OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Police Quarterly is 4. 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
Routinising Police-Security Collaborations: A Prospective, Mixed-Methods Experiment in British Train Stations	33
Turnover Intentions of Police Officers when Facing Discretionary Ethical Dilemmas: The Explanatory Roles of Professional Disillusionment and Job Stress	21
U.S. Law Enforcement Officers’ Stress, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, and Resilience: A National Sample	19
Detectives’ Descriptions of Their Responses to Sexual Assault Cases and Victims: Assessing the Overlap Between Rape Myths and Focal Concerns	18
A Longitudinal Study of Police Differential Response Team Impact on Crime in Houston: A Test of Broken Windows Thesis	17
Race and the Use of Force by Police Revisited: Post-Ferguson Findings From a Large County Police Agency	14
Police Use of TASER: Multi-Level Predictors of Firing and Drawing in One-to-One Use of Force Incidents	14
An Examination of Unintentional Use of Force by the Police	12
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	11
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	11
Crossing the Threshold: Organizational and Community Correlates of Female and Minority Representation Among U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies	10
Re-examining the Use of Force Continuum: Why Resistance is Not the Only Driver of Use of Force Decisions	10
Police Resilience as a Multilevel Balance: Needs and Resources for Victim Support Officers	10
Us Versus Them? The Problem of Cognitive Distortions in Policing	10
Race, Ethnicity and Basic Law Enforcement Training Non-Completion: A National-Level Examination of Police Academies	8
Does Police Proactivity Impact Arrests? Examining Variation Across Individual Officers	8
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
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
Factors Promoting and Inhibiting Use of Wellness Resources Among Police: A Mixed Methods Study	7
What Motivates Police Officers to be Proactive and Evidence-Based? Analyzing Organizational and Individual Correlates	6
The 2020 De-Policing: An Empirical Analysis	6
Exploring the Relationship Between Officer Safety and De-escalation in a Simulated Crisis Encounter	6
Police Academies and Officer Safety: Linking Training Structures and Instruction to Post-Employment Injury Outcomes in Law Enforcement	6

Examining the Effects of Suspect Race on Police First Contact and Arrest Among Adolescents	6
The Influence of Guardian and Warrior Police Orientations on Australian Officers’ Use of Force Attitudes and Tactical Decision-Making	6
“We Have a Long Ways to Go”: The Growing Pains of a Consent Decree in a Municipal Police Department	5
A Multi-Site Study of Firearms Displays by Police at Use of Force Incidents	5
Correlates of Police Policies for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD): An Organizational Analysis	5
“Police Sexual Violence: A Study of Policewomen as Victims”	5
Promoting Women Police Officers: Does Exam Format Matter?	5
Using Body Worn Camera Footage to Investigate Predictors of Officer Behavior and the Outcomes of Police–Community Interactions	5
Testing the Effects of a Problem-Solving Policing Strategy on Crime Outcomes: The Promise of an Integrated Approach	4
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Police Early Intervention System: From the Predictive Validity of Officer Identification to the Impact of Intervention	4
Can a Virtual Reality Training Scenario Elicit Similar Stress Response as a Realistic Scenario-Based Training Scenario?	4
Unpacking Sequential Actions Within Use of Force Incidents	4
The Alignment Between Community Policing and the Work of School Resource Officers	4
Sergeant Coffee Needs You: Evaluation of a Police Officer Bystander Intervention Program	4
Managing Growth and Selectivity at Police Quarterly	4
@#%$!: The Impact of Officer Profanity on Civilians’ Perception of What Constitutes Reasonable Use of Force	4
“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	4
Reimagining the Use of Force by Police in a Post-Floyd Nation	4
Hot Spots Policing: Assessing the Impact on Officer-Initiated Activity	4