Legal Studies and Reforms
Legal Studies and Reforms is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 5.8k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% 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 international human rights, law, and their intersection with various aspects of society and governance. It includes discussions on the right to health, criminal justice, environmental protection, economic development, gender equality, legal regulation, social responsibility, and ethical dilemmas. The papers reflect a comprehensive exploration of human rights issues from legal, ethical, and practical perspectives.
- Human Rights
- International Law
- Health
- Criminal Justice
- Environmental Protection
- Economic Development
- Gender Equality
- Legal Regulation
- Social Responsibility
- Ethical Dilemmas
- Research works
- 5.8k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 573 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 9.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +2% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
Ukraine
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Legal Studies and Reforms research?
By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (965 and 307 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Ukraine
965 works
- 2
Russia
307 works
- 3
United States
282 works
- 4
Indonesia
106 works
- 5
Germany
81 works
- 6
Latvia
58 works
- 7 ?? 51 works
- 8
Poland
50 works
- 9
Uzbekistan
43 works
- 10
China
39 works
How concentrated that is
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Which institutions lead Legal Studies and Reforms research?
By volume in 2022-now, Human Growth Foundation publishes the most Legal Studies and Reforms research, followed by Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs and Max Planck Society.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Human Growth FoundationUnited States
146 works
- 2
Kharkiv National University of Internal AffairsUkraine
102 works
- 3
Max Planck SocietyGermany
73 works
- 4
Weatherford CollegeUnited States
63 works
- 5
National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine
62 works
- 6
National Academy of Internal AffairsUkraine
58 works
- 7
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law UniversityUkraine
54 works
- 8
Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine
49 works
- 9
West Ukrainian National UniversityUkraine
33 works
- 10
Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia
30 works
Who are the leading researchers in Legal Studies and Reforms?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Legal Studies and Reforms include Eun‐Kyung Kim.
- 1
Eun‐Kyung Kim
South Korea
37k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Legal Studies and Reforms research done?
The largest centres of Legal Studies and Reforms research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Kharkiv (Ukraine), New York (United States) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mariupol, Khmelnytskyi and Kharkiv.
Largest cities, 2022-now
- 1
KyivUkraine
312 works
- 2
KharkivUkraine
218 works
- 3
New YorkUnited States
152 works
- 4
MoscowRussia
151 works
- 5
MunichGermany
73 works
- 6
LvivUkraine
72 works
- 7
WeatherfordUnited States
63 works
- 8
OdesaUkraine
59 works
- 9
RigaLatvia
48 works
- 10
TashkentUzbekistan
37 works
Where it is the local speciality
- MariupolUA · 20.2 works186×
- KhmelnytskyiUA · 27.0 works170×
- KharkivUA · 218.2 works94×
- TernopilUA · 35.1 works77×
- OdesaUA · 58.6 works69×
- ZaporizhiaUA · 21.2 works59×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Legal Studies and Reforms than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Legal Studies and Reforms?
Among universities, judged by research, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs and Comenius University Bratislava 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.
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.
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 Studies and Reforms, country by countryIs Legal Studies and Reforms research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Legal Studies and Reforms.
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Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Legal Studies and Reforms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0087% in 2024.
Fractional works of Legal Studies and Reforms 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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