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Law and Policy
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Law and Policy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Law 42 4 5 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 5
Documents by Best Scientists*: 6
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 56
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.38
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Law & Policy?

Law & Policy investigates studies in Law, Politics, Public relations, State (polity) and Public administration. While it focused on Law, it was also able to explore topics like Context (language use) and Law and economics. Enforcement and Compliance (psychology) are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

  • Law (34.99%)
  • Politics (14.59%)
  • Public relations (11.86%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Tax Compliance as the Result of a Psychological Tax Contract: The Role of Incentives and Responsive Regulation (354 citations)
  • Industry Self‐Regulation: An Institutional Perspective (353 citations)
  • Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions (280 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Law & Policy:

Enforcement, Law, Public economics, Compliance (psychology) and Public relations are the main subjects of interest in the most cited publications. The Public economics research presented in the journal papers focuses mostly on Government and, on occasion, topics in Economic Justice. The most cited publications explore research in Public relations alongside concepts in Social psychology and other areas of study in Context (language use).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • China
  • Politics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of Law & Policy is to combine knowledge in the areas of Law, Criminology, Media studies, Peta- and Supreme court. Law & Policy facilitates discussions on Law that incorporate concepts from other fields like Affect (psychology) and Anticipation (artificial intelligence). While Criminology is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Perception, Sympathy and Politics.

Discussions in Law & Policy are anchored in the subject of Supreme court and the similar topic of Power (social and political).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Beyond evidence: Anticipatory regimes in law (1 citations)
  • Listening to Snitches: Race/Ethnicity, English Proficiency, and Access to Welfare Fraud Enforcement Systems (0 citations)
  • Rethinking Supreme Court Power in the Study of Judicial Impact (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

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 & Policy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Neil Gunningham (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Murray Levine (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John Braithwaite (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Christine Parker (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert A. Kagan (7 papers) absent at the last edition.

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 & Policy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Australian National University (30 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University at Buffalo (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Irvine (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (15 papers) absent at the last edition.

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.

Publication chance based on affiliation

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, 7.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.08% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 69.23% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

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.

Returning Institution Index

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.

The experience to innovation index

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:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Understanding the place of punishment: Disadvantage, politics, and the geography of imprisonment in 21st century America

    Katherine Beckett;Lindsey Beach

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • How Free is Sow Stall Free? Incremental Regulatory Reform and Industry Co‐optation of Activism

    Rachel Carey;Christine Parker;Gyorgy Scrinis

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • The Subtle Effects of Implicit Bias Instructions

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • Addressing Urban Disorder without Police: How Seattle's LEAD Program Responds to Behavioral-Health-Related Disruptions, Resolves Business Complaints, and Reconfigures the Field of Public Safety

    Forrest Stuart;Katherine Beckett

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Restorative Nodes of Governance in the Anthropocene: Iran's Kashaf River

    John Braithwaite;Honeye Hojabrosadati;Miranda Forsyth

    (2021)
    1 Citations

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