Bibliometric Analysis of Top-Ranked European Law Schools’ Research Outputs: an East–West Comparison

• Authors: Piotr Stec

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with a bibliometric analysis of a sample of the top law schools included in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022. An equal number of Western European and Central and Eastern European law schools have been analysed. The results show that both groups follow similar publication patterns. There is a clear tendency to publish in journals controlled by the authors’ universities. Citation rates in the sample are very low, and in line with what has already been found for humanities. There is a clear division between the multidisciplinary and transnational legal journals that are more international and less internationally recognised law reviews focusing on domestic issues. Law clearly follows its own publication pattern, and the East–West division is in this respect negligible: both groups perform equally well (or equally poorly) as far as the metrics indicate.

Keywords

PL

research assessment; metrics; law school rankings

• Publisher: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 15-33

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Piotr Stec

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7206/kp.2080-1084.569

Biblioteka Nauki

2185961