Topic · General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Digital Transformation in Law

Digital Transformation in Law is a research topic within General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1959. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of digitalization on the economy and society, focusing on topics such as the digital economy, legal regulation in the digital space, genetic information, artificial intelligence, energy efficiency, blockchain technology, socio-economic inequality, smart contracts, information security, and innovation development. The papers cover a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects related to the digital transformation of various sectors and its implications for both the economy and society.

Digital Economy
Legal Regulation
Genetic Information
Artificial Intelligence
Energy Efficiency
Blockchain Technology
Socio-Economic Inequality
Smart Contracts
Information Security
Innovation Development

Research works: 9.1k
In the world top 10%: 886
Top-10% rate: 9.7%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +60%
Largest producer: Russia

Digital Transformation in Law

Which countries lead Digital Transformation in Law research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 413 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russia 2.4k works
2 United States 413 works
3 Ukraine 354 works
4 China 309 works
5 Indonesia 163 works
6 Hungary 150 works
7 Uzbekistan 122 works
8 India 118 works
9 Germany 83 works
10 Kazakhstan 79 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.

Russia2,450 · 57.8%United States413 · 9.7%Ukraine354 · 8.4%China309 · 7.3%6 others listed715 · 16.9%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Transformation in Law research?

By volume in 2022-now, Kutafin Moscow State Law University publishes the most Digital Transformation in Law research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian State University of Justice.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 241 works
2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 136 works
3 Russian State University of JusticeRussia 86 works
4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 81 works
5 Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 77 works
6 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 75 works
7 The Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian FederationRussia 61 works
8 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 53 works
9 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 48 works
10 Volgograd State UniversityRussia 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Transformation in Law?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Transformation in Law include Dirk Helbing.

1 Dirk Helbing Switzerland 68k 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 Digital Transformation in Law?

The most cited paper in Digital Transformation in Law is "An overview on smart contracts: Challenges, advances and platforms" (Zibin Zheng, Shaoan Xie, Hong‐Ning Dai et al., 2019), with 1,201 citations. Next come "Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems: Risks, Challenges, Competencies, and Strategies" (569) and "Regulating ChatGPT and other Large Generative AI Models" (423).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	An overview on smart contracts: Challenges, advances and platforms Zibin Zheng, Shaoan Xie, Hong‐Ning Dai et al. · Future Generation Computer Systems Open access	17 Dec 2019	1,201
2	Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems: Risks, Challenges, Competencies, and Strategies Matthew U. Scherer · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access	2015	569
3	Regulating ChatGPT and other Large Generative AI Models Philipp Hacker, Andreas Engel, Marco Mauer Conference paperOpen access	12 Jun 2023	423
4	AI-Generated Medical Advice—GPT and Beyond Claudia E. Haupt, Mason Marks · JAMA	27 Mar 2023	357
5	Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk Johann Moritz Laux, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt · Regulation & Governance Open access	6 Feb 2023	337

All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital Transformation in Law research done?

The largest centres of Digital Transformation in Law research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Makhachkala, Volgograd and Tambov.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 MoscowRussia 1.2k works
2 Saint PetersburgRussia 126 works
3 TashkentUzbekistan 109 works
4 KyivUkraine 107 works
5 BudapestHungary 91 works
6 New YorkUnited States 89 works
7 WeatherfordUnited States 81 works
8 KharkivUkraine 73 works
9 BeijingChina 68 works
10 Kazan’Russia 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

MakhachkalaRU · 25.6 works58×
VolgogradRU · 64.1 works55×
TambovRU · 21.4 works54×
KrasnodarRU · 60.4 works47×
YaroslavlRU · 34.2 works46×

← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Transformation in Law than the world average.

See Digital Transformation in Law on the map

Where is the best place to study Digital Transformation in Law?

Among universities, judged by research, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Zarqa University and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 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.

above the meannear itbelow it

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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia	68.9	9.0%	599.2×	241	+6.3%
2	Zarqa UniversityJordan	64.5	17.7%	32.0×	12	-
3	Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakhstan	64.2	18.8%	10.8×	9	+80.5%
4	Weatherford CollegeUnited States	62.2	9.3%	13.7×	81	+238.0%
5	Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia	60.2	10.2%	34.3×	48	+14.7%
6	Institute of Social and HumanitiesRussia	60.2	12.9%	239.8×	14	+75.0%
7	Baikal State UniversityRussia	58.6	11.0%	135.0×	34	+102.2%
8	Volgograd State UniversityRussia	57.5	11.6%	183.9×	48	-9.2%
9	University of MiskolcHungary	56.9	16.8%	20.0×	11	+93.8%
10	Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine	56.8	12.5%	12.9×	16	+17.0%
11	Uzhhorod National UniversityUkraine	56.8	16.4%	21.9×	9	+86.4%
12	National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia	56.5	9.2%	26.4×	48	+29.1%
13	Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan	54.7	6.5%	184.1×	77	+146.9%
14	Novosibirsk State UniversityRussia	53.0	14.7%	17.8×	11	+184.1%
15	Moscow State UniversityTajikistan	52.8	5.2%	25.8×	31	+32.2%
16	Financial UniversityRussia	52.0	7.0%	48.1×	48	+26.5%
17	N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny NovgorodRussia	51.9	12.0%	25.6×	15	+27.2%
18	National University Odesa Law AcademyUkraine	51.2	11.5%	75.9×	16	+17.5%
19	Kharkiv National University of Internal AffairsUkraine	50.9	9.3%	75.4×	23	+54.2%
20	College of LawLatvia	50.7	9.4%	38.4×	8	+137.4%
21	Yaroslavl State UniversityRussia	50.4	7.3%	125.8×	31	+421.9%
22	Russian State University of JusticeRussia	49.8	4.7%	530.4×	86	+7.4%
23	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	46.9	7.2%	8.1×	31	+31.0%
24	Don State Technical UniversityRussia	46.9	9.0%	29.6×	16	+195.1%
25	Yaroslav Mudryi National Law UniversityUkraine	46.7	12.0%	113.5×	17	-29.2%
26	Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary	46.6	9.3%	42.0×	21	+58.7%
27	State University of ManagementRussia	46.1	7.6%	38.6×	12	+22.3%
28	South Ural State UniversityRussia	44.0	6.0%	37.1×	20	+10.3%
29	St Petersburg UniversityRussia	43.9	5.3%	14.2×	30	+59.1%
30	Perm State UniversityRussia	43.3	12.2%	40.6×	8	-4.4%
31	Kuban State UniversityRussia	43.1	5.9%	92.8×	31	+66.7%
32	Ural State Law UniversityRussia	42.9	7.4%	448.2×	45	-3.4%
33	Southwest University of Political Science & LawChina	42.0	13.5%	76.3×	9	-
34	Southwest Minnesota State UniversityUnited States	41.9	6.6%	113.2×	20	+297.8%
35	University of PecsHungary	41.2	13.5%	9.0×	8	-
36	Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia	41.0	7.2%	52.0×	40	-42.2%
37	North-Eastern Federal UniversityRussia	40.9	6.3%	38.6×	14	+615.8%
38	Institute of Service and Entrepreneurship of DGTURussia	40.6	7.9%	80.9×	14	+59.8%
39	West Ukrainian National UniversityUkraine	40.0	14.6%	24.1×	9	-26.7%
40	University of DebrecenHungary	39.5	7.1%	10.2×	13	+31.7%
41	Saratov State Academy of LawRussia	37.4	4.0%	460.2×	42	+4.0%
42	Volgograd Academy of the Russian Internal Affairs MinistryRussia	36.1	6.3%	506.9×	8	+66.4%
43	Belarusian State UniversityBelarus	33.2	2.1%	26.1×	12	+77.7%
44	L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National UniversityKazakhstan	27.7	3.0%	16.1×	11	-
45	Sevastopol National Technical UniversityUkraine	25.8	0.5%	100.8×	11	+861.6%
46	Rostov Institute of Law of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian FederationRussia	24.1	0.4%	366.8×	8	+45.2%

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 Digital Transformation in Law, country by country

Is Digital Transformation in Law research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Transformation in Law.

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 Digital Transformation in Law as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

Fractional works of Digital Transformation in Law 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.

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.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Digital Transformation in Law. Posts are plain text and can be reported.

Which countries lead Digital Transformation in Law research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Digital Transformation in Law research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Transformation in Law?

What are the most cited papers in Digital Transformation in Law?

Where is Digital Transformation in Law research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Digital Transformation in Law?

Is Digital Transformation in Law research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion