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Annual Review of Criminology
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Annual Review of Criminology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Law 14 12 12 7
Social Sciences and Humanities 187 29 29 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 48
Documents by Best Scientists*: 44
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 39
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.8
Impact Factor: 6.2

Top Publications

  • Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Policing, and Risk Assessment for Law Enforcement

    Richard A. Berk

    (2021)
    82 Citations
  • Prison Culture, Management, and In-Prison Violence

    John Wooldredge

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Social Control Theory: The Legacy of Travis Hirschi's Causes of Delinquency

    Barbara J. Costello;John H. Laub

    (2020)
    73 Citations
  • The Impact of Incarceration on Recidivism

    Charles E. Loeffler;Daniel S. Nagin

    (2022)
    73 Citations
  • Where Is This Story Going? A Critical Analysis of the Emerging Field of Narrative Criminology

    Shadd Maruna;Marieke Liem

    (2021)
    61 Citations
  • Firearm Instrumentality: Do Guns Make Violent Situations More Lethal?

    Anthony A. Braga;Elizabeth Griffiths;Keller Sheppard;Stephen Douglas

    (2021)
    52 Citations
  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact

    Christopher Wildeman

    (2020)
    47 Citations
  • Advances in Spatial Criminology: The Spatial Scale of Crime

    John R. Hipp;Seth A. Williams

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;Clemens Kroneberg

    (2022)
    36 Citations
  • Human Mobility and Crime: Theoretical Approaches and Novel Data Collection Strategies

    Christopher R. Browning;Nicolo P. Pinchak;Catherine A. Calder

    (2021)
    34 Citations

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