2026 Jonathan Jackson: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	74	15	15	1	1	474	22725

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan Jackson is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on social sciences and medicine. Within these broad fields, their work delves into subfields such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, law, epidemiology, and emergency medicine.

The central themes of Jonathan Jackson's research encompass several interconnected topics. These include policing practices and perceptions, crime patterns and interventions, traumatic brain injury research, criminal justice and corrections analysis, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, judicial and constitutional studies, and traumatic brain injury with neurovascular disturbances.

Jonathan Jackson has contributed to various publication venues, with a notable number of articles appearing in CrimRxiv and the Journal of Global Faultlines. Other frequently used venues include Bristol University Press eBooks, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and The British Journal of Criminology.

CrimRxiv
Journal of Global Faultlines
Bristol University Press eBooks
Journal of Experimental Criminology
The British Journal of Criminology

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan Jackson are:

Trust in science, social consensus and vaccine confidence, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
"Truly free consent"? Clarifying the nature of police legitimacy using causal mediation analysis, 2020, Journal of Experimental Criminology
Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy 'Hard to Win, Easy to Lose'? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Live Facial Recognition: Trust and Legitimacy as Predictors of Public Support for Police Use of New Technology, 2020, The British Journal of Criminology
Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Jonathan Jackson has also participated in book publications with Bristol University Press eBooks, contributing to multiple editions of Access to Justice, Digitalization and Vulnerability in 2024.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative research include Ben Bradford, Arabella Kyprianides, Naomi Creutzfeldt, Steven P. Broglio, and Thomas W. McAllister.

Best Publications

Why do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Mike Hough;Andy Myhill

1388
Citations
Popular legitimacy and the exercise of legal authority: motivating compliance, cooperation and engagement

Tom R. Tyler;Jonathan Jackson

878
Citations
Procedural Justice, Trust, and Institutional Legitimacy

Mike Hough;Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Andy Myhill

705
Citations
Contact and confidence: revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police

Ben Bradford;Jonathan Jackson;Elizabeth A. Stanko

695
Citations
Just Authority?: Trust in the Police in England and Wales

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Betsy Stanko;Katrin Hohl

613
Citations
Experience and Expression Social and Cultural Significance in the Fear of Crime

Jonathan Jackson

599
Citations
Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times

Stephen D. Farrall;Jonathan Jackson;Emily Gray

561
Citations
Public Confidence in Policing A Neo-Durkheimian Perspective

Jonathan Jackson;Jason Sunshine

514
Citations
A psychological perspective on vulnerability in the fear of crime

Jonathan Jackson

443
Citations
Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing.

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford

437
Citations
Officers as Mirrors Policing, Procedural Justice and the (Re)Production of Social Identity

Ben Bradford;Kristina Murphy;Jonathan Jackson

409
Citations
Europeans and Biotechnology in 2005: patterns and Trends

G. Gaskell;S. Stares;A. Allansdottir;N. Allum

402
Citations
Functional Fear and Public Insecurities About Crime

Jonathan Jackson;Emily Gray

381
Citations
Reassessing the Fear of Crime

Emily Gray;Jonathan Jackson;Stephen Farrall

349
Citations
Does the fear of debt deter students from higher education

Claire Callender;Jonathan Jackson

342
Citations
What is Trust and Confidence in the Police

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford

341
Citations
Introducing fear of crime to risk research.

Jonathan Jackson

340
Citations
Imagining nanotechnology: cultural support for technological innovation in Europe and the United States

George Gaskell;Toby Ten Eyck;Jonathan Jackson;Giuseppe Veltri

313
Citations
FEELINGS AND FUNCTIONS IN THE FEAR OF CRIME Applying a New Approach to Victimisation Insecurity

Emily Gray;Jonathan Jackson;Stephen Farrall

311
Citations
Developing European indicators of trust in justice

Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Mike Hough;Jouni Kuha

309
Citations
Public Health and Fear of Crime A Prospective Cohort Study

Jonathan Jackson;Mai Stafford

293
Citations
Ethnic diversity, segregation and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London

Patrick Sturgis;Ian Brunton-Smith;Jouni Kuha;Jonathan Jackson

282
Citations
Does the Fear of Debt Constrain Choice of University and Subject of Study

Claire Callender;Jonathan Jackson

278
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Bradford University College London

Mike Hough Birkbeck, University of London

Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield

Tom R. Tyler Yale University

George Gaskell London School of Economics and Political Science

Kristina Murphy Griffith University

Aziz Z. Huq University of Chicago

Clifford Stott Keele University

Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Pierre Jolicoeur University of Montreal

External Links

Personal website of Jonathan Jackson

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