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Dispute Resolution and Class Actions

Dispute Resolution and Class Actions is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 focuses on the role of online dispute resolution (ODR) in the context of global trade, with a specific emphasis on consumer redress, class actions, regulatory challenges, e-commerce, mediation, arbitration, and the use of artificial intelligence. The papers explore the challenges and opportunities of implementing ODR systems for cross-border disputes and highlight the evolving landscape of dispute resolution in the digital age.

  • Online Dispute Resolution
  • Global Trade
  • Consumer Redress
  • Class Actions
  • Regulatory Challenges
  • E-commerce
  • Mediation
  • Arbitration
  • Cross-Border Disputes
  • Artificial Intelligence
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dispute Resolution and Class Actions

Which countries lead Dispute Resolution and Class Actions research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (340 and 227 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 340 works
  2. 2 China 227 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 176 works
  4. 4 India 141 works
  5. 5 Russia 105 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 94 works
  7. 7 Brazil 83 works
  8. 8 Germany 65 works
  9. 9 Australia 54 works
  10. 10 Poland 53 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: 25.4%China: 16.9%Indonesia: 13.2%India: 10.5%6 others listed: 34.0%25%largest
United States340 · 25.4%China227 · 16.9%Indonesia176 · 13.2%India141 · 10.5%6 others listed455 · 34.0%

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

Which institutions lead Dispute Resolution and Class Actions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Human Growth Foundation publishes the most Dispute Resolution and Class Actions research, followed by College of Law and Zarqa University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 College of LawLatvia 16 works
  3. 3 Zarqa UniversityJordan 14 works
  4. 4 Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 12 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 11 works
  6. 6 Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 10 works
  7. 7 Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 9 works
  8. 8 Amity UniversityIndia 9 works
  9. 9 University of ZagrebCroatia 9 works
  10. 10 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dispute Resolution and Class Actions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dispute Resolution and Class Actions include Paul M. Thompson.

  1. 1 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Dispute Resolution and Class Actions?

The most cited paper in Dispute Resolution and Class Actions is "THE INVERSE CARE LAW" (Julian Tudor Hart, 1971), with 3,303 citations. Next come "Extreme case formulations: A way of legitimizing claims" (1,990) and "Correlation and Causation" (804).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE INVERSE CARE LAW Julian Tudor Hart · The Lancet Open access Feb 1971 3,303
2 Extreme case formulations: A way of legitimizing claims Anita M. Pomerantz · Human Studies 1986 1,990
3 Correlation and Causation Susan Haack · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 28 Jul 2014 804
4 Deontic Authority in Interaction: The Right to Announce, Propose, and Decide Melisa Stevanovic, Anssi Peräkylä · Research on Language and Social Interaction Jul 2012 685
5 Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication Laurence R. Helfer, Anne-Marie Slaughter · The Yale Law Journal Open access Nov 1997 549
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Where is Dispute Resolution and Class Actions research done?

The largest centres of Dispute Resolution and Class Actions research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Jakarta (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 56 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 56 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 34 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 30 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 22 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 18 works
  8. 8 RigaLatvia 18 works
  9. 9 TashkentUzbekistan 16 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 16 works
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Where is the best place to study Dispute Resolution and Class Actions?

Among universities, judged by research, Zarqa University, College of Law and Tashkent State University 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 9.64286%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zarqa UniversityTashkent State Unive…College of LawKutafin Moscow State…
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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
1Zarqa UniversityJordan 87.423.7%83.6×14 -
2College of LawLatvia 71.111.4%161.6×16 -2.8%
3Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 52.917.3%53.8×10 +75.6%
4Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 42.84.8%63.7×12 +37.8%
5Amity UniversityIndia 31.74.0%10.3×9 +193.3%
6University of ZagrebCroatia 20.95.2%6.3×9 +84.5%
7Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 18.61.1%33.1×9 -

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 Dispute Resolution and Class Actions, country by country

Is Dispute Resolution and Class Actions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dispute Resolution and Class Actions.

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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 Dispute Resolution and Class Actions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0094% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Dispute Resolution and Class Actions 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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