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Environmental Law Institute

In research, Environmental Law Institute stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,207 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#3,758 of 5,988 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#8,305 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Law and Political Science and International Relations (Law is 21.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,635
of 22,385 · #4,895 all time
Rank in United States
#881
of 3,332
Research works
2.3k
▼ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
7.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Environmental Law Institute

What is Environmental Law Institute 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 #3,207 of 9,585 15.8%236 #1859
Social SciencesField #3,758 of 5,988 10.7%145 #2099
Physical SciencesDomain #8,305 of 10,670 10.5%65 #6194

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Environmental Law Institute 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#1,859 #3,207
  2. Social Sciences#2,099 #3,758
  3. Physical Sciences#6,194 #8,305
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Environmental Law Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at Environmental Law Institute is in Social Sciences, 19% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (44%), Business, Management and Accounting (15%), Environmental Science (9%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 268 fractional works · 70.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 166 fractional works · 43.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 61 fractional works · 16.1% of its workLaw: 46 fractional works · 12.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 37 fractional works · 9.7% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 57 fractional works · 15.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 23 fractional works · 6.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAccounting: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 11 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 70 fractional works · 18.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 35 fractional works · 9.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 18 fractional works · 4.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 14 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Energy: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 30 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 6.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKEnvironmental LawInstitute379fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences8%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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences16643.7%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting5715.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance236.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities112.9%
    5. Psychology71.9%
    6. Decision Sciences41.0%
    1. Environmental Science359.3%
    2. Computer Science184.6%
    3. Engineering71.8%
    4. Energy61.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.6%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.4%
    7. Chemistry10.2%
    1. Medicine246.3%
    2. Health Professions61.5%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences61.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.7%
    3. Neuroscience20.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Environmental Law Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Law takes 21.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. LawSubfield · 46.5 works21×
  2. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 61.2 works11×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.59× its world share, 18 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.75× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.88× its world share, 35 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.56× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 24 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.99× its world share, 11 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.64× its world share, 57 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.05× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.85× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.64× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.45× its world share, 166 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting4.64×57 works
  2. Social Sciences3.45×166 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.85×23 works
  4. Environmental Science1.88×35 works
  5. Energy1.75×6 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.05×4 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.99×11 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.66×1 works
  9. Psychology0.64×7 works
  10. Computer Science0.59×18 works
  11. Health Professions0.56×6 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.39×2 works
  13. Neuroscience0.34×2 works
  14. Medicine0.33×24 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.32×6 works
  16. Veterinary0.32×0 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.20×2 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.12×2 works
  19. Engineering0.12×7 works
  20. Chemistry0.11×1 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Environmental Law Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Carl E. Bruch, Shanna N. McClain and Mas Achmad Santosa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Environmental Law Institute.

  1. 1 Carl E. Bruch United States · #941,060 worldwide 888 citations · 79 works
  2. 2 Shanna N. McClain United States · #1,292,219 worldwide 531 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Mas Achmad Santosa United States · #1,838,776 worldwide 134 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Bruce Rich United States · #2,274,886 worldwide 492 citations · 50 works
  5. 5 Linda K. Breggin United States · #2,461,678 worldwide 699 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Renée Martin‐Nagle United States · #2,814,267 worldwide 127 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Kathryn Anne Gwiazdon United States · #3,032,785 worldwide 23 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Gregory S. Wetstone United States · #3,045,315 worldwide 472 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 M.V.C. Aalders United States · #3,057,003 worldwide 196 citations · 32 works
  10. 10 John A. Pendergrass United States · #3,072,479 worldwide 1k citations · 60 works
All ranked researchers at Environmental Law Institute

What are the most cited papers from Environmental Law Institute?

The most cited paper from Environmental Law Institute is "The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people" (Sandra M. Díaz et al., 2014), with 2,619 citations. Next come "Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why Do People Help the Police Fight Crime in Their Communities?" (833) and "MAPPING INDIGENOUS LANDS" (466).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people Sandra M. Díaz et al. · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ReviewOpen access 19 Dec 2014 2,619
2 Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why Do People Help the Police Fight Crime in Their Communities? Tom R. Tyler, Jeffrey A. Fagan · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2006 833
3 MAPPING INDIGENOUS LANDS Mac Chapin, Zachary Lamb, Bill Threlkeld · Annual Review of Anthropology Review 16 Sep 2005 466
4 COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons Brendan K. Saloner, Kalind Parish, Julie Ann Ward et al. · JAMA Open access 8 Jul 2020 418
5 Toward Unlimited Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts Henry B. Hansmann, Reinier H. Kraakman · The Yale Law Journal Open access May 1991 416
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Environmental Law Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, International Law, Artificial Intelligence, Global Governance, Corporate Governance, Judicial Review, Regulatory Challenges and Democracy.

▲ 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 Rights80▲ 21×49 topics
  2. International Law50▲ 42×21 topics
  3. Artificial Intelligence29▲ 5.3×17 topics
  4. Climate Change28▲ 2.8×36 topics
  5. Sustainability23▲ 2.5×39 topics
  6. Global Governance23▲ 25×14 topics
  7. Corporate Governance22▲ 7.8×13 topics
  8. Judicial Review21▲ 65×5 topics
  9. Regulatory Challenges20▲ 59×4 topics
  10. Democracy20▲ 15×6 topics
  11. Constitutionalism19▲ 58×4 topics
  12. Environmental Law18▲ 23×7 topics
  13. Innovation18▲ 4.6×20 topics
  14. Transnational Corporations18▲ 182×2 topics
  15. Intellectual Property Rights17▲ 54×3 topics
  16. ECHR16▲ 124×1 topic
  17. European Legal Systems16▲ 124×1 topic
  18. Ethical Issues15▲ 36×4 topics
  19. Intellectual Property14▲ 32×6 topics
  20. Criminal Justice13▲ 16×8 topics
  21. Ethics13▲ 6.8×16 topics
  22. Liability13▲ 133×2 topics
  23. Copyright Law13▲ 173×2 topics
  24. European Union12▲ 15×15 topics
  25. Accountability12▲ 26×2 topics
  26. Arbitration12▲ 120×2 topics
  27. Property Rights12▲ 48×7 topics
  28. State Sovereignty12▲ 70×2 topics
  29. Copyright12▲ 110×2 topics
  30. Legal Regulation11▲ 13×8 topics
  31. Constitutional Law11▲ 23×7 topics
  32. Legal Implications11▲ 38×2 topics
  33. Market Value11▲ 114×2 topics
  34. Innovation Policy11▲ 31×3 topics
  35. Bilateral Investment Treaties11▲ 165×1 topic
  36. Foreign Direct Investment11▲ 62×1 topic
  37. Digitalization11▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Biological Engineering10▲ 126×1 topic
  39. Cyberbiosecurity10▲ 126×1 topic
  40. Patent Analysis10▲ 193×1 topic

Which research topics does Environmental Law Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: European and International Law Studies, International Arbitration and Investment Law, Law, AI, and Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property and Patents.

European and Internation…16European and International Law Studies: 16 fractional worksInternational Arbitratio…11International Arbitration and Investment Law: 11 fractional worksLaw, AI, and Intellectua…10Law, AI, and Intellectual Property: 10 fractional worksIntellectual Property an…10Intellectual Property and Patents: 10 fractional worksCorporate Law and Human Rights: 9 fractional worksEnvironmental law and policy: 9 fractional worksLegal Cases and Commentary7Legal Cases and Commentary: 7 fractional worksLegal Systems and Judicial Processes: 6 fractional worksIntellectual Property Law: 6 fractional worksInternational Maritime Law Issues: 5 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsStrategy and ManagementArtificial IntelligenceManagement of Technology and Innovation4 others

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

  1. 1 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 16 works
  2. 2 International Arbitration and Investment Law Strategy and Management 11 works
  3. 3 Law, AI, and Intellectual Property Artificial Intelligence 10 works
  4. 4 Intellectual Property and Patents Management of Technology and Innovation 10 works
  5. 5 Corporate Law and Human Rights Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 9 works
  6. 6 Environmental law and policy Law 9 works
  7. 7 Legal Cases and Commentary Reproductive Medicine 7 works
  8. 8 Legal Systems and Judicial Processes Political Science and International Relations 6 works
  9. 9 Intellectual Property Law Law 6 works
  10. 10 International Maritime Law Issues Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 5 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 available31.8%not open68.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.4%domestic only79.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Environmental Law Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% 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 Environmental Law Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0016% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Environmental Law Institute0.0016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Law Institute 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 counting10%20%30%Environmental Law Institute13.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 28.1% in 2012.

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