@article{ref1,
title="Changes in the most-cited scholars in major international journals between 1986-90 and 1991-95",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="1998",
author="Cohn, Ellen G. and Farrington, David P.",
volume="38",
number="1",
pages="156-170",
abstract="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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}