OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Security Journal is 1. 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
Transit crime and sexual violence in cities: international evidence and prevention	48
The planning and reflection of police use of force training: a German case study	28
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	20
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	17
Public perception of CPTED maintenance strategies: a VR study on residential burglary prevention	16
High school gun carrying: the role of disorder, collective efficacy, and police efficacy at school in a predominantly black sample	14
A bibliometric study on recent trends in artificial intelligence-based suspicious activity recognition	13
Review of Sutton, B. 2023. Bulletproof fashion: security, emotions, and the fortress body	12
The great American car crime decline	12
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	12
Grid-based crisis governance: integrating 4R theory and AGIL model with a keyword-based exploratory analysis	11
Risk, regulation, and governance: evaluating artificial intelligence across diverse application scenarios	10
Comparative analysis of the activities of authorities to ensure the prevention of offenses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and other world countries	8
Unveiling the efficacy of the elaborated social identity model as a lens for understanding crowd psychology in South Korea: an empirical inquiry	8
Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries	8
How effective are residential CCTV systems: Evaluating the impact of natural versus mechanical surveillance on house break-ins and theft in hotspots of Penang Island, Malaysia	8
Herders without borders: transhumance securitisation and the challenges of national security in Ghana and Nigeria	7
The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America	7
The effect of unreported gun-related violent crime on crime hot spots	7
Will the future policing of fraud be ‘a fundamental shift in our approach to tackling fraud’ or largely more of the same? Reviewing the 2023 UK fraud strategy through evidence on the ground	7
Comparing safety perceptions and active mobility in two urban settings: a case study	7
International cooperation in police training: evaluation of a European Union programme for African gendarmes	7
Enhancing the resilience of state institutions to security threats: strategic approaches for Ukraine	7
Assessment of performance during cybersecurity tabletop exercises	6
About time? Exploring the temporal dimensions and imperatives to crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) using a construction industry-aligned methodology for more sustainable and resili	6

Policing AI-generated crimes: an ethnographic study on anti-cybercrime police in China	6
Assessing the time-varying spatial influence of bus stops on crime by context: a street network analysis	6
Fraudsters target the elderly: Behavioural evidence from randomised controlled scam-baiting experiments	6
Police recruits’ wants and needs in police training in Germany	5
Industrial security protection in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack: failures to prepare, presidential executive orders, and guard force militarization	5
Missing targets: which entities are affected by UN counter-terrorism sanctions?	5
Fortifying the digital realm: a comprehensive analysis of cyberspace security and the EU legislative framework	5
Effects of socioeconomic and digital inequalities on cybersecurity in a developing country	5
Cyber-enabled imposter scams against older adults in the United States	5
Consciousness towards religious belief and re-radicalization in societies	5
Cyber war(fare)s: a bibliometric and topic analysis	5
Measuring the adoption of Enterprise Security Risk Management in Kenya’s higher education using the ASIS ESRM Maturity Model	5
Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety	5
The crime drop in South Africa: an exploratory research note	4
Prediction of male inmate infractions in Taiwan prisons	4
The (in)security and educational perspectives of child sexual abuse: insights from Nigerian newspaper records	4
Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan	4
Perception toward autonomous ride-pooling services and public buses in Pakistan: perspectives in crime and victimization	4
Regional inequality in citizens’ attitudes towards the police and the effect of stop-and-search	3
What is the role of architects and urban planners in crime prevention?	3
Detection of price manipulation fraud through rational choice theory: evidence for the retail industry in Taiwan	3
Tactical and psychological aspects of interrogation using new digital technologies and Gesell spy mirror	3
Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic	3
External auditors’ use and perceptions of fraud factors in assessing fraudulent financial reporting risk (FFRR): Implications for audit policy and practice	3
The shadow of digital society: why the elderly are vulnerable to online phishing—a case study from South Korea	3
Making terrorist content findable: search engines as a key to mitigating Salafi-jihadi persistent presence on the internet	3
A survey of extremism online content analysis and prediction techniques in twitter based on sentiment analysis	3
Balancing campus security and student rights: the case of the University of Botswana	3
The realpolitik of jihad: an anatomy of transnational Islamist terrorism in East Africa	3
Identifying cyber security competencies and skills from online job advertisements through topic modeling	3
Understanding the consideration of strategies for coping with locality violence in Arab society in Israel	3
The asymmetric effect of environmental pollution and macroeconomic indicators on interpersonal violence across OECD countries	3
Investigating the data in investor alerting portals	3
Campus security and students’ perceptions of safety: an evaluation of security practices	2
Role of esthetic judgment on perceived safety of urban parks’ users	2
The use of home security technology by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence: an exploratory study	2
What really works in preventing fraud against organisations and do decision-makers really need to know?	2
Examining the simultaneous use of home protection methods	2
Exploring the physical risks and security mechanisms for Chinese companies operating under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project	2
Susceptibility for criminal facilitation in social housing: a psychological perspective	2
Open-source intelligence and great-power competition under mediatization	2
Assessing cybersecurity dynamics: a comparative analysis of data breaches in urban and rural hospitals in the United States	2
Risk perceptions and safe behaviours on the internet among older adults in India	2
Should firearms be allowed in K-12 public schools? An analysis of law enforcement’s perceptions of armed teacher policies	2
‘We shall triumph like the Jews’: unveiling the implicit side of IPOB’s armed separatism in Southeast Nigeria	2
Community-based vigilante violence and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil-producing region	2
Digital trust and the adoption of e-government services in Pakistan: a systematic literature review	2
Bruneau, T. C.: Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors are Providing Public Services	2
Upholding civil rights through commitment to the rule of law in advocacy	2
The dimensions of ‘forensic biosecurity’ in genetic and facial contexts	2

Socio-spatial structure of urban communities and the distribution of crime in Makurdi, Nigeria	2
Shadow of death: the criminal economy of banditry and kidnapping in northwest Nigeria	2
Developing and implementing social engineering-prevention policies: a qualitative study	2
Cyber risks in healthcare and social organizations: analyzing the relationship between cybersecurity profiles and the opinion of protection of managers	1
Disposable spies: a proposal for a model	1
The protection of crowded places from terrorist threats: does protective security advice meet the needs of security managers?	1
Card-not-present fraud: using crime scripts to inform crime prevention initiatives	1
Shifting Cartel powers: an examination of the impact on U.S. and Mexican law enforcement	1
Fraud and cybercrime against older adults in Christian-dominated southern Nigeria	1
Tabletop scenario exercises as a training tool for improving response to workplace violence	1
Retraction Note: Formation of a legislative framework in the field of combating cybercrime and strategic directions of its development	1
Reimagining the familiar stranger as a source of security: generating guardianship through everyday mobility	1
Cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes and their modus operandi in South Korea	1
Does age matter? Examining seniors’ experiences of romance fraud	1
Students care “who” carries: probing attributes associated with college students’ attitudes toward campus carry	1
PISA: A proximity-based social networking (PBSN) protection model	1
Honor, fear, and coercion: cyberbullying and blackmailing in Palestinian society	1
Exploring the value of holiday preferences and routine activities for understanding tourist victimisation while on holiday	1
Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities experienced by small-scale African migrant traders in Southern Africa	1
A general problem-solving matrix (GPSM): combining crime prevention and public health tools	1
Introducing Bayesian belief updating as a method to counter improvised explosive devices: a qualitative case study on identifying human behaviours associated with explosive chemical precursor diversio	1
Frauds and forgeries in banking industry in Africa: a content analyses of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation annual crime report	1
Addressing cybersecurity and safety disconnects in United States army aviation: an exploratory qualitative case study	1
Exploring socio-demographic factors, avoiding being a victim and fear of crime in a Nigerian university	1
Direct and indirect situational crime prevention: using the COSTS criteria to improve interventions	1
Business e-mail compromise scam, cyber victimization, and economic sustainability of corporate organizations in Nigeria	1
The word mobile phone missing in the Cyber Crime Act, 2015	1
The money laundering and terrorist financing risks of new and disruptive technologies: a futures-oriented scoping review	1
Disruptive behavior of young people in shopping malls: a security provider perspective	1
Utilizing cyberplace managers to prevent and control cybercrimes: a vignette experimental study	1
Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization	1
Bias and noise in security risk assessments, an empirical study on the information position and confidence of security professionals	1
Integrated security management model: a proposal applied to organisational resilience	1
Identifying and preventing future forms of crimes using situational crime prevention	1
The effects of organizational images on security compliance intention: focused on affection and job security in South Korea	1
Issues with the application of CPTED in urban development: a case of City X, Malaysia	1
Terrorism, democracy and human security: a communication model. Ronald Crelinsten. 2021. Abingdon, Routledge, ISBN 978-036786089-9	1
State or private security supply? An analysis from the institutional economics perspective	1
Population distribution and terrorist attack preference: evidence from Xinjiang, China	1
Hidden players: the role of ‘drops’ in the cybercrime ecosystem	1
The virtual "Caliphate" strikes back? Mapping the Islamic State's information ecosystem on the surface web	1
Embedding information security management in organisations: improving participation and engagement through intra-organisational Liaison	1
Exploring banditry in Nigeria	1