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SSRN Downloads: The Latest Popularity Poll

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | June 10, 2008 - 09:16

An article in Monday’s New York Times looks at the phenomena of ranking download statistics on the Social Science Research Network: Now Professors Get Their Star Rankings, Too quotes Glenn Reynolds, Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Tennessee, upon finding that he came in fifth in total downloads over the last year, “If I could pick a certain 20 people to read my article, that would mean more to me than 20,000 others who read it.” And yet, he states, open access to academic literature should work to challenge authors to write in ways that are more “accessible” rather than “impenetrable.”

Cleveland-Marshall scholars post their papers in the SSRN Legal Scholarship Network Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series


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