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Table 6 Top 10 cited documents in the field of human trafficking

From: Research trends on human trafficking: a bibliometric analysis using Scopus database

Rankaa

Title

Source title

Number of citations

Document Type

1st

The social construction of sex trafficking: Ideology and institutionalization of a moral crusade

Politics and Society

246

Article

2nd

The state of the international organ trade: A provisional picture based on integration of available information

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

172

Review

3rd

Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: A commentary on the global realities

American Journal of Transplantation

146

Note

4th

The Swedish law that prohibits the purchase of sexual services: Best practices for prevention of prostitution and trafficking in human beings

Violence Against Women

132

Review

5th

The ‘butner study’ redux: A report of the incidence of hands-on child victimization by child pornography offenders

Journal of Family Violence

123

Article

5th

Will the real sex slave please stand up?

Feminist Review

123

Article

7th

(Un)popular strangers and crises (un)bounded: Discourses of sex-trafficking, the European political community and the panicked state of the modern state

European Journal of International Relations

116

Review

8th

HIV prevalence and predictors of infection in sex-trafficked nepalese girls and women

Journal of the American Medical Association

113

Article

8th

The perverse politics of four-letter words: Risk and pity in the securitisation of human trafficking

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

113

Article

10th

Prevalence and risk of violence and the physical, mental, and sexual health problems associated with human trafficking: Systematic review

PLoS Medicine

102

Article

10th

Transplant tourism: Outcomes of United States residents who undergo kidney transplantation overseas

Transplantation

102

Conference Paper

  1. aDocuments with equal number of citations were given the same rank, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers