OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quantitative Criminology is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the Risk Terrain for Crime Using Machine Learning	42
Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City	33
Measuring the Built Environment with Google Street View and Machine Learning: Consequences for Crime on Street Segments	27
Does Hot Spots Policing Have Meaningful Impacts on Crime? Findings from An Alternative Approach to Estimating Effect Sizes from Place-Based Program Evaluations	26
Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy ‘Hard to Win, Easy to Lose’? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact	21
Global Crime Patterns: An Analysis of Survey Data from 166 Countries Around the World, 2006–2019	20
Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale	20
In Pursuit of Interpretable, Fair and Accurate Machine Learning for Criminal Recidivism Prediction	20
Explaining Crime Diversity with Google Street View	17
Non-random Study Attrition: Assessing Correction Techniques and the Magnitude of Bias in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison	17
The Relative Incident Rate Ratio Effect Size for Count-Based Impact Evaluations: When an Odds Ratio is Not an Odds Ratio	16
Is Gang Violent Crime More Contagious than Non-Gang Violent Crime?	15
Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology	14
Chains of Adversity: The Time-Varying Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Adolescent Behavior	14
Who ‘Tweets’ Where and When, and How Does it Help Understand Crime Rates at Places? Measuring the Presence of Tourists and Commuters in Ambient Populations	14
Do Sports Programs Prevent Crime and Reduce Reoffending? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Sports Programs	13
Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force: Methods Matter	12
Too Fine to be Good? Issues of Granularity, Uniformity and Error in Spatial Crime Analysis	11
Residents, Employees and Visitors: Effects of Three Types of Ambient Population on Theft on Weekdays and Weekends in Beijing, China	10
Dude, Where’s My Treatment Effect? Errors in Administrative Data Linking and the Destruction of Statistical Power in Randomized Experiments	9
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization	9
Cohort Variation in U.S. Violent Crime Patterns from 1960 to 2014: An Age–Period–Cohort-Interaction Approach	9
A Network-Based Examination of the Longitudinal Association Between Psychopathy and Offending Versatility	9
Editor’s Introduction: Terrorism and Violent Extremism	9
Understanding Changes in Violent Extremist Attitudes During the Transition to Early Adulthood	9

Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Variation in Residential Burglary with the Integrated Laplace Approximation Framework: Effects of Crime Generators, Street Networks, and Prior Crimes	8
Standard Errors in Quantitative Criminology: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	8
A Natural Experiment to Test the Effect of Sanction Certainty and Celerity on Substance-Impaired Driving: North Dakota’s 24/7 Sobriety Program	8
Do Police Body-Worn Cameras Reduce Citizen Fatalities? Results of a Country-Wide Natural Experiment	8
Moral Rules, Self-Control, and School Context: Additional Evidence on Situational Action Theory from 28 Countries	8
Sobering Up After the Seventh Inning: Alcohol and Crime Around the Ballpark	8
Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City	7
Street Light Outages, Public Safety and Crime Attraction	7
Recruitment into Organized Crime: An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact of Different Policies	7
When Do Offenders Commit Crime? An Analysis of Temporal Consistency in Individual Offending Patterns	7
Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States	7
Pathways Through Juvenile Justice: A System-Level Assessment of Cumulative Disadvantage in the Processing of Juvenile Offenders	7