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Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law

Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 2.2k research works in it since 1964. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex interplay of legal systems, indigenous rights, and globalization, focusing on issues such as legal pluralism, customary law, transnational law, and the rights of indigenous peoples. It delves into the challenges and opportunities presented by the coexistence of multiple legal frameworks in a globalized world, with a particular emphasis on human rights and environmental law.

  • Legal Pluralism
  • Indigenous Rights
  • Globalization
  • International Law
  • Human Rights
  • Customary Law
  • Transnational Law
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Environmental Law
  • Cultural Diversity
Research works
2.2k
fractional, since 1964
In the world top 10%
227
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+113%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law

Which countries lead Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law research?

By volume, Indonesia and Brazil publish the most (228 and 166 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 228 works
  2. 2 Brazil 166 works
  3. 3 France 79 works
  4. 4 United States 68 works
  5. 5 India 50 works
  6. 6 Canada 32 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 23 works
  8. 8 Australia 23 works
  9. 9 Spain 21 works
  10. 10 Germany 17 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.

Indonesia: 32.2%Brazil: 23.5%France: 11.2%United States: 9.6%6 others listed: 23.5%32%largest
Indonesia228 · 32.2%Brazil166 · 23.5%France79 · 11.2%United States68 · 9.6%6 others listed166 · 23.5%

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

Which institutions lead Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law research, followed by University of Pattimura and Diponegoro University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  2. 2 University of PattimuraIndonesia 8 works
  3. 3 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 7 works
  4. 4 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 6 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 6 works
  6. 6 Tarumanagara UniversityIndonesia 6 works
  7. 7 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 5 works
  8. 8 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 5 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 5 works
  10. 10 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law include Bryan Stanley Turner.

  1. 1 Bryan Stanley Turner United States 36k 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 Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law?

The most cited paper in Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law is "Para uma sociologia das ausências e uma sociologia das emergências" (Boaventura de Sousa Santos, 2002), with 545 citations. Next come "Toward Sustainable Self-Determination: Rethinking the Contemporary Indigenous-Rights Discourse" (311) and "Conflict, claim and contradiction in the new ‘indigenous’ state of Bolivia" (289).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Para uma sociologia das ausências e uma sociologia das emergências Boaventura de Sousa Santos · Revista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais Open access 2002 545
2 Toward Sustainable Self-Determination: Rethinking the Contemporary Indigenous-Rights Discourse Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel · Alternatives Global Local Political 2008 311
3 Conflict, claim and contradiction in the new ‘indigenous’ state of Bolivia Andrew Canessa · Critique of Anthropology Open access Jun 2014 289
4 When Territory Deborders Territoriality Saskia Sassen · Territory Politics Governance Open access 21 Mar 2013 283
5 Toward a Social Theory of Law: An Essay on the Study of Law and Development David M. Trubek · The Yale Law Journal Open access Nov 1972 240
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Where is Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law research done?

The largest centres of Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Paris (France), São Paulo (Brazil) and Semarang (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 29 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 22 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 17 works
  4. 4 SemarangIndonesia 15 works
  5. 5 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 14 works
  6. 6 YogyakartaIndonesia 13 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 12 works
  8. 8 BrasíliaBrazil 12 works
  9. 9 BandungIndonesia 11 works
  10. 10 MedanIndonesia 9 works
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Is Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 113% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Indigenous Peoples' Rights and 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.

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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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