Soft governance and soft law literature, gathered from Scopus and Web of Science

This is a list of literature related to soft governance and soft law.

The soft governance literature was collected on the 12th of July, 2022. 110 articles from Web of Science and 169 articles from Scopus that had any variance of “soft govern*” in either their title, abstract or keywords were consolidated into one collection of 179 articles. These were randomly labelled with a SoftGov_000 identifier.

The soft law literature was collected on the 12th of December, 2022. 1026 articles from Web of Science and 1803 articles from Scopus that had any variance of “soft law” in either their title, abstract or keywords were consolidated into one collection of 1960 articles. These were randomly labelled with a SoftLaw_0000 identifier.

For the Web of Science searches in both phases, the specific WoS indices searched are “Science Citation Index Expanded” (SCI-EXPANDED)--1955-present, “Social Sciences Citation Index” (SSCI)--1956-present, “Arts & Humanities Citation Index” (AHCI)--1975-present, “Conference Proceedings Citation Index” – Science (CPCI-S)--1990-present, “Conference Proceedings Citation Index” – Social Science & Humanities  (CPCI-SSH)--1990-present and “Emerging Sources Citation Index” (ESCI)--2017-present