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Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling
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Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 965 17 22 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 18
Documents by Best Scientists*: 22
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 31
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.399
Impact Factor: 1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Social psychology, Criminology, Interview, Offender profiling and Homicide. It features studies on Social psychology, including topics such as Deception. Lie detection is part of Deception studies tackled in it.

Criminology research featured in Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Sample (statistics) and Investigative psychology. The Interview works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Interrogation, Perception and Cognitive interview. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling focuses on Crime scene as well as the interrelated topic of Multidimensional scaling.

Attendees of the journal participated in discussions that delve into both Injury prevention and Psychiatry.

  • Social psychology (42.90%)
  • Criminology (34.44%)
  • Interview (12.69%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Motivational sources of confirmation bias in criminal investigations: the need for cognitive closure (135 citations)
  • Serial homicide: an investigation of behavioural consistency (119 citations)
  • A cognitive load approach to lie detection (119 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling:

The journal publications are organized to address concerns in the fields of Social psychology, Criminology, Homicide, Crime scene and Geographic profiling. In addition to Social psychology research, the journal papers aim to explore topics under Interview and Content analysis. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Criminology, it also covers topics in Rapport building, Offender profiling, Profiling (information science) and Meaning (linguistics).

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

  • Social psychology
  • Cognition
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Criminology, Social psychology, Homicide, Interview and Lie detection. The journal focuses on research topics in Criminology within the context of other fields like Cyber bullying and Victimisation. Deception is a major topic of Social psychology research presented in it.

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling tackles research works in Homicide as well as other disciplines like Race (biology), Offender profiling and Profiling (information science). Interview research presented in Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling encompasses a variety of subjects, including High status and Applied psychology. It facilitates discussions on Lie detection that incorporate concepts from other fields like Fantasy, Credibility, Statement (logic) and Legal psychology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Stress response of police officers during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model (2 citations)
  • Serial theft case linkage based on a two-step cumulative probability model (1 citations)
  • Dull versus creative liars—Who deceives better? Fantasy proneness and verifiability of genuine and fabricated accounts (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.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Pär Anders Granhag (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Aldert Vrij (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Maria Ioannou (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • C. Gabrielle Salfati (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Laura Hammond (10 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 Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Liverpool (33 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Portsmouth (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Gothenburg (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Huddersfield (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Leicester (14 papers) absent 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, 21.43% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 27.27% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.27% of all publications and 45.45% 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.

Educational Pathways of Authors

Given the diverse and exciting array of topics that the Journal explores, it is interesting to trace back the educational background and qualifications of contributing authors. Knowing the institutions where they refined their professional skills and explore their research interests can provide an insightful perspective for aspiring authors or students who wish to tread the same path.

Many of the authors have graduated from distinguished universities, some of which are renowned as good colleges for psychology in Montana. These institutions, recognized for their comprehensive curriculum and efficient research methods, have helped students to hone their investigative and critical thinking skills that contribute significantly to the field of psychology and offender profiling.

Writers from other areas of expertise also structure the vast array of journal's interdisciplinary discourse. Their diverse educational backgrounds, from criminology to artificial intelligence, highlight the journal's commitment to internalizing multiple perspectives.

An in-depth exploration of the academic journey of these authors might also offer future researchers a roadmap to pursue their psychological studies or whichever field they might be interested in pursuing.

Top Publications

  • Complications travel: A cross‐cultural comparison of the proportion of complications as a verbal cue to deceit

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Vrij

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

    Gisli Gudjonsson;Gisli Gudjonsson;Monia Vagni;Tiziana Maiorano;Daniela Pajardi

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • The relative impact of different ‘resistant behavioural responses’ on interrogative suggestibility in children: The powerful contribution of ‘direct explanation’ replies to unanswerable questions

    Gisli Gudjonsson;Gisli Gudjonsson;Monia Vagni;Tiziana Maiorano;Valeria Giostra

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP‐SMART

    (2022)
    10 Citations
  • Examining witness interviewing environments

    Katherine Hoogesteyn;Katherine Hoogesteyn;Ewout H. Meijer;Aldert Vrij

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • The significance of unusual acts in sexual homicide

    (2023)
    6 Citations
  • The effects of liking on informational elements in investigative interviews

    Hyisuing C. Hwang;David Matsumoto

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Deception detection in repeated interviews: The effects of immediate type of questioning on the delayed accounts

    Aleksandras Izotovas;Aldert Vrij;Lorraine Hope;Leif A. Strömwall

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • Looking guilty: Handcuffing suspects influences judgements of deception

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Fallacies in the estimation of the validity of the Comparison Question Polygraph Test: A reply to Ginton (2020)

    Gershon Ben-Shakhar;William Iacono

    (2021)
    3 Citations

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