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Criminal Law and Evidence

Criminal Law and Evidence is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of criminal procedure and human rights, with a focus on topics such as the exclusionary rule, Fourth Amendment, surveillance law, terrorism legislation, judicial oversight, privacy rights, and prosecutorial misconduct.

  • Human Rights Act
  • Exclusionary Rule
  • Fourth Amendment
  • Criminal Trials
  • Legal Ethics
  • Surveillance Law
  • Terrorism Legislation
  • Judicial Oversight
  • Privacy Rights
  • Prosecutorial Misconduct
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Criminal Law and Evidence

Which countries lead Criminal Law and Evidence research?

By volume, the United States and Russia publish the most (458 and 134 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 458 works
  2. 2 Russia 134 works
  3. 3 France 120 works
  4. 4 China 115 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 112 works
  6. 6 Germany 93 works
  7. 7 Canada 92 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 88 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 72 works
  10. 10 Poland 68 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: 33.9%Russia: 9.9%France: 8.9%China: 8.5%6 others listed: 38.8%34%largest
United States458 · 33.9%Russia134 · 9.9%France120 · 8.9%China115 · 8.5%6 others listed525 · 38.8%

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

Which institutions lead Criminal Law and Evidence research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Criminal Law and Evidence research, followed by University of Michigan and Radboud University Nijmegen.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  2. 2 University of MichiganUnited States 18 works
  3. 3 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 15 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 12 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 12 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  7. 7 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 12 works
  8. 8 Université de LyonFrance 12 works
  9. 9 University of LatviaLatvia 10 works
  10. 10 William & MaryUnited States 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Criminal Law and Evidence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Criminal Law and Evidence include Robert C. Reiner and Bryan L. Sykes.

  1. 1 Robert C. Reiner United States 160k citations
  2. 2 Bryan L. Sykes United States 159k 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 Criminal Law and Evidence?

The most cited paper in Criminal Law and Evidence is "Economic Analysis of Accident Law." (Roger Bowles, Steven Shavell, 1989), with 776 citations. Next come "A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics" (765) and "The Virginia Journal of International Law (A)" (621).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Economic Analysis of Accident Law. Roger Bowles, Steven Shavell · The Economic Journal Jun 1989 776
2 A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics Christine Jolls, Cass Robert Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 28 Mar 2000 765
3 The Virginia Journal of International Law (A) Elliott N. Weiss, Britton Taubenfeld · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2020 621
4 The judgment proof problem Steven Shavell · International Review of Law and Economics Jun 1986 512
5 Inside the Interrogation Room Richard A. Leo · The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) 1996 420
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Where is Criminal Law and Evidence research done?

The largest centres of Criminal Law and Evidence research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Riga.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 57 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 37 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 31 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  6. 6 RigaLatvia 22 works
  7. 7 Ann ArborUnited States 18 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 17 works
  9. 9 KyivUkraine 16 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RigaLV · 22.5 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Criminal Law and Evidence than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Criminal Law and Evidence?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Michigan and Radboud University Nijmegen 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.

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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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 65.711.7%5.1×12 -16.6%
2University of MichiganUnited States 64.57.3%7.0×18 +88.5%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 58.44.0%14.3×15 +47.4%
4College of LawLatvia 43.99.1%114.0×9 -24.6%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 43.79.4%5.5×12 -
6William & MaryUnited States 42.46.6%62.4×9 +20.5%
7Université de LyonFrance 35.30.4%10.7×12 +65.8%
8Vilnius UniversityLithuania 34.38.3%20.2×8 +32.3%
9University of LatviaLatvia 32.93.0%43.3×10 +37.9%
10Université de Caen NormandieFrance 18.10.6%30.4×9 -

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 Criminal Law and Evidence, country by country

Is Criminal Law and Evidence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Criminal Law and Evidence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0092% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Criminal Law and Evidence 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.

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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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