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Polish Law and Legal System

Polish Law and Legal System is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1958. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of legal and constitutional topics, including constitutional law, legal reform, human rights, public administration, civil service, criminal code, consumer protection, European Union law, judicial system, and legal interpretation. The papers provide insights into the legal and constitutional studies in Poland.

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal Reform
  • Human Rights
  • Public Administration
  • Civil Service
  • Criminal Code
  • Consumer Protection
  • European Union Law
  • Judicial System
  • Legal Interpretation
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
92% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Polish Law and Legal System

Which countries lead Polish Law and Legal System research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (2.6k and 49 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 2.6k works
  2. 2 United States 49 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 42 works
  4. 4 Russia 34 works
  5. 5 Romania 26 works
  6. 6 Czechia 18 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 17 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 16 works
  9. 9 Lithuania 11 works
  10. 10 Italy 11 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.

Poland: 91.9%United States: 1.8%Ukraine: 1.5%Russia: 1.2%6 others listed: 3.6%92%largest
Poland2,553 · 91.9%United States49 · 1.8%Ukraine42 · 1.5%Russia34 · 1.2%6 others listed99 · 3.6%

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

Which institutions lead Polish Law and Legal System research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Warsaw publishes the most Polish Law and Legal System research, followed by Jagiellonian University and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WarsawPoland 169 works
  2. 2 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 147 works
  3. 3 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 138 works
  4. 4 University of SzczecinPoland 130 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 117 works
  6. 6 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 110 works
  7. 7 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 103 works
  8. 8 University of WrocławPoland 95 works
  9. 9 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 83 works
  10. 10 University of RzeszówPoland 81 works

Who are the leading researchers in Polish Law and Legal System?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Polish Law and Legal System include Piotr Lukasz Rutkowski.

  1. 1 Piotr Lukasz Rutkowski Poland 85k 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 Polish Law and Legal System?

The most cited paper in Polish Law and Legal System is "Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action" (Laurent Pech, Patryk Wachowiec, Dariusz Mazur, 2021), with 139 citations. Next come "How the Internet, the Sharing Economy, and Reputational Feedback Mechanisms Solve the 'Lemons Problem'" (125) and "Central Europe’s descent into autocracy: A constitutional analysis of authoritarian populism" (118).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action Laurent Pech, Patryk Wachowiec, Dariusz Mazur · Hague Journal on the Rule of Law Open access 24 Mar 2021 139
2 How the Internet, the Sharing Economy, and Reputational Feedback Mechanisms Solve the 'Lemons Problem' Adam D. Thierer, Christopher Koopman, Anne Hobson et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2015 125
3 Central Europe’s descent into autocracy: A constitutional analysis of authoritarian populism Bojan Bugarič · International Journal of Constitutional Law 21 Mar 2019 118
4 Polish Constitutional Tribunal Under PiS: From an Activist Court, to a Paralysed Tribunal, to a Governmental Enabler Wojciech Sadurski · Hague Journal on the Rule of Law Open access 13 Jun 2018 115
5 Condyloma in Pregnancy Is Strongly Predictive of Juvenile-Onset Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Michael Jonah Silverberg, Poul Thorsen, H Lindeberg et al. · Obstetrics and Gynecology Apr 2003 110
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Polish Law and Legal System research done?

The largest centres of Polish Law and Legal System research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Lublin (Poland) and Łódź (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Radom, Olsztyn and Rzeszów.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 492 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 270 works
  3. 3 LublinPoland 268 works
  4. 4 ŁódźPoland 160 works
  5. 5 OlsztynPoland 143 works
  6. 6 SzczecinPoland 133 works
  7. 7 PoznańPoland 129 works
  8. 8 WrocławPoland 124 works
  9. 9 RzeszówPoland 111 works
  10. 10 KatowicePoland 97 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RadomPL · 37.2 works413×
  2. OlsztynPL · 142.6 works219×
  3. RzeszówPL · 111.1 works153×
  4. SzczecinPL · 133.3 works142×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Polish Law and Legal System than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Polish Law and Legal System?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Warsaw, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin 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 15.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of WarsawUniversity of Warmia…John Paul II Catholi…University of Szczecin
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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 WarsawPoland 57.213.5%136.5×169 -23.2%
2University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland 54.411.9%172.9×76 +28.7%
3John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 52.99.4%342.5×138 +20.0%
4University of SzczecinPoland 52.37.4%376.2×130 +30.6%
5University of ŁódźPoland 51.812.8%171.0×117 -11.6%
6Alcide De Gasperi University of Euroregional Economy in JózefówPoland 51.027.6%632.9×8 +27.7%
7Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 49.09.8%91.2×147 -31.3%
8Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 48.911.4%112.0×110 -43.3%
9Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 47.617.3%179.8×27 +13.9%
10Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w CiechanowiePoland 46.729.5%239.2×11 -10.8%

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 Polish Law and Legal System, country by country

Is Polish Law and Legal System research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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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 Polish Law and Legal System as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Polish Law and Legal System0.0084% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Polish Law and Legal System 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 counting5%10%15%Polish Law and Legal System9.1% 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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