Fifty most cited research papers in child pornography

Abstract

Child pornography (CP) provokes sexual aggression in the individual. The deviant behavior i.e. aggression then manifests in the form of child sexual abuse1 especially child molestation. This is why CP is kept in the list of crimes and perpetrator is dealt as per laws of land for rigorous imprisonment and/or reformative psychiatric sessions. So, it is a converging point for legislative bodies, law enforcing agencies, professional psychiatrics, and public reporting organizations including research journals. These are the published articles which keep the readers aware of the dynamics and kinetics of a particular theme e.g. CP. It is mandatory for author(s) of a manuscript to cite references from previously published literature in introduction and discussion segments. Publication of the article increases citation frequency of each of the referred paper by 1. The impact of an article i.e. quality of article; or individual author on the researchers’ community is evaluated using the number of times it was referenced in other papers.2,3 Biblimetricians apply citation analysis to assess the impact. Findings of bibliometric studies support research mentors and financing units in recognition of warranted research activity. Many articles have reported “citation classics” on various specialties after identification and analysis of top-cited papers.4─7 Similarly, it is practice of several journals to publish their own thematic “citation classics”.8,9 However, literature is still scarce of most cited papers on child pornography – an evident research gap. The objective of present work was to categorize and scrutinize the features of the 50 frequentlycited papers on child pornography published in impact factor journals for the mass awareness about the menace.