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Citation Counts - A View From Across the Atlantic

By JA Hodnicki

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

At an all expenses paid conference two weeks ago in Santorini, Greece (isn't the life of an academic grand?) I chatted a bit with UK academic friends regarding the strengths and weaknesses of assessing both individual and school quality.  I will write more on that issue in the coming week.  However, I thought it would be interesting to run a citation count on the top 5 UK law reviews to see what sort of impact they have on US scholarship.  The top five are:

International & Comparative Law Quarterly
Modern Law Review
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Legal Studies (The Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars)
Journal of Law and Society

Let's check citation rankings of these journals using the Washington & Lee citation count and rankings site.

International & Comparative Law Quarterly - 135
Modern Law Review - 262
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies - 345
Legal Studies (The Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars) - 675
Journal of Law and Society - 518

These are not high totals.  One would have thought that there would be more cross-over.  Of course, I suspect that the biggest contributions by UK academics to the US law literature occur when UK academics write in US law reviews or in books.  I have no effective way to track this.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).