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Regulation and Compliance Studies

Regulation and Compliance Studies is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the global trends in industry self-regulation, regulatory capitalism, and compliance with environmental regulations. It delves into the effectiveness of voluntary programs, the role of regulatory agencies, and the impact of policy appraisal on enforcement and compliance. The papers also discuss the evolution of risk-based regulation and the dynamics of regulatory governance in shaping corporate environmental behavior.

  • Self-Regulation
  • Regulatory Capitalism
  • Environmental Compliance
  • Voluntary Programs
  • Regulatory Agencies
  • Corporate Environmentalism
  • Policy Appraisal
  • Enforcement
  • Risk-Based Regulation
  • Regulatory Governance
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Regulation and Compliance Studies

Which countries lead Regulation and Compliance Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (539 and 276 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 539 works
  2. 2 China 276 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 226 works
  4. 4 Brazil 202 works
  5. 5 Germany 126 works
  6. 6 Australia 90 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 87 works
  8. 8 India 87 works
  9. 9 France 83 works
  10. 10 Canada 80 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: 30.0%China: 15.4%United Kingdom: 12.6%Brazil: 11.2%6 others listed: 30.8%30%largest
United States539 · 30.0%China276 · 15.4%United Kingdom226 · 12.6%Brazil202 · 11.2%6 others listed554 · 30.8%

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

Which institutions lead Regulation and Compliance Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Fundação Getulio Vargas publishes the most Regulation and Compliance Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 22 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 17 works
  4. 4 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 17 works
  5. 5 Fayetteville State UniversityUnited States 16 works
  6. 6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 15 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  8. 8 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 13 works
  9. 9 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 11 works
  10. 10 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Regulation and Compliance Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Regulation and Compliance Studies include Martin McKee, Andrei Shleifer and Michael C. Jensen.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  3. 3 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  4. 4 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  5. 5 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k 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 Regulation and Compliance Studies?

The most cited paper in Regulation and Compliance Studies is "The rise of the regulatory state in Europe" (Giandomenico Majone, 1994), with 1,838 citations. Next come "Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways" (1,804) and "Environmental Governance" (1,689).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The rise of the regulatory state in Europe Giandomenico Majone · West European Politics Jul 1994 1,838
2 Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore · Global Networks 4 Aug 2009 1,804
3 Environmental Governance Maria Carmen Lemos, Arun Agrawal · Annual Review of Environment and Resources Review 5 Jul 2006 1,689
4 INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION WITHOUT SANCTIONS: THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S RESPONSIBLE CARE PROGRAM. A. A. King, Michael Lenox · Academy of Management Journal Aug 2000 1,616
5 TALKING TRASH: LEGITIMACY, IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT, AND UNSYSTEMATIC RISK IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. Pratima Bansal, Iain J. Clelland · Academy of Management Journal Feb 2004 1,578
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Where is Regulation and Compliance Studies research done?

The largest centres of Regulation and Compliance Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brasília and Hamburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 58 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 51 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 38 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 34 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 34 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 32 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 26 works
  8. 8 BrasíliaBrazil 26 works
  9. 9 HamburgGermany 25 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrasíliaBR · 26.2 works7.7×
  2. HamburgDE · 25.4 works6.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Regulation and Compliance Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Regulation and Compliance Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Economics and Political Science, Fayetteville State University and Erasmus University Rotterdam 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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 75.422.1%20.6×11 +12.8%
2Fayetteville State UniversityUnited States 72.017.9%301.9×16 -
3Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 55.212.9%9.5×11 -49.7%
4University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 51.315.5%4.7×10 +36.6%
5Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 51.219.3%4.9×8 -33.2%
6Leiden UniversityNetherlands 51.115.5%6.6×8 -14.7%
7Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 50.82.2%84.8×22 +7.0%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 45.66.0%4.5×14 -18.6%
9Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 45.31.3%33.9×13 +20.8%
10Universidade de São PauloBrazil 36.11.8%3.6×17 +3.4%

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 Regulation and Compliance Studies, country by country

Is Regulation and Compliance Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Regulation and Compliance Studies.

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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 Regulation and Compliance Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0098% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Regulation and Compliance Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Regulation and Compliance 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.

still counting5%10%15%Regulation and Compliance Studies11.0% 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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