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Comparative International Legal Studies

Comparative International Legal Studies is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of legal and environmental topics, including contractual law, civil liability, consumer rights, corporate social responsibility, and environmental regulation. The focus is on the legal and ethical aspects of sustainable development, responsibility of the state, and the judicial system in Latin America.

  • Responsibility
  • Contractual Law
  • Environmental Regulation
  • Consumer Rights
  • Judicial System
  • Sustainable Development
  • Civil Liability
  • Legal Ethics
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • International Law
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Comparative International Legal Studies

Which countries lead Comparative International Legal Studies research?

By volume, Spain and Colombia publish the most (771 and 291 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 771 works
  2. 2 Colombia 291 works
  3. 3 Ecuador 275 works
  4. 4 Chile 267 works
  5. 5 Peru 218 works
  6. 6 Mexico 189 works
  7. 7 Brazil 180 works
  8. 8 Argentina 149 works
  9. 9 France 77 works
  10. 10 United States 62 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.

Spain: 31.1%Colombia: 11.7%Ecuador: 11.1%Chile: 10.8%6 others listed: 35.3%31%largest
Spain771 · 31.1%Colombia291 · 11.7%Ecuador275 · 11.1%Chile267 · 10.8%6 others listed874 · 35.3%

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

Which institutions lead Comparative International Legal Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Austral University of Chile publishes the most Comparative International Legal Studies research, followed by Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes and Universitat de Barcelona.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Austral University of ChileChile 56 works
  2. 2 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 52 works
  3. 3 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 44 works
  4. 4 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 43 works
  5. 5 Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain 42 works
  6. 6 Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 41 works
  7. 7 Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPeru 36 works
  8. 8 University of ChileChile 35 works
  9. 9 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 35 works
  10. 10 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Comparative International Legal Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Comparative International Legal Studies include Joseph E. Stiglitz and D. Herranz.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 D. Herranz Spain 96k 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 Comparative International Legal Studies?

The most cited paper in Comparative International Legal Studies is "Investor protection and corporate governance" (Mauricio Gutiérrez Urzúa, 2015), with 726 citations. Next come "Corte Suprema de Justicia" (360) and "Tratado de responsabilidad extracontractual" (268).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Investor protection and corporate governance Mauricio Gutiérrez Urzúa · Horizontes Empresariales Open access 24 Aug 2015 726
2 Corte Suprema de Justicia El Editor · ECA Estudios Centroamericanos Open access 30 Sep 2011 360
3 Tratado de responsabilidad extracontractual Íñigo de la Maza Gazmuri · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) 23 Sep 2007 268
4 La Compraventa Internacional Pinkas Flint Blanck Jul 2016 173
5 El caleidoscopio de las justicias en Colombia Carlos Ariel Sánchez Tórres · Desafíos (Universidad del Rosario) Open access 2001 169
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Comparative International Legal Studies research done?

The largest centres of Comparative International Legal Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Bogotá (Colombia), Lima (Peru) and Santiago (Chile). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Valdivia and Ambato.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 225 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 169 works
  3. 3 LimaPeru 130 works
  4. 4 SantiagoChile 118 works
  5. 5 AmbatoEcuador 96 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 70 works
  7. 7 Buenos AiresArgentina 62 works
  8. 8 ValdiviaChile 60 works
  9. 9 Mexico CityMexico 56 works
  10. 10 QuitoEcuador 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán35.2 works140×
  2. ValdiviaCL · 59.9 works133×
  3. AmbatoEC · 95.8 works85×
  4. La PazBO · 21.4 works44×
  5. BogotáCO · 169.1 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Comparative International Legal Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Comparative International Legal Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Austral University of Chile, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo and Universidad Indoamérica 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%20%40%mean 15.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Nacional…Universidad Indoamér…Universidad Regional…Austral University o…
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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
1Austral University of ChileChile 68.58.9%259.9×56 +11.8%
2Universidad Nacional de ChimborazoEcuador 64.240.6%63.7×12 -
3Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 62.015.9%236.1×41 +932.6%
4Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 61.614.3%104.8×52 +153.5%
5Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 59.47.2%23.4×44 +135.1%
6Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain 58.79.7%76.2×42 +27.2%
7Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 58.421.0%182.3×35 -
8Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 56.318.6%51.6×25 +166.2%
9Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 54.28.2%22.9×32 +8.3%
10Military University Nueva GranadaColombia 53.515.3%127.6×16 +134.5%

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 Comparative International Legal Studies, country by country

Is Comparative International Legal Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Comparative International Legal Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Comparative International Legal Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Comparative International Legal Studies 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 counting5%10%15%Comparative International Legal Studies10.1% 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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