Publications about Scientific Schools in Legal Publications: Statistic Data and its Analysis

Abstract

Introduction. Despite the high importance of scientific schools in jurisprudence, there is a lack of objective data confirming or refuting the role of associations of this type for the social sciences. To determine the importance of long-term associations of scientists for conducting research, to demonstrate the effectiveness of various groups of journals that inform the legal community about the importance of collective cognitive activity. Theoretical Basis. Methods. Based on statistical research methods of publications published in the Scientific Electronic Library “eLIBRARY.RU”, the conclusion is made about the importance of scientific schools for conducting research activities in the fields of natural, technical, medical, agricultural and socio-humanitarian sciences. Results. A pattern has been revealed: if the object of study is a person as a biological unit (for medical sciences) or a social unit (for social sciences and humanities), the number of mentions of scientific schools in publications on the relevant topic is generally higher compared to natural, technical or agricultural sciences. The scientific school is of the highest importance for such a fundamental legal discipline as the history of state and law. According to the frequency of appeals to the phenomenon of the scientific school, the science of the history of state and law is closer to the historical sciences than to the legal ones. The importance of collective research in the field of law and collective knowledge of reality is not sufficiently communicated to practicing lawyers in periodicals aimed at the appropriate audience. Discussion and Conclusions. Complex self-regulating systems as objects of research, whose behavior is characterized by the property of low predictability, have another system as one of the tools and measurement parameters – the scientific school and its founder. The society is one of the most complex self-regulating systems, which explains the role played by the scientific school in the field of jurisprudence. Practitioners should be involved in the work of research teams, whose work contributes to increasing the degree of reliability of research results, increases the practical significance and accessibility for the consumer of scientific products.