Most cited papers in Comparative and International Law Studies

The most cited paper in Comparative and International Law Studies is "Legitimation durch Verfahren?" (Erhard Blankenburg, 1995), with 922 citations. Next come "Decentring Regulation: Understanding the Role of Regulation and Self-Regulation in a 'Post-Regulatory' World" (849) and "Defining and Describing What We Do: Doctrinal Legal Research" (508).

Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 101 citations is listed.

Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.