OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Organized Crime is 3. 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
Differentiating criminal networks in the illegal wildlife trade: organized, corporate and disorganized crime	52
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs	23
Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle	21
Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands	19
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime	17
Economic geographies of the illegal: the multiscalar production of cybercrime	12
Making sense of professional enablers’ involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation	11
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT	8
The poverty business: landlords, illicit practices and reproduction of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Czechia	8
Unraveling the crime scripts of phishing networks: an analysis of 45 court cases in the Netherlands	8
Networked territorialism: the routes and roots of organised crime	8
Getting a foot in the door. Spaces of cocaine trafficking in the Port of Rotterdam.	8
Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime	7
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic	7
More Amazon than Mafia: analysing a DDoS stresser service as organised cybercrime	7
Shaping space. A conceptual framework on the connections between organised crime groups and territories	7
The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam	7
A world fit for money laundering: the Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control	6
Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking: a comparative analysis of two cases	6
Coyotes, caravans, and the Central American migrant smuggling continuum	6
Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019)	6
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace	6
Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines	5
Your files have been encrypted: a crime script analysis of ransomware attacks	5
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram	5

Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market	5
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?	5
Walls of silence and organized crime: a theoretical and empirical exploration into the shielding of criminal activities from authorities	4
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions	4
Fishy business: regulatory and enforcement challenges of transnational organised IUU fishing crimes	4
Organised crime and animals	4
Identifying sex trafficking in Adult Services Websites: an exploratory study with a British police force	4
State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway	4
Mexican organized crime and the illegal trade in totoaba maw	3
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands	3
Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay	3
Cross-jurisdictional review of Australian legislation governing outlaw motorcycle gangs	3
The organization of Danish gangs: a transaction cost approach	3
Phantom state in Haiti: criminal sovereignty and the mercenary remedy	3
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda	3
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling	3
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects	3
From prison gangs to transnational mafia: the expansion of organized crime in Brazil	3
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform	3
The dynamics of criminal cooperation between the police and gangs in Honduras	3
Entrepreneurial elements of human smuggling rings: findings from a multiple case study	3
Green criminological perspectives on dog-fighting as organised masculinities -based animal harm	3
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants	3
Contract killings: a crime script analysis	3