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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does higher education matter in policing? An examination of the promotional process to sergeant	31
Evidence-based evaluation in the EU counter-terrorism interventions: practitioners’ perspectives	21
Why municipalities seek, secure, and fail to secure police shared service agreements	21
Apples, Oranges and Aircraft Carriers: A Comment on Weisburd and Colleagues	20
Correction to: Children Betrayed: The Unseen Victims Of Domestic Violence And How Law Enforcement Can Better Protect Them	19
Designing-in simulation-based learning for the police recruit Brief of Evidence education	16
Intake and service staff: practices and challenges of a pivotal yet underexplored police occupation	15
Embedding critical reflective practice in policing: reflections from a practitioner–academic collaboration in the context of technology-facilitated human trafficking	15
Productive policing: Lessons from preventative police strategies in times of New Public Management	14
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	14
Driving simulators in police education—resistance and transformation	14
AI-related data ethics oversight in UK policing	13
Partnership approaches in policing: An analysis of different types of partnerships and how they work to reduce crime and disorder	13
The Transformer Led Policing model: a framework for applying generative artificial intelligence in policing	13
‘Like chalk and cheese’: accounts of police use of force from formerly incarcerated people and implications for procedural justice theory	12
New Roles, Functions, and Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers Post-COVID-19	11
Professional policing and the role of autonomy and discretion in decision-making: A qualitative study from a virtue ethical perspective	11
الشرطة الذكية: مبادرة شرطة أبو ظبي القائمة على الذكاء الاصطناعي والنظام العالمي لتحديد المواقع (جي بي اس) لخفض مخالفات سائقي المركبات الثقيلة	11
Formal and informal disciplinary practices: internalizing the culture of impossibility and enabling sexual harassment	11
‘I really felt wanted’: Police recruitment strategies within a competitive labour market	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
Policing with (and without) Tasers: a descriptive analysis of effectiveness, worry, and safety beliefs in England and Wales	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
Rethinking narratives of value from a police-based uniformed youth organization	9

The impact of administrative disciplinary proceedings on military police officers in São Paulo	9
Recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in policing: Lessons learned from the IAWP Gender-Responsive Policing Summit	9
Special issue on police reform	9
Blending the ‘craft’ and ‘science’ of policing: challenges and opportunities for police as professional learning organizations	9
Gender differences in Chinese policing: Supervisor support, wellbeing, and turnover intention	9
Automating body-worn camera footage review through AI: baseline attitudes from a multisite randomized control trial	9
Special Issue: Women in policing	9
Nudging down residential burglaries: A randomized control trial	9
‘In the “too difficult” box?’ Organizational inflexibility as a driver of voluntary resignations of police officers in England and Wales	9
Police relational accountabilities: The paralysis of police accountability?	9
Considerations for implementing simulation-based instructional training for police cadets: insights from practitioners	8
Flex, adapt, thrive? Navigating work mutations and the well-being of police officers supporting gender-based violence victims in Catalonia	8
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	8
Problem officers and problem behavior: on the object of early intervention systems	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
ʻItʼs Not “Uni” Work, itʼs Essential Learning to be a Police Officerʼ: Examining the Higher Education Elements of Police Education Qualifications Framework Programmes	8
Leaving so soon? An analysis of withdrawal patterns from academy training	8
Policing Domestic Violence Special Edition Editorial: Seven years on—Reflections on progress in domestic abuse research and practice	8
Exploring the proactive pursuits of wanted persons: a case study of a local fugitive unit	8
Special tactical police’ experience and perception of their use of force: Evidence from the Chinese SWAT police	7
Volunteer officers’ experiences in law enforcement work in Malaysia and the USA	7
Correction to: Using unsupervised machine learning to find profiles of domestic abuse perpetrators	7
Managing Policing Demand for Digital Forensics through Risk Assessment and Prioritization in England and Wales	7
Controlling investigation through collaboration: an empirical study of China’s new prosecutor–police interaction mechanism	7
Enhancing police legitimacy through body-worn cameras: a response to citizen animus	7
An exploration of recurring early intervention (EI) alerts to address at-risk officers through the lens of police reform	6
Downsizing and recovery: Perceived quality of police services in Finland before, during, and after three major police management reform programs	6
Beyond altruistic motivations: the impact of individual characteristics, perceptions of the police, and political ideology on interest in becoming a police officer	6
Training the police on legalized medical cannabis: lessons in building public trust, reducing harm, and avoiding reputational damage	6
Retraction of: New Roles, Functions, and Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers Post-COVID-19	6
No More Women Killed in Spain! A Collaborative Femicide Prevention Effort of a Police-Led Team of Ministry of Interior and Academia	6
Correction to: Police Retention: A Systematic Review of the Research	6
Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles	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
‘The Devil I Know’: Explaining Police Officer Intention to Transfer to Another Department	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
Gender differences in workplace incivility experiences and their impacts on the well-being and retention of women in law enforcement organizations	5
Croatian immigrants’ trust in the police in Croatia and abroad: The roles of police integrity and transnational migration factors	5
Assessing the effect of gender and diversity on the traditional police culture	5
Emotional coping by chance: Experiences of emotional coping strategies among on-scene commanders in the Norwegian police services	5
Training police to de-escalate mental health crisis situations: Comparing virtual reality and live-action scenario-based approaches	5
The German police as a learning organization: a quantitative study on perceived organizational support, organizational commitment and communication quality	5
Why do police consider leaving the profession?: The interplay between job demand stress, burnout, psychological distress, and commitment	5
Counting disruptions: ethnographic insights from organized crime policing in London	5
Police culture and body-worn cameras: examining how cultural values impact officers’ acceptance of technology	5
Recruiting women into policing: Experimentally testing the effectiveness of recruiting materials	5
ببناء الجاهزية: دراسة حالة للعوامل المهنية التي تؤثر على مستويات ‘السعادة’ لضباط شرطة أبو ظبي	5
Vocational transition and employment experiences among police leavers: a National Survey Study	5
Old school is out: how crisis intervention team training is reshaping policing	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

GonzálezYanilda María (2021). Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-108-82074-5	5
Policing a neurodiverse world: Lessons from the social model of disability	5
How the duty to report prevents reporting and reinforces silence around sexual harassment within the police	5
Incident characteristics of fatal forcible entry warrant raids in the USA (2010–6)	5
Partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural, and island communities in northern Scotland before and during COVID-19	5
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
Ask the women in blue: Female officers’ thoughts on the recruitment and retention of women in policing	4
A configurational perspective of hate crime policies	4
When the construction of police legitimacy backfires? Emotion expression management in times of the erosion of the rule of law	4
Police Social Capital and the Effectiveness of Emergency Policing in China During COVID-19	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
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
Perceptions of officers’ occupational identity management strategies in police–civilian interactions: does race play a role?	4
‘Domestic abuse hot spots’: A longitudinal, place-based analysis of 13 years of initial reports to the police	4
Exploring ‘positive policing’: creating a space for (contextual) safeguarding	4
‘As a Black woman, there’s no winning in law enforcement’: Black women’s experiences in policing	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
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
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
Re-defining evidence-based policing	4
Information analysis in criminal investigations: methods, challenges, and computational opportunities processing unstructured text	4
Autonomy and Connection: How Ward Panels Support Neighbourhood Policing	4
Evaluating the effects of co-response teams in reducing subsequent hospitalization: A place-based randomized controlled trial	4
Examining the impacts of state-wide reform on police attitudes and perceptions in New Jersey	4