Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Topic · Political Science and International Relations

War, Law, and Justice

War, Law, and Justice is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 2.9k research works in it since 1969. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the intersection of transitional justice, international law, and conflict zones. It explores topics such as human rights, war crimes, security, martial law, criminal justice, truth and reconciliation processes, gender issues, and legal regulation in the context of post-conflict societies. The papers cover a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods, providing a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and strategies related to transitional justice.

  • Transitional Justice
  • Human Rights
  • War Crimes
  • International Law
  • Security
  • Martial Law
  • Criminal Justice
  • Truth and Reconciliation
  • Gender Issues
  • Legal Regulation
Research works
2.9k
fractional, since 1969
In the world top 10%
281
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+224%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
War, Law, and Justice

Which countries lead War, Law, and Justice research?

By volume, Ukraine and the United States publish the most (508 and 444 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 508 works
  2. 2 United States 444 works
  3. 3 Spain 136 works
  4. 4 Germany 129 works
  5. 5 Ecuador 105 works
  6. 6 Mexico 91 works
  7. 7 Russia 65 works
  8. 8 ?? 60 works
  9. 9 Peru 58 works
  10. 10 Colombia 53 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.

Ukraine: 30.8%United States: 26.9%Spain: 8.3%Germany: 7.8%6 others listed: 26.2%31%largest
Ukraine508 · 30.8%United States444 · 26.9%Spain136 · 8.3%Germany129 · 7.8%6 others listed431 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead War, Law, and Justice research?

By volume in 2022-now, Human Growth Foundation publishes the most War, Law, and Justice research, followed by Max Planck Society and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 263 works
  2. 2 Max Planck SocietyGermany 120 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 93 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 75 works
  5. 5 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 30 works
  6. 6 National Academy of Internal AffairsUkraine 30 works
  7. 7 Kharkiv National University of Internal AffairsUkraine 29 works
  8. 8 Al-Azhar UniversityIndonesia 25 works
  9. 9 Yaroslav Mudryi National Law UniversityUkraine 23 works
  10. 10 Security Service of UkraineUkraine 20 works

What are the most cited papers in War, Law, and Justice?

The most cited paper in War, Law, and Justice is "Immunohistochemical and in situ localization of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in human tissues and implications for CCHF pathogenesis." (Felicity Jane Burt, Robert Swanepoel, Wun Ju Shieh et al., 1997), with 211 citations. Next come "Towards a single definition of armed conflict in international humanitarian law: A critique of internationalized armed conflict" (124) and "The Mental Element in International Criminal Law: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Elements of Offences" (102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Immunohistochemical and in situ localization of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in human tissues and implications for CCHF pathogenesis. Felicity Jane Burt, Robert Swanepoel, Wun Ju Shieh et al. · PubMed Aug 1997 211
2 Towards a single definition of armed conflict in international humanitarian law: A critique of internationalized armed conflict James Stewart · International Review of the Red Cross Jun 2003 124
3 The Mental Element in International Criminal Law: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Elements of Offences Roger S. Clark · Criminal Law Forum Sep 2001 102
4 Transitional Justice and Victims' Rights before the End of a Conflict: The Unusual Case of Colombia Jemima García-Godos, Knut Andreas O. Lid · Journal of Latin American Studies Aug 2010 98
5 The Challenge of Autonomous Lethal Robotics to International Humanitarian Law C. Grut · Journal of Conflict and Security Law 20 Feb 2013 86
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is War, Law, and Justice research done?

The largest centres of War, Law, and Justice research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Kyiv (Ukraine), Munich (Germany) and Weatherford (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Odesa, Kharkiv and Ambato.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 270 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 224 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 119 works
  4. 4 WeatherfordUnited States 93 works
  5. 5 KharkivUkraine 86 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 36 works
  7. 7 BogotáColombia 35 works
  8. 8 OdesaUkraine 34 works
  9. 9 LvivUkraine 34 works
  10. 10 AmbatoEcuador 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OdesaUA · 34.4 works46×
  2. KharkivUA · 86.1 works42×
  3. AmbatoEC · 33.4 works41×
  4. KyivUA · 223.8 works39×
  5. WeatherfordUS · 93.4 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in War, Law, and Justice than the world average.

See War, Law, and Justice on the map

Where is the best place to study War, Law, and Justice?

Among universities, judged by research, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Weatherford College and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 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.

0%10%20%mean 11.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kharkiv National Uni…Taras Shevchenko Nat…Yaroslav Mudryi Nati…Weatherford College
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Kharkiv National University of Internal AffairsUkraine 76.918.2%238.3×29 +196.4%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 74.69.1%39.2×93 +3466.7%
3Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 64.612.1%60.9×30 +82.7%
4Yaroslav Mudryi National Law UniversityUkraine 62.712.1%386.4×23 +84.6%
5Al-Azhar UniversityIndonesia 57.39.1%74.5×24 -
6Lviv State University of Internal AffairsUkraine 56.512.7%400.2×13 +186.5%
7Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 54.112.3%128.4×16 -
8Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine 53.312.9%254.3×15 +390.0%
9Lviv UniversityUkraine 53.112.3%44.6×10 +76.0%
10National University Odesa Law AcademyUkraine 47.88.2%215.7×18 +148.7%

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 War, Law, and Justice, country by country

Is War, Law, and Justice research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 224% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are War, Law, and Justice.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 War, Law, and Justice as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0037% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%War, Law, and Justice0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of War, Law, and Justice 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%War, Law, and Justice9.9% in 20252020

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.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about War, Law, and Justice. Posts are plain text and can be reported.