Crime and Justice and the Criminal Justice and Criminology Literature

Abstract

The most-cited scholars in state-of-the-art literature reviews in general volumes of Crime and Justice: A Review of Research between 1986 and 1993 were significantly correlated with the most-cited scholars in three major American criminology journals, three major American criminal justice journals, and three international criminology journals between 1986 and 1990. There was also substantial overlap between the most-cited works in Crime and Justice and the most-cited crime and justice works in the Social Sciences Citation Index between 1979 and 1993. Concepts developed in criminal career research can be used to enrich citation analysis. The prevalence of citations (the number of different articles in which an author was cited) can be distinguished from the individual citation frequency (the average number of an author's works cited whenever that author was cited). Mathematical models of citation careers can be developed.