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Legal and Regulatory Analysis

Legal and Regulatory Analysis is a research topic within Transportation. Science Explorer counts 69k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to transport policy, legal regulation, economic security, public oversight, international trade law, logistics business processes, high-tech enterprises, regional industry modernization, hygienic condition, and environmental technologies.

  • Transport Policy
  • Legal Regulation
  • Economic Security
  • Public Oversight
  • International Trade Law
  • Logistics Business Processes
  • High-Tech Enterprises
  • Regional Industry Modernization
  • Hygienic Condition
  • Environmental Technologies
Research works
69k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+69%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Legal and Regulatory Analysis

Which countries lead Legal and Regulatory Analysis research?

By volume, the United States and Ukraine publish the most (7.4k and 5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 7.4k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 5k works
  3. 3 Russia 2.9k works
  4. 4 Japan 2.6k works
  5. 5 ?? 1.4k works
  6. 6 Iraq 1.2k works
  7. 7 Brazil 1.1k works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 903 works
  9. 9 China 745 works
  10. 10 Kazakhstan 607 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: 30.8%Ukraine: 20.9%Russia: 12.2%Japan: 11.0%6 others listed: 25.1%31%largest
United States7,356 · 30.8%Ukraine4,988 · 20.9%Russia2,908 · 12.2%Japan2,626 · 11.0%6 others listed5,989 · 25.1%

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

Which institutions lead Legal and Regulatory Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Weatherford College publishes the most Legal and Regulatory Analysis research, followed by Human Growth Foundation and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 3.5k works
  2. 2 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 2.4k works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 1.1k works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 497 works
  5. 5 The University of TokyoJapan 410 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 402 works
  7. 7 University of TikritIraq 305 works
  8. 8 Bio-Medical Science (South Korea)South Korea 301 works
  9. 9 State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 261 works
  10. 10 Basic Education College 235 works

Who are the leading researchers in Legal and Regulatory Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal and Regulatory Analysis include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Zhong Lin Wang.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  4. 4 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  5. 5 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  6. 6 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k 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 Regulatory Analysis?

The most cited paper in Legal and Regulatory Analysis is "PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES" (Louis C. Schroeter, 1966), with 327 citations. Next come "ISEV2018 abstract book" (235) and "PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH TRACHEAL EXTUBATION" (217).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES Louis C. Schroeter · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1966 327
2 ISEV2018 abstract book Clotilde Théry, Kenneth Witwer · Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Open access Apr 2018 235
3 PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH TRACHEAL EXTUBATION Michael J. Hartley, R. S. Vaughan · British Journal of Anaesthesia Open access Oct 1993 217
4 COLLAGEN STRUCTURES CONSIDERED AS STATES OF AGGREGATION OF A KINETIC UNIT. THE TROPOCOLLAGEN PARTICLE Jerome Gross, John H. Highberger, Francis O. Schmitt · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Aug 1954 201
5 PERSPECTIVES IN THE KINETICS OF AGGREGATION AND GELATION Fereydoon Family, David Paul Landau · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1984 190
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Where is Legal and Regulatory Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Legal and Regulatory Analysis research in 2022-now are Weatherford (United States), New York (United States), Kyiv (Ukraine) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kuwait City and Tripoli.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WeatherfordUnited States 3.5k works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 2.4k works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 1.6k works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 1.1k works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 973 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 969 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 501 works
  8. 8 KharkivUkraine 431 works
  9. 9 TashkentUzbekistan 415 works
  10. 10 PragueCzechia 361 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kamianets-Podilskyi32.4 works179×
  2. Kuwait City234.8 works168×
  3. Tripoli190.3 works166×
  4. Khmelnytskyi189.2 works159×
  5. Lviv62.7 works120×
  6. Odesa42.2 works116×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Legal and Regulatory Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Legal and Regulatory Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine and Baikal State 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 24.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ivan Ziaziun Institu…Vinnytsia National A…Baikal State Univers…Weatherford College
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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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 58.36.7%103.7×3,531 +97.0%
2Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine 57.233.1%172.2×24 +34.7%
3Baikal State UniversityRussia 56.424.1%15.5×22 -11.5%
4Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 55.230.5%25.4×41 +2131.5%
5Universidade de São PauloBrazil 53.37.9%20.3×1,053 +368.6%
6Astrakhan Tatischev State UniversityRussia 52.532.9%21.2×16 +190.2%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.544.3%0.2×13 +262.1%
8Vladivostok State UniversityRussia 49.829.5%38.6×22 +77.2%
9State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 49.211.4%68.0×261 +310.2%
10State University of Infrastructure and Technologies 49.227.4%76.8×40 +21.8%

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 Legal and Regulatory Analysis, country by country

Is Legal and Regulatory Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 69% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Legal and Regulatory Analysis.

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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 Regulatory Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.12% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Legal and Regulatory Analysis0.16% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Legal and Regulatory Analysis 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 Regulatory Analysis8.9% 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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