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"Claudius will analyze your article’s projected scholarly impact, instantly identify the most similar law review articles published over the past two decades, and gather any and all missing references." currently 10 journals set up to receive submissions via Claudius Scholar. Authors must pay to submit to journals through Claudius.

This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited review, and how to contact them to withdraw an article from consideration. It covers 203 law reviews. The document was updated in 2024. Rostron, Allen and Levit, Nancy,

Galle, Brian D., (August 12, 2016).

Robert Luther III, Practical Tips for Placing and Publishing Your First Law Review Article, 50 U. Rich. L. Rev. Online 63 (2016).

Robert M. Jarvis and Phyllis Coleman, Ranking Law Reviews by Author Prominence- Ten Years Later, 99 Law Library Journal 573 (2007).

The library maintains a list of cases citing to the Akron Law Review. As of 10/2023, Akron Law Review articles were cited in 497 cases.

Updated 2024. Contains journal rankings. By Alan Rostron and Nancy Levit.

Links to Google Scholar metric, Scopus, and a lot more.

114 Law Libr. J. 395 (2022). Contains recommendations for promoting legal scholarship for law journals (p. 425) and authors, including using DOI (digital object identifiers).

Rob Willey & Melanie Knapp, 18 Ohio St. Tech. L.J. 157 (2021). Characteristics of well-cited articles (longer articles, short titles, popular topics.)

Bonnie Shucha. 40 L. Ref. Serv's. Q. 81 (2021). Things authors can do, such as promote article on social media, include it in author profile pages, create titles and abstracts that maximize discoverability, etc.

114 Law Libr. J. 395 (2022). Contains recommendations for promoting legal scholarship for law journals (p. 425) and authors, including using DOI (digital object identifiers).

45 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 475, 493 (2023). How posting articles to SSRN can increase citation counts, plus other characteristics of well-cited papers.