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Brazilian Legal Issues

Brazilian Legal Issues is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 42k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to constitutional law, human rights, legal theory, and public administration. It includes discussions on constitutional interpretation, social justice, environmental law, judicial activism, and legal philosophy. The cluster also touches upon issues such as civil rights, public administration, and the intersection of law with other disciplines.

  • Constitutional Law
  • Human Rights
  • Legal Theory
  • Civil Rights
  • Judicial Activism
  • Social Justice
  • Constitutional Interpretation
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Environmental Law
  • Public Administration
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Brazilian Legal Issues

Which countries lead Brazilian Legal Issues research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (8.7k and 472 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 8.7k works
  2. 2 Portugal 472 works
  3. 3 United States 293 works
  4. 4 ?? 255 works
  5. 5 Spain 217 works
  6. 6 Mexico 100 works
  7. 7 Argentina 77 works
  8. 8 Italy 68 works
  9. 9 Germany 57 works
  10. 10 Uruguay 56 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.

Brazil: 84.5%Portugal: 4.6%United States: 2.8%??: 2.5%6 others listed: 5.6%85%largest
Brazil8,719 · 84.5%Portugal472 · 4.6%United States293 · 2.8%??255 · 2.5%6 others listed574 · 5.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Brazilian Legal Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo publishes the most Brazilian Legal Issues research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 285 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 247 works
  3. 3 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 187 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 146 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 140 works
  6. 6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 139 works
  7. 7 Ministério da JustiçaPortugal 138 works
  8. 8 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas GeraisBrazil 130 works
  9. 9 Centro Universitário CesumarBrazil 122 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 121 works

Who are the leading researchers in Brazilian Legal Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Brazilian Legal Issues include Michel Foucault and Cass Robert Sunstein.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Cass Robert Sunstein United States 75k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Brazilian Legal Issues?

The most cited paper in Brazilian Legal Issues is "Cidadania no Brasil: o longo caminho" (Regina Célia Diniz Werner, 2005), with 1,273 citations. Next come "Teoria dos direitos fundamentais" (838) and "Responsabilidade civil" (686).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cidadania no Brasil: o longo caminho Regina Célia Diniz Werner · Revista de Administração Contemporânea Open access Mar 2005 1,273
2 Teoria dos direitos fundamentais Michelli Pfaffenseller · Revista Jurídica da Presidência Open access 2007 838
3 Responsabilidade civil Pâmela Marchese, Margarida Maria Espósito dos Santos · Revista Vianna Sapiens Open access 26 Apr 2022 686
4 Supremo Tribunal Federal Gilmar Ferreira Mendes · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Open access Nov 2010 461
5 DIREITO ADMINISTRATIVO Gustavo Binenbojm · REI - REVISTA ESTUDOS INSTITUCIONAIS Open access 13 Sep 2023 404
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Brazilian Legal Issues research done?

The largest centres of Brazilian Legal Issues research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Espírito Santo, Nova Lima and Itaúna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 1.1k works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 712 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 437 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 421 works
  5. 5 CuritibaBrazil 399 works
  6. 6 LisbonPortugal 296 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 261 works
  8. 8 Porto AlegreBrazil 217 works
  9. 9 RecifeBrazil 205 works
  10. 10 FlorianópolisBrazil 180 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Espírito Santo38.8 works641×
  2. Nova LimaBR · 29.6 works448×
  3. ItaúnaBR · 27.7 works302×
  4. CaçadorBR · 131.5 works265×
  5. Lisbon68.9 works200×
  6. Orlando24.9 works180×
  7. Santa Cruz do SulBR · 87.4 works162×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Brazilian Legal Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Brazilian Legal Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro Universitário Cesumar and Universidad Europea del Atlántico 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.

0%10%20%mean 14.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Europea …Centro Universitário…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 69.012.5%13.2×247 -13.1%
2Centro Universitário CesumarBrazil 68.416.4%230.4×122 +15.6%
3Universidad Europea del AtlánticoSpain 68.123.4%53.8×9 +657.5%
4Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil 64.215.9%10.9×15 +97.5%
5Universidad Internacional De La RiojaSpain 63.514.5%50.1×59 +2057.6%
6Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 63.113.6%26.3×139 -34.0%
7Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 63.014.1%73.8×77 -12.1%
8Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil 62.915.3%38.4×70 +71.5%
9Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 61.99.3%34.6×120 +28.8%
10Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 61.18.8%24.2×146 +7.1%

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 Brazilian Legal Issues, country by country

Is Brazilian Legal Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Brazilian Legal Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.048% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Brazilian Legal Issues0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Brazilian Legal Issues 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.

still counting10%20%Brazilian Legal Issues9.4% in 2025200020102020

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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