Law

588.8k papers and 2.5M indexed citations

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588.8k papers covering Law have received a total of 2.5M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Legal Studies and Policies, Legal and Social Justice Studies and Judicial and Constitutional Studies and also cover the fields of Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics. Some of the most active scholars covering Law are Cass R. Sunstein, Tom R. Tyler, Glenn Shafer, Richard A. Posner, George Lakoff, Mark L. Johnson, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Donaldson and Lee E. Preston.

In The Last Decade

Law

64.6k papers receiving 183.5k citations

Countries where authors publish papers about Law

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This map shows the geographic impact of research in Law. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers about Law with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Law more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers about Law

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This network shows the impact of papers covering Law. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers covering Law.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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