Most cited papers in Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
What are the most cited papers in Crime and Detective Fiction Studies?
The most cited paper in Crime and Detective Fiction Studies is "Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare State" (Joseph R. Gusfield, 1989), with 253 citations. Next come "Ten Theses about Fictionality" (232) and "Doubt Is Their Product" (224).
Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 35 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare State Joseph R. Gusfield · Social Problems | Dec 1989 | 253 |
| 2 | Ten Theses about Fictionality Henrik Skov Nielsen, James Blackwell Phelan, Richard Walsh · Narrative | 21 Dec 2014 | 232 |
| 3 | Doubt Is Their Product David Michaels, Mindy Jones · Scientific American | Jun 2005 | 224 |
| 4 | Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Herman Melville · Northwestern University Press eBooks | 1987 | 221 |
| 5 | Mad matters: a critical reader in Canadian mad studies Mark Anthony Castrodale · Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research | 10 Mar 2014 | 220 |
| 6 | Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research∗ Horace M. Newcomb, Paul M. Hirsch · Quarterly Review of Film Studies | Jun 1983 | 208 |
| 7 | Explore Everything : Place-Hacking The City Louise Dorignon · Carnets de géographes | 2014 | 169 |
| 8 | Fortescue and the Political Theory of dominium James H. Burns · The Historical Journal | Dec 1985 | 154 |
| 9 | Reading Women's Magazines Amy Beth Aronson · Media History | Dec 2000 | 136 |
| 10 | Mobilization Through Interpellation : James Bulger, Juvenile Crime and the Construction of a Moral Panic Colin Hay · Social & Legal Studies | Jun 1995 | 135 |
| 11 | The zombie within Christof Koch, Francis Harry Compton Crick · Nature | 21 Jun 2001 | 112 |
| 12 | Making news and making space: Framing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Sikee Liu, NICHOLAS K. BLOMLEY · Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes | 4 Dec 2012 | 110 |
| 13 | Antisocial Personality Disorder, Sexual Sadism, Malignant Narcissism, and Serial Murder VJ Geberth, Renato Turco · Journal of Forensic Sciences | 1997 | 106 |
| 14 | The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | Mar 1981 | 102 |
| 15 | Introduction Jerrold E. Hogle · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 29 Aug 2002 | 100 |
| 16 | Urban Homicide in Theory and Fact Henry Allen Bullock · The Journal of Criminal Law Criminology and Police Science | 1955 | 100 |
| 17 | Modern serial killers Kevin D. Haggerty · Crime Media Culture An International Journal | Aug 2009 | 97 |
| 18 | Talking About Detective Fiction Eden Leone · The Journal of Popular Culture | 19 Jul 2010 | 94 |
| 19 | Uncanny Stories: The Ghost Story As Female Gothic Diana Wallace · Gothic Studies | May 2004 | 92 |
| 20 | Forensic Sexology: Paraphilic Serial Rape (Biastophilia) and Lust Murder (Erotophonophilia) John Money · American Journal of Psychotherapy | 1990 | 90 |
| 21 | Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin Elizabeth A. Bohls, Rod Edmond · Comparative Literature | 1999 | 82 |
| 22 | Smooth type II blow-up solutions to the four-dimensional energy-critical wave equation Matthieu Hillairet, Pierre Raphaël · Analysis & PDE | 27 Nov 2012 | 82 |
| 23 | Monsters Inc.: Serial killers and consumer culture Brian Jarvis · Crime Media Culture An International Journal | 7 Nov 2007 | 81 |
| 24 | Making a genre: the case of the contemporary true crime documentary Stella Bruzzi · Law and Humanities | 2 Jul 2016 | 78 |
| 25 | Trauma, Memory, and Railway Disaster: The Dickensian Connection Jill L. Matus · Victorian Studies | Apr 2001 | 78 |
| 26 | What Is “Enjoyment as a Political Factor”? Derek W. Hook · Political Psychology | 21 Mar 2017 | 73 |
| 27 | Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self Ryan Steele Jackson · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 5 Oct 2006 | 73 |
| 28 | Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing Jodey Castricano · Gothic Studies | Apr 2000 | 71 |
| 29 | Negotiating the Paranoia Narrative: The Critical Reception ofBleeding Edge(2013) by Thomas Pynchon Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck · Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie | Mar 2016 | 70 |
| 30 | The extimacy of space Paul T. Kingsbury · Social & Cultural Geography | Apr 2007 | 70 |
| 31 | LORDS, BURGESSES AND HUCKSTERS R. H. Hilton · Past & Present | 1982 | 69 |
| 32 | Landscapes in the frame: exploring the hinterlands of the British procedural drama Les Roberts · New Review of Film and Television Studies | 31 May 2016 | 68 |
| 33 | Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age Victoria Stewart | 24 Aug 2017 | 67 |
| 34 | ‘CLAP IF YOU BELIEVE IN SHERLOCK HOLMES’: MASS CULTURE AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF MODERNITY, c. 1890–c. 1940 Michael Saler · The Historical Journal | Sep 2003 | 67 |
| 35 | Literary geography: setting and narrative space Sheila Hones · Social & Cultural Geography | 22 Sep 2011 | 66 |
| 36 | The origins of the theory of group characters Thomas Hawkins · Archive for History of Exact Sciences | 1971 | 66 |
| 37 | The walking dead and killing state: Zombification and the normalization of police violence Travis Linnemann, Tyler J. Wall, Edward Green · Theoretical Criminology | 7 Apr 2014 | 65 |
| 38 | Psychiatric Study of Homicide Emanuel Tanay · American Journal of Psychiatry | Mar 1969 | 65 |
| 39 | What Is Unnatural about Unnatural Narratology?: A Response to Monika Fludernik Jan Alber, Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen et al. · Narrative | 23 Sep 2012 | 65 |
| 40 | Jazz Exotica and the Naked City Phil Ford · Journal of Musicological Research | 28 Apr 2008 | 64 |
| 41 | ‘The Day After the Hurricane’ Benjamin Sims · Social Studies of Science | Feb 2007 | 63 |
| 42 | “History Is Our Playground”: Action and Authenticity in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Aris Politopoulos, Angus A. A. Mol, Krijn H.J. Boom et al. · Advances in Archaeological Practice | Aug 2019 | 61 |
| 43 | Nation, identity and the fascination with forensic science in Sherlock Holmes and CSI Ellen Burton Harrington · International Journal of Cultural Studies | 29 Aug 2007 | 61 |
| 44 | Spaces of (in)security: Media and fear of crime in a local context Mark Banks · Crime Media Culture An International Journal | Aug 2005 | 59 |
| 45 | Police Surveillance and the Emergence of CCTV in the 1960s Chris A. Williams · Crime Prevention and Community Safety | Jul 2003 | 58 |
| 46 | The logic of suspense and mystery. Jennings Bryant, Dolf Zillmann | 1991 | 57 |
| 47 | Serial murder in England 1940–1985 Philip R. Jenkins · Journal of Criminal Justice | 1988 | 57 |
| 48 | From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror James Kneale · Cultural Geographies | 14 Dec 2005 | 57 |
| 49 | The Anatomy of Mutiny Elihu Rose · Armed Forces & Society | Jul 1982 | 57 |
| 50 | Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope Jen Webb, Sam Byrnand · Body & Society | Jun 2008 | 56 |
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