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Law

D-Index
39
Citations
11572
World Ranking
111
National Ranking
88

Political Science

D-Index
40
Citations
11728
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482
National Ranking
268

Robert A. Kagan publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert A. Kagan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 163 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Robert A. Kagan D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert A. Kagan sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

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

  • Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness

    Eugene Bardach;Robert A. Kagan

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

    Unknown

  • Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Go Beyond Compliance

    Unknown

  • Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment

    Neil Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan;Dorothy Thornton

  • Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?

    Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton

  • Adversarial Legalism : The American Way of Law

    Robert A. Kagan

  • Adversarial Legalism

    Unknown

  • Zur Kriminologie der Wirtschaftsunternehmen

    Robert A. Kagan;John T. Scholz

  • The Return of History and the End of Dreams

    Unknown

  • Power and Weakness

    Unknown

  • General Deterrence and Corporate Environmental Behavior

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

  • Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance in Environmental Protection*

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

  • Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy

    Unknown

  • Adversarial legalism and American government

    Robert A. Kagan

  • 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

  • The “Criminology of the Corporation” and Regulatory Enforcement Strategies

    Unknown

  • On the Social Significance of Large Law Firm Practice

    Robert A. Kagan;Robert Eli Rosen

  • Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies

    David Vogel;Robert A. Kagan

  • Sources of Corporate Environmental Performance

    Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham

  • End of Dreams, Return of History

    Unknown

  • Should Europe Worry about Adversarial Legalism

    Robert A. Kagan

  • Regulatory encounters : multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism

    Harry R. Potter;Robert A Kagan;Lee Axelrad

  • Editor's Introduction: Understanding Regulatory Enforcement

    Robert A. Kagan

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

    Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham

  • Regulatory Justice: Implementing a Wage-Price Freeze

    Robert A. Kagan

  • State Supreme Courts: A Century of Style and Citation

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

  • The Business of State Supreme Courts, 1870-1970

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

  • Going by the Book, the Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness

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

  • The Evolution of State Supreme Courts

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

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

    Robert A. Kagan

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

    Robert A. Kagan

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

    Robert A Kagan;Neil Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton

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

    Robert A. Kagan

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Gunningham
Neil Gunningham Australian National University
David Vogel
David Vogel University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence M. Friedman
Lawrence M. Friedman Stanford University
David Levi-Faur
David Levi-Faur Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat Amherst College
Benjamin van Rooij
Benjamin van Rooij University of Amsterdam
Cary Coglianese
Cary Coglianese University of Pennsylvania
John T. Scholz
John T. Scholz Florida State University
Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago
John Hagan
John Hagan American Bar Foundation

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