| Discipline name | Position | Best Scientists | Publications | D-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 22 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Psychology | 566 | 50 | 64 | 12 |
Law and Human Behavior explores disciplines such as Legal psychology, Social psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychiatry and Adjudication. Aside from discussions in Legal psychology, it also deals with the subject of Jury which intersects with Verdict disciplines. The concepts on Social psychology presented in Law and Human Behavior can also apply to other research fields, including Eyewitness identification, Identification (information), Witness, Suspect and Human factors and ergonomics.
Concepts in Occupational safety and health, as well as related topics in Suicide prevention, are covered in the Human factors and ergonomics research presented in the journal. Issues in Clinical psychology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Injury prevention and Psychopathy. The work on Psychopathy addressed in it expands to the thematically related Antisocial personality disorder.
In the Psychiatry research discussed, Mental health and Mental illness are all tackled. The Recidivism works featured in Law and Human Behavior incorporate elements from PsycINFO, Sex offense and Risk assessment. Developmental psychology works presented in Law and Human Behavior have a specific focus on Juvenile delinquency.
The published articles investigate studies in Legal psychology, Social psychology, Clinical psychology, Recidivism and Psychiatry. The study of Legal psychology, which falls within the realm of Developmental psychology, was the main focus of the studies in the published papers. In addition to Social psychology research, the journal publications aim to explore topics under Suspect, Credibility and Identification (information).
The topics of PsycINFO, Social psychology, Identification (information), Interview and Cognitive bias are the focal point of discussions in Law and Human Behavior. The work on PsycINFO tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Test (assessment), Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, Negotiation and Criminology. Social psychology research is the primary subject tackled in it with a focus on Gratitude.
Some problems in Identification (information) that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Statistical hypothesis testing, Statistics, Variables, Cognitive psychology and Suspect. Interview research featured in Law and Human Behavior incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Structural equation modeling and Law enforcement. In Law and Human Behavior, Perception, Random effects model, Publication bias, Relevance (law) and Anchoring are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Cognitive bias research.
A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.
The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.
The top authors publishing in Law and Human Behavior (based on the number of publications) are:
The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.
Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered
The top affiliations publishing in Law and Human Behavior (based on the number of publications) are:
The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.
The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.
The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.
During the most recent 2021 edition, 5.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 47.37% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.79% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.79% of all publications and 21.05% were from other institutions.
A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.
The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.
The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.
Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).
The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:
The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
Gary L. Wells;Margaret Bull Kovera;Amy Bradfield Douglass;Neil Brewer
(2020)Jennifer Skeem;Nicholas Scurich;John Monahan
(2020)Michael Siegel;Max Goder-Reiser;Grant Duwe;Michael Rocque
(2020)Laure Brimbal;Christian A. Meissner;Steven M. Kleinman;Erik L. Phillips
(2021)Laura Smalarz;Yueran Yang;Gary L. Wells
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(2021)Hayley M. D. Cleary;Ray Bull
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