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Legal processes and jurisprudence

Legal processes and jurisprudence is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 assessment, standards, and management of legal evidence in judicial proceedings. It covers topics such as standards of proof, credibility assessment, trial procedures, court decisions, human rights litigation, legal translation, and criminal justice.

Legal Evidence
Standards of Proof
Judicial Process
Credibility Assessment
Burden of Proof
Trial Procedures
Court Decisions
Human Rights Litigation
Legal Translation
Criminal Justice

Research works: 15k
In the world top 10%: 1.5k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -11%
Largest producer: Spain

Legal processes and jurisprudence

Which countries lead Legal processes and jurisprudence research?

By volume, Spain and Ecuador publish the most (629 and 408 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Spain 629 works
2 Ecuador 408 works
3 Chile 378 works
4 Peru 259 works
5 Mexico 219 works
6 Colombia 206 works
7 Argentina 197 works
8 Brazil 181 works
9 ?? 82 works
10 United States 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.

Spain629 · 23.9%Ecuador408 · 15.5%Chile378 · 14.3%Peru259 · 9.8%6 others listed964 · 36.5%

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

Which institutions lead Legal processes and jurisprudence research?

By volume in 2022-now, Austral University of Chile publishes the most Legal processes and jurisprudence research, followed by Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes and Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Austral University of ChileChile 85 works
2 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 73 works
3 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 63 works
4 Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 60 works
5 University of ChileChile 50 works
6 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 49 works
7 Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 48 works
8 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 38 works
9 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 36 works
10 Universidad César VallejoPeru 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Legal processes and jurisprudence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal processes and jurisprudence include Noam Chomsky and D. Herranz.

1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
2 D. Herranz Spain 96k 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 processes and jurisprudence?

The most cited paper in Legal processes and jurisprudence is "Corte Suprema de Justicia" (El Editor, 2011), with 360 citations. Next come "Some pedagogical aspects of proof" (296) and "Tratado de responsabilidad extracontractual" (268).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Corte Suprema de Justicia El Editor · ECA Estudios Centroamericanos Open access	30 Sep 2011	360
2	Some pedagogical aspects of proof Gila Hanna · Interchange	Mar 1990	296
3	Tratado de responsabilidad extracontractual Íñigo de la Maza Gazmuri · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)	23 Sep 2007	268
4	La verdad y las formas jurídicas. Michael Foucault · Revista de filosofía Open access	28 Nov 2016	254
5	El derecho de los jueces Rubén Sánchez Gil · Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado Open access	4 Jan 2009	237

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Where is Legal processes and jurisprudence research done?

The largest centres of Legal processes and jurisprudence research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Santiago (Chile), Ambato (Ecuador) and Lima (Peru). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Valdivia and Ambato.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 MadridSpain 175 works
2 SantiagoChile 163 works
3 AmbatoEcuador 141 works
4 LimaPeru 125 works
5 BogotáColombia 114 works
6 Buenos AiresArgentina 104 works
7 ValdiviaChile 90 works
8 QuitoEcuador 73 works
9 BarcelonaSpain 69 works
10 Mexico CityMexico 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

Durán62.6 works232×
ValdiviaCL · 90.0 works186×
AmbatoEC · 140.6 works117×
La PazBO · 26.4 works51×
CuencaEC · 52.8 works47×

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Where is the best place to study Legal processes and jurisprudence?

Among universities, judged by research, Austral University of Chile, Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador and Universidad Católica de Cuenca 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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Austral University of ChileChile	69.2	7.9%	368.0×	85	-2.1%
2	Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador	67.3	19.1%	302.8×	63	-
3	Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador	65.7	15.4%	91.6×	48	+143.5%
4	Universidad San Gregorio de PortoviejoEcuador	65.2	28.3%	111.3×	10	+195.8%
5	Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador	64.9	13.6%	324.5×	60	+1526.8%
6	Universidad Diego PortalesChile	61.6	27.9%	113.6×	17	-70.4%
7	Universitat de GironaSpain	58.5	15.3%	50.7×	16	+21.2%
8	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain	57.4	6.7%	24.2×	49	+173.9%
9	Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador	57.3	7.7%	138.2×	73	+94.0%
10	Pontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorEcuador	56.3	15.0%	88.3×	27	+455.6%
11	Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoChile	56.0	14.0%	91.9×	22	-44.3%
12	Universidad Tecnica de MachalaEcuador	54.0	17.5%	66.2×	15	+66.7%
13	Universidad Nacional de ChimborazoEcuador	52.0	18.3%	91.4×	19	-
14	Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain	51.4	11.7%	15.6×	36	-0.1%
15	University of GuayaquilEcuador	51.3	13.7%	39.0×	16	+81.1%
16	Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain	51.1	8.9%	17.3×	26	+16.2%
17	University of ChileChile	50.3	8.1%	54.2×	50	-39.3%
18	University of AlicanteSpain	48.8	10.8%	22.3×	17	+16.2%
19	Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain	48.8	23.4%	23.1×	12	-20.9%
20	Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador	47.0	19.8%	33.7×	10	-
21	Universidad César VallejoPeru	46.9	7.7%	46.8×	34	+946.6%
22	Alberto Hurtado UniversityChile	46.9	17.2%	118.5×	16	-42.8%
23	University of TalcaChile	46.4	13.0%	74.3×	13	-50.3%
24	Military University Nueva GranadaColombia	46.4	12.3%	74.0×	10	+138.2%
25	Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain	45.9	5.6%	55.7×	33	+7.5%
26	Universidad de SevillaSpain	45.7	10.3%	13.4×	20	+13.7%
27	Universidad Nacional de LojaEcuador	45.6	12.1%	92.6×	14	+625.2%
28	Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile	45.4	10.9%	28.3×	23	-55.7%
29	Universidad Autónoma de ChileChile	44.8	11.5%	96.5×	15	-23.0%
30	Universidad de Los Andes, ChileChile	44.8	12.4%	84.7×	11	-62.0%
31	Universidad Rey Juan CarlosSpain	44.5	7.9%	31.2×	21	+186.8%
32	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico	43.8	5.3%	14.6×	38	-8.0%
33	University of ConcepciónChile	43.4	18.6%	23.7×	9	-37.8%
34	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo LeónMexico	42.2	9.6%	26.9×	15	+62.6%
35	Universidad Libre de ColombiaColombia	42.0	10.7%	163.5×	24	-17.6%
36	Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina	41.4	5.6%	29.6×	32	-31.6%
37	Universitat de ValènciaSpain	41.4	10.5%	19.3×	28	-15.4%
38	National University of San MarcosPeru	41.2	5.9%	40.7×	26	+16.6%
39	Universidad de Los AndesBolivia	41.0	9.2%	110.0×	18	-40.5%
40	Universidad San Francisco de QuitoEcuador	39.9	16.6%	58.2×	10	-33.0%
41	Universidad Católica del NorteChile	36.9	8.1%	78.0×	12	-36.5%
42	Universidad de la República de UruguayUruguay	27.8	1.3%	25.7×	17	-56.0%
43	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain	27.8	4.0%	6.7×	11	+68.6%

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 processes and jurisprudence, country by country

Is Legal processes and jurisprudence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Legal processes and jurisprudence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

Fractional works of Legal processes and jurisprudence 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.

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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Which countries lead Legal processes and jurisprudence research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Legal processes and jurisprudence research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Legal processes and jurisprudence?

What are the most cited papers in Legal processes and jurisprudence?

Where is Legal processes and jurisprudence research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Legal processes and jurisprudence?

Is Legal processes and jurisprudence research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

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