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Legal Education and Practice Innovations

Legal Education and Practice Innovations is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of legal education on society, professionals, and access to justice. It delves into topics such as the health impacts of welfare rights advice, lawyer wellbeing, professionalism, ethical codes, and social exclusion. Additionally, it investigates civil justice problems and the role of clinical legal education in addressing societal issues.

  • Legal Education
  • Welfare Rights Advice
  • Health Impacts
  • Professionalism
  • Access to Justice
  • Lawyer Wellbeing
  • Ethical Codes
  • Social Exclusion
  • Civil Justice Problems
  • Clinical Legal Education
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Legal Education and Practice Innovations

Which countries lead Legal Education and Practice Innovations research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1k and 345 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 345 works
  3. 3 China 229 works
  4. 4 Australia 220 works
  5. 5 India 174 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 133 works
  7. 7 Canada 131 works
  8. 8 Russia 128 works
  9. 9 South Africa 68 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 63 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: 41.2%United Kingdom: 13.6%China: 9.0%Australia: 8.7%6 others listed: 27.4%41%largest
United States1,046 · 41.2%United Kingdom345 · 13.6%China229 · 9.0%Australia220 · 8.7%6 others listed696 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Legal Education and Practice Innovations research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Michigan publishes the most Legal Education and Practice Innovations research, followed by University of Oxford and UNSW Sydney.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of MichiganUnited States 20 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 19 works
  3. 3 UNSW SydneyAustralia 18 works
  4. 4 The University of MelbourneAustralia 16 works
  5. 5 Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 15 works
  6. 6 Monash UniversityAustralia 15 works
  7. 7 Indiana UniversityUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 Australian National UniversityAustralia 15 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  10. 10 College of LawLatvia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Legal Education and Practice Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal Education and Practice Innovations include Martin McKee, Aziz Sheikh and Michael E. Porter.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  3. 3 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  4. 4 James Jonathan Gross United States 163k 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 Education and Practice Innovations?

The most cited paper in Legal Education and Practice Innovations is "Signature pedagogies in the professions" (Lee S. Shulman, 2005), with 2,028 citations. Next come "The assessment of professional competence: Developments, research and practical implications" (1,262) and "Bias in peer review" (1,010).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Signature pedagogies in the professions Lee S. Shulman · Daedalus Open access Jun 2005 2,028
2 The assessment of professional competence: Developments, research and practical implications Cees van der Vleuten · Advances in Health Sciences Education 1996 1,262
3 Bias in peer review Carole J. Lee, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Guo Zhang et al. · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 10 Dec 2012 1,010
4 The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy Martha C. Nussbaum · eYLS (Yale Law School) 1987 931
5 State Agent or Citizen Agent: Two Narratives of Discretion Steven Maynard‐Moody, Michael Musheno · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Apr 2000 809
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Where is Legal Education and Practice Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Legal Education and Practice Innovations research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Moscow (Russia) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 69 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 57 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 46 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 46 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 42 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 39 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 31 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 27 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Legal Education and Practice Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Michigan, University of Oxford and Queen's 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 19.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of CalgaryQueen's UniversityUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Oxford
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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
1University of MichiganUnited States 68.321.8%4.2×20 +28.1%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.79.0%4.2×18 +18.0%
3Queen's UniversityCanada 61.623.8%6.9×9 +138.8%
4University of CalgaryCanada 61.037.2%4.6×10 +1.1%
5University of South AfricaSouth Africa 56.630.7%6.5×9 +8.6%
6UNSW SydneyAustralia 55.612.8%6.3×18 -25.7%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 52.931.9%3.0×8 +64.0%
8University of TorontoCanada 52.29.7%2.3×14 +8.2%
9Australian National UniversityAustralia 50.47.3%9.0×14 -3.2%
10Cornell UniversityUnited States 49.711.7%3.1×13 +36.7%

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 Education and Practice Innovations, country by country

Is Legal Education and Practice Innovations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Legal Education and Practice Innovations.

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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 Education and Practice Innovations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Legal Education and Practice Innovations 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.

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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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