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Intellectual Property Rights and Media

Intellectual Property Rights and Media is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 6.9k research works in it since 1956. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual property rights, media regulation, and digital media. It includes discussions on copyright law, competition law enforcement in the media sector, authorship in academic publishing, public information systems, data privacy, software quality in information systems, and the impact of social media on image rights. The papers also delve into the challenges and complexities of enforcing intellectual property rights in the digital age.

  • Intellectual Property
  • Media Regulation
  • Copyright Law
  • Competition Law
  • Digital Media
  • Authorship
  • Public Information Systems
  • Data Privacy
  • Software Quality
  • Academic Publishing
Research works
6.9k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
669
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Intellectual Property Rights and Media

Which countries lead Intellectual Property Rights and Media research?

By volume, Poland and Germany publish the most (795 and 41 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 795 works
  2. 2 Germany 41 works
  3. 3 United States 32 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 27 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 24 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 11 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 11 works
  8. 8 Russia 10 works
  9. 9 Czechia 10 works
  10. 10 Spain 7 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: 82.2%Germany: 4.2%United States: 3.3%Türkiye: 2.8%6 others listed: 7.5%82%largest
Poland795 · 82.2%Germany41 · 4.2%United States32 · 3.3%Türkiye27 · 2.8%6 others listed73 · 7.5%

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

Which institutions lead Intellectual Property Rights and Media research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jagiellonian University publishes the most Intellectual Property Rights and Media research, followed by University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Who are the leading researchers in Intellectual Property Rights and Media?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intellectual Property Rights and Media include Jacek Jassem.

  1. 1 Jacek Jassem Poland 57k 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 Intellectual Property Rights and Media?

The most cited paper in Intellectual Property Rights and Media is "Public Diplomacy: Taxonomies and Histories" (Nicholas John Cull, 2008), with 602 citations. Next come "The Emergence Of IMC: A Theoretical Perspective" (303) and "Revisiting the IMC construct" (299).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Public Diplomacy: Taxonomies and Histories Nicholas John Cull · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 13 Feb 2008 602
2 The Emergence Of IMC: A Theoretical Perspective Philip J. Kitchen, JOANNE BRIGNELL, Tao Li et al. · Journal of Advertising Research Mar 2004 303
3 Revisiting the IMC construct Jerry G. Kliatchko · International Journal of Advertising 2008 299
4 Integrated online marketing communication: implementation and management Cälin Gurǎu · Journal of Communication Management 4 May 2008 211
5 Who's Tops in Corporate Reputation? Charles J. Fombrun, Naomi A. Gardberg · Corporate Reputation Review 2000 186
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Where is Intellectual Property Rights and Media research done?

The largest centres of Intellectual Property Rights and Media research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Lublin (Poland) and Wrocław (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Olsztyn, Rzeszów and Toruń.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 159 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 127 works
  3. 3 LublinPoland 64 works
  4. 4 WrocławPoland 52 works
  5. 5 PoznańPoland 51 works
  6. 6 ŁódźPoland 50 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 40 works
  8. 8 OlsztynPoland 30 works
  9. 9 GdańskPoland 28 works
  10. 10 RzeszówPoland 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OlsztynPL · 29.6 works122×
  2. RzeszówPL · 27.1 works100×
  3. ToruńPL · 23.3 works90×
  4. LublinPL · 64.1 works84×
  5. KrakowPL · 127.3 works77×
  6. ŁódźPL · 50.1 works76×
  7. KatowicePL · 39.6 works73×
  8. SzczecinPL · 25.3 works73×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Intellectual Property Rights and Media than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Intellectual Property Rights and Media?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Warsaw, Uniwersytet SWPS and University of Łódź score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%15%mean 8.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ŁódźUniwersytet SWPSUniversity of WarsawJagiellonian 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.

Citation 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
1University of WarsawPoland 59.79.9%96.3×44 -47.5%
2Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 58.012.0%189.7×11 +36.4%
3University of ŁódźPoland 56.412.7%145.0×37 -33.9%
4Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 53.35.4%111.9×67 -22.5%
5Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 51.313.3%221.8×15 +6.6%
6Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 50.06.9%113.0×41 -41.4%
7Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 42.88.3%193.7×22 -11.4%
8Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 42.15.2%185.7×32 -28.8%
9University of RzeszówPoland 42.07.2%154.2×22 +6.1%
10University of WrocławPoland 40.45.2%207.8×38 -40.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Intellectual Property Rights and Media, country by country

Is Intellectual Property Rights and Media research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Intellectual Property Rights and Media as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Intellectual Property Rights and Media0.0036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Intellectual Property Rights and Media 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%Intellectual Property Rights and Media9.5% 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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