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The Ratings Game Or, “I’m Not Getting Older, I’m Getting Better”

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | November 16, 2007 - 14:28

Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings has just released Most Cited Faculty by Specialty, 2000-2007, listing the ten (in some cases 20) most cited faculty in eighteen legal specialty areas. A “citation” for purposes of the study was an article that referenced the scholar, rather than the number of citations within the article. Within each specialty, Leiter identifies the scholar, current academic affiliation, number of citations and scholar’s age, and follows with a list of runners-up. He also includes a list of citations for scholars who don’t usually publish in each of the areas, but who nonetheless were highly cited. Age matters: the majority of the highly sighted scholars were in their 50’s and 60’s.

See also Joe Hodnicki’s comments on the study on the Law Librarian Blog


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