Animal Law and Welfare
Animal Law and Welfare is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 2.1k research works in it since 1961. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the legal and ethical considerations surrounding animal rights, including topics such as animal trials, sentience, the legal relationship between animals and humans, ethical considerations of animal welfare, criminalization of animal abuse, and the debate around personhood for nonhuman subjects. It also delves into specific issues like bullfighting and the implications of cultural practices on animal rights.
- Animal Trials
- Sentience
- Legal Relationship
- Ethical Considerations
- Animal Welfare
- Criminalization
- Nonhuman Subjects
- Personhood
- Animal Abuse
- Bullfighting
- Research works
- 2.1k fractional, since 1961
- In the world top 10%
- 218 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +89% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
Brazil
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Animal Law and Welfare research?
By volume, Brazil and Spain publish the most (469 and 157 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Brazil
469 works
- 2
Spain
157 works
- 3
United States
64 works
- 4
Ecuador
44 works
- 5
Mexico
42 works
- 6
France
33 works
- 7
Colombia
29 works
- 8
Argentina
20 works
- 9
Chile
18 works
- 10
United Kingdom
17 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Animal Law and Welfare research?
By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Animal Law and Welfare research, followed by Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes and Universidade do Estado do Pará.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Universidade de São PauloBrazil
11 works
- 2
Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador
11 works
- 3
Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil
10 works
- 4
Universidad de SevillaSpain
9 works
- 5
Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil
8 works
- 6
Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain
8 works
- 7
Secretaria da SaúdeBrazil
8 works
- 8
Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
8 works
- 9
Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil
7 works
- 10
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico
6 works
Who are the leading researchers in Animal Law and Welfare?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Animal Law and Welfare include Déborah Carvalho Malta and Aluísio J. D. Barros.
- 1
Déborah Carvalho Malta
Brazil
192k citations
- 2
Aluísio J. D. Barros
Brazil
59k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Animal Law and Welfare research done?
The largest centres of Animal Law and Welfare research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Madrid (Spain) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Belém.
Largest cities, 2022-now
Where it is the local speciality
- BelémBR · 21.3 works28×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Animal Law and Welfare than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Animal Law and Welfare?
Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes and Universidade do Estado do Pará score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universidade de São PauloBrazil |
86.4 | 11.1% | 6.2× | 11 | +5.8% |
| 2 | Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador |
63.5 | 11.3% | 61.5× | 11 | - |
| 3 | Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil |
57.8 | 10.1% | 83.8× | 10 | +278.3% |
| 4 | Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain |
47.2 | 12.1% | 10.3× | 8 | +112.9% |
| 5 | Universidad de SevillaSpain |
38.7 | 5.1% | 17.5× | 9 | +139.7% |
Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.
Every institution in Animal Law and Welfare, country by countryIs Animal Law and Welfare research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 89% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Animal Law and Welfare.
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 Animal Law and Welfare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.
Fractional works of Animal Law and Welfare 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.
Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.
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