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Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies

Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% 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 socio-legal studies in multicultural contexts, including human rights, religion, equality rights, globalization, social justice, ethnicity, gender, and immigration. The papers explore the intersection of law, literature, culture, and society from diverse perspectives.

  • Socio-Legal Studies
  • Multiculturalism
  • Human Rights
  • Religion
  • Equality Rights
  • Globalization
  • Social Justice
  • Ethnicity
  • Gender
  • Immigration
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
914
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies

Which countries lead Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (247 and 100 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 247 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 100 works
  3. 3 Canada 77 works
  4. 4 Australia 48 works
  5. 5 India 40 works
  6. 6 South Africa 28 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 27 works
  8. 8 Poland 21 works
  9. 9 Germany 20 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 20 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: 39.3%United Kingdom: 15.9%Canada: 12.2%Australia: 7.6%6 others listed: 24.9%39%largest
United States247 · 39.3%United Kingdom100 · 15.9%Canada77 · 12.2%Australia48 · 7.6%6 others listed157 · 24.9%

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

Which institutions lead Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Woodbury University publishes the most Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 26 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 10 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 8 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  5. 5 Emory UniversityUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 North-West UniversitySouth Africa 6 works
  7. 7 McGill UniversityCanada 6 works
  8. 8 University of the Free StateSouth Africa 6 works
  9. 9 University of AberdeenUnited Kingdom 5 works
  10. 10 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies include Gary S. Becker and David Hume.

  1. 1 Gary S. Becker United States 148k citations
  2. 2 David Hume Australia 107k 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 Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies?

The most cited paper in Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies is "Foundations of Social Theory" (Frederick C. Gamst, 1991), with 8,033 citations. Next come "A taxonomy of ethical ideologies." (1,411) and "Two Distinctions in Goodness" (975).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Foundations of Social Theory Frederick C. Gamst · Anthropology of Work Review Sep 1991 8,033
2 A taxonomy of ethical ideologies. Donelson R. Forsyth · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Jul 1980 1,411
3 Two Distinctions in Goodness Christine M. Korsgaard · The Philosophical Review Open access Apr 1983 975
4 Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism, and the Public Sphere Craig Jackson Calhoun · Public Culture 2002 685
5 The role of emotional abuse in physically abusive relationships Diane R. Follingstad, Larry L. Rutledge, Barbara J. Berg et al. · Journal of Family Violence Jun 1990 628
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Where is Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies research done?

The largest centres of Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies research in 2022-now are Burbank (United States), London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada) and Oxford (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Burbank.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BurbankUnited States 26 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 15 works
  4. 4 OxfordUnited Kingdom 13 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 12 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 11 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 9 works
  9. 9 AtlantaUnited States 9 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BurbankUS · 26.3 works735×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford and Woodbury University 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.

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 OxfordUnited Kingdom 50.015.2%9.6×10 -35.7%
2Woodbury UniversityUnited States 45.08.6%5826.9×26 -

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 Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies, country by country

Is Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0036% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies 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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