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Online Scholarly Profiles and Scholarly Impact

This guide is intended to help Law School faculty maximize the impact and visibility of their scholarship by creating online author profiles that will help readers find relevant work. It also includes information about making scholarship available in SSRN and the Law School's Scholarship Repository.

The Law Library is committed to helping faculty make their scholarship as easily discoverable and impactful as possible. If there is anything we can do to assist you, please contact Vicente Garces (garce003@umn.edu).

More Information

Caroline L. Osborne, The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work, 39 L. Reference Services Quarterly 283
This article analyzes data collected in an empirical study of citation metrics. Between February 1, 2019 and April 30, 2019, the authors collected citation data from Google Scholar, HeinOnline, Westlaw, Lexis, SSRN, and Digital Commons repositories on randomly selected faculty members at U.S. law schools for the purpose of answering questions regarding fit and utility of citation metrics. Analysis of the citation data examines the impact of adoption of scholarly profiles, gender, stage in the profession, and discipline on exposure on citation with the conclusion that exposure results in increased citations.
Aaron Retteen & Malikah Hall, Persistent Identifiers and the Next Generation of Legal Scholarship,
This Article identifies existing barriers regarding the implementation of persistent identifiers among publishers of legal scholarship, as well as provide an anecdotal example of creating a sustainable workflow between the law library and student-run law journals. This Article concludes with a call to action for all stakeholders in legal publishing to adopt persistent identifiers and usher in a new generation for legal scholarship and other legal materials.