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Law and Social Inquiry

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Law 11 19 19 7
Social Sciences and Humanities 1282 6 9 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 26
Documents by Best Scientists*: 29
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 63
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.561
Impact Factor: 1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Law and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation?

Law and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation tackles a plethora of topics, such as Law, Politics, State (polity), Law and economics and Criminology. Law studies presented in the journal focus on topics such as Power (social and political), Economic Justice, Legal profession, Supreme court and Legal history. The journal focuses on Politics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Political economy and Public administration.

  • Law (55.23%)
  • Politics (19.05%)
  • State (polity) (11.81%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Go beyond Compliance (538 citations)
  • Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California (214 citations)
  • Legal Rational Myths: The New Institutionalism and the Law and Society Tradition (196 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Law and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation:

The most cited articles cover a variety of subjects, including Law, Politics, State (polity), Power (social and political) and Law and economics. The most cited articles focus on different Law studies like Human rights, Legal realism, Comparative law, Legal profession and Empirical legal studies. In addition to Politics research, the published articles aim to explore topics under Economic Justice, Legislature and Political economy.

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

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Politics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Law, Law and economics, Politics, State (polity) and Human rights. Law studies presented include Power (social and political), Constitutional law, Economic Justice, Constitutionalism and Mobilization. Some problems in Law and economics that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Legal process, Public interest, Enforcement, Lawmaking and Empirical research.

In the journal, Political economy, Rhetoric, Supreme court and Scholarship are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Politics research. State (polity) research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Disability discrimination, Redistribution (cultural anthropology), Transparency (behavior), Law enforcement and Internet privacy. The featured works in Inter american, which all belong in the domain if Human rights, also overlaps with concepts under Resilience (network).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet (2 citations)
  • Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process (2 citations)
  • The Place of Punishment in Twenty-First-Century America: Understanding the Persistence of Mass Incarceration (2 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 and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Austin Sarat (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Samuel Jan Brakel (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Herbert M. Kritzer (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Terence C. Halliday (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sally Engle Merry (9 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 and Social Inquiry-journal of The American Bar Foundation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • American Bar Foundation (80 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (72 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Chicago (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (27 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, 95.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 33.33% of all publications and 66.67% 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

  • Using Wearable Technology to Increase Police Legitimacy in Uruguay: The Case of Body-Worn Cameras

    Barak Ariel;Renée J. Mitchell;Justice Tankebe;Maria Emilia Firpo

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • The Place of Punishment in Twenty-First-Century America: Understanding the Persistence of Mass Incarceration

    Katherine Beckett;Lindsey Beach

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process

    Ely Aaronson;Gregory Shaffer

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • The New Place of Corporate Law Firms in the Structuring of Elite Legal Careers

    Ronit Dinovitzer;Bryant Garth

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Fighting Words: Pro-Choice Cause Lawyering, Legal-Framing Innovations, and Hostile Political-Legal Contexts

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • The Sources of Resilience of International Human Rights Courts: The Case of the Inter-American System

    Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos;Wayne Sandholtz

    (2021)
    8 Citations
  • A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe

    (2022)
    8 Citations
  • Sociological Jurisprudence Past and Present

    Brian Z. Tamanaha

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • The Impact of Adjacent Laws on Implementing Violence against Women Laws: Legal Violence in the Lives of Costa Rican Women

    Erin Adamson;Cecilia Menjívar;Shannon Drysdale Walsh

    (2020)
    7 Citations

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