Standout Papers

Property Rules, Liability... 1972 2026 1990 2008 1972 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral
    1972 733 citations Guido Calabresi, A. Douglas Melamed Harvard Law Review profile →

Immediate Impact

4 by Nobel laureates 1 from Science/Nature 61 hit
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2 intermediate papers

Works of A. Douglas Melamed being referenced

Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral
1972 Hit

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
A. Douglas Melamed 520 274 123 122 93 22 830
David D. Friedman 531 1.0× 95 0.3× 208 1.7× 88 0.7× 285 3.1× 45 954
Lisa Bernstein 618 1.2× 256 0.9× 121 1.0× 118 1.0× 88 0.9× 24 814
Matthieu Chemin 448 0.9× 58 0.2× 65 0.5× 27 0.2× 172 1.8× 29 707
John Umbeck 584 1.1× 72 0.3× 56 0.5× 102 0.8× 123 1.3× 25 842
F. Andrew Hanssen 622 1.2× 241 0.9× 151 1.2× 61 0.5× 244 2.6× 46 852
Richard Craswell 479 0.9× 223 0.8× 70 0.6× 107 0.9× 74 0.8× 34 713
John R. Commons 452 0.9× 19 0.1× 117 1.0× 150 1.2× 353 3.8× 19 925
Doreen McBarnet 199 0.4× 205 0.7× 151 1.2× 325 2.7× 360 3.9× 27 1.0k
Edward Peter Stringham 411 0.8× 36 0.1× 138 1.1× 53 0.4× 259 2.8× 61 790
Edward A. Snyder 459 0.9× 61 0.2× 18 0.1× 386 3.2× 41 0.4× 21 840

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