Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Law takes 40.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. LawSubfield · 41.0 works40×
2. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 35.5 works14×
3. Social SciencesField · 125.8 works5.7×
4. Arts and HumanitiesField · 27.8 works5.5×

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

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.

• Social Sciences 5.7×
• Arts and Humanities 5.5×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.6×
• Business, Management and Accounting 1.2×
• Psychology 0.4×
• Health Professions 0.2×
• Environmental Science 0.2×
• Computer Science 0.1×
• Medicine 0.1×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.1×
• Engineering 0.0×
• Decision Sciences 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Heinz Mohnhaupt, Karl Härter and Miloš Več lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

1. 1 🇩🇪 Heinz Mohnhaupt Germany · #212,862 worldwide 10 citations · 67 works
2. 2 🇩🇪 Karl Härter Germany · #216,203 worldwide 17 citations · 75 works
3. 3 🇩🇪 Miloš Več Germany · #235,304 worldwide 32 citations · 81 works
4. 4 🇩🇪 Michael Stolleis Germany · #278,344 worldwide 70 citations · 252 works
5. 5 🇩🇪 Caspar Ehlers Germany · #302,116 worldwide 1 citations · 49 works
6. 6 🇩🇪 Thomas Duve Germany · #313,144 worldwide 11 citations · 59 works
7. 7 🇩🇪 Thomas Gergen Germany · #347,096 worldwide 3 citations · 89 works
8. 8 🇩🇪 Manuela Bragagnolo Germany · #376,968 worldwide 4 citations · 25 works
9. 9 🇩🇪 Stefan Vogenauer Germany · #379,207 worldwide 18 citations · 25 works
10. 10 🇩🇪 Jan-Henrik Meyer Germany · #382,023 worldwide 17 citations · 43 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, Nationalism, Legal Methodology, Constitutionalism, Gender, Criminal Justice, Regulatory Agencies and Constitutional Courts.

By volume in 2022–2025: Law and Political Science, Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Historical Legal Studies and Society and American Constitutional Law and Politics.

1. 1 Law and Political Science Law 13 works
2. 2 Colonialism, slavery, and trade Anthropology 8 works
3. 3 Historical Legal Studies and Society Political Science and International Relations 6 works
4. 4 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 5 works
5. 5 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 5 works
6. 6 Judicial and Constitutional Studies Law 4 works
7. 7 African history and culture studies Anthropology 4 works
8. 8 Legal Education and Practice Innovations Law 4 works
9. 9 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity History 4 works
10. 10 Criminal Law and Policy Sociology and Political Science 3 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 2% higher than in 2013–2017.

• Goethe University Frankfurt
• University Hospital Frankfurt
• European Central Bank
• DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
• Gesundheitsamt
• Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
• Cardiovascular Center Frankfurt
• Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst