LibGuides: Law Review: Increasing Citations

Citation Metrics

How to Increase Citations to Legal Scholarship
Rob Willey & Melanie Knapp, 18 Ohio St. Tech. L.J. 157 (2021). Characteristics of well-cited articles (longer articles, short titles, popular topics.)
Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics Accuracy and Promoting Scholarly Visibility
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.
Karen L. Wallace, Rebecca Lutkenhaus & David B. Hanson, Assessing Heinonline as a Source of Scholarly Impact Metrics
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, SSRN's Impact on Citations to Legal Scholarship and How to Maximize It
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.

Make the full text of back content available for open access (journal website, institutional repository, SSRN), as well as on Westlaw, Lexis and HeinOnline.
Get the journal listed in directories (see links below)
Long articles (36-90 pages), short titles without colons, and writing on popular topics. How to Increase Citations to Legal Scholarship Willey & Knapp 2021.
Promote articles on social media.
Use digital object identifiers. Assessing Heinonline as a Source of Scholarly Impact Metrics, Wallace, et. al, 2022; Craigle, Adopting DOI in Legal Citation: A Roadmap for the Legal Academy 2021.
Use article assessment algorithms. Hackett, An Analysis of Factors that Impact Citation Counts (2013).
Increase article findability through effective titles, abstracts, and metadata. Marks & Le Increasing Article Findability Online 2017

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