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Legal case studies and regulations

Legal case studies and regulations is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% 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 global governance and international law, including regulatory policymaking, human rights, environmental governance, data privacy laws, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, immigration policy, and trade agreements. The papers discuss various legal and regulatory challenges in the context of globalization and the interconnectedness of national and international legal systems.

  • International Law
  • Regulatory Policymaking
  • Human Rights
  • Global Financial Crisis
  • Environmental Governance
  • Data Privacy Laws
  • Corporate Governance
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Immigration Policy
  • Trade Agreements
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Legal case studies and regulations

Which countries lead Legal case studies and regulations research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (495 and 226 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 495 works
  2. 2 India 226 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 209 works
  4. 4 Italy 88 works
  5. 5 China 78 works
  6. 6 Germany 70 works
  7. 7 Canada 63 works
  8. 8 France 58 works
  9. 9 Brazil 56 works
  10. 10 Australia 52 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: 35.5%India: 16.2%United Kingdom: 15.0%Italy: 6.3%6 others listed: 27.1%35%largest
United States495 · 35.5%India226 · 16.2%United Kingdom209 · 15.0%Italy88 · 6.3%6 others listed378 · 27.1%

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

Which institutions lead Legal case studies and regulations research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Cambridge publishes the most Legal case studies and regulations research, followed by University of Ferrara and Health Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 69 works
  2. 2 University of FerraraItaly 36 works
  3. 3 Health AffairsUnited States 20 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Campina GrandeBrazil 11 works
  6. 6 Iraqi UniversityIraq 10 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 9 works
  8. 8 University of RochesterUnited States 9 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Legal case studies and regulations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal case studies and regulations include David Moher, Dan J. Stein and Richard A. Gibbs.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  3. 3 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  4. 4 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k 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 case studies and regulations?

The most cited paper in Legal case studies and regulations is "FROM NOVICE TO EXPERT" (Patricia Benner, 1984), with 2,839 citations. Next come "U.S. News and World Report" (1,699) and "Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia" (931).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 FROM NOVICE TO EXPERT Patricia Benner · AJN American Journal of Nursing Dec 1984 2,839
2 U.S. News and World Report Brooks E. Hefner, Edward Timke, Kevin J Hegg · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) Preprint 14 Feb 2020 1,699
3 Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia Aaron Wright, Primavera De Filippi · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2015 931
4 An International Symposium Bentley Glass · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Jun 1960 807
5 The South Atlantic Quarterly Kwame Dawes · African Affairs 1998 625
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Legal case studies and regulations research done?

The largest centres of Legal case studies and regulations research in 2022-now are Cambridge (United Kingdom), London (United Kingdom), Ferrara (Italy) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ferrara, Cambridge and Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 71 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  3. 3 FerraraItaly 36 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 31 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 BethesdaUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 21 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 20 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 18 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FerraraIT · 36.2 works95×
  2. CambridgeGB · 70.8 works23×
  3. BethesdaUS · 21.4 works9.6×
  4. Washington D.C.US · 30.6 works4.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Legal case studies and regulations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Legal case studies and regulations?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Cambridge, University of Ferrara and University of Oxford 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%20%40%mean 9.68571%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordUniversity of Roches…University of FerraraUniversity of Cambri…
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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
1University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 73.77.9%35.2×69 +453.0%
2University of FerraraItaly 54.18.2%126.6×36 -
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.129.7%4.0×9 -4.9%
4University of RochesterUnited States 41.89.5%12.2×9 +556.3%
5Iraqi UniversityIraq 41.78.6%36.4×10 -
6University of FloridaUnited States 22.92.5%4.6×8 +250.5%
7Universidade Federal de Campina GrandeBrazil 19.41.4%34.9×11 -

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 case studies and regulations, country by country

Is Legal case studies and regulations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Legal case studies and regulations.

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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 case studies and regulations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Legal case studies and regulations0.0075% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Legal case studies and regulations 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 counting10%20%Legal case studies and regulations9.5% 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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