John Doyle of the Washington & Lee University law library maintains a nice blog with a focus on legal periodicals and legal publishing. The most-cited legal periodicals search engine is an excellent tool for anyone interested in (or dependent upon) legal publishing. Here is a brief overview of the methodology used to generate the rankings:
The single most important point to make about the rankings is that not all citations to the law journals are counted. Counted citations are those which cite journal volumes published in the preceding eight years. The reason for this limit is to prevent a bias in favor of long-published journals. Thus the study is concerned only with citations to current scholarship. The search results give only the number of citing documents, and do not show where a citing article or case cites to two or more articles in a cited legal periodical. Sources for the citation counts are limited to documents in Westlaw’s JLR database (primarily U.S. articles), and in Westlaw’s ALLCASES database (U.S. federal/state cases).
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