Google Law Review Rankings 2014
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As the fall law review submission season heats up, everyone faces a bewilderingly vast array of different law reviews. How should one compare an offer from from a specialty journal to a mainline law review? How do the US News Law School rankings compare to journal quality? Until recently, there were few good answers.
As is the case for most things, however, Google has ridden to the rescue with Google Scholar Metrics, which produces a ranking of journals based on citations to recent articles in Google Scholar.
I wrote about Google’s rankings for 2013 in a previous post, ranking law reviews using the H5 index as ranked by Google. In another post, I used Google’s rankings to list the most cited articles in top-20 journals. Google has updated its Scholar Metrics database, which allows a more current ranking.
In this post, I have used the more recent Google data to rank the journals using the average of the H5 index and the H5 median, which seems to give more balanced and less volatile results. For more details on these measures, see my original post on the Google Rankings.
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