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This site provides rankings and analytics on law school faculty scholarship output. This metric-based sorting of schools helps bring transparency to publications and helps connect communities of scholars. It is modeled on CSrankings.
Just as they are on CSrankings. Each article is one credit, split evenly between its co-authors (the adjusted count). Every group you select is one area: the General law reviews (all the W&L rank bands you check, together), and each specialty group you check. A school's count is the geometric mean, across the selected areas, of its faculty's total adjusted count in that area plus one. Articles are credited to the school where the author teaches now, so a professor who moves brings their earlier articles along.
A school's main, general-interest law review: the journals W&L ranks in its "General" category. The other journals are specialty journals, which this site groups into nine areas. Open a faculty member on the rankings page to see bars for where they publish: one for flagship law reviews and one for each specialty group they have published in, counting all their articles in the years you chose (articles outside the selected journals are listed in gray).
The Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings (), combined score, US journals. Flagship law reviews use W&L's General rank. A specialty group is re-ranked by W&L score among the subjects you leave checked, and "top 10" counts that group's ten highest-scoring journals.
HeinOnline metadata. Articles come from each journal's table of contents on HeinOnline; faculty come from HeinOnline's list of authors by school. An article's author is matched to a faculty member by name (first and last name, using the middle name to tell people apart), so people with very common names can be missed or, rarely, mismatched.
Which schools are US law schools comes from the US News law school list.
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For now, a title-based guess: forewords, introductions, tributes, in memoriams, book reviews, remarks, panels, transcripts, and responses or replies. "Skip short pieces" drops these. Page counts would be a better test; the scraper now saves them, so this will improve.
Nathan Reitinger, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
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