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Measuring Scholarly Impact: A Guide for Law School Administrators and Legal Scholars
University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online
  • Gary M. Lucas, Jr, Texas A&M University School of Law
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2017
ISSN
0041-9907
Abstract

The author intends for this Essay to serve as a guide for law deans and legal scholars interested in measuring the impact of legal scholarship. In addition, university administrators should find it helpful for comparing the impact of their own law faculty’s scholarship with the scholarship of law faculties at other universities. The primary obstacle to such comparisons is a dearth of publicly available information. To that end, the Essay recommends that each law school create a Google Scholar profile for its faculty and explains the procedures for doing so. By acting on this recommendation, administrators would dramatically improve our ability to assess the impact of legal scholarship. Moreover, a ranking of faculties by Google Scholar citation count would provide a much-needed supplement to existing rankings schemes, including ranking schools based on U.S. News peer reputation score.

Num Pages
13
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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File Type
PDF
Citation Information
Gary M. Lucas. "Measuring Scholarly Impact: A Guide for Law School Administrators and Legal Scholars" University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online Vol. 165 (2017) p. 165 - 177
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gary_lucas/19/