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Law, logistics, and international trade

Law, logistics, and international trade is a research topic within Accounting. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the legal aspects of international trade and shipping, covering topics such as letters of credit, Incoterms, CMR Convention, maritime law, trade fraud, documentary credits, shipping regulations, international carriage, trade contracts, and supply chain management.

  • Letters of Credit
  • Incoterms
  • CMR Convention
  • Maritime Law
  • Trade Fraud
  • Documentary Credits
  • Shipping Regulations
  • International Carriage
  • Trade Contracts
  • Supply Chain Management
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Law, logistics, and international trade

Which countries lead Law, logistics, and international trade research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (325 and 267 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 325 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 267 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 251 works
  4. 4 China 191 works
  5. 5 France 146 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 142 works
  7. 7 Russia 129 works
  8. 8 India 100 works
  9. 9 Germany 96 works
  10. 10 Croatia 81 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: 18.8%Türkiye: 15.4%Indonesia: 14.5%China: 11.1%6 others listed: 40.1%19%largest
United States325 · 18.8%Türkiye267 · 15.4%Indonesia251 · 14.5%China191 · 11.1%6 others listed693 · 40.1%

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

Which institutions lead Law, logistics, and international trade research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Law, logistics, and international trade research, followed by Shanghai Maritime University and University of Zagreb.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 37 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 23 works
  3. 3 University of ZagrebCroatia 23 works
  4. 4 Tulane UniversityUnited States 14 works
  5. 5 State University of MedanIndonesia 13 works
  6. 6 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 13 works
  7. 7 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 12 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 12 works
  9. 9 University of RijekaCroatia 12 works
  10. 10 University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Law, logistics, and international trade?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Law, logistics, and international trade include George Davey Smith, Christian M. Ringle and David F. Larcker.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  3. 3 David F. Larcker United States 197k 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 Law, logistics, and international trade?

The most cited paper in Law, logistics, and international trade is "Analysis of Factors Influencing Container Shortage in Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta" (Yuyun Hoerunisa, Eduard Alfian Syamsya Sijabat, Aswanti Setyawati, 2024), with 734 citations. Next come "The Lycurgus Cup — A Roman nanotechnology" (559) and "PROMOTION OF INSULIN SECRETION BY GLUCAGON" (523).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Analysis of Factors Influencing Container Shortage in Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta Yuyun Hoerunisa, Eduard Alfian Syamsya Sijabat, Aswanti Setyawati · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) Open access 5 Jan 2024 734
2 The Lycurgus Cup — A Roman nanotechnology Ian C. Freestone, Nigel Meeks, Margaret Sax et al. · Gold bulletin Open access Dec 2007 559
3 PROMOTION OF INSULIN SECRETION BY GLUCAGON Ellis Samols, Germano Marri, Vincent Marks · The Lancet Aug 1965 523
4 The CISG, European Contract Law and the Development of a World Contract Law Michael Joachim Bonell · The American Journal of Comparative Law Dec 2008 502
5 Multinational Financial Management. R. Kavita Rao, Stephen Decatur Smith, Alan C. Shapiro · The Journal of Finance Dec 1983 497
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Where is Law, logistics, and international trade research done?

The largest centres of Law, logistics, and international trade research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Moscow (Russia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 65 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 61 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 53 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 41 works
  6. 6 AnkaraTürkiye 41 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 37 works
  8. 8 ZagrebCroatia 32 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 28 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 27 works
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Where is the best place to study Law, logistics, and international trade?

Among universities, judged by research, Dalian Maritime University, Kocaeli Üniversitesi and Shanghai Maritime University 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%20%40%mean 10.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian Maritime Univ…Kocaeli ÜniversitesiShanghai Maritime Un…University of Zagreb
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.

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
1Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 74.634.0%12.6×13 +24.6%
2Kocaeli ÜniversitesiTürkiye 62.117.8%14.9×10 +233.3%
3Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 56.58.6%34.2×23 -28.1%
4University of ZagrebCroatia 51.04.9%12.3×23 -36.6%
5Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 49.44.1%19.0×12 -
6University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 49.09.2%25.9×11 +94.1%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 39.44.8%2.6×9 +12.4%
8State University of MedanIndonesia 35.21.0%6.4×13 +550.0%
9University of RijekaCroatia 35.27.3%28.7×12 -49.3%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 34.112.5%2.5×8 -17.8%

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 Law, logistics, and international trade, country by country

Is Law, logistics, and international trade research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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 Law, logistics, and international trade as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Law, logistics, and international trade0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Law, logistics, and international trade 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%Law, logistics, and international trade9.9% 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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