Citation

Farrington DP, Cohn EG, Iratzoqui A. Asian J. Criminol. 2019; 14(1): 61-76.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11417-018-9279-8

PMID

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Abstract

Asian criminology is a fast-growing area of criminological research, but its influence on the international criminological landscape is largely unknown. The current article examines scholarly influence by studying citations in four international criminology journals (AJC--Asian Journal of Criminology, ANZ--Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, CRIM--Criminology, and EJC--European Journal of Criminology) over a 10-year period from 2006 to 2015. Generally, the most-cited scholars in AJC overlapped with the most-cited scholars in the other three journals. The most-cited scholars in AJC tended to be based in the USA, working in the area of developmental and life-course criminology, and highly cited in the other three journals. Overall, Robert J. Sampson was the most-cited scholar in these four journals. Few scholars based in Asia were highly cited in ANZ, CRIM, or EJC, at least partly because few Asian scholars authored articles in these journals. We conclude that Asian scholars should be encouraged to carry out research that would interest international scholars and to submit their work for publication not only in AJC but also in other international journals.

Language: en

Keywords

Asian criminology; Developmental and life-course criminology; Most-cited scholars; Most-cited works; Scholarly influence