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Alternative Law Forum

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Research works
12
▲ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
90
7.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
2%
world 18%
Alternative Law Forum

Not ranked overall: Alternative Law Forum is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Alternative Law Forum work in?

In all years, 93% of research at Alternative Law Forum is in Social Sciences, 4% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (71%), Business, Management and Accounting (16%), Arts and Humanities (5%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 11 fractional works · 93.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 71.4% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 31.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 13.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 10.9% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 6.8% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 16.3% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 16.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workALL ITS WORKAlternative LawForum12fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences93%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 3 domains and 5 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences971.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting216.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities15.5%
    1. Environmental Science04.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Who are the top researchers at Alternative Law Forum?

Ranked on the quality score, Lawrence Liang and Arvind Narrain lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Alternative Law Forum.

  1. 1 Lawrence Liang India · #1,734,781 worldwide 252 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Arvind Narrain India · #2,244,400 worldwide 433 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Alternative Law Forum

What are the most cited papers from Alternative Law Forum?

The most cited paper from Alternative Law Forum is "Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader" (Geert Lovink et al., 2012), with 120 citations. Next come "Piracy, Creativity and Infrastructure: Rethinking Access to Culture" (33) and "Media’s Law" (11).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader Geert Lovink et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2012 120
2 Piracy, Creativity and Infrastructure: Rethinking Access to Culture Lawrence Liang · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2009 33
3 Media’s Law Lawrence Liang · BioScope South Asian Screen Studies 2011 11
4 Censorship and the Politics of Micro-Fascism Lawrence Liang · Television & New Media 6 Apr 2015 5
5 Brazil, India, South Africa: Transformative Constitutions and Their Role in LGBT Struggles Arvind Narrain · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 20 Jan 2015 4
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Alternative Law Forum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social and Economic Development in India, South Asian Studies and Conflicts and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development.

Social and Economic Deve…0Social and Economic Development in India: 0 fractional worksSouth Asian Studies and …0South Asian Studies and Conflicts: 0 fractional worksAgriculture, Land Use, R…0Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Social and Economic Development in India Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  2. 2 South Asian Studies and Conflicts Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  3. 3 Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available46.9%not open53.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.0%domestic only98.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Alternative Law Forum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% higher than in 2018-2021.

201020152020
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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Alternative Law Forum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000012% in 2018.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Alternative Law Forum0.000019% in 202220102020

Fractional works of Alternative Law Forum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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