OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Organized Crime is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru	24
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	23
Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence	19
De-triadization: examining the definition of desistance from ex-triad members	13
The Dutch judicial approach to various types of co-offending among members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs	13
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece	12
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs	11
Media’s role in (un)covering organised match-fixing in Brazil	11
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome	11
Miroslav Nožina and Filip Kraus (2020), Vietnamese organized crime in the Czech Republic	11
Professor Etannibi Alemika’s Interview on Organized Crime in West Africa	10
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime	9
Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy	8
The fight against the financing of terrorism—selected challenges and potential solutions	8
Book reviewed: Digital transformations of illicit drug markets: reconfiguration and continuity	7
Naturalizing insecurity: resilience and drug-related Organized Crime in the Americas	7
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys	7
Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019)	7
Recruiting co-offenders for financial cybercrime: an analysis of police investigations into cybercriminal networks	7
Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking: a comparative analysis of two cases	7
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence	7
Cross-jurisdictional review of Australian legislation governing outlaw motorcycle gangs	6
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic	5
A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia	5
Introduction to the special issue: The different faces of corruption and organised crime in sport	5

The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam	5
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents	5
Correction to: State‑organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway	5
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking	5
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa	5
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany	4
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities	4
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	4
Afterword: The political economy of countering transnational organized crime in Africa	4
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	4
Safety, intimacy and defiance in the context of border control and counter-smuggling: Algeria’s ghettos, maquis and ngandas	4
Green criminological perspectives on dog-fighting as organised masculinities -based animal harm	4
Correction to: Organised crime and animals	4
Unraveling the crime scripts of phishing networks: an analysis of 45 court cases in the Netherlands	4