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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. 7.5% 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%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
7.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+5%
the tick is no change

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

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (291 and 251 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 291 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 251 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 242 works
  4. 4 China 165 works
  5. 5 France 141 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 132 works
  7. 7 Russia 117 works
  8. 8 Germany 90 works
  9. 9 India 79 works
  10. 10 Croatia 79 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: 18.4%Türkiye: 15.8%Indonesia: 15.2%China: 10.4%6 others listed: 40.2%18%largest
United States291 · 18.4%Türkiye251 · 15.8%Indonesia242 · 15.2%China165 · 10.4%6 others listed638 · 40.2%

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

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

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Zagreb publishes the most Law, logistics, and international trade research, followed by Shanghai Maritime University and Tulane University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of ZagrebCroatia 23 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 23 works
  3. 3 Tulane UniversityUnited States 14 works
  4. 4 University of RijekaCroatia 12 works
  5. 5 University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 11 works
  6. 6 State University of MedanIndonesia 11 works
  7. 7 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 11 works
  8. 8 Tarumanagara UniversityIndonesia 11 works
  9. 9 University of BelgradeSerbia 9 works
  10. 10 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 9 works

Where is Law, logistics, and international trade research done?

The largest centres of Law, logistics, and international trade research in 2022–2025 are Istanbul (Türkiye), Moscow (Russia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zagreb.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Istanbul Türkiye 62 works
  2. 2 Moscow Russia 54 works
  3. 3 Jakarta Indonesia 51 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 43 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 39 works
  6. 6 Ankara Türkiye 39 works
  7. 7 Beijing China 34 works
  8. 8 Zagreb Croatia 32 works
  9. 9 Paris France 27 works
  10. 10 Surabaya Indonesia 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZagrebHR · 31.7 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Law, logistics, and international trade than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Law, logistics, and international trade?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Sarajevo, Shanghai Maritime University and Dalian Maritime 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%5%10%mean 4.64%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Sarajevo: 11, 7.6%Shanghai Maritime University: 23, 7.0%Dalian Maritime University: 11, 11.1%University of Zagreb: 23, 3.7%Tulane University: 14, 2.4%University of Belgrade: 9, 7.9%University of Rijeka: 12, 2.9%University of Split: 9, 3.8%Marmara University: 9, 0.0%Kocaeli Üniversitesi: 9, 0.0%Dalian Maritime Univ…University of SarajevoShanghai Maritime Un…University of Zagreb
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 66.67.6%23.7×11 +130.0%
2 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 66.37.0%31.5×23 -72.5%
3 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 63.011.1%10.1×11 -52.3%
4 University of ZagrebCroatia 62.43.7%14.1×23 -9.6%
5 Tulane UniversityUnited States 53.52.4%19.3×14 —
6 University of BelgradeSerbia 51.57.9%5.4×9 +127.7%
7 University of RijekaCroatia 46.02.9%28.7×12 -23.6%
8 University of SplitCroatia 44.33.8%20.3×9 -11.7%
9 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 42.10.0%9.0×9 +362.1%
10 Kocaeli ÜniversitesiTürkiye 36.30.0%13.1×9 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Law, logistics, and international trade research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Law, logistics, and international trade.

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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.

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.