Criminal Justice Studies

Top Research Topics at Criminal Justice Studies?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Criminology, Social psychology, Law, Criminal justice and Public relations. While Criminal Justice Studies focused on Criminology, it was also able to explore topics like Economic Justice and Human factors and ergonomics. While Social psychology is the focus of Criminal Justice Studies, it also provided insights into the studies of Ethnic group, Suicide prevention, Perception and Race (biology).

Supreme court, State (polity) and Terrorism are all subfields of Law research that were featured in the journal. In particular, the Criminal justice works presented emphasize discussions on Theory of criminal justice. Public relations study tackled is connected to the field of Law enforcement.

It focuses on Prison research which is adjacent to topics in Psychiatry.

• Criminology (40.46%)
• Social psychology (24.17%)
• Law (17.86%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Exploring stolen data markets online: products and market forces (175 citations)
• Gang Members, Career Criminals and Prison Violence: Further Specification of the Importation Model of Inmate Behavior (128 citations)
• Digital Piracy: Assessing the Contributions of an Integrated Self‐Control Theory and Social Learning Theory Using Structural Equation Modeling (126 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Criminal Justice Studies:

The published papers are mainly concerned with subjects like Social psychology, Criminology, Criminal justice, Prison and Public relations. The most cited papers hold forums on Social psychology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Punishment, Sample (statistics), Applied psychology and Race (biology). The works on Criminology tackled in the journal papers bring together disciplines like Law, Situational ethics and Suicide prevention.

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

• Law
• Social psychology
• Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal investigates areas of study like Criminology, Social psychology, Public relations, Developmental psychology and Procedural justice. The study on Criminology featured in Criminal Justice Studies expounds on the topic of Criminal justice policy in particular. The research on Social psychology featured in Criminal Justice Studies combines topics in other fields like Mainstreaming, Cultivation theory and Sexual assault.

The featured works in Organizational commitment, which all belong in the domain if Public relations, also overlaps with concepts under Public support. It features works in Developmental psychology, more specifically Life course approach, and explores their relation to disciplines like Perspective (graphical). While the primary focus in Criminal Justice Studies is Procedural justice, it also dissects topics surrounding Spillover effect and Justice (ethics) and Perception as a whole.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• To be committed or not: a systematic review of the empirical literature on organizational commitment among correctional staff (2 citations)
• Justice-involved males’ procedural justice perceptions of the police and courts: examining the spill-over effect (2 citations)
• What matters most? Comparing the impact of individual, job, and organizational factors on job stress and job satisfaction among juvenile justice personnel (1 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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Criminal Justice Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

• Eric G. Lambert (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• George E. Higgins (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Craig Hemmens (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Richard Tewksbury (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Petter Gottschalk (8 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Criminal Justice Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Louisville (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Cincinnati (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Michigan State University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• University of South Carolina (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 39.13% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 26.09% of all publications and 26.09% 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.