengeance by Robert McLean and James A. Densley	1
Correction: ‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia	1
Professor Etannibi Alemika’s Interview on Organized Crime in West Africa	1
Ville lumière Ou Ville obscure? Assessing the secrecy of firms owning real estate properties in Paris	1
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents	1
Situating high-level darknet drug vending: an emancipation from open and closed market drug dealing?	1
Prosecuting human traffickers in Nigeria: victim-witnessing and community-oriented challenges	1
Correction to: Exploring the relationship between super bowls and potential online sex trafficking	1
COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue	1