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Legal and Policy Issues

Legal and Policy Issues is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the constitutional reform, legal modernization, and the impact of digital technologies on public policy in Russia. It covers topics such as the application of blockchain technology for diploma authenticity, the role of artificial intelligence in law, cybersecurity challenges, and the fiscal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cluster also addresses issues related to local self-government, e-government, and the use of digital technologies in the oil and gas industry.

  • Constitutional Reform
  • Legal Modernization
  • Digital Technologies
  • Public Policy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cybersecurity
  • Local Self-Government
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Fiscal Policy
  • E-Government
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
70% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Legal and Policy Issues

Which countries lead Legal and Policy Issues research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (4.3k and 538 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 4.3k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 538 works
  3. 3 United States 481 works
  4. 4 China 255 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 125 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 123 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 104 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 84 works
  9. 9 Germany 74 works
  10. 10 Poland 74 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.

Russia: 69.7%Ukraine: 8.8%United States: 7.8%China: 4.2%6 others listed: 9.5%70%largest
Russia4,281 · 69.7%Ukraine538 · 8.8%United States481 · 7.8%China255 · 4.2%6 others listed584 · 9.5%

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

Which institutions lead Legal and Policy Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Kutafin Moscow State Law University publishes the most Legal and Policy Issues research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 303 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 272 works
  3. 3 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 149 works
  4. 4 Russian State University of JusticeRussia 129 works
  5. 5 Financial UniversityRussia 112 works
  6. 6 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 96 works
  7. 7 Federal Penitentiary ServiceRussia 93 works
  8. 8 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 91 works
  9. 9 The Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian FederationRussia 85 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian FederationRussia 85 works

Who are the leading researchers in Legal and Policy Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal and Policy Issues include Cass Robert Sunstein.

  1. 1 Cass Robert Sunstein United States 75k 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 Legal and Policy Issues?

The most cited paper in Legal and Policy Issues is "Implications of the use of artificial intelligence in public governance: A systematic literature review and a research agenda" (Anneke Zuiderwijk, Yu‐Che Chen, Fadi Salem, 2021), with 757 citations. Next come "Fundamental Principles of Democracy: Bases of Agreement and Disagreement" (687) and "Deliberation and Constitution Making" (571).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Implications of the use of artificial intelligence in public governance: A systematic literature review and a research agenda Anneke Zuiderwijk, Yu‐Che Chen, Fadi Salem · Government Information Quarterly ReviewOpen access 23 Mar 2021 757
2 Fundamental Principles of Democracy: Bases of Agreement and Disagreement James Warren Prothro, Charles M. Grigg · The Journal of Politics May 1960 687
3 Deliberation and Constitution Making Jon Elster · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 28 Mar 1998 571
4 Artificial Intelligence Regulation: a framework for governance Patricia Gomes Rêgo de Almeida, Carlos Denner dos Santos, Josivânia Silva Farias · Ethics and Information Technology 21 Apr 2021 388
5 Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms Kate Crawford, Jason M. Schultz · eYLS (Yale Law School) 2013 382
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Legal and Policy Issues research done?

The largest centres of Legal and Policy Issues research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Yekaterinburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lyubertsy, Moscow and Makhachkala.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 2k works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 238 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 150 works
  4. 4 YekaterinburgRussia 119 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 117 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 116 works
  7. 7 IrkutskRussia 112 works
  8. 8 Kazan’Russia 108 works
  9. 9 KrasnodarRussia 97 works
  10. 10 Nizhny NovgorodRussia 94 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LyubertsyRU · 29.3 works330×
  2. Moscow22.7 works144×
  3. MakhachkalaRU · 64.4 works106×
  4. MarshallUS · 28.8 works105×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Legal and Policy Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Legal and Policy Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Financial University and Moscow State 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.

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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.

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
1Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 66.49.7%548.3×303 +23.9%
2Financial UniversityRussia 65.316.0%81.7×112 +15.0%
3Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 62.69.1%33.0×54 +13.8%
4Perm State UniversityRussia 61.527.2%42.5×12 +11.1%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 53.49.4%9.4×77 +115.6%
6Baikal State UniversityRussia 52.77.7%237.0×82 +24.3%
7N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny NovgorodRussia 51.512.3%34.6×28 +17.4%
8Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 51.38.5%10.4×54 +7.1%
9Kharkiv National University of Internal AffairsUkraine 51.012.5%90.7×38 +41.1%
10National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 49.210.9%36.5×91 -17.8%

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 Legal and Policy Issues, country by country

Is Legal and Policy Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Legal and Policy Issues.

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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 Legal and Policy Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Legal and Policy Issues0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Legal and Policy Issues 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%Legal and Policy Issues9.6% in 202520102020

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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