Social & Legal Studies

1.0k papers and 10.3k indexed citations i.

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The 1.0k papers published in Social & Legal Studies in the last decades have received a total of 10.3k indexed citations. Papers published in Social & Legal Studies usually cover Sociology and Political Science (530 papers), Law (318 papers) and Political Science and International Relations (251 papers) specifically the topics of Law in Society and Culture (185 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (138 papers) and Judicial and Constitutional Studies (88 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Social & Legal Studies are Ian Loader, Mariana Valverde, Nicholas Blomley, Mary Bosworth, Edésio Fernándes, Anne‐Marie McAlinden, Carol Smart, Vanessa E. Munro, Peter Grabosky and Nicola Henry.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Social & Legal Studies

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Social & Legal Studies. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Social & Legal Studies.

Countries where authors publish in Social & Legal Studies

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Social & Legal Studies. 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 published in Social & Legal Studies with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Social & Legal Studies more than expected).

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