OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Policing-A Journal of Policy and Practice 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
We Are All Police—Abu Dhabi Police Community Engagement Initiative	27
Partnership approaches in policing: An analysis of different types of partnerships and how they work to reduce crime and disorder	25
‘I really felt wanted’: Police recruitment strategies within a competitive labour market	24
Why municipalities seek, secure, and fail to secure police shared service agreements	18
Does higher education matter in policing? An examination of the promotional process to sergeant	18
Evidence-based evaluation in the EU counter-terrorism interventions: practitioners’ perspectives	17
AI-related data ethics oversight in UK policing	17
Apples, Oranges and Aircraft Carriers: A Comment on Weisburd and Colleagues	17
Correction to: Children Betrayed: The Unseen Victims Of Domestic Violence And How Law Enforcement Can Better Protect Them	16
Designing-in simulation-based learning for the police recruit Brief of Evidence education	14
Embedding critical reflective practice in policing: reflections from a practitioner–academic collaboration in the context of technology-facilitated human trafficking	13
Intake and service staff: practices and challenges of a pivotal yet underexplored police occupation	13
Professional policing and the role of autonomy and discretion in decision-making: A qualitative study from a virtue ethical perspective	12
Productive policing: Lessons from preventative police strategies in times of New Public Management	12
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	12
The Transformer Led Policing model: a framework for applying generative artificial intelligence in policing	11
الشرطة الذكية: مبادرة شرطة أبو ظبي القائمة على الذكاء الاصطناعي والنظام العالمي لتحديد المواقع (جي بي اس) لخفض مخالفات سائقي المركبات الثقيلة	11
Driving simulators in police education—resistance and transformation	11
The impact of administrative disciplinary proceedings on military police officers in São Paulo	10
The multiple faces of police identity in Wales: A case study in public order policing	10
New Roles, Functions, and Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers Post-COVID-19	10
SicardAllanThe Courage to Lead, Resilience & Compassion in Police Command. Australia: Busybird Publishing. ISBN paperback: 978-10922954-24-4, Ebook: 978-1922954-25-1	10
Gender differences in Chinese policing: Supervisor support, wellbeing, and turnover intention	9
Leadership Behaviours for Effective Policing M. Kilgallon, and M. Wright (2024). St Albans: Critical Publishing. £23.87. 283 pp	9
Rethinking narratives of value from a police-based uniformed youth organization	9

The impact of police–community relations: Recruitment and retention concerns of local police agencies	9
‘In the “too difficult” box?’ Organizational inflexibility as a driver of voluntary resignations of police officers in England and Wales	9
Blending the ‘craft’ and ‘science’ of policing: challenges and opportunities for police as professional learning organizations	9
Nudging down residential burglaries: A randomized control trial	8
Police relational accountabilities: The paralysis of police accountability?	8
Exploring the Perceptual Effects of Uniforms and Accoutrements Among a Sample of Police Officers: The Locker Room as a Site of Transformation	8
Getting Proactive with Police Proactivity: The Benefits of Computer-aided Dispatch for Directing Police Resources to Areas of Need	8
Automating body-worn camera footage review through AI: baseline attitudes from a multisite randomized control trial	8
Special issue on police reform	8
Educating Future Police Professionals Amid Covid-19 a UAE Perspective	8
ʻItʼs Not “Uni” Work, itʼs Essential Learning to be a Police Officerʼ: Examining the Higher Education Elements of Police Education Qualifications Framework Programmes	8
Special Issue: Women in policing	8
Recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in policing: Lessons learned from the IAWP Gender-Responsive Policing Summit	8
Considerations for implementing simulation-based instructional training for police cadets: insights from practitioners	8
The Right Tool for the Job: Evaluating Police Experiences of a Pilot Tool for Responding to Stalking	7
Flex, adapt, thrive? Navigating work mutations and the well-being of police officers supporting gender-based violence victims in Catalonia	7
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	7
Problem officers and problem behavior: on the object of early intervention systems	7
Policing and Mental Health Theory, Policy and Practice John, Kate Moss, Ken Pease (2022) London: Routledge. 344 pp. $54.99. Hardback. ISBN: 9780429470882	7
Managing Policing Demand for Digital Forensics through Risk Assessment and Prioritization in England and Wales	7
Leaving so soon? An analysis of withdrawal patterns from academy training	7
Policing Domestic Violence Special Edition Editorial: Seven years on—Reflections on progress in domestic abuse research and practice	7
Enhancing police legitimacy through body-worn cameras: a response to citizen animus	6
An exploration of recurring early intervention (EI) alerts to address at-risk officers through the lens of police reform	6
Special tactical police’ experience and perception of their use of force: Evidence from the Chinese SWAT police	6
Implementing a Patrol-driven Intelligence Officer program: A Policing Innovation Trial	6
Stigmatization and Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness: Psychological Functioning, Social Functioning, and Social Distance as Predictors of Reporting Violence to the Police	6
Volunteer officers’ experiences in law enforcement work in Malaysia and the USA	6
Old school is out: how crisis intervention team training is reshaping policing	5
Correction to: Police Retention: A Systematic Review of the Research	5
Training the police on legalized medical cannabis: lessons in building public trust, reducing harm, and avoiding reputational damage	5
‘The Devil I Know’: Explaining Police Officer Intention to Transfer to Another Department	5
GonzálezYanilda María (2021). Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-108-82074-5	5
Vocational transition and employment experiences among police leavers: a National Survey Study	5
Examining the impacts of state-wide reform on police attitudes and perceptions in New Jersey	5
Retraction of: New Roles, Functions, and Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers Post-COVID-19	5
Correction to: Using unsupervised machine learning to find profiles of domestic abuse perpetrators	5
No More Women Killed in Spain! A Collaborative Femicide Prevention Effort of a Police-Led Team of Ministry of Interior and Academia	5
Beyond altruistic motivations: the impact of individual characteristics, perceptions of the police, and political ideology on interest in becoming a police officer	5
‘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	5
Training police to de-escalate mental health crisis situations: Comparing virtual reality and live-action scenario-based approaches	5
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	5
Downsizing and recovery: Perceived quality of police services in Finland before, during, and after three major police management reform programs	5
Why do police consider leaving the profession?: The interplay between job demand stress, burnout, psychological distress, and commitment	5
Future-Proofing Organizational Knowledge Management and Human Resourcing: Identifying Early Retirement Predictors in a Modern Police Force	5
Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles	5
A Method for Organized Crime Harm Assessment: Connecting Associated Crimes	5
Policing a neurodiverse world: Lessons from the social model of disability	5
Police culture and body-worn cameras: examining how cultural values impact officers’ acceptance of technology	4
Gender differences in workplace incivility experiences and their impacts on the well-being and retention of women in law enforcement organizations	4

Croatian immigrants’ trust in the police in Croatia and abroad: The roles of police integrity and transnational migration factors	4
Partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural, and island communities in northern Scotland before and during COVID-19	4
Autonomy and Connection: How Ward Panels Support Neighbourhood Policing	4
Perceptions of officers’ occupational identity management strategies in police–civilian interactions: does race play a role?	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
Re-defining evidence-based policing	4
Recruiting women into policing: Experimentally testing the effectiveness of recruiting materials	4
How the duty to report prevents reporting and reinforces silence around sexual harassment within the police	4
Incident characteristics of fatal forcible entry warrant raids in the USA (2010–6)	4
When the construction of police legitimacy backfires? Emotion expression management in times of the erosion of the rule of law	4
ببناء الجاهزية: دراسة حالة للعوامل المهنية التي تؤثر على مستويات ‘السعادة’ لضباط شرطة أبو ظبي	4
Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption, and Reform in Queensland Paul Bleakley (2023). London: Routledge. xi+ 178 pp. $43.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0367749573	4
The police staffing crisis: Evidence-based approaches for building, balancing, and optimizing effective workforces	4
Antilocution and trust in the workplace: Perceptions of higher education trained police recruits in England and Wales	4
‘Domestic abuse hot spots’: A longitudinal, place-based analysis of 13 years of initial reports to the police	4
Emotional coping by chance: Experiences of emotional coping strategies among on-scene commanders in the Norwegian police services	4
Assessing the effect of gender and diversity on the traditional police culture	4
LEGITIMACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: AN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION Justice Tankebe and Alison Liebling (2013). Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198701996 (Hardcover), $115.00. 376 pages	4
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	4
Ask the women in blue: Female officers’ thoughts on the recruitment and retention of women in policing	4
Broadening the public health approach to policing	4
How far have we advanced in simulation-based training for policing and law enforcement? A literature review 2014–24	4
Exploring ‘positive policing’: creating a space for (contextual) safeguarding	4
Smart policing: Abu Dhabi police AI/GPS-based initiative to reduce heavy vehicle driver violations	3
Can the police cool down quality-of-life hotspots? A double-blind national randomized control trial of policing low-harm hotspots	3
Trust in the police in Latin America: A multilevel analysis of institutional and experiential models	3
Beyond the badge: organizational barriers to police anxiety and mental health support	3
When will women chiefs break the brass ceiling without falling off the glass cliff?	3
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”: the effects of unanticipated police reform during the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived community willingness to obey the law and cooperate with the police	3
Correction to: Sexual posttraumatic stress among investigators of child sexual abuse material	3
Improving Police Data Collection to Measure Repeat Demand: A Focus on Domestic Violence and Abuse	3
‘As a Black woman, there’s no winning in law enforcement’: Black women’s experiences in policing	3
Police Social Capital and the Effectiveness of Emergency Policing in China During COVID-19	3
شرطة أبو ظبي ... رؤية حديثة تواكب التطور واستشراف المستقبل	3
The power few missing persons: A 10-year follow-up study of over 2,000 youth missing persons	3
Pre-release Risk Assessments: Pilot Study of a Novel Tool in One Police Station in the North East of England	3
Changes in China’s Policing: Organizational Structure and Daily Law Enforcement of Frontline Police	3
Surprise, anticipation, sadness, and fear: A sentiment analysis of social media’s portrayal of police use of facial recognition technology	3
Contemporary drug use and driving patterns: A qualitative approach to understanding drug-driving perceptions from the context of user patterns	3
Addressing the potential for training scars: investigating the risk of using Extended Reality in police training	3
Time to exercise caution? Project CARA and out-of-court responses to domestic abuse	3
Community Policing as a Philosophy: The Case of Pol-Der (Polis Derneği, Police Association) in Turkey	3
Information analysis in criminal investigations: methods, challenges, and computational opportunities processing unstructured text	3
Special Issue: Contemporary Policing Issues Addressed Through Collaborative Partnerships	3
Prostitution, renamed? Police perceptions of human trafficking	3
Developing and Sustaining Police–researcher Partnerships	3
Occupational prestige and job satisfaction in high-stress public safety work	3
Criminology Explains Police Violence, by Philip Matthew Stinson, Sr	3
Children’s perceptions and feelings about the police: A comparative study between Roma and non-Roma children	3
Proactive policing and traffic disturbances: A quasi-experiment in three Israeli cities	3
Tracking procedural justice in stop and search pedestrian encounters with police body-camera records	3
High alert in the low countries: State-sponsored threat awareness in policing the Dutch port and knowledge sectors	3
Worried Sick: Perceptions of Low Public Support, Stress, and Somatic Health Problems in Law Enforcement	3
Evaluating the effects of co-response teams in reducing subsequent hospitalization: A place-based randomized controlled trial	3
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	3
A configurational perspective of hate crime policies	3
Police recruitment videos and their relevance for attracting officers	3