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: PrawfsFSU Law Ranks Very Highly on the New Leiter Methodology
By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel
It may not please Jason in terms of what he's trying to measure in the race to the top, but according to Jim Rossi, our fearless number-crunching Associate Dean for Research, Florida State's College of Law compares quite favorably on the new Leiter Rankings methodology.
Jim reports: "we seem to fall right around [Leiter's] cut-off for the top 20, right behind Minnnesota (which has an average of 200), but a) this is based on numbers [Rossi] ran [yesterday] and b) [Rossi] really don't know how many other schools are in the same general ballpark since Minnesota is the lowest ranking school [Leiter] reports for the most recent citation numbers." Please let me know if Rossi is missing anything here. We'll be happy to correct it. And if you're a school who wants to run numbers similar to the setup below, then please feel free to share the stats in the comments as they appear in the table below with the date the stats were performed.
Name Total Cites Post-2000 Cites
in JLR in JLR
frederick /2 abbott 659 463
rob /2 atkinson 413 205
barbara /2 banoff 117 80
donna /2 christie 100 65
robin /2 craig 219 139
joseph /2 dodge 473 356
dino /2 falaschetti 7 5
steven /2 gey 681 287
elwin /2 griffith 93 64
adam /2 hirsch 380 269
tahirih /2 lee 118 70
wayne /2 logan 311 187
david /2 markell 272 189
gregg /2 polsky 116 85
david f /2 powell 8 7
jim /2 rossi 552 343
j.b. /2 ruhl 943 558
mark /2 seidenfeld 690 411
nat /2 stern 173 77
fernando /2 teson 490 218
manuel /2 utset 143 87
donald /2 weidner 263 171
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Average 328.23 197.09
Full post as published by Prawfs on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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