OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Homicide Studies 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Business of Murder: Business Types and the Moderating Effects of Neighborhood Context on Homicide	23
Public Mass Murder, Suicidality, and the “Final Act Mindset”: A Research Note	22
Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence	18
Homicide Studies Special Issue on Police Use of Deadly Force	16
Behavioral Profiling in the Golden State Killer Investigation: A Comparative Analysis	16
Corrigendum to “The Relationship Between Stalking, Homicide, and Coercive Control in an Australian Population”	16
Death by Police Shooting in Australia: Understanding Lethal Force Decisions Through a Sequence Analysis of Behavior	12
“Who is Where?” Cold Case Investigation and Collaborations Between Law Enforcement and Academia	9
A New Wave of Mass Shootings? Exploring the Potential Impact of COVID-19	9
Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Lethal Police Incidents in the Netherlands Between 2016 and 2020	8
When DNA Is and Isn’t Magic: A Conjunctive Analysis of How Context Matters in Homicide Investigations	8
The Superstition That Mutilates Children in Africa: Exploring the Scale and Features of Juju-Driven Pedicide in Kenya	7
“I Want That Money Saved for ‘Real’ Victims”: Homicide Detectives’ Perceptions of Victims and Impacts on Advocacy and Services for Loss Survivors	7
Familicide in Canada, 2010 to 2019	6
Framing Fear: An Analysis of the Fear-Based Framing Styles of Serial Homicide News Articles	6
Perpetrator Involvement in Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales	6
Managing the Impacts of Exposure to Trauma on Injury and Violence Research Teams	6
One “Two” Many: An Examination of Solo Perpetrator Versus Team Perpetrator Serial Homicides	6
The Impact of Suspect Race and Precipitating Incident on Community Members’ Assessments of Deadly Force Reasonableness	5
Examining Individual and Aggregate Correlates of Police Killings of People with Mental Illness: A Special Gaze at Race and Ethnicity	5
Driven by Purpose: Exploring Spirituality in Black Mothers’ Coping with Loss of Children to Gun Homicide	5
Homicidal Ideation in a Sample of Capital Murderers: Prevalence, Morbidity, and Associations With Homicide Offending	5
Lethality of Police Shootings and Proximity to Trauma Centers	5
Exploring Research on the Coping Strategies of Black Survivors of Homicide Victims: A Scoping Review	5
Homicide and the Opioid Epidemic: A Longitudinal Analysis	5

The Labor of Survival: Homicide Victims and the Black Women They Leave Behind	5
Deadnamed and Denied Justice: The Role of Deadnaming and Other Factors in Transgender Homicide Clearance	5