top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Law

2025 single-year list · 395 listed authors · Social Sciences

395 researchers whose main subfield is Law, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 18,707 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 100 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
395
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
18,707
Median citations
7
top 1% from 179 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#233
Sunstein, Cass R.

Top countries

  1. United States15840%
  2. United Kingdom6717%
  3. Netherlands246%
  4. Australia246%
  5. Germany174%
  6. Canada113%
  7. Italy92%
  8. Belgium72%
  9. Israel72%
  10. Ireland62%

Top institutions

  1. Harvard Law School144%
  2. Columbia Law School103%
  3. Yale University92%
  4. University of California, Los Angeles92%
  5. University of Oxford82%
  6. The University of Chicago Law School72%
  7. University of Toronto72%
  8. Georgetown Law62%
  9. Melbourne Law School62%
  10. University of Virginia School of Law51%

395 listed scientists in Law

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