Karen J. Alter

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
103 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Karen J. Alter is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen J. Alter has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 49 papers in Strategy and Management and 20 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Karen J. Alter's work include International Arbitration and Investment Law (45 papers), International Law and Human Rights (41 papers) and European and International Law Studies (28 papers). Karen J. Alter is often cited by papers focused on International Arbitration and Investment Law (45 papers), International Law and Human Rights (41 papers) and European and International Law Studies (28 papers). Karen J. Alter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. Karen J. Alter's co-authors include Sophie Meunier, Laurence R. Helfer, Stanley Hoffmann, Kal Raustiala, Michael Zürn, Cesare P.R. Romano, James Thuo Gathii, Yuval Shany, Mikael Rask Madsen and Emilie M. Hafner‐Burton and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Foreign Affairs and International Organization.

In The Last Decade

Karen J. Alter

86 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Politics of International Regime Complexity

2009 508 citations Karen J. Alter, Sophie Meunier profile →
Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe

2002 294 citations Karen J. Alter et al. profile →
The Rise of International Regime Complexity

2018 183 citations Karen J. Alter, Kal Raustiala Annual Review of Law and Social Science profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	U.S. Export Controls Across Time: Knowledge, Technology, and China 2025 ·American Journal of International Law ·Karen J. Alter	0
2	The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism? 2023 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Karen J. Alter, Timothy Meyer	0
3	When and how to legally challenge economic globalization: A comment on the German Constitutional Court’s false promise 2021 ·International Journal of Constitutional Law ·Karen J. Alter	3
4	Comprehending global governance: International regime complexity vs. global constitutionalism 2020 ·Global Constitutionalism ·Karen J. Alter	1
5	Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison 2020 ·The British Journal of Politics and International Relations ·Karen J. Alter, Michael Zürn	54
6	Visions of international law: An interdisciplinary retrospective 2020 ·Leiden Journal of International Law ·Karen J. Alter	0
7	Global Governance and the Problem of the Second Best: The Example of Reforming the World Trade Organization 2019 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Karen J. Alter, Cristina Lafont	1
8	Gender and Status in American Political Science: Who Determines Whether a Scholar is Noteworthy? 2018 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Karen J. Alter, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	5
9	Islands of Effective International Adjudication 2017 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer, (unknown)	0
10	The New Terrain of International Law 2014 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Karen J. Alter	14
11	Legitimacy and Lawmaking: A Tale of Three International Courts 2013 ·Theoretical Inquiries in Law ·Laurence R. Helfer, Karen J. Alter	8
12	Transplanting the European Court of Justice: Findings from the Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice 2012 ·The American Journal of Comparative Law ·Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer, (unknown)	1
13	Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations 2012 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Kenneth W. Abbott, Barbara Koremenos, Andrew Moravcsik, Jutta Brunnée, Richard H. Steinberg, Laurence R. Helfer, Gregory Shaffer, Peter J. Spiro, Abraham L. Newman, Ian Johnstone, Kal Raustiala, Daniel Bodansky, Karen J. Alter, Lisa Conant, Erik Voeten, Joost Pauwelyn, Jana von Stein, Alexander Thompson, Rachel Brewster	52
14	Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice 2011 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Laurence R. Helfer, Karen J. Alter, (unknown)	14
15	The Evolving Transnational Legal Order 2011 ·Annual Review of Law and Social Science ·Karen J. Alter	4
16	The Andean Tribunal of Justice and Its Interlocutors: Understanding Preliminary Reference Patterns in the Andean Community 2009 ·Laurence R. Helfer, Karen J. Alter	6
17	The European Court's Political Power: Selected Essays 2009 ·Karen J. Alter	54
18	The Andean Tribunal of Justice and its Interlocutors: Understanding Preliminary Reference Patterns in the Andean Community 2009 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Laurence R. Helfer, Karen J. Alter	10
19	The Politics of International Regime Complexity Symposium 2007 ·Karen J. Alter, (unknown)	8
20	Banana Splits: Nested and Competing Regimes in the Transatlantic Banana Trade Dispute 2006 ·Journal of European Public Policy ·Karen J. Alter, Sophie Meunier	4

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