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Copyright and Intellectual Property

Copyright and Intellectual Property is a research topic within Marketing. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of digital piracy on creative industries, focusing on music and software. It delves into the dynamics of file sharing, ethical decision making, consumer behavior, economic implications, and the role of copyright and intellectual property rights. The research also investigates the effects of online streaming services and the challenges faced by the music industry in the digital age.

  • Digital Piracy
  • Copyright
  • Software Piracy
  • Music Industry
  • File Sharing
  • Intellectual Property
  • Online Streaming
  • Ethical Decision Making
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Economic Impact
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Copyright and Intellectual Property

Which countries lead Copyright and Intellectual Property research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (333 and 123 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 333 works
  2. 2 China 123 works
  3. 3 India 115 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 109 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 62 works
  6. 6 France 57 works
  7. 7 Germany 51 works
  8. 8 Italy 44 works
  9. 9 Australia 41 works
  10. 10 Canada 38 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.

United States: 34.2%China: 12.6%India: 11.8%United Kingdom: 11.2%6 others listed: 30.2%34%largest
United States333 · 34.2%China123 · 12.6%India115 · 11.8%United Kingdom109 · 11.2%6 others listed294 · 30.2%

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

Which institutions lead Copyright and Intellectual Property research?

By volume in 2022-now, City, University of London publishes the most Copyright and Intellectual Property research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Victoria University of Wellington.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 City, University of LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works
  3. 3 Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand 8 works
  4. 4 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 8 works
  5. 5 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 8 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 7 works
  7. 7 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 7 works
  8. 8 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 7 works
  9. 9 Université Paris-SaclayFrance 7 works
  10. 10 Université de MontpellierFrance 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Copyright and Intellectual Property?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Copyright and Intellectual Property include Evgeny V. Shlyakhto.

  1. 1 Evgeny V. Shlyakhto Russia 162k 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 Copyright and Intellectual Property?

The most cited paper in Copyright and Intellectual Property is "The Economics Of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction To Recent Research1" (Paul A. David, Shane M. Greenstein, 1990), with 922 citations. Next come "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis" (883) and "Authors and owners: The invention of copyright" (872).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Economics Of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction To Recent Research1 Paul A. David, Shane M. Greenstein · Economics of Innovation and New Technology 1990 922
2 The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis Felix Oberholzer‐Gee, Koleman Strumpf · Journal of Political Economy Open access Feb 2007 883
3 Authors and owners: The invention of copyright Scott M. Cutlip · Public Relations Review 1994 872
4 Software Piracy: An Analysis of Protection Strategies Kathleen Reavis Conner, Richard P. Rumelt · Management Science Feb 1991 666
5 Permission-based mobile advertising Patrick Barwise, Colin Strong · Journal of Interactive Marketing Feb 2002 599
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Copyright and Intellectual Property research done?

The largest centres of Copyright and Intellectual Property research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 26 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 24 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 22 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 16 works
  6. 6 MunichGermany 14 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 12 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 12 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 11 works
  10. 10 AmsterdamNetherlands 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Washington D.C.US · 23.8 works4.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Copyright and Intellectual Property than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Copyright and Intellectual Property?

Among universities, judged by research, City, University of London and Victoria University of Wellington 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.

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
1City, University of LondonUnited Kingdom 50.01.4%68.0×9 +158.1%
2Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand 50.08.8%28.8×8 +45.0%

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 Copyright and Intellectual Property, country by country

Is Copyright and Intellectual Property research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Copyright and Intellectual Property as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0057% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Copyright and Intellectual Property0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Copyright and Intellectual Property 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%Copyright and Intellectual Property11.1% 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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