Scholarly Index

Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Mark Button	99.45	2,928	199
2	Thomas J. Holt	99.30	8,425	254
3	Rutger Leukfeldt	98.81	2,490	115
4	Suleman Lazarus	98.31	751	43
5	Shane D. Johnson	97.79	6,509	160
6	Mark Lokanan	97.65	877	58
7	Milind Tiwari	97.54	422	44
8	Christoph Wronka	96.72	321	10
9	David Bright	96.42	2,455	114
10	Gustavo Fondevila	96.19	568	137
11	Howard Chitimira	95.81	257	104
12	Germán Silva García	95.54	408	70
13	Branislav Hock	95.36	194	43
14	Georgios Pavlidis	94.78	263	43
15	Michael Levi	94.74	4,910	253
16	Chad Whelan	94.45	746	55
17	Nasir Sultan	93.78	141	22
18	Carola Westermeier	93.67	362	15
19	Petter Gottschalk	93.63	5,200	377
20	Javier Cifuentes‐Faura	93.56	5,481	217
21	Nicholas Lord	93.47	672	82
22	Jonathan Lusthaus	93.45	458	26
23	E.R. Kleemans	93.41	2,376	155
24	Spencer Chainey	93.29	1,203	48
25	José Miguel Cruz	93.27	2,971	158
26	Valeria Vegh Weis	93.21	142	38
27	Carlos Vilalta	93.18	1,298	100
28	Cassandra Cross	92.92	1,484	93
29	Paul Gilmour	92.87	228	17
30	Francesco Calderoni	92.48	1,278	89
31	Fabian Teichmann	92.09	1,009	190
32	Anna Sergi	91.85	512	53
33	José Atiles	91.67	321	66
34	Lin Liu	91.67	7,312	299
35	Vânia Ceccato	91.57	3,669	199
36	Norazida Mohamed	91.52	298	40
37	Máximo Sozzo	91.47	1,058	116
38	Eray Arda Akartuna	90.83	320	10
39	David Buil‐Gil	90.70	950	62
40	Michael Weintraub	90.66	5,176	237
41	Marcos Alan S. V. Ferreira	90.47	322	71
42	David Décary-Hêtu	90.45	2,164	70
43	Christopher Blattman	90.41	6,356	71
44	Kendra McSweeney	90.28	3,420	79
45	Francesca M. Calamunci	90.17	108	12
46	Abhishek Thommandru	89.80	222	12
47	Alberto Aziani	89.77	739	46
48	Benjamin Lessing	89.65	1,195	25
49	James C. Wo	89.65	686	37
50	Lin William Cong	89.60	4,796	192