Changes in the most-cited scholars in major international journals between 1986-90 and 1991-95
We determined the most-cited scholars in 1991-95 in the major criminology journals of the major countries of the English-speaking world: British Journal of Criminology BJC, Criminology CRIM, Canadian Journal of Criminology CJC and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology ANZ. We also compar...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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1998
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 1998, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 156-170 |
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Summary: | We determined the most-cited scholars in 1991-95 in the major criminology journals of the major countries of the English-speaking world: British Journal of Criminology BJC, Criminology CRIM, Canadian Journal of Criminology CJC and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology ANZ. We also compared the results with those obtained in a similar analysis for 1986-90. The scholars with the most citations in 1991-95 were Patricia M. Mayhew BJC, Travis Hirschi CRIM, Murray A. Straus CJC and John Braithwaite ANZ. However, Anthony N. Doob was cited in a larger number of different CJC articles than Murray A. Straus, and we concluded that this measure termed the prevalence of citations was a better measure of wide-ranging influence than the total number of citations. On a combined score, the five most-cited scholars in al four journals in 1991-95 were Travis Hirschi, David P. Farrington, Michael R. Gottfredson, Alfred Blumstein and John Braithwaite. Whereas the most-cited works of the most-cited scholars in the earlier period tended to be concerned with criminal career research and measuring crime, the most-cited works of the most-cited scholars in the later period were more concerned with criminological theories |
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ISSN: | 0007-0955 |