In her recent article, Ashley Ahlbrand offers great advice for legal scholars and law librarians on Capturing Impact: Telling the Story of Your Scholarship Beyond the Citation Count. She explores the shortcomings of citation metrics …
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New Scholarship Finds that Law Scholarship Posted to SSRN Enjoys a Citation Advantage
New scholarship by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp at George Mason University School of Law finds that legal scholars who post their work to SSRN are cited more often. Their working paper, SSRN’s Impact on …
New Work Recommends Standards for Law Scholarly Impact Analyses
An excellent new article by Karen L. Wallace & Rebecca Lutkenhaus, Professors of Law Librarianship at Drake University Law School takes a deep dive into the practice and implications of ranking law faculty scholarly impact. In …
LSA Statement on US News’ Rejection of Scholarly Impact Metric
Earlier today, the Law & Society Association has issued a statement on U.S. News’ decision not to proceed with its proposal to add a measure of “scholarly impact” to its law school rankings. LSA is …
HeinOnline Enhances Subject Searching with New PathFinder – But Still Has a Few Bumps
HeinOnline recently introduced a new feature called PathFinder that offers more robust subject searching. PathFinder is a multi-level subject taxonomy in which broad research concepts are divided into increasingly granular levels. Both text and graphical …
Responding to US News’ Decision Not to Create Scholarly Impact Ranking – Law Librarians Still Play a Key Role in Maximizing Scholarly Visibility
After raising numerous concerns from the legal academic community, Brian Leiter reports that U.S. News has decided not to produce its own scholarly impact ranking. Chief among these concerns is that the exclusion of interdisciplinary scholarship and …
UW Law Library Program on Increasing Scholarly Visibility Busts Myths about Marketing & Discoverability
Last week, our UW Law Librarians teamed up with our External Affairs team to put on a very well-received in-house program for our faculty and staff on Increasing Scholarly Visibility: Social Media & Discoverability. It …
Video Describes UW Law Library’s Program of Maximizing Scholarly Access, Impact, & Visibility for Law Faculty
Maximizing the scholarly access, impact, and visibility of our faculty is a core part of our mission at the UW Law Library. Over the last few years, but especially since US News announced their new …
WI Law In Action Podcast: Bonnie Shucha on Law Faculty Scholarly Impact & Visibility
On the latest episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, host Kris Turner interviewed me, Bonnie Shucha, Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library. I discuss my recent …
Senior Faculty Publish as Many Articles and More Books, Book Chapters than Younger Colleagues
Contrary to assertions that senior faculty tend to be less productive, Inside Higher Ed reports that a new study of academic productivity says that older professors publish as much as their younger colleagues. These senior …