Long-time readers of the faculty lounge may recall that I'm interested in how we can use (if at all) citations to a school school's main law review (or secondary law reviews as well) to draw inferences about the school. (And they may also recall that I'm suspicious of law journal citations in general.) This is will come as no surprise that there are some close connections between law journal citations and US News peer assessment scores.
Now I want to compare the Sisk ranks with law review ranks. That is, how do citations to a school's faculty compare with citation to the school's law review (which I've taken from John Doyle's fabulous Washington and Lee law library website)? This correlation matrix, which compares Sisk scores with all sorts of school characteristics, reveals a high correlation (.85) between law review and faculty citations. (More on this here).
But there are some schools whose faculty citation rank is substantially higher than its law review citation rank (and vice versa). This table lists the difference between Sisk rank and law review citation rank. Schools that have positive values have a higher (better) law review ranking than their faculty citation ranking; schools with negative values have a higher (better) law faculty ranking than law review ranking. (One might, thus, refer to this with a short-hand: who's law review is ranked higher than its faculty and whose faculty is ranker higher than its law journal.)
Update (as of September 24): A friend emailed to suggest that I add some more data to the above table, to give a better sense of how the schools are performing -- not just the difference in their ranks. For instance, the Fordham Law Review does incredibly well on the Doyle ranking of citations (it's the 10th most cited student-edited law journal in the country) and that's what accounts for the large difference between the Fordham faculty rank and the Fordham Law Review rank. Here's a table that presents data on each school's Sisk weighted score rank, as well as the difference between the Sisk rank and the schools' law review rank. I should also emphasize that what I refer to as Sisk ranks differ somewhat from ranks reported by Leiter and by Sisk et al. because I used average ranks, because different ranks were assigned for small differences in weighted scores (whereas Sisk grouped them together), and because California-Irvine was excluded because of lack of journal data.
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