Legal Scholarship Production on CoVid-19: An Analysis on Italian Law Journals’ Articles

Abstract

Abstract In 2020, over 100.000 scientific articles were published on CoVid-19. Scholarly production on this topic has shown exponential growth in multiple disciplines, from medicine to social sciences. Legal scholarly production has also undergone a strong increase in this direction and represents fertile ground for examining and interpreting the myriad of measures that are issued at national and European level to fight the pandemic. The paper intends to focus on Italian legal scholarship production on CoVid-19 and to provide a bibliometric analysis on legal scholarship produced by the Italian law journals indexed by the DoGi-Dottrina Giuridica database. The analysis of this bibliographic resource has made it possible to identify the law journals dealing with the topic, the distribution over time and the raised trend legal topics. This paper represents a first step to identify and explore the issues and challenges that this crisis poses today and in the foreseeable future to jurists.