Amy Thornton

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 795 citations indexed

About

Amy Thornton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Thornton has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 795 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Information Systems and 4 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Amy Thornton's work include Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 papers). Amy Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 papers). Amy Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and United States. Amy Thornton's co-authors include Lisa Tompson, Jyoti Belur, Miranda Simon, Shane D. Johnson, Maura Conway, Emily Corner, Paul Gill, Elizabeth R. Groff, Mia Bloom and John Horgan and has published in prestigious journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Sociological Methods & Research and Futures.

In The Last Decade

Amy Thornton

17 papers receiving 760 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology: Exploring Variation in Coder Decision-Making

2018 423 citations Jyoti Belur, Lisa Tompson et al. Sociological Methods & Research profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy Thornton United Kingdom	11	328	114	94	89	68	18	795
Jyoti Belur United Kingdom	17	434 1.3×	144 1.3×	45 0.5×	112 1.3×	33 0.5×	44	1.0k
Florian Keusch Germany	20	554 1.7×	62 0.5×	60 0.6×	128 1.4×	70 1.0×	53	1.1k
Natalja Menold Germany	16	326 1.0×	136 1.2×	54 0.6×	149 1.7×	43 0.6×	73	897
Alexander L. Janus United Kingdom	8	345 1.1×	97 0.9×	58 0.6×	172 1.9×	36 0.5×	9	925
Ghee-Young Noh South Korea	13	597 1.8×	140 1.2×	53 0.6×	163 1.8×	39 0.6×	75	1.1k
Sirous Panahi Iran	10	207 0.6×	52 0.5×	69 0.7×	110 1.2×	52 0.8×	45	676
Diane Rasmussen Pennington United States	16	174 0.5×	50 0.4×	141 1.5×	108 1.2×	82 1.2×	68	710
Stefan Rädiker Germany	7	273 0.8×	86 0.8×	39 0.4×	123 1.4×	36 0.5×	13	951
Gi Woong Yun United States	13	368 1.1×	81 0.7×	26 0.3×	56 0.6×	51 0.8×	43	810
Ali Kazemi Iran	18	271 0.8×	167 1.5×	60 0.6×	173 1.9×	44 0.6×	95	1.0k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Johnson, Shane D., et al.. (2024). Motivating a standardised approach to financial intelligence: a typological scoping review of money laundering methods and trends. Journal of Experimental Criminology. 21(4). 1367–1413. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Shane D., et al.. (2024). A Holistic Network Analysis of the Money Laundering Threat Landscape: Assessing Criminal Typologies, Resilience and Implications for Disruption. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 41(2). 173–214. 4 indexed citations

Johnson, Shane D., et al.. (2024). Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews. Futures. 158. 103340–103340. 6 indexed citations

Johnson, Shane D., et al.. (2022). The money laundering and terrorist financing risks of new and disruptive technologies: a futures-oriented scoping review. Security Journal. 36(4). 615–650. 17 indexed citations

Johnson, Shane D., et al.. (2022). Preventing the money laundering and terrorist financing risks of emerging technologies: An international policy Delphi study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 179. 121632–121632. 53 indexed citations

Thornton, Amy, et al.. (2021). The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in London: Countering Overseas Terrorist Financing and Support with “Nudge” and Situational Approaches. Terrorism and Political Violence. 35(2). 470–496. 3 indexed citations

Tompson, Lisa, Jyoti Belur, Amy Thornton, et al.. (2020). How Strong is the Evidence-Base for Crime Reduction Professionals?. 4(1). 68–97. 10 indexed citations

Belur, Jyoti, Amy Thornton, Lisa Tompson, et al.. (2020). A systematic review of the effectiveness of the electronic monitoring of offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice. 68. 101686–101686. 26 indexed citations

Bouhana, Noemié, Stefan Malthaner, Bart Schuurman, et al.. (2019). Lone-Actor Terrorism:Radicalisation, Attack Planning and Execution.

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Belur, Jyoti, Lisa Tompson, Amy Thornton, & Miranda Simon. (2018). Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology: Exploring Variation in Coder Decision-Making. Sociological Methods & Research. 50(2). 837–865. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thornton, Amy, Aiden Sidebottom, Jyoti Belur, Lisa Tompson, & Kate Bowers. (2018). On the development and application of EMMIE: insights from the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction. Policing & Society. 29(3). 266–282. 17 indexed citations

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Belur, Jyoti, Lisa Tompson, Amy Thornton, & Miranda Simon. (2018). Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 4 indexed citations

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Groff, Elizabeth R., Shane D. Johnson, & Amy Thornton. (2018). State of the Art in Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Crime: An Overview. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 35(1). 155–193. 61 indexed citations

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Sidebottom, Aiden, Amy Thornton, Lisa Tompson, et al.. (2017). A systematic review of tagging as a method to reduce theft in retail environments. Crime Science. 6(1). 7–7. 17 indexed citations

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Gill, Paul, Emily Corner, Maura Conway, et al.. (2017). Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers. Criminology & Public Policy. 16(1). 99–117. 101 indexed citations

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Sidebottom, Aiden, Lisa Tompson, Amy Thornton, et al.. (2017). Gating Alleys to Reduce Crime: A Meta-Analysis and Realist Synthesis. Justice Quarterly. 35(1). 55–86. 30 indexed citations

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Gill, Paul, Emily Corner, Amy Thornton, & Maura Conway. (2015). What are the roles of the Internet in terrorism? Measuring online behaviours of convicted UK terrorists. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 14 indexed citations

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Thornton, Amy, et al.. (2012). An Analysis of Forensic Evidence used in the Prosecution of Terrorism Cases in Britain between 1972 and 2008. Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice. 7(1). 96–108. 7 indexed citations

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