OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Police Quarterly 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Routinising Police-Security Collaborations: A Prospective, Mixed-Methods Experiment in British Train Stations	102
Police Officer Use of Force Mindset and Street-Level Behavior	37
Busting Myths About Evidence-Based Policing: Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue	32
U.S. Law Enforcement Officers’ Stress, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, and Resilience: A National Sample	25
Detectives’ Descriptions of Their Responses to Sexual Assault Cases and Victims: Assessing the Overlap Between Rape Myths and Focal Concerns	22
Turnover Intentions of Police Officers when Facing Discretionary Ethical Dilemmas: The Explanatory Roles of Professional Disillusionment and Job Stress	20
Police Use of TASER: Multi-Level Predictors of Firing and Drawing in One-to-One Use of Force Incidents	17
A Longitudinal Study of Police Differential Response Team Impact on Crime in Houston: A Test of Broken Windows Thesis	15
An Examination of Unintentional Use of Force by the Police	14
The Supply and Demand Shifts in Policing at the Start of the Pandemic: A National Multi-Wave Survey of the Impacts of COVID-19 on American Law Enforcement	13
Race and the Use of Force by Police Revisited: Post-Ferguson Findings From a Large County Police Agency	13
Gender Differences in Law Enforcement Officer Stress and Coping Strategies	12
Can We Really Defund the Police? A Nine-Agency Study of Police Response to Calls for Service	12
Crossing the Threshold: Organizational and Community Correlates of Female and Minority Representation Among U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies	10
Police Resilience as a Multilevel Balance: Needs and Resources for Victim Support Officers	9
Factors that Facilitate and Hinder Implementation of a Problem Oriented Policing Intervention in Crime Hot Spots: Suggestions to Improve Implementation Based on a Field Experiment	9
Us Versus Them? The Problem of Cognitive Distortions in Policing	9
Re-examining the Use of Force Continuum: Why Resistance is Not the Only Driver of Use of Force Decisions	9
Quantity or Spatial Coverage? Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Evaluate the Relationship Between Spatial Strategy of Police Stops and Crime in Crime Hotspots and Non-Hotspots	8
A Closer Look at the Alleged “War on Cops”: Post-Ferguson Trends in Ideologically-Motivated Homicides of Police Officers, 2008–2021	8
Factors Promoting and Inhibiting Use of Wellness Resources Among Police: A Mixed Methods Study	7
Race, Ethnicity and Basic Law Enforcement Training Non-Completion: A National-Level Examination of Police Academies	7
Harm Reduction Policing: An Evaluation of Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) in San Francisco	7
Law Enforcement-Based Outreach and Treatment Referral as a Response to Opioid Misuse: Assessing Reductions in Overdoses and Costs	7
Causes of Police Officer Career Apprehension Following George Floyd	7

The Influence of Guardian and Warrior Police Orientations on Australian Officers’ Use of Force Attitudes and Tactical Decision-Making	6
Exploring the Relationship Between Officer Safety and De-escalation in a Simulated Crisis Encounter	5
“We Have a Long Ways to Go”: The Growing Pains of a Consent Decree in a Municipal Police Department	5
Work–Family Conflicts, Stress, and Turnover Intention Among Hong Kong Police Officers Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
A Multi-Site Study of Firearms Displays by Police at Use of Force Incidents	5
The 2020 De-Policing: An Empirical Analysis	5
“Police Sexual Violence: A Study of Policewomen as Victims”	4
Support Provided by LGBTI Police Liaison Services: An Analysis of a Survey of LGBTIQ People in Australia	4
Hot Spots Policing: Assessing the Impact on Officer-Initiated Activity	4
@#%$!: The Impact of Officer Profanity on Civilians’ Perception of What Constitutes Reasonable Use of Force	4
Assessing the Utility of Body-Worn Cameras for Collegiate Police Agencies	4
Using Body Worn Camera Footage to Investigate Predictors of Officer Behavior and the Outcomes of Police–Community Interactions	4
Police Use of Force Escalation and De-escalation: The Use of Systematic Social Observation With Video Footage	4
Testing the Effects of a Problem-Solving Policing Strategy on Crime Outcomes: The Promise of an Integrated Approach	4
Procedural Justice and Demographic Diversity: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Police Recruitment	4
Promoting Women Police Officers: Does Exam Format Matter?	4
Unpacking Sequential Actions Within Use of Force Incidents	4
Can a Virtual Reality Training Scenario Elicit Similar Stress Response as a Realistic Scenario-Based Training Scenario?	4
The Alignment Between Community Policing and the Work of School Resource Officers	3
Differences Between High and Low Performing Police Agencies in Clearing Robberies, Aggravated Assaults, and Burglaries: Findings From an Eight-Agency Case Study	3
Police Criminality: Nature and Extent of Crimes Committed by Female Police Officers	3
“How Should the Police Let Victims Down?” The Impact of Reassurance Call-Backs by Local Police Officers to Victims of Vehicle and Cycle Crimes: A Block Randomized Controlled Trial	3
Reimagining the Use of Force by Police in a Post-Floyd Nation	3
An Analysis of Police Department Crisis Communication via Social Media	3
Attrition of Police Officers With Immigrant Background	3
Sergeant Coffee Needs You: Evaluation of a Police Officer Bystander Intervention Program	3
A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Academy Socialization on Police Integrity	3