Leaderboards/Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jun Lang
Southwest University
2
Catharina O'Donnell
Harvard University Press
3
Sofi Johansson
Stockholm University
4
Ana Villarreal
Boston University
5
Yingdan Lu
Stanford University
6
Fangzhou Wang
The University of Texas at Arlington
7
Cristian Guillermo Rodriguez
Universidad de Los Andes, Chile
8
Sneha Annavarapu
University of Chicago
9
Qingxiao Zheng
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
10
Sanghamitra Roy
Utrecht University

Rising Stars Papers

1
The cyber-industrialization of catfishing and romance fraud
Computers in Human Behavior|2024
29 cit.
2
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate
Trends in Organized Crime|2024
23 cit.
3
Breaking the silence: Examining process of cyber sextortion and victims’ coping strategies
International Review of Victimology|2024
20 cit.
4
The Mobilizing Power of Visual Media Across Stages of Social-Mediated Protests
Political Communication|2024
15 cit.
5
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility
Mobilities|2024
14 cit.
6
Exploring the impact of physical exercise on mental health among female college students: the chain mediating role of coping styles and psychological resilience
Frontiers in Psychology|2024
14 cit.
7
The influence of physical exercise on achievement motivation among college students: the mediating roles of self-efficacy and life satisfaction
Frontiers in Psychology|2025
14 cit.
8
The everyday struggles of accessing public transport for women in the first- and last-mile stretches in Kolkata
Journal of Transport Geography|2024
13 cit.
9
EvAlignUX: Advancing UX Evaluation through LLM-Supported Metrics Exploration
Unknown Journal|2025
10 cit.
10
Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin
American Journal of Political Science|2025
10 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ronn Mikhael A. Avila
Trinity University of Asia
2
Christopher Thomas
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3
Corneliu-Eugen Havârneanu
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
4
Emma Kelly
University of Minnesota System
5
Mathias Clasen
Aarhus University
6
Jiakai Ji
China University of Petroleum, East China
7
Jungseock Joo
UCLA Health
8
Elizabeth Hughes
University of California, Riverside
9
Jocelyn R Smith Lee
Marist University
10
Md Asif Hasan Anik
Dalhousie University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Image as Data: Automated Content Analysis for Visual Presentations of Political Actors and Events
Computational Communication Research|2022
29 cit.
2
‘Pimps” Self-presentations in the Interview Setting: ‘Good Me,’ ‘Bad Me,’ and ‘Badass Me’
Journal of Human Trafficking|2022
29 cit.
3
COVID-19 and Teleworking: Lessons, Current Issues and Future Directions for Transport and Land-Use Planning
Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board|2023
25 cit.
4
The Psychological Benefits of Scary Play in Three Types of Horror Fans
Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications|2022
24 cit.
5
Enhancing Fairness in Face Detection in Computer Vision Systems by Demographic Bias Mitigation
Unknown Journal|2022
21 cit.
6
Explaining Deep Convolutional Neural Networks via Latent Visual-Semantic Filter Attention
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
11 cit.
7
Preemptive Motion Planning for Human-to-Robot Indirect Placement Handovers
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)|2022
10 cit.
8
MMCHIVED: Multimodal Chile and Venezuela Protest Event Data
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media|2022
8 cit.
9
Creepiness and the Uncanny
Style|2023
7 cit.
10
Scared together: Heart rate synchrony and social closeness in a high-intensity horror setting.
Emotion|2025
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Brian Roberts
Aston University
2
Robert J. Bennett
University of Toledo
3
Lloyd D. Johnston
Unknown
4
Kenneth F. Ferraro
Purdue University West Lafayette
5
Linda Steg
University of Groningen
6
Heith Copes
University of Alabama at Birmingham
7
Norbert Schwarz
Heidelberg University
8
D. Wayne Osgood
University of Michigan
9
Ronald L. Simons
University of Georgia
10
David P. Farrington
Institute of Criminology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: An integrative review and research agenda
Journal of Environmental Psychology|2008
4.9k cit.
2
Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1983
4.8k cit.
3
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
British Journal of Sociology|1978
3.1k cit.
4
A TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANT WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING STUDY.
Academy of Management Journal|1995
3.1k cit.
5
Self-reports: How the questions shape the answers.
American Psychologist|1999
2.7k cit.
6
Feelings as information: informational and motivational functions of affective states
Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)|1989
2k cit.
7
Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1999
1.9k cit.
8
Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than do subject pool participants
Behavior Research Methods|2015
1.8k cit.
9
Effectiveness of school-based programs to reduce bullying: a systematic and meta-analytic review
Journal of Experimental Criminology|2010
1.6k cit.
10
Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents
Child Development|1994
1.6k cit.

Indexing Crime, Deviance, and Social Control Reagents

Citation data for reagents in this field is currently compiling.