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World Trade Organization Law

World Trade Organization Law is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 focuses on the role of public international law in the World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes, including topics such as WTO dispute settlement, global governance, trade policy, human rights, environmental regulation, developing country participation, and the constitutionalization of international trade law.

  • WTO Dispute Settlement
  • International Trade Law
  • Global Governance
  • Trade Policy
  • Human Rights
  • Environmental Regulation
  • Developing Countries
  • Legal System
  • Constitutionalization
  • Judicial Review
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
World Trade Organization Law

Which countries lead World Trade Organization Law research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (335 and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 335 works
  2. 2 China 219 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 163 works
  4. 4 India 90 works
  5. 5 Germany 87 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 86 works
  7. 7 Switzerland 67 works
  8. 8 Australia 60 works
  9. 9 Canada 56 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 55 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: 27.5%China: 18.0%United Kingdom: 13.4%India: 7.4%6 others listed: 33.7%27%largest
United States335 · 27.5%China219 · 18.0%United Kingdom163 · 13.4%India90 · 7.4%6 others listed411 · 33.7%

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

Which institutions lead World Trade Organization Law research?

By volume in 2022-now, Peterson Institute for International Economics publishes the most World Trade Organization Law research, followed by Georgetown University and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Peterson Institute for International EconomicsUnited States 18 works
  2. 2 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 14 works
  3. 3 Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesSwitzerland 14 works
  4. 4 World Trade OrganizationSwitzerland 12 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  7. 7 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 11 works
  8. 8 Singapore Management UniversitySingapore 10 works
  9. 9 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 10 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in World Trade Organization Law?

The most-cited researchers publishing on World Trade Organization Law include Martin McKee and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k 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 World Trade Organization Law?

The most cited paper in World Trade Organization Law is "Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade?" (Scott Leonard Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, 2006), with 2,629 citations. Next come "Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?" (1,561) and "On compliance" (1,000).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade? Scott Leonard Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand · Journal of International Economics 6 Jun 2006 2,629
2 Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation? George W. Downs, David M. Rocke, Peter N. Barsoom · International Organization 1996 1,561
3 On compliance Abram J. Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes · International Organization 1993 1,000
4 Globalization in question Matthew Paterson · International Affairs 1997 881
5 Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner, B. Peter Rosendorff · International Organization 2002 820
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is World Trade Organization Law research done?

The largest centres of World Trade Organization Law research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Geneva (Switzerland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Geneva and Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 64 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 43 works
  4. 4 GenevaSwitzerland 37 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 36 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 25 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 19 works
  9. 9 SingaporeSingapore 18 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GenevaCH · 36.9 works23×
  2. Washington D.C.US · 64.4 works8.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in World Trade Organization Law than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study World Trade Organization Law?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Georgetown 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.

0%20%40%mean 13.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordGraduate Institute o…Georgetown UniversitySingapore Management…
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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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 81.334.2%4.9×12 +36.3%
2Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesSwitzerland 76.018.0%217.9×14 -0.1%
3Georgetown UniversityUnited States 71.512.7%19.5×14 +15.2%
4Singapore Management UniversitySingapore 56.010.8%58.1×10 +7.1%
5Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 51.89.4%38.5×11 +21.5%
6Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 50.48.5%16.6×10 +157.2%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 47.36.2%4.8×10 +19.8%
8University of BernSwitzerland 44.811.1%9.0×8 -6.7%
9European University InstituteItaly 43.815.4%66.5×8 -68.8%
10Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 42.410.2%7.0×9 +30.0%

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 World Trade Organization Law, country by country

Is World Trade Organization Law research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% 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 World Trade Organization Law as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%World Trade Organization Law0.0088% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of World Trade Organization Law 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%World Trade Organization Law10.3% 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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