OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policing-A Journal of Policy and Practice 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
Does higher education matter in policing? An examination of the promotional process to sergeant	38
Why municipalities seek, secure, and fail to secure police shared service agreements	28
Evidence-based evaluation in the EU counter-terrorism interventions: practitioners’ perspectives	23
Apples, Oranges and Aircraft Carriers: A Comment on Weisburd and Colleagues	22
Correction to: Children Betrayed: The Unseen Victims Of Domestic Violence And How Law Enforcement Can Better Protect Them	20
Embedding critical reflective practice in policing: reflections from a practitioner–academic collaboration in the context of technology-facilitated human trafficking	18
Designing-in simulation-based learning for the police recruit Brief of Evidence education	18
Intake and service staff: practices and challenges of a pivotal yet underexplored police occupation	17
Driving simulators in police education—resistance and transformation	16
‘Like chalk and cheese’: accounts of police use of force from formerly incarcerated people and implications for procedural justice theory	15
Reducing agency and social costs by keeping kids in school and out of the justice system: A cost–benefit analysis of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program	15
Partnership approaches in policing: An analysis of different types of partnerships and how they work to reduce crime and disorder	14
Formal and informal disciplinary practices: internalizing the culture of impossibility and enabling sexual harassment	14
Police academy attrition: a multi-academy study	13
‘I really felt wanted’: Police recruitment strategies within a competitive labour market	13
Productive policing: Lessons from preventative police strategies in times of New Public Management	13
AI-related data ethics oversight in UK policing	13
The Transformer Led Policing model: a framework for applying generative artificial intelligence in policing	12
Professional policing and the role of autonomy and discretion in decision-making: A qualitative study from a virtue ethical perspective	12
SicardAllanThe Courage to Lead, Resilience & Compassion in Police Command. Australia: Busybird Publishing. ISBN paperback: 978-10922954-24-4, Ebook: 978-1922954-25-1	11
New Roles, Functions, and Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers Post-COVID-19	11
الشرطة الذكية: مبادرة شرطة أبو ظبي القائمة على الذكاء الاصطناعي والنظام العالمي لتحديد المواقع (جي بي اس) لخفض مخالفات سائقي المركبات الثقيلة	11
Leadership Behaviours for Effective Policing M. Kilgallon, and M. Wright (2024). St Albans: Critical Publishing. £23.87. 283 pp	10
The multiple faces of police identity in Wales: A case study in public order policing	10
Blending the ‘craft’ and ‘science’ of policing: challenges and opportunities for police as professional learning organizations	10

Gender differences in Chinese policing: Supervisor support, wellbeing, and turnover intention	10
Policing with (and without) Tasers: a descriptive analysis of effectiveness, worry, and safety beliefs in England and Wales	10
Rethinking narratives of value from a police-based uniformed youth organization	10
Nudging down residential burglaries: A randomized control trial	10
Police relational accountabilities: The paralysis of police accountability?	10
The impact of administrative disciplinary proceedings on military police officers in São Paulo	10
Special Issue: Women in policing	10
Automating body-worn camera footage review through AI: baseline attitudes from a multisite randomized control trial	10
‘In the “too difficult” box?’ Organizational inflexibility as a driver of voluntary resignations of police officers in England and Wales	10
Interventions, Training, and Technologies for Improved Police Well-Being and Performance Edited by Eamonn Patrick Arble and Bengt B. Arnetz (2021). Pennsylvania: IGI Global. ISBN 9781799868200 (Hardco	9
ʻItʼs Not “Uni” Work, itʼs Essential Learning to be a Police Officerʼ: Examining the Higher Education Elements of Police Education Qualifications Framework Programmes	9
Considerations for implementing simulation-based instructional training for police cadets: insights from practitioners	9
Exploring the proactive pursuits of wanted persons: a case study of a local fugitive unit	9
Policing Domestic Violence Special Edition Editorial: Seven years on—Reflections on progress in domestic abuse research and practice	9
Recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in policing: Lessons learned from the IAWP Gender-Responsive Policing Summit	9
Special issue on police reform	9
Controlling investigation through collaboration: an empirical study of China’s new prosecutor–police interaction mechanism	8
Policing and Mental Health Theory, Policy and Practice John, Kate Moss, Ken Pease (2022) London: Routledge. 344 pp. $54.99. Hardback. ISBN: 9780429470882	8
Problem officers and problem behavior: on the object of early intervention systems	8
Volunteer officers’ experiences in law enforcement work in Malaysia and the USA	8
Flex, adapt, thrive? Navigating work mutations and the well-being of police officers supporting gender-based violence victims in Catalonia	8
Special tactical police’ experience and perception of their use of force: Evidence from the Chinese SWAT police	8
Enhancing police legitimacy through body-worn cameras: a response to citizen animus	8
Correction to: Police Retention: A Systematic Review of the Research	7
Correction to: Using unsupervised machine learning to find profiles of domestic abuse perpetrators	7
No More Women Killed in Spain! A Collaborative Femicide Prevention Effort of a Police-Led Team of Ministry of Interior and Academia	7
Downsizing and recovery: Perceived quality of police services in Finland before, during, and after three major police management reform programs	7
Leaving so soon? An analysis of withdrawal patterns from academy training	7
Beyond altruistic motivations: the impact of individual characteristics, perceptions of the police, and political ideology on interest in becoming a police officer	7
Retraction of: New Roles, Functions, and Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers Post-COVID-19	7
Managing Policing Demand for Digital Forensics through Risk Assessment and Prioritization in England and Wales	7
Counting disruptions: ethnographic insights from organized crime policing in London	6
Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles	6
GonzálezYanilda María (2021). Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-108-82074-5	6
Old school is out: how crisis intervention team training is reshaping policing	6
Training the police on legalized medical cannabis: lessons in building public trust, reducing harm, and avoiding reputational damage	6
An exploration of recurring early intervention (EI) alerts to address at-risk officers through the lens of police reform	6
‘The Devil I Know’: Explaining Police Officer Intention to Transfer to Another Department	6
‘It’s not like you’re delivering Amazon packages’: A qualitative study and thematic analysis exploring older victims’ perspectives on how the police responded to their crime report	6
The German police as a learning organization: a quantitative study on perceived organizational support, organizational commitment and communication quality	6
Why do police consider leaving the profession?: The interplay between job demand stress, burnout, psychological distress, and commitment	6
Correction to: It Is Time for ‘Big Science’ in SQF Research: The Questions Are Important Enough and the Potential Harms of ‘Small Science’ Great Enough	6
Vocational transition and employment experiences among police leavers: a National Survey Study	6
When the construction of police legitimacy backfires? Emotion expression management in times of the erosion of the rule of law	5
Exploring ‘positive policing’: creating a space for (contextual) safeguarding	5
Recruiting women into policing: Experimentally testing the effectiveness of recruiting materials	5
Assessing the effect of gender and diversity on the traditional police culture	5
Policing a neurodiverse world: Lessons from the social model of disability	5
Partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural, and island communities in northern Scotland before and during COVID-19	5
How the duty to report prevents reporting and reinforces silence around sexual harassment within the police	5

Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption, and Reform in Queensland Paul Bleakley (2023). London: Routledge. xi+ 178 pp. $43.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0367749573	5
Re-defining evidence-based policing	5
Emotional coping by chance: Experiences of emotional coping strategies among on-scene commanders in the Norwegian police services	5
ببناء الجاهزية: دراسة حالة للعوامل المهنية التي تؤثر على مستويات ‘السعادة’ لضباط شرطة أبو ظبي	5
Croatian immigrants’ trust in the police in Croatia and abroad: The roles of police integrity and transnational migration factors	5
Ignorance-led port policing? The limits of information sharing–based policing in the North Sea Canal Area and Port of Amsterdam and in the Port of Moerdijk	5
Police culture and body-worn cameras: examining how cultural values impact officers’ acceptance of technology	5
LEGITIMACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: AN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION Justice Tankebe and Alison Liebling (2013). Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198701996 (Hardcover), $115.00. 376 pages	5
Autonomy and Connection: How Ward Panels Support Neighbourhood Policing	5
Enhancing suicidal risk detection in 911 calls with embedded mental health counselors: improving safety for callers and officers	5
Examining the impacts of state-wide reform on police attitudes and perceptions in New Jersey	5
Incident characteristics of fatal forcible entry warrant raids in the USA (2010–6)	5
Training police to de-escalate mental health crisis situations: Comparing virtual reality and live-action scenario-based approaches	5
Gender differences in workplace incivility experiences and their impacts on the well-being and retention of women in law enforcement organizations	5
Ask the women in blue: Female officers’ thoughts on the recruitment and retention of women in policing	4
Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of the Police in Asia Weitseng Chen and Hualing Fu (eds.) (2023). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-316-51741-3. 394 pages	4
‘Domestic abuse hot spots’: A longitudinal, place-based analysis of 13 years of initial reports to the police	4
A configurational perspective of hate crime policies	4
Broadening the public health approach to policing	4
Proactive policing and traffic disturbances: A quasi-experiment in three Israeli cities	4
The police staffing crisis: Evidence-based approaches for building, balancing, and optimizing effective workforces	4
NeilGross (2023). Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture New York, NY, USA: Metropolitan Books. ISBN: 978-1-250-77752-2. 272 pages	4
Police Social Capital and the Effectiveness of Emergency Policing in China During COVID-19	4
Information analysis in criminal investigations: methods, challenges, and computational opportunities processing unstructured text	4
Treatment dosage for violent crime reduction	4
Perceptions of officers’ occupational identity management strategies in police–civilian interactions: does race play a role?	4
How far have we advanced in simulation-based training for policing and law enforcement? A literature review 2014–24	4
‘As a Black woman, there’s no winning in law enforcement’: Black women’s experiences in policing	4
Evaluating the effects of co-response teams in reducing subsequent hospitalization: A place-based randomized controlled trial	4