OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Homicide Studies 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Business of Murder: Business Types and the Moderating Effects of Neighborhood Context on Homicide	42
Public Mass Murder, Suicidality, and the “Final Act Mindset”: A Research Note	27
The “Rainey Street Ripper”: Social Media Apophenia and Linkage Illusions	19
Homicide Studies Special Issue on Police Use of Deadly Force	12
Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence	12
The Gun’s Journey to Crime: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Repeat Criminal Firearm Use	10
Corrigendum to “The Relationship Between Stalking, Homicide, and Coercive Control in an Australian Population”	8
“Who is Where?” Cold Case Investigation and Collaborations Between Law Enforcement and Academia	8
Behavioral Profiling in the Golden State Killer Investigation: A Comparative Analysis	8
Death by Police Shooting in Australia: Understanding Lethal Force Decisions Through a Sequence Analysis of Behavior	8
Managing the Impacts of Exposure to Trauma on Injury and Violence Research Teams	7
Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Lethal Police Incidents in the Netherlands Between 2016 and 2020	7
When DNA Is and Isn’t Magic: A Conjunctive Analysis of How Context Matters in Homicide Investigations	7
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	6
The Social Demography of Three Contemporary Homicide Booms in the United States	6
Second Chances: A Follow-Up on Capital Murder Defendants Sentenced to Life in Prison with the Possibility of Parole	6
It’s Not Just a Matter of Chance When No One Dies: Characteristics of Offenders, Victims, and Situations in Lethal Versus Non-Lethal Violence	6
Framing Fear: An Analysis of the Fear-Based Framing Styles of Serial Homicide News Articles	6
Deadnamed and Denied Justice: The Role of Deadnaming and Other Factors in Transgender Homicide Clearance	5
Perpetrator Involvement in Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales	5
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Homicide Age-Crime Curve in the United States, 2022 to 2024	5
Familicide in Canada, 2010 to 2019	5
The Labor of Survival: Homicide Victims and the Black Women They Leave Behind	5
The Impact of Suspect Race and Precipitating Incident on Community Members’ Assessments of Deadly Force Reasonableness	5

Homicidal Ideation in a Sample of Capital Murderers: Prevalence, Morbidity, and Associations With Homicide Offending	4
Examining Individual and Aggregate Correlates of Police Killings of People with Mental Illness: A Special Gaze at Race and Ethnicity	4
Driven by Purpose: Exploring Spirituality in Black Mothers’ Coping with Loss of Children to Gun Homicide	4
Lethality of Police Shootings and Proximity to Trauma Centers	4
Exploring Research on the Coping Strategies of Black Survivors of Homicide Victims: A Scoping Review	4
Child Deaths from Lack of Care and Injuries of Undetermined Intent in Ohio, 1959 to 2015: How Many Were Probable Homicides?	4
Paths to Lethal Violence: Prior Incarceration, Reentry Challenges, and Labeling in the Lives of Incarcerated Homicide Offenders	4
The Influence of the Environment on Officer-Involved Shootings	4