OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Journal 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Transit crime and sexual violence in cities: international evidence and prevention	30
High school gun carrying: the role of disorder, collective efficacy, and police efficacy at school in a predominantly black sample	21
The planning and reflection of police use of force training: a German case study	20
Identifying trends and patterns in offending and victimization on Snapchat: a rapid review	19
Awareness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual reality: an analytical study	17
The great American car crime decline	13
A bibliometric study on recent trends in artificial intelligence-based suspicious activity recognition	12
Review of Sutton, B. 2023. Bulletproof fashion: security, emotions, and the fortress body	11
Evolving regularity and geographical patterns of global piracy incidents distribution	10
The age of terror: how to combine efforts for counteraction at the level of international and national law?	10
Comparative analysis of the activities of authorities to ensure the prevention of offenses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and other world countries	10
The effect of unreported gun-related violent crime on crime hot spots	9
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	9
Protests and blood on the streets: repressive state, police brutality and #EndSARS protest in Nigeria	8
Crime prevention through environmental design and its challenges in reducing crime: a case of Selangor, Malaysia	8
Drawing the line: public attitudes towards warranted and unwarranted government surveillance in European countries	8
International cooperation in police training: evaluation of a European Union programme for African gendarmes	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
The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America	7
Herders without borders: transhumance securitisation and the challenges of national security in Ghana and Nigeria	7
Assessing the time-varying spatial influence of bus stops on crime by context: a street network analysis	6
Industrial security protection in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack: failures to prepare, presidential executive orders, and guard force militarization	6
Fraudsters target the elderly: Behavioural evidence from randomised controlled scam-baiting experiments	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
Assessment of performance during cybersecurity tabletop exercises	6

Measuring the adoption of Enterprise Security Risk Management in Kenya’s higher education using the ASIS ESRM Maturity Model	5
Missing targets: which entities are affected by UN counter-terrorism sanctions?	5
The influence of pledging allegiance on terrorist attacks: the case of Boko Haram and Islamic State	5
Effects of socioeconomic and digital inequalities on cybersecurity in a developing country	5
Correction to: Reliability: understanding cognitive human bias in artificial intelligence for national security and intelligence analysis	4
Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan	4
Using hotspot analysis to prioritize security efforts in Colombian critical infrastructure, a focus on the power grid	4
Consciousness towards religious belief and re-radicalization in societies	4
The crime drop in South Africa: an exploratory research note	3
Balancing campus security and student rights: the case of the University of Botswana	3
Local residents’ perceptions of refugees as neighbors: a qualitative analysis of community social networks, purposive guardianship, and feelings of safety	3
Police recruits’ wants and needs in police training in Germany	3
A comparison of target types, weapon types, and attack types in suicide-terrorism incidents before and after 9/11 terrorist attacks	3
Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Prediction of male inmate infractions in Taiwan prisons	3
The (in)security and educational perspectives of child sexual abuse: insights from Nigerian newspaper records	3
What is the role of architects and urban planners in crime prevention?	3
The dimensions of ‘forensic biosecurity’ in genetic and facial contexts	2
Bruneau, T. C.: Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors are Providing Public Services	2
Exploring the physical risks and security mechanisms for Chinese companies operating under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project	2
Should firearms be allowed in K-12 public schools? An analysis of law enforcement’s perceptions of armed teacher policies	2
Role of esthetic judgment on perceived safety of urban parks’ users	2
Assessing cybersecurity dynamics: a comparative analysis of data breaches in urban and rural hospitals in the United States	2
Tactical and psychological aspects of interrogation using new digital technologies and Gesell spy mirror	2
A survey of extremism online content analysis and prediction techniques in twitter based on sentiment analysis	2
Open-source intelligence and great-power competition under mediatization	2
Examining the simultaneous use of home protection methods	2
What really works in preventing fraud against organisations and do decision-makers really need to know?	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
Understanding the consideration of strategies for coping with locality violence in Arab society in Israel	2
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and its potential for campus safety: a qualitative study	2
External auditors’ use and perceptions of fraud factors in assessing fraudulent financial reporting risk (FFRR): Implications for audit policy and practice	2
The asymmetric effect of environmental pollution and macroeconomic indicators on interpersonal violence across OECD countries	2
Security and urban satisfaction: developing a model based on safe urban park design components extracted from users' preferences	2
Community-based vigilante violence and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil-producing region	2
‘We shall triumph like the Jews’: unveiling the implicit side of IPOB’s armed separatism in Southeast Nigeria	2
Specifics of the legal regulation of the prevention of the taking and killing of hostages in the context of terrorist threats	2
Detection of price manipulation fraud through rational choice theory: evidence for the retail industry in Taiwan	2
The use of home security technology by survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence: an exploratory study	2
Identifying cyber security competencies and skills from online job advertisements through topic modeling	2
The realpolitik of jihad: an anatomy of transnational Islamist terrorism in East Africa	2