Thursday, September 5, 2024

Citation lists going forward

Going forward, I won't produce any "most cited" ordinal lists in specialty areas when the citation total for the five-year period is below 300.  Partly this is for reasons of time, but partly it is that I'm skeptical that as the citation numbers get smaller, ordinal differences are very meaningful.   That means for some of the "low citation" fields, I'll be more likely to list "top five" than "top ten."  As in the past, I will also list up to five highly cited scholars who work partly in the field in question, but only if they have more citations than the least-cited scholar on the ordinal list (e.g., the 5th, 10th or 20th-cited scholar). 

A further difficulty is that Sisk et al. were not able to correct this time for et al. citations to multi-author casebooks, which matters in areas like torts and property.  So I may not do those lists at all this time around.

More "most cited" lists coming soon.

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2024/09/citation-lists-going-forward.html

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