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.
Can you say more about how these journals were selected for the top 5? I would have put the Cambridge Law Journal in that category.
Posted by: Thomas Gallanis | June 08, 2009 at 12:42 PM