Tomorrow our partners from the Belgian police will join us for two days of workshops on cocaine smuggling through European ports, so no rest in sight quite yet. Will be interesting for sure though.

Ja, det är typ en på tio som beviljas pengar, så det blir många avslag

I have now recorded a bunch of successive grant rejections. But i will choose to see it as gathering steam for a bunch of successful ones!

Could perhaps partly be because the call this year was directed towards "preventive work, equality and partner violence".

I was part of an application led by Martin Boldt in computer science at Blekinge Institute of Technology which wasnt awarded funding.

www.vr.se/soka-finansi...

Thanks Matt. I assumed it was related rather to crime science being more inter-disciplinary, and perhaps not wanting to be labeled as criminology. I know the IF, which would put the journal at #8 for 2024.

They matter for employment and promotion over here as well. Hence why I looked into this today - we have a junior researcher who could benefit from a nice looking journal to bolster CV and started discussing where to aim.
(And as an aside, crime science is in neither collection, by choice I suppose?

Although a case can be made for the google rankings ("how influential is this journals top papers on the field"), I really think that in most cases it is more reasonable to adjust for the number of papers a journal publishes. If one prefers highly cited papers can just do the google score / # papers

Apart from BJC, this seems to affect American Journal of Criminal Justice (#2 in google, #18 in IF, 218 papers) and Policing and Society (#4, #15, 299), and maybe for Justice Quarterly (#6, #16, 199).
Crime and Delinquency is one of the clearest cases (#11, #34, 574). 3/

This means that journals with a lot of papers will get a better rating at google scholar on average than their impact factor would suggest.
BJC is ranked #1 in google, but only #16 on IF- and has 388 papers last 5 years.
Criminology is ranked #8 in google, and #3 in IF - with 148 papers..

Google scholar rankings take the N number of papers that have at least N citations, and hence only calculates the "best" (most cited papers) and discounts everything else. A normal impact factor would do an average instead - so including all the papers with few or 0 citations as well. 2/

Nvm, såg nu att det var så.

Jag hade problem komma in på en massa sidor idag pga cloudflare blockat eller ngt, är din post relaterad till det?

Sounds plausible, but then I would really like to see the breakdown by type of offender.. No questions on that in the survey?
Domestic violence after all is not all violence, and those numbers are really high..