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EU Law and Policy Analysis

EU Law and Policy Analysis is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the legal and economic aspects of state aid in the context of European Union law. It covers topics such as taxation, competition law, COVID-19 impact, fiscal aid, sovereignty, industrial policy, environmental taxation, and the financial crisis.

  • State Aid
  • European Union
  • Taxation
  • Competition Law
  • COVID-19
  • Fiscal Aid
  • Sovereignty
  • Industrial Policy
  • Environmental Taxation
  • Financial Crisis
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
919
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
17% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
EU Law and Policy Analysis

Which countries lead EU Law and Policy Analysis research?

By volume, Poland and Germany publish the most (128 and 123 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 128 works
  2. 2 Germany 123 works
  3. 3 United States 117 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 95 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 61 works
  6. 6 Italy 57 works
  7. 7 France 56 works
  8. 8 Belgium 43 works
  9. 9 Spain 38 works
  10. 10 Austria 34 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.

Poland: 17.1%Germany: 16.3%United States: 15.6%United Kingdom: 12.6%6 others listed: 38.4%17%largest
Poland128 · 17.1%Germany123 · 16.3%United States117 · 15.6%United Kingdom95 · 12.6%6 others listed288 · 38.4%

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

Which institutions lead EU Law and Policy Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Warsaw publishes the most EU Law and Policy Analysis research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Tilburg University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WarsawPoland 11 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  3. 3 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 10 works
  4. 4 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works
  5. 5 European University InstituteItaly 9 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 8 works
  7. 7 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 8 works
  8. 8 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 8 works
  9. 9 Austrian Foundry Research InstituteAustria 8 works
  10. 10 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in EU Law and Policy Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on EU Law and Policy Analysis include Joseph E. Stiglitz and Gary S. Becker.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 Gary S. Becker United States 148k 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 EU Law and Policy Analysis?

The most cited paper in EU Law and Policy Analysis is "Getting to YES. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" (Alan T. Marty, 1983), with 2,416 citations. Next come "European Integration from the 1980s: State‐Centric v. Multi‐level Governance*" (1,540) and "The choice of innovation policy instruments" (897).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Getting to YES. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In Alan T. Marty · Critical Care Medicine Oct 1983 2,416
2 European Integration from the 1980s: State‐Centric v. Multi‐level Governance* Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Kermit Blank · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies Sep 1996 1,540
3 The choice of innovation policy instruments Susana Borrás, Charles Edquist · Technological Forecasting and Social Change 16 Apr 2013 897
4 Annual Report 2008 Jan Oosterhaven, Norbert Rainer, Thijs ten Raa et al. · Economic Systems Research Dec 2009 866
5 Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 Establishing a Scheme for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Within the Community and Amending Council Directive 96/61/EC Richard L. Ottinger, Nicholas Andrew Robinson, Víctor Tafur · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 11 Apr 2005 667
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is EU Law and Policy Analysis research done?

The largest centres of EU Law and Policy Analysis research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Warsaw (Poland), Brussels (Belgium) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brussels.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 44 works
  2. 2 WarsawPoland 30 works
  3. 3 BrusselsBelgium 26 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 22 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 20 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 19 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 17 works
  8. 8 KrakowPoland 16 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 16 works
  10. 10 YerevanArmenia 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrusselsBE · 25.7 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in EU Law and Policy Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study EU Law and Policy Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, European University Institute, Tilburg University and University of Warsaw 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 7.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →European University …University of WarsawKing's College LondonTilburg University
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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1European University InstituteItaly 58.519.6%109.5×9 -40.5%
2Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 49.62.1%57.9×10 +26.5%
3University of WarsawPoland 43.34.5%20.8×11 -6.8%
4King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 21.73.2%10.0×9 -18.3%

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 EU Law and Policy Analysis, country by country

Is EU Law and Policy Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 EU Law and Policy Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%EU Law and Policy Analysis0.0053% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of EU Law and Policy Analysis 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%EU Law and Policy Analysis10.7% in 2025200020102020

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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