Ten Years of Scientific Publications of the Department of Private Security and Municipal Policing

Abstract

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Department of Private Security and Municipal Policing (PSMP). During this time, Hungarian law enforcement and the faculty that accommodates the Department have undergone significant development. In the first ten years after its establishment, the Department grew in numbers and became an academic research centre. The lecturers and professors of the Department were undoubtedly the driving force behind this development. Still, their workshop attracted far more participants to join the research network than the number of lecturers in the Department. The research network is required to produce up-to-date and scientifically grounded teaching materials due to the contribution of academic experts, either nationals or foreigners, former and current scholars, and representatives of the private security industry and municipal and corporate security professionals. The article describes the milestones in the development of the Department and undertakes a retrospective analysis of the metadata of the published academic papers using scientometric analysis methods. The authorship collaboration relations between members of the broader research community complements this latter analysis. We used social network analysis methods concerning the co-authorship networks set up by publications affiliated with the PSMP Department.