OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Organized Crime is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence	27
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	22
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa	19
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking	19
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome	17
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	17
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform	16
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution	15
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany	14
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations	13
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators	13
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	13
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong	12
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK?	11
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime	11
Corruption in Nigeria: indifference and neglect	10
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2023	10
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case	9
A comparison of Vietnamese and Chinese human smuggling networks transporting people to the UK; similarities and differences in methods used and the experience of migrants travelling to and living in t	9
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate	9
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach	9
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants	9
Raimo Pullat & Risto Pullat (2024) Vodka sea: the illicit alcohol trade in the Baltic sea region between the world wars. Tallinn: Eesti meremuuseum, pp.592, hardcover, €55, ISBN: 9789916975053	7
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys	7
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK	7

Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities	7
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom	7
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions	6
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger	6
Butcher or be butchered: understanding the unwitting recruitment by cybercrime groups in China	6
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda	5
Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market	5
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam	5
Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice	5
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram	5
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology	5
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue	5
Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms	5
Landlords and screens: using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording	5