2026 Robert A. Kagan: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	39	111	100	88	78	163	11572
Political Science	40	482	433	268	228	167	11728

Research.com Recognitions

1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert A. Kagan is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several areas within the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, law, strategy and management, oncology, and otorhinolaryngology.

The scientist's recent publication record includes:

"Economic Efficiency of Employee Suggestion Systems in Manufacturing Enterprises," 2021, Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practices
"Prognostic impact of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in head and neck cancer: a decade of evidence," 2025, Australian Journal of Otolaryngology
"Interés nacional y responsabilidad global," 2021, Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político
"Issue Information," 2023, Regulation & Governance
"Issue Information," 2024, World Affairs

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert A. Kagan include:

Neil Gunningham
Dorothy Thornton
Grzegorz Krzos
Nayellin Reyes-Chicuellar
Peter Friedland

Their work appears in various publication venues, with the most frequent being:

Regulation & Governance
Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practices
Australian Journal of Otolaryngology
Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político
World Affairs

Robert A. Kagan's scholarly contributions fall primarily under social sciences with ten publications in the field. Subfields include political science and international relations (6 publications), law (3 publications), strategy and management (2 publications), oncology (1 publication), and otorhinolaryngology (1 publication).

The main topics covered in their research are:

Regulation and Compliance Studies
Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
Head and Neck Cancer Studies
Bone and Joint Diseases
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
International Relations and Foreign Policy

Among their recognitions, Robert A. Kagan was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.

Best Publications

Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Go beyond Compliance

Neil Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan;Dorothy Thornton

1219
Citations
Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness

Eugene Bardach;Robert A. Kagan

1003
Citations
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

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975
Citations
Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Go Beyond Compliance

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821
Citations
Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment

Neil Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan;Dorothy Thornton

736
Citations
Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?

Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton

584
Citations
Adversarial Legalism : The American Way of Law

Robert A. Kagan

559
Citations
Adversarial Legalism

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411
Citations
Zur Kriminologie der Wirtschaftsunternehmen

Robert A. Kagan;John T. Scholz

397
Citations
The Return of History and the End of Dreams

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390
Citations
Power and Weakness

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335
Citations
General Deterrence and Corporate Environmental Behavior

Dorothy Thornton;Neil A. Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan

332
Citations
Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance in Environmental Protection*

Neil A. Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan

319
Citations
Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy

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289
Citations
Adversarial legalism and American government

Robert A. Kagan

241
Citations
Do the Haves Come out Ahead - Winning and Losing in State Supreme Courts, 1870-1970

Stanton Wheeler;Bliss Cartwright;Robert A. Kagan;Lawrence M. Friedman

241
Citations
The “Criminology of the Corporation” and Regulatory Enforcement Strategies

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215
Citations
On the Social Significance of Large Law Firm Practice

Robert A. Kagan;Robert Eli Rosen

169
Citations
Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies

David Vogel;Robert A. Kagan

167
Citations
Sources of Corporate Environmental Performance

Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham

147
Citations
End of Dreams, Return of History

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147
Citations
Should Europe Worry about Adversarial Legalism

Robert A. Kagan

122
Citations
Regulatory encounters : multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism

Harry R. Potter;Robert A Kagan;Lee Axelrad

105
Citations
Editor's Introduction: Understanding Regulatory Enforcement

Robert A. Kagan

104
Citations
When Social Norms and Pressures Are Not Enough: Environmental Performance in the Trucking Industry

Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham

103
Citations
Regulatory Justice: Implementing a Wage-Price Freeze

Robert A. Kagan

97
Citations
State Supreme Courts: A Century of Style and Citation

Lawrence M. Friedman;Robert A. Kagan;Bliss Cartwright;Stanton Wheeler

96
Citations
The Business of State Supreme Courts, 1870-1970

Robert A. Kagan;Bliss Cartwright;Lawrence M. Friedman;Stanton Wheeler

78
Citations
Going by the Book, the Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness

M. Gordon Wolman;Eugene Bardach;Robert A. Kagan

64
Citations
The Evolution of State Supreme Courts

Robert A. Kagan;Bliss Cartwright;Lawrence M. Friedman;Stanton Wheeler

59
Citations
Introduction: Comparing National Styles of Regulation in Japan and the United States

Robert A. Kagan

59
Citations
The Routinization of Debt Collection: An Essay on Social Change and Conflict in the Courts

Robert A. Kagan

57
Citations
Fear, Duty, and Regulatory Compliance: Lessons from Three Research Projects

Robert A Kagan;Neil Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton

53
Citations
Globalization and legal change: The “Americanization” of European law?

Robert A. Kagan

39
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Gunningham Australian National University

David Vogel University of California, Berkeley

Lawrence M. Friedman Stanford University

David Levi-Faur Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Austin Sarat Amherst College

Benjamin van Rooij University of Amsterdam

Cary Coglianese University of Pennsylvania

John T. Scholz Florida State University

Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago

John Hagan American Bar Foundation

External Links

Personal website of Robert A. Kagan

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