OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asian Journal of Criminology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Outrage Cyberbullying Versus General Cyberbullying: Assessing the Explanatory Capacity of Control and Strain Theories and the Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement	15
Correction to: The Penalty of Maternal Migration: Parental Migration, Caretaking Arrangements, and Custodial Interference Among Divorced Households in Rural China	14
Victim Welfare, Social Harmony, and State Interests: Implementing Restorative Justice in Chinese Environmental Criminal Justice	11
Prosecutors’ and Defense Lawyers’ Views on the Challenges to a New Trial Waiver System in China	10
Plea Discount Deviations: a Mechanism for Gender Disparities in Hong Kong	10
Developing Authenticity, Building Connections: Exploring Research Methodologies in Asia	9
Equality in Representation? The Efficacy of Court-Appointed Lawyers in the Chinese Criminal Courts	9
Testing the Theoretical Relationship Between the Role of the Society at Large and the Willingness to Adhere to the Police Code of Silence	8
Driven to Death: a Chinese Case Study on the Counterfeiting of Automotive Components	7
Review of Sarah Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing	7
Review of Björn Ahl, Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure Post-2013 Reforms	7
Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony	7
Fragmentation of Criminology: A Challenge or a Chance?	6
Public and Professionals’ Perceptions of Wrongful Convictions in Pakistan: Scale Development and Validation	5
Is Machine Learning Really Unsafe and Irresponsible in Social Sciences? Paradoxes and Reconsideration from Recidivism Prediction Tasks	5
Predictors of Attitudes Toward Sexual Harassment Among Chinese Nationals: Are College Students Different?	5
Application of Situational Action Theory in Japan Using Vignette Survey	5
Social Context and the Static and Dynamic Age–Crime Relationship in the Republic of Korea	5
Predicting Police Integrity: An Application of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to the Police Integrity Instrument	4
Association of Health and Victimization with Discrete Group Membership in Offending Frequency: Results from a Sample of Taiwanese Male Prisoners	4
The Past, Present, and Future of Restorative Justice in the Chinese Mainland: A Systematic Review of Chinese Literature	4
Organizational Structure and Its Connection with the Justice Views of Police Officers	4
Shaping Future Justice: Comparative Insights into Prison Rape Myths in South Korea and the United States	4
The Pluralism of Restorative Justice in Greater China: an Introduction	3
Cyber Victimisation, Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Panels	3

Metacrime and Cybercrime: Exploring the Convergence and Divergence in Digital Criminality	3
Beyond Focal Concerns: A Qualitative Study of Sentencing Decisions in China’s Sociopolitical Context	3
Measuring Cybercrime in Calls for Police Service	3
Restorative Justice in Hong Kong — a Research Study on the Struggle Between Retribution and Restoration	2
Investigating the Moderators in the Relationship Between Righteous Anger and Support for Lynching	2
Child Laborers’ Exposure to Physical Maltreatment in Rural Bangladesh: Prevalence and Risk Factors	2
Plea Discounts or Trial Penalties? An Empirical Analysis of China’s Plea-Leniency System and Its Impact on Sentencing	2
Review of Xiaojin Chen, China’s Left-Behind Children: Caretaking Parenting, and Struggles	2
Modernizing Penal Capacity and Defusing Political Tensions: How Social Workers’ Rehabilitation Shapes Offenders’ Perceptions of Justice within Chinese Community Corrections	2
Review of Wook Kang, Youth Involvement in Street Gangs in California’s Central Valley	2
Continuation of Systemic Failures: from Cui Ning to Contemporary Wrongful Conviction Cases in China	2
Stability or Change in Age-Crime Relation in Taiwan, 1980–2019: Age-Period-Cohort Assessment	2
Criminology and Crime Science in the Arab World	2
Translational and Transnational Approaches in Comparative Criminological Research: A Content Analysis Focused on Asian Countries	2
Changes in the Most Cited Scholars in Five International Journals Between 2006 and 2020	2
North Korean Migrants in China: A Case Study of Human Smuggling and Trafficking	2
Policing, Labor Market, and Crime in Japan: Evidence from Prefectural Panel Data	2
The Challenges of Comparative Criminology Research	2
Misperceptions About People Who Have Sexually Offended and Support of Community Notification for Juveniles Among Koreans	2
Triadization as a Rite of Passage: Conceptualizing the Links between Youth Gangs and Adult-Based Secret Societies in Singapore	2