OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Organized Crime is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence	42
Rethinking the victim–offender binary: victimhood, consent, and complicity in human trafficking in Bangladesh	32
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking	24
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome	24
A crime script analysis of synthetic drug production	22
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	21
Youth gangs and mafia-type organisations in Italy: a two-dimensional typology beyond the evolutionary paradigm	21
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany	20
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa	20
When sex and drug markets and gang involvement blend: how do sex market facilitators operate and socialize differently?	18
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 2024	14
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution	13
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	13
Real estate anti-money laundering in the Global South – are the laws and policies covering the actors they should cover?	13
Criminological definitions of organized crime on the digital test bench: towards a physical–digital framework	12
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	12
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	11
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong	10
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators	10
Gendered dynamics of cross-border bride trafficking to China	10
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK?	9
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations	9
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2023	9
Narcos, Inc.: drug cartels and the architecture of entrepreneurial ecosystems	8
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach	8

Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime	8
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys	7
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
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate	7
Corruption in Nigeria: indifference and neglect	7
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case	7
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
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom	6
Employment scams: a crime script and scoping review of prevailing methods, trends and future directions	6
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	6
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities	5
From the street to the internet? Exploring hybrid offending among financially motivated cybercriminals	5
Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China	5
Networked corruption and discursive immunity: mapping the structure, actors, and framing of financial crimes in Nigeria (2010–2025)	5
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue	5
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions	5
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam	5