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This chapter focuses on our second stream of research, which examines six major American journals. The study includes three criminology journals (Criminology; the Journal of Quantitative Criminology; and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency) as well as three criminal justice journals (Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice and Behavior). For each journal, we discuss the results we obtained, including presenting a list of the most-cited scholars in each journal in 2016–2020 (those ranked up to 50). The comparable rankings of these scholars in the six previous five-year time periods (from 1986–1990) are also included, so that citations are documented over a 35-year period. We then explain how we created a combined measure of influence based on all six journals that gives each journal equal weight, and we present a table of the 50 most-cited scholars on this combined measure. The most-cited works of the ten most-cited scholars are also identified. The chapter concludes with a discussion of continuity and changes in citations over time.
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Cohn, E.G., Farrington, D.P., Skinner, G.C.M. (2023). Most-Cited Scholars in Six American Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals. In: Most Influential Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1986-2020. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23596-2_4
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