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Education, Law, and Society

Education, Law, and Society is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 6.7k research works in it since 1955. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in justice systems, covering topics such as digital justice, criminal proceedings, taxation in the digital economy, artificial intelligence in legal processes, electronic evidence, access to justice in the digital age, judicial specialization, cybercrime, and data retention laws.

  • Digital Justice
  • Criminal Proceedings
  • Taxation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Legal Regulation
  • Electronic Evidence
  • Access to Justice
  • Judicial Specialization
  • Cybercrime
  • Data Retention Laws
Research works
6.7k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
661
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+45%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education, Law, and Society

Which countries lead Education, Law, and Society research?

By volume, Russia and Croatia publish the most (1.4k and 288 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.4k works
  2. 2 Croatia 288 works
  3. 3 United States 238 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 195 works
  5. 5 Serbia 120 works
  6. 6 China 87 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 83 works
  8. 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina 77 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 51 works
  10. 10 Kazakhstan 40 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.

Russia: 55.0%Croatia: 11.0%United States: 9.1%Ukraine: 7.4%6 others listed: 17.5%55%largest
Russia1,444 · 55.0%Croatia288 · 11.0%United States238 · 9.1%Ukraine195 · 7.4%6 others listed458 · 17.5%

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

Which institutions lead Education, Law, and Society research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 100 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 69 works
  3. 3 Russian State University of JusticeRussia 68 works
  4. 4 University of ZagrebCroatia 60 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian FederationRussia 46 works
  7. 7 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 46 works
  8. 8 Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 38 works
  9. 9 Federal Penitentiary ServiceRussia 38 works
  10. 10 Institut za filozofijuCroatia 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education, Law, and Society?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education, Law, and Society include He Tian.

  1. 1 He Tian China 84k 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 Education, Law, and Society?

The most cited paper in Education, Law, and Society is "AI and Big Data: A blueprint for a human rights, social and ethical impact assessment" (Alessandro Mantelero, 2018), with 307 citations. Next come "Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies" (265) and "Regulating by Robot: Administrative Decision Making in the Machine-Learning Era" (233).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 AI and Big Data: A blueprint for a human rights, social and ethical impact assessment Alessandro Mantelero · Computer law & security review Open access 28 Jul 2018 307
2 Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies David Freeman Engstrom, Daniel E. Ho, Catherine M. Sharkey et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2020 265
3 Regulating by Robot: Administrative Decision Making in the Machine-Learning Era Cary Coglianese, David Lehr · Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository (University of Pennsylvania) Open access 2017 233
4 Teacher competencies as a basis for teacher education – Views of Serbian teachers and teacher educators Nataša Pantić, Theo Wubbels · Teaching and Teacher Education Open access 16 Oct 2009 213
5 Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence (OECD) Karen K. Yeung · International Legal Materials Feb 2020 160
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Where is Education, Law, and Society research done?

The largest centres of Education, Law, and Society research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Zagreb (Croatia), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zadar and Makhachkala.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 640 works
  2. 2 ZagrebCroatia 137 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 66 works
  4. 4 TashkentUzbekistan 63 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 61 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 52 works
  7. 7 BelgradeSerbia 50 works
  8. 8 WeatherfordUnited States 47 works
  9. 9 KharkivUkraine 47 works
  10. 10 Kazan’Russia 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZadarHR · 21.5 works113×
  2. MakhachkalaRU · 23.7 works88×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education, Law, and Society than the world average.

See Education, Law, and Society on the map

Where is the best place to study Education, Law, and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Volgograd State University and Moscow State 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.

0%10%20%mean 11.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Volgograd State Univ…Financial UniversityKutafin Moscow State…Moscow State Univers…
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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
1Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 76.213.8%406.0×100 +5.2%
2Volgograd State UniversityRussia 70.820.0%118.9×19 +21.4%
3Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 62.99.4%21.6×16 +74.8%
4Financial UniversityRussia 62.015.3%35.2×21 +153.1%
5Russian State University of JusticeRussia 58.96.0%687.9×68 +22.0%
6University of BelgradeSerbia 58.96.2%14.3×26 +0.3%
7University of Novi SadSerbia 58.610.7%41.7×36 +1.1%
8Weatherford CollegeUnited States 58.38.4%13.0×47 +281.3%
9National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 56.214.3%19.7×22 +36.6%
10Saratov State Academy of LawRussia 55.710.3%551.8×30 +18.5%

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 Education, Law, and Society, country by country

Is Education, Law, and Society research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Education, Law, and Society.

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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 Education, Law, and Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Education, Law, and Society 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%Education, Law, and Society9.8% in 202520102020

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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