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The purpose of this article is to confi rm that the length of freedom of science and teaching legal warranty period, as well as the autonomy of the universities in a country, have contributed to the highlevel research. In order to achieve this purpose, constitutional provisions, ordinary legislation and constitutional courts’ judgments were examined. The hypothesis has been verifi ed positively on the basis of normative acts analysis, from a historical and comparative perspective, on the sample of six European countries. The countries for the study were selected according to the scientific performance ranking of European universities.