For those that are scholars (or institutional researchers) in criminal justice/criminology, do you find, or have experienced, lower numbers of citations accrediting your peer-reviewed studies produced at the beginning of the 2000s to 2010s, as opposed to similarly produced research in the last 5-8 years?

If so, could this be a result of more [new] journals, an increased number issues beget from established journals, a larger number of produced studies delineated from the same resulting datasets, or simply an oversaturation of studies in a particular field or subfield? Might there be an overreliance to use the newest, latest research (or research only remotely related) despite the significant contributions of older studies that have often framed the studies of today? That is, is there a worry that academics are writing in a similar vein to older, published research studies, whereby a lack of originality (i.e., fear of plagiarism) is perceived as similarly found in screenplays developed in recent years in Hollywood?

- Carlos D. Montemayor

05/17/2020