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Theology and Canon Law Studies

Theology and Canon Law Studies is a research topic within Religious studies. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% 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 Canon Law, religious policy, migration, Islamic radicalism, church-state relations, and the European Union. It explores issues such as integration, freedom of religion, and the legal analysis of the Catholic Church.

  • Canon Law
  • Religious Policy
  • Integration
  • Migration
  • Islamic Radicalism
  • Church-State Relations
  • European Union
  • Freedom of Religion
  • Catholic Church
  • Legal Analysis
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Theology and Canon Law Studies

Which countries lead Theology and Canon Law Studies research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 252 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 252 works
  3. 3 Spain 236 works
  4. 4 Italy 195 works
  5. 5 Germany 161 works
  6. 6 Brazil 99 works
  7. 7 France 87 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 74 works
  9. 9 Chile 60 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 50 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: 58.3%United States: 8.7%Spain: 8.1%Italy: 6.7%6 others listed: 18.2%58%largest
Poland1,698 · 58.3%United States252 · 8.7%Spain236 · 8.1%Italy195 · 6.7%6 others listed531 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Theology and Canon Law Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin publishes the most Theology and Canon Law Studies research, followed by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 274 works
  2. 2 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 207 works
  3. 3 Pontifical University of John Paul II in KrakówPoland 176 works
  4. 4 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 85 works
  5. 5 Universidad de NavarraSpain 68 works
  6. 6 University of WarsawPoland 55 works
  7. 7 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 54 works
  8. 8 University of SzczecinPoland 50 works
  9. 9 Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 49 works
  10. 10 University of ŁódźPoland 42 works

Who are the leading researchers in Theology and Canon Law Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Theology and Canon Law Studies include Wolfgang K. Huber and Stefan Schreiber.

  1. 1 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  2. 2 Stefan Schreiber Germany 163k 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 Theology and Canon Law Studies?

The most cited paper in Theology and Canon Law Studies is "Legislation against the Christians" (Timothy David Barnes, 1968), with 432 citations. Next come "Good Faith in the Cisg: The Interpretation Problems of Article 7" (349) and "Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification" (333).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Legislation against the Christians Timothy David Barnes · The Journal of Roman Studies Nov 1968 432
2 Good Faith in the Cisg: The Interpretation Problems of Article 7 Benedict Sheehy · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2005 349
3 Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification Alister E. McGrath 1986 333
4 THE FAMILY IN LATE ANTIQUITY: THE EXPERIENCE OF AUGUSTINE Brent Donald Shaw · Past & Present 1987 287
5 The Concept of ‘Christus Medicus' in St. Augustine Rudolph Arbesmann · Traditio 1954 245
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Theology and Canon Law Studies research done?

The largest centres of Theology and Canon Law Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Lublin (Poland), Krakow (Poland) and Poznań (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lublin, Opole and Olsztyn.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 364 works
  2. 2 LublinPoland 328 works
  3. 3 KrakowPoland 289 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 92 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 72 works
  6. 6 OlsztynPoland 70 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 68 works
  8. 8 PamplonaSpain 68 works
  9. 9 WrocławPoland 62 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LublinPL · 327.8 works130×
  2. OpolePL · 53.2 works119×
  3. OlsztynPL · 69.7 works87×
  4. ToruńPL · 55.2 works64×
  5. KrakowPL · 289.2 works52×
  6. SzczecinPL · 51.5 works44×
  7. PamplonaES · 67.6 works44×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Theology and Canon Law Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Theology and Canon Law Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Jan Długosz University and Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción 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%10%20%mean 15.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Católica…Jan Długosz UniversityUniversity of SzczecinJohn Paul II Catholi…
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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
1John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 66.513.3%551.8×274 -5.1%
2Jan Długosz UniversityPoland 64.521.4%101.2×12 +44.9%
3Universidad Católica de la Santísima ConcepciónChile 63.522.8%70.8×11 +29.4%
4University of SzczecinPoland 60.913.6%117.0×50 +19.1%
5Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 58.27.1%536.8×207 +3.3%
6Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 56.319.1%19.1×14 +320.5%
7University of WarsawPoland 54.914.2%36.0×55 -18.7%
8Pontifical University of John Paul II in KrakówPoland 54.59.4%927.0×176 -12.9%
9Emory UniversityUnited States 54.521.5%3.4×8 +110.7%
10University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 52.511.5%62.9×39 +2.4%

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 Theology and Canon Law Studies, country by country

Is Theology and Canon Law Studies research growing?

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

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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 Theology and Canon Law Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Theology and Canon Law Studies0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Theology and Canon Law 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%Theology and Canon Law Studies9.5% 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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