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Title

  • Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics Accuracy and Promoting Scholarly Visibility

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Date

  • 2021

Volume

  • 40

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  • Due to copyright restrictions, this item is not available for full-text download outside the UW Law School.

Bibliographic Citation

  • Bonnie Shucha, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics Accuracy and Promoting Scholarly Visibility, 40 Legal Reference Serv. Q. 81 (Oct. 7, 2021).

Abstract

  • This article examines the new U.S. News scholarly impact ranking and its use of HeinOnline as a data source. It compares law journal and interdisciplinary scholarship citation metrics and explores how the exclusion of the latter may severely skew scholarly impact rankings against some law schools. The remainder of this article suggests strategies to improve the accuracy of citation metrics for legal scholars and to promote
    the visibility of their scholarship.

Keywords

  • scholarly impact; scholarly visibility; law school rankings; marketing; scholarship

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