Michael Polakowski

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michael Polakowski is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Polakowski has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 1 paper in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 1 paper in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Michael Polakowski's work include Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 papers) and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 papers). Michael Polakowski is often cited by papers focused on Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 papers) and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 papers). Michael Polakowski collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Michael Polakowski's co-authors include Tilmann Gneiting, Adrian E. Raftery, Fadoua Balabdaoui, Sherry K. Schneider, Darryl A. Seale, Irving Piliavin, Rosemary Gartner, Ross L. Matsueda and Michael R. Gottfredson and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Monthly Weather Review and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

In The Last Decade

Michael Polakowski

6 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Using Bayesian Model Averaging to Calibrate Forecast Ensembles

2005 1.4k citations Adrian E. Raftery, Tilmann Gneiting et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Polakowski United States	6	931	700	384	359	279	7	1.8k
Zhe Zhang United States	21	708 0.8×	291 0.4×	222 0.6×	124 0.3×	99 0.4×	79	1.5k
Rebecca E. Morss United States	35	2.1k 2.2×	1.7k 2.5×	142 0.4×	205 0.6×	1.7k 6.3×	88	3.7k
JONQUIL BEVAN	4	1.1k 1.2×	518 0.7×	522 1.4×	203 0.6×	46 0.2×	10	2.1k
Lei Zou China	29	1.2k 1.3×	477 0.7×	396 1.0×	341 0.9×	788 2.8×	125	2.7k
Jeffrey K. Lazo United States	28	997 1.1×	712 1.0×	83 0.2×	82 0.2×	1.5k 5.3×	56	2.6k
Erin Coughlan de Perez Netherlands	25	1.6k 1.7×	672 1.0×	533 1.4×	169 0.5×	476 1.7×	65	2.2k
Andrew D. King Australia	38	3.2k 3.4×	2.0k 2.9×	350 0.9×	248 0.7×	377 1.4×	142	4.4k
Saini Yang China	24	930 1.0×	450 0.6×	218 0.6×	168 0.5×	315 1.1×	67	2.0k
Paul J. Roebber United States	29	1.9k 2.1×	1.9k 2.7×	135 0.4×	362 1.0×	90 0.3×	86	3.0k
Andrew Metcalfe Australia	26	869 0.9×	294 0.4×	429 1.1×	194 0.5×	85 0.3×	109	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Polakowski

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Polakowski

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Polakowski

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Polakowski. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Polakowski based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Polakowski. Michael Polakowski is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Polakowski, Michael, et al.. (2008). Treating the Tough Cases in Juvenile Drug Court. Criminal Justice Review. 33(3). 379–404. 14 indexed citations

2.

Raftery, Adrian E., Tilmann Gneiting, Fadoua Balabdaoui, & Michael Polakowski. (2005). Using Bayesian Model Averaging to Calibrate Forecast Ensembles. Monthly Weather Review. 133(5). 1155–1174. 1415 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seale, Darryl A., Michael Polakowski, & Sherry K. Schneider. (1998). It's not really theft!: Personal and workplace ethics that enable software piracy. Behaviour and Information Technology. 17(1). 27–40. 54 indexed citations

4.

Polakowski, Michael & Michael R. Gottfredson. (1996). The Use of Prisons as a Commons Problem: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 33(1). 70–93.

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Polakowski, Michael. (1994). Linking self- and social control with deviance: Illuminating the structure underlying a general theory of crime and its relation to deviant activity. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 10(1). 41–78. 210 indexed citations

6.

Polakowski, Michael. (1992). Losing Lifestyles of Career Criminals. Contemporary Psychology. 37(7). 646–647. 6 indexed citations

7.

Matsueda, Ross L., Rosemary Gartner, Irving Piliavin, & Michael Polakowski. (1992). The Prestige of Criminal and Conventional Occupations: A Subcultural Model of Criminal Activity. American Sociological Review. 57(6). 752–752. 54 indexed citations

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