OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Police Quarterly is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Routinising Police-Security Collaborations: A Prospective, Mixed-Methods Experiment in British Train Stations	34
Turnover Intentions of Police Officers when Facing Discretionary Ethical Dilemmas: The Explanatory Roles of Professional Disillusionment and Job Stress	23
Warriors and Guardians: Occupational Ideologies and the Impact of Academy Training on Police Recruits’ Role Orientations	19
U.S. Law Enforcement Officers’ Stress, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, and Resilience: A National Sample	17
Police Use of TASER: Multi-Level Predictors of Firing and Drawing in One-to-One Use of Force Incidents	14
The Supply and Demand Shifts in Policing at the Start of the Pandemic: A National Multi-Wave Survey of the Impacts of COVID-19 on American Law Enforcement	13
Race and the Use of Force by Police Revisited: Post-Ferguson Findings From a Large County Police Agency	12
Police Leadership Under Pressure: Job Demand Stress, Resources, and Psychological Health	12
An Examination of Unintentional Use of Force by the Police	12
Factors that Facilitate and Hinder Implementation of a Problem Oriented Policing Intervention in Crime Hot Spots: Suggestions to Improve Implementation Based on a Field Experiment	10
Crossing the Threshold: Organizational and Community Correlates of Female and Minority Representation Among U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies	10
Police Resilience as a Multilevel Balance: Needs and Resources for Victim Support Officers	9
Us Versus Them? The Problem of Cognitive Distortions in Policing	8
Quantity or Spatial Coverage? Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Evaluate the Relationship Between Spatial Strategy of Police Stops and Crime in Crime Hotspots and Non-Hotspots	8
A Closer Look at the Alleged “War on Cops”: Post-Ferguson Trends in Ideologically-Motivated Homicides of Police Officers, 2008–2021	8
Law Enforcement-Based Outreach and Treatment Referral as a Response to Opioid Misuse: Assessing Reductions in Overdoses and Costs	7
Does Police Proactivity Impact Arrests? Examining Variation Across Individual Officers	7
Race, Ethnicity and Basic Law Enforcement Training Non-Completion: A National-Level Examination of Police Academies	7
Causes of Police Officer Career Apprehension Following George Floyd	7
Breaching the Public Trust and Sentencing Canadian Police Officers: Addressing Rotten Apples, but not Rotten Barrels or Orchards	7
What Motivates Police Officers to be Proactive and Evidence-Based? Analyzing Organizational and Individual Correlates	6
The 2020 De-Policing: An Empirical Analysis	6
The Influence of Guardian and Warrior Police Orientations on Australian Officers’ Use of Force Attitudes and Tactical Decision-Making	6
Police Academies and Officer Safety: Linking Training Structures and Instruction to Post-Employment Injury Outcomes in Law Enforcement	6
Factors Promoting and Inhibiting Use of Wellness Resources Among Police: A Mixed Methods Study	6

Exploring the Relationship Between Officer Safety and De-escalation in a Simulated Crisis Encounter	5
Examining the Effects of Suspect Race on Police First Contact and Arrest Among Adolescents	5
Using Body Worn Camera Footage to Investigate Predictors of Officer Behavior and the Outcomes of Police–Community Interactions	5
A Multi-Site Study of Firearms Displays by Police at Use of Force Incidents	5
“We Have a Long Ways to Go”: The Growing Pains of a Consent Decree in a Municipal Police Department	5
Correlates of Police Policies for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD): An Organizational Analysis	5
Response, Use of Force, and Dispositional Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis of the Seattle Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Training on Confirmed Crisis Events	5
@#%$!: The Impact of Officer Profanity on Civilians’ Perception of What Constitutes Reasonable Use of Force	4
Fire Without Smoke: Understanding Spontaneous Career Ending Police Misconduct	4
Can a Virtual Reality Training Scenario Elicit Similar Stress Response as a Realistic Scenario-Based Training Scenario?	4
Managing Growth and Selectivity at Police Quarterly	4
“How Should the Police Let Victims Down?” The Impact of Reassurance Call-Backs by Local Police Officers to Victims of Vehicle and Cycle Crimes: A Block Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Hot Spots Policing: Assessing the Impact on Officer-Initiated Activity	4
Sergeant Coffee Needs You: Evaluation of a Police Officer Bystander Intervention Program	4
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Police Early Intervention System: From the Predictive Validity of Officer Identification to the Impact of Intervention	3
Differences Between High and Low Performing Police Agencies in Clearing Robberies, Aggravated Assaults, and Burglaries: Findings From an Eight-Agency Case Study	3
Police Officer Mental Health: Predictors of and Barriers to Seeking Help	3
An Analysis of Police Department Crisis Communication via Social Media	3
A Link Between the George Floyd Incident and De-Policing: Evidence From Police Arrests Across Three Racial and Ethnic Groups	3