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Bucerius Law School

In research, Bucerius Law School stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,618 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Law, Strategy and Management and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Law is 34.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,335
of 22,385 · #9,301 all time
Rank in Germany
#430
of 795
Research works
951
▼ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
2.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Bucerius Law School

What is Bucerius Law School known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #5,618 of 9,585 6.3%94 #3105

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Bucerius Law School sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Bucerius Law School work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at Bucerius Law School is in Social Sciences, 20% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (44%), Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Medicine (16%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 114 fractional works · 70.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 71 fractional works · 44.4% of its workLaw: 33 fractional works · 20.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 fractional works · 11.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 16 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 30 fractional works · 18.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 22 fractional works · 13.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 31 fractional works · 19.5% of its workMedicine: 25 fractional works · 15.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 22 fractional works · 13.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 14 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBucerius LawSchool161fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences20%Social Sciences71%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences7144.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting3018.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance63.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities52.8%
    5. Psychology21.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine2515.6%
    2. Health Professions63.9%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Engineering42.7%
    2. Computer Science42.5%
    3. Environmental Science32.1%
    4. Chemistry10.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    7. Energy00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.9%
    2. Neuroscience10.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Bucerius Law School specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Law takes 34.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. LawSubfield · 32.7 works35×
  2. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 21.8 works16×
  3. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 21.6 works10×
  4. Business, Management and AccountingField · 30.0 works5.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.47× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.81× its world share, 25 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.98× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.79× its world share, 30 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.62× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.51× its world share, 71 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.79×30 works
  2. Social Sciences3.51×71 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.62×6 works
  4. Health Professions1.47×6 works
  5. Arts and Humanities0.98×5 works
  6. Medicine0.81×25 works
  7. Veterinary0.51×0 works
  8. Environmental Science0.42×3 works
  9. Psychology0.35×2 works
  10. Computer Science0.32×4 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.29×0 works
  12. Chemistry0.26×1 works
  13. Energy0.23×0 works
  14. Neuroscience0.22×1 works
  15. Engineering0.18×4 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.17×2 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.15×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.12×0 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.10×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Bucerius Law School?

Ranked on the quality score, Dirk Hartung, Erich Genzmer and Mehrdad Payandeh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bucerius Law School.

  1. 1 Dirk Hartung Germany · #1,303,167 worldwide 504 citations · 45 works
  2. 2 Erich Genzmer Germany · #2,102,765 worldwide 55 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Mehrdad Payandeh Germany · #2,112,280 worldwide 300 citations · 38 works
  4. 4 Felix Hanschmann Germany · #2,344,410 worldwide 199 citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Mauritz Christopher Poppele Germany · #2,640,256 worldwide 1 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Peter Balzer Germany · #2,653,886 worldwide 18 citations · 72 works
  7. 7 Christian Bumke Germany · #2,779,631 worldwide 118 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Christian Bochmann Germany · #2,832,045 worldwide 5 citations · 76 works
  9. 9 Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt Germany · #2,875,882 worldwide 23 citations · 158 works
  10. 10 Rüdiger Veil Germany · #3,093,161 worldwide 254 citations · 440 works
All ranked researchers at Bucerius Law School

What are the most cited papers from Bucerius Law School?

The most cited paper from Bucerius Law School is "GPT-4 passes the bar exam" (Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito, Shang Gao et al., 2024), with 216 citations. Next come "Fighting Hate Speech, Silencing Drag Queens? Artificial Intelligence in Content Moderation and Risks to LGBTQ Voices Online" (202) and "LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English" (194).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 GPT-4 passes the bar exam Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito, Shang Gao et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Open access 25 Feb 2024 216
2 Fighting Hate Speech, Silencing Drag Queens? Artificial Intelligence in Content Moderation and Risks to LGBTQ Voices Online Thiago Dias Oliva, Dennys Marcelo Antonialli, Alessandra Cristina Gomes · Sexuality & Culture 6 Nov 2020 202
3 LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung et al. · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Conference paperOpen access 2022 194
4 The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance in One-Tier and Two-Tier Board Systems – Evidence from the UK and Germany – Carsten Jungmann · European Company and Financial Law Review 19 Dec 2006 160
5 GPT Takes the Bar Exam Michael James Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2022 121
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Bucerius Law School?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, Medical Ethics, Informed Consent, Telemedicine, Physician Liability, Patient Rights, Reproductive Medicine and Legal Methodology.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Human Rights31▲ 19×20 topics
  2. Medical Ethics20▲ 101×2 topics
  3. Informed Consent20▲ 168×3 topics
  4. Telemedicine20▲ 93×2 topics
  5. Physician Liability20▲ 323×2 topics
  6. Patient Rights20▲ 177×1 topic
  7. Reproductive Medicine20▲ 926×1 topic
  8. Artificial Intelligence15▲ 6.6×13 topics
  9. Legal Methodology15▲ 519×2 topics
  10. Regulatory Agencies15▲ 416×2 topics
  11. Criminal Justice15▲ 41×3 topics
  12. Privacy15▲ 32×2 topics
  13. Migration Law14▲ 618×2 topics
  14. Constitutional Courts14▲ 560×2 topics
  15. Digital Governance13▲ 757×1 topic
  16. Party Competition13▲ 757×1 topic
  17. Criminal Law13▲ 53×3 topics
  18. Constitutional Law12▲ 55×3 topics
  19. Big Data11▲ 7.3×7 topics
  20. Youth Offenders11▲ 147×2 topics
  21. Prison System11▲ 119×2 topics
  22. Legal Reforms10▲ 666×1 topic
  23. Security Measures10▲ 493×1 topic
  24. Corporate Governance9▲ 7.9×6 topics
  25. Consumer Protection9▲ 126×2 topics
  26. Cybersecurity9▲ 21×2 topics
  27. Data Protection8▲ 179×2 topics
  28. Autonomous Vehicles8▲ 25×1 topic
  29. Digital Rights8▲ 583×1 topic
  30. Legal Transplants8▲ 203×2 topics
  31. European Union8▲ 22×7 topics
  32. International Law7▲ 14×7 topics
  33. Digital Markets Act6▲ 458×1 topic
  34. EU Competition Law6▲ 458×1 topic
  35. Arbitration6▲ 138×2 topics
  36. Digitalization6▲ 18×4 topics
  37. European Company Law6▲ 281×1 topic
  38. Regulatory Competition6▲ 281×1 topic
  39. Regulation4▲ 5.3×4 topics
  40. Global Governance4▲ 11×9 topics

Which research topics does Bucerius Law School publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Medical and Health Sciences Research, Law and Political Science, Criminal Law and Policy and Digitalization, Law, and Regulation.

Medical and Health Scien…20Medical and Health Sciences Research: 20 fractional worksLaw and Political Science: 13 fractional worksCriminal Law and Policy: 10 fractional worksDigitalization, Law, and Regulation: 8 fractional worksDiverse Legal and Medical Studies: 6 fractional worksCorporate Governance and…6Corporate Governance and Law: 6 fractional worksInternational Arbitration and Investment Law: 3 fractional worksGerman Security and Defense Policies: 3 fractional worksDispute Resolution and Class Actions: 3 fractional worksEuropean and International Contract Law: 2 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthLawSociology and Political ScienceStrategy and Management1 others

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

  1. 1 Medical and Health Sciences Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 20 works
  2. 2 Law and Political Science Law 13 works
  3. 3 Criminal Law and Policy Sociology and Political Science 10 works
  4. 4 Digitalization, Law, and Regulation Law 8 works
  5. 5 Diverse Legal and Medical Studies Strategy and Management 6 works
  6. 6 Corporate Governance and Law Strategy and Management 6 works
  7. 7 International Arbitration and Investment Law Strategy and Management 3 works
  8. 8 German Security and Defense Policies Political Science and International Relations 3 works
  9. 9 Dispute Resolution and Class Actions Strategy and Management 3 works
  10. 10 European and International Contract Law Law 2 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 available26.1%not open73.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.6%domestic only90.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Bucerius Law School's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Bucerius Law School as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00043% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Bucerius Law School0.00054% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Bucerius Law School6.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.6% in 2019.

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