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D-Index
53
Citations
11023
World Ranking
43
National Ranking
37

Gary LaFree publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary LaFree sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 178 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Gary LaFree D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary LaFree sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award

Overview

Gary LaFree is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans the broad field of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, as well as Political Science and International Relations, Communication, Epidemiology, and Health.

Their main research topics include Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence; Crime Patterns and Interventions; Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance; Political Conflict and Governance; Data-Driven Disease Surveillance; Social and Intergroup Psychology; and Populism and Right-Wing Movements.

Gary LaFree's recent published papers include:

  • A comparison of political violence by left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremists in the United States and the world (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evaluating Public Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing and Other Acts of Terrorism through Twitter (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Progress and Obstacles in the Internationalization of Criminology (2021), International Criminology
  • Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates (2022), Social Forces
  • Micro and macro-level risk factors for extremism and terrorism: Toward a criminology of extremist violence (2021), Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Bo Jiang
  • Michael Becker
  • Cody Buntain
  • George Mohler
  • Katarzyna Jaśko

The scientist frequently publishes in these venues:

  • Criminology & Public Policy
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • International Criminology
  • Social Forces
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Gary LaFree has also authored books, including Toward a Criminology of Terrorism (2023), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Introducing the Global Terrorism Database

    Gary LaFree;Laura Dugan

  • Testing a rational choice model of airline hijackings

    Laura Dugan;Gary LaFree;Alex R. Piquero

  • Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime And The Decline Of Social Institutions In America

    Gary D. LaFree

  • Rape and Criminal Justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault

    Gary D. LaFree

  • The Situational Analysis of Crime and Deviance

    Christopher Birkbeck;Gary LaFree

  • The effect of sexual stratification by race on official reactions to rape.

    Gary D. LaFree

  • THE IMPACT OF BRITISH COUNTERTERRORIST STRATEGIES ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND: COMPARING DETERRENCE AND BACKLASH MODELS*

    Gary Lafree;Laura Dugan;Raven Korte

  • Quest for significance and violent extremism : the case of domestic radicalization

    Katarzyna Jasko;Gary LaFree;Arie Kruglanski

  • Democracy and Crime: A Multilevel Analysis of Homicide Trends in Forty-Four Countries, 1950-2000

    Gary Lafree;Andromachi Tseloni

  • Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database

    Gary LaFree;Laura Dugan;Erin Miller

  • Guest Editorial: Processes of Radicalization and De-Radicalization

    Donatella Della Porta;Gary LaFree

  • DECLINING VIOLENT CRIME RATES IN THE 1990S: Predicting Crime Booms and Busts

    Gary LaFree

  • HOW DOES STUDYING TERRORISM COMPARE TO STUDYING CRIME

    Gary LaFree;Laura Dugan

  • Official Reactions to Social Problems: Police Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases

    Gary D. Lafree

  • The Empirical Study of Terrorism: Social and Legal Research

    Gary LaFree;Gary Ackerman

  • Cross-National Determinants of Child Homicide

    Robert Fiala;Gary LaFree

  • RACE AND CRIME IN POSTWAR AMERICA: DETERMINANTS OF AFRICAN‐AMERICAN AND WHITE RATES, 1957–1988*

    Gary Lafree;Kriss A. Drass;Patrick O'day

  • Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Terrorist Attacks by ETA 1970 to 2007

    Gary LaFree;Laura Dugan;Min Xie;Piyusha Singh

  • CORRELATES OF VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES

    Gary Lafree;Michael A. Jensen;Patrick A. James;Aaron Safer-Lichtenstein

  • Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism

    Gary LaFree;Laura Dugan

  • ADVERSARIAL AND NONADVERSARIAL JUSTICE: A COMPARISON OF GUILTY PLEAS AND TRIALS*

    Gary D. LaFREE

  • The effects of participants' ethnicity and gender on monetary outcomes in mediated and adjudicated civil cases

    Gary LaFree;Christine Rack

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Dugan
Laura Dugan The Ohio State University
Joshua D. Freilich
Joshua D. Freilich John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Alex R. Piquero
Alex R. Piquero University of Miami
Eric P. Baumer
Eric P. Baumer Pennsylvania State University
Alfred Blumstein
Alfred Blumstein Carnegie Mellon University
Steven M. Chermak
Steven M. Chermak Michigan State University
Thomas J. Holt
Thomas J. Holt Michigan State University
David C. Pyrooz
David C. Pyrooz University of Colorado Boulder
Jennifer Golbeck
Jennifer Golbeck University of Maryland, College Park
Murray A. Straus
Murray A. Straus University of New Hampshire

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