Contemporary Classics? The Early Onset of Influence of Articles Published in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals, 2010–2015

Female citation impact superiority 1996–2018 in six out of seven English‐speaking nations

“…The results contrast previous characterisations of the most highly cited papers as mainly male-authored (Baltussen & Kindler, 2004;Graham, Pratt, Lee, & Cullen, 2019;Schisterman, Swanson, Lu, & Mumford, 2017;Wong, Tan, & Sabanayagam, 2019). This may be due to field differences or the relatively fine-grained subject classification used here so that fast publishing specialisms are less likely to have an advantage, as well as advantages for older articles that have had more time to be cited.…”

Ranking Nordic Criminologists by Impact and Prestige

“…IFs were collected through Web of Science (December 3, 2018) and I combined this information with insights on the historical importance of journals derived from prestige surveys. Sorensen, Snell, and Rodriguez (2006) found a positive correlation (r ¼ .65) for all the journal ratings across survey studies, and results are especially consistent for the highest ranked journals (Cohn et al, 2017;Graham et al, 2019;Orrick & Weir, 2011). The "big three" are Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly, with Journal of Quantitative Criminology as a recent contender (Barranco et al, 2016).…”

“…Two principal components of science are publications and the reaction from the research community in the form of citations. Impact studies use objective measures to assess productivity and researchers' citations while prestige surveys assess journals and academic programs based on subjective measures (Dejong & St. George, 2018;Graham et al, 2019).…”

“…Productivity has an increasing rate of return, as more publications tend to imply even more citations (Sandstr€ om & van den Besselaar, 2016;Walters, 2015). Citations are highly concentrated among a few academics (Orrick & Weir, 2011) and most criminological articles are only rarely cited (Cohn et al, 2017;Graham et al, 2019). Copes et al (2011) found that faculty, on average, were cited 14.78 (SD ¼ 31.34) times a year and the ten most cited authors in Cohn and Farrington's (2012) study achieved between 92 and 239 citations in the year 2005.…”

“…Impact and prestige rankings are popular within criminology and criminal justice. They provide measures used in hiring decisions and demonstrate the discipline's health and growth (Graham, Pratt, Lee, & Cullen, 2019). While there has been an increasing internationalization of criminology (Barberet, 2007), most ranking studies focus either explicitly or implicitly on American criminology, and for good reasons.…”