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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. 9.5% 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%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-21%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Criminal Law and Evidence research?

By volume, the United States and Russia publish the most (425 and 127 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 425 works
  2. 2 Russia 127 works
  3. 3 France 114 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 106 works
  5. 5 China 94 works
  6. 6 Canada 90 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 86 works
  8. 8 Germany 80 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 69 works
  10. 10 Poland 65 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: 33.8%Russia: 10.1%France: 9.1%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 38.6%34%largest
United States425 · 33.8%Russia127 · 10.1%France114 · 9.1%United Kingdom106 · 8.4%6 others listed485 · 38.6%

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

Which institutions lead Criminal Law and Evidence research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Michigan publishes the most Criminal Law and Evidence research, followed by Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of MichiganUnited States 18 works
  2. 2 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 14 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  4. 4 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 10 works
  6. 6 University of LatviaLatvia 10 works
  7. 7 College of LawLatvia 9 works
  8. 8 William & MaryUnited States 9 works
  9. 9 Peking UniversityChina 9 works
  10. 10 Vilnius UniversityLithuania 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Criminal Law and Evidence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Criminal Law and Evidence include Cass R. Sunstein, David Hume and Tom R. Tyler.

  1. 1 Cass R. Sunstein United States 2.5k citations
  2. 2 David Hume Australia 1.9k citations
  3. 3 Tom R. Tyler United States 1.8k citations

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

Where is Criminal Law and Evidence research done?

The largest centres of Criminal Law and Evidence research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 54 works
  2. 2 New York United States 36 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 34 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C. United States 27 works
  5. 5 London United Kingdom 23 works
  6. 6 Riga Latvia 21 works
  7. 7 Ann Arbor United States 18 works
  8. 8 Paris France 17 works
  9. 9 Toronto Canada 15 works
  10. 10 Kyiv Ukraine 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RigaLV · 21.5 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, Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Oxford and College of Law 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 7.55556%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Radboud University Nijmegen: 14, 4.6%University of Oxford: 12, 16.7%College of Law: 9, 11.1%University of Michigan: 18, 4.5%Vilnius University: 8, 8.2%William & Mary: 9, 7.5%University of Latvia: 10, 3.5%Weatherford College: 10, 4.4%Peking University: 9, 7.5%University of OxfordCollege of LawRadboud University N…University of Michigan
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 62.34.6%19.5×14 +90.8%
2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 57.216.7%5.2×12 +3.0%
3 College of LawLatvia 55.411.1%103.5×9 -45.2%
4 University of MichiganUnited States 45.84.5%7.6×18 +5.7%
5 Vilnius UniversityLithuania 42.88.2%18.8×8 —
6 William & MaryUnited States 42.27.5%56.1×9 +5.8%
7 University of LatviaLatvia 37.03.5%40.5×10 —
8 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 17.34.4%4.2×10 —
9 Peking UniversityChina 13.07.5%3.2×9 -93.7%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Criminal Law and Evidence research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% lower than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.