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Crime Science
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Crime Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Law 66 4 5 3
Social Sciences and Humanities 301 17 36 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 29
Documents by Best Scientists*: 47
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 37
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.881
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Crime Science?

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Criminology, Crime prevention, Computer security, Situational ethics and Human factors and ergonomics. It features works in Criminology, more specifically Cultural criminology, Property crime and Crime science, and explores their relation to disciplines like Victimisation and Homicide. The study on Cultural criminology presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Green criminology.

While Crime Science focused on Crime prevention, it was also able to explore topics like Government, Scrutiny and Economic growth. It aims to form a more comprehensive understanding of the field by integrating disciplines like Computer security and Context (language use). The journal facilitates the exploration of Context (language use) in relation to the fields of Bayes' theorem, Bayesian probability, Decision support system, Prior probability and Base rate.

Concepts in Suicide prevention, as well as related topics in Injury prevention, are covered in the Human factors and ergonomics research presented in it. While Injury prevention is the focus of the conference, it also discussed overlapping research pursuits in other fields like Occupational safety and health and Demography. Crime Science is concerned with the study of Child sexual abuse and Sexual abuse in general.

  • Criminology (30.11%)
  • Crime prevention (22.16%)
  • Computer security (10.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Wildlife trafficking in the Internet age (110 citations)
  • A comparison of methods for temporal analysis of aoristic crime (92 citations)
  • Initial evidence on the relationship between the coronavirus pandemic and crime in the United States (66 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Crime Science:

The published papers focus on Criminology, Crime prevention, Cultural criminology, Public relations and Computer security. The most cited articles facilitate discussions on Criminology that incorporate concepts from other fields like TRIPS architecture and Census. The Crime prevention research tackled in the journal articles is interrelated with Situational ethics which concerns subjects like Identity theft, Narrative text and Crime scene.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Statistics
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Criminology, Public health, Property crime, Demographic economics and Crime prevention. Crime science and Crime reduction are Criminology topics of special interest in the journal. The studies in Public health featured incorporate elements of Local government and Police department.

The presented Property crime research focuses mostly on Empirical evidence and, on occasion, topics in Extortion and Occupational safety and health. While Demographic economics is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Motor vehicle theft and Crime data. Crime Science focuses on Crime prevention but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Signage, Unit of analysis and Internet privacy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Exploring regional variability in the short-term impact of COVID-19 on property crime in Queensland, Australia (6 citations)
  • Policing and public health calls for service in Philadelphia (5 citations)
  • Six months in: pandemic crime trends in England and Wales (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Crime Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Graham Farrell (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Kate J. Bowers (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nick Tilley (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Richard Wortley (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stefano Caneppele (5 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Crime Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University College London (34 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Leeds (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Simon Fraser University (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • VU University Amsterdam (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 13.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 35.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 30.00% of all publications and 25.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Cryptocurrencies and future financial crime

    Unknown

    (2022)
    196 Citations
  • Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime.

    Eric Halford;Anthony Dixon;Graham Farrell;Nicolas Malleson

    (2020)
    176 Citations
  • Six months in: pandemic crime trends in England and Wales

    Samuel Langton;Anthony Dixon;Graham Farrell

    (2021)
    66 Citations
  • Policing and public health calls for service in Philadelphia

    Jerry H. Ratcliffe

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia.

    Martin A. Andresen;Tarah Hodgkinson

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Exploring regional variability in the short-term impact of COVID-19 on property crime in Queensland, Australia

    Jason L. Payne;Anthony Morgan;Alex R. Piquero;Alex R. Piquero

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • What is security worth to consumers? Investigating willingness to pay for secure Internet of Things devices

    John M. Blythe;Shane D. Johnson;Matthew Manning

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Functional and dysfunctional fear of COVID-19: a classification scheme

    Reka Solymosi;Jonathan Jackson;Jonathan Jackson;Krisztián Pósch;Julia A. Yesberg

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • “Show this thread”: policing, disruption and mobilisation through Twitter. An analysis of UK law enforcement tweeting practices during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Manja Nikolovska;Shane D. Johnson;Paul Ekblom

    (2020)
    20 Citations

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