Legal Periodicals 2008-06-12T08:23:48Z For those interested in legal periodical publishing, indexing, searching, ranking and use.Edited by John Doyle, Washington and Lee University Law Library. tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2008:/lawrevs/20 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, doyle Title Changes 2008-06-12T08:23:48Z 2008-06-12T03:22:37-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2008:/lawrevs/20.3317 2008-06-12T08:22:37Z TITLE CHANGES: Brandeis Law Journal ( -v45 2006/7), is now, University of Louisville Law Review (v46 2007/8 - ) Tilburg Foreign Law Review (v1 1991 - v13 1997), is now, Tilburg Law Review: Journal of International and Comparative Law (v... doyle doylej@wlu.edu TITLE CHANGES:

Brandeis Law Journal ( -v45 2006/7), is now, University of Louisville Law Review (v46 2007/8 - )

Tilburg Foreign Law Review (v1 1991 - v13 1997), is now, Tilburg Law Review: Journal of International and Comparative Law (v 14 2008- )

Wisconsin Women's Law Journal (v1 1985 - v22 2007), is now, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society

European Environmental Law Review (v1 1992 - v16 2007), is now, European Energy and Environmental Law Journal (v17 2008- )

Journal of Juvenile Law (v1 1977 - v28 2007), is now, University of La Verne Law Review (v29 2007- )

Managerial Law (v1 1966 - v49 2007), is now, International Journal of Law and Management (v50 2008- )

Journal of Law and Social Change (v6 2002 - v10 2007), is now, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (v11 2007-2008 - )

Gaming Law Review (1997 - v12#1 2008), is now, Gaming Law Review and Economics (v12#2 2008 - )

DePaul-LCA Journal of Art and Entertainment Law ( - v17 2006/7), is now, DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law (v18 2007- )

International Journal of the Sociology of Law ( - v35 2007), is now, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (v36 2008- )

]]> Currency-Factor 2008-02-26T15:07:09Z 2008-02-26T08:58:54-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2008:/lawrevs/20.3016 2008-02-26T13:58:54Z A couple of years back I experimented with an immediacy index on the http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ page but decided to abandon it as the effort to create it didn't seem worth what I thought would be minimal usage. Since the methodology change... doyle doylej@wlu.edu A couple of years back I experimented with an immediacy index on the http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ page but decided to abandon it as the effort to create it didn't seem worth what I thought would be minimal usage. Since the methodology change in January 2008 now requires annual citation data to find the median impact-factor, the existence of such data is usable to automatically create an immediacy index. I still think it will be little used, but as it takes no effort to create it I've added it to the page, but renamed it "currency-factor".

Currency-factor aims to compare journals on how rapidly their articles become cited. It examines a three-year interval looking at how much the items published by a journal and dated during that same period are cited by articles made available during those same three years.
Taking the example of the 2000-2007 survey period; currency-factor is the number of articles added to Westlaw's JLR database in the three-year period of 2000-2002 that cite to volumes of a journal dated during those same three years, divided by the number of items published by the journal during those same years. It would have been desirable to create this index from the final three years of the survey period, but the data on which it's based, being automatically created from annual data collected to calculate impact-factor, is in a form requiring the use of the first three years of each survey period.

]]> Law Journal Rankings 2000-2007 2008-01-21T13:31:01Z 2008-01-21T08:29:12-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2008:/lawrevs/20.2843 2008-01-21T13:29:12Z The law journal ranking page has been updated for the survey period 2000-2007, see http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ Significant changes to the methodology occurred this year: Instead of using Westlaw searches like VOL +1 JNL +6 YEAR searches were changed to VOL +1... doyle doylej@wlu.edu The law journal ranking page has been updated for the survey period
2000-2007, see http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ

Significant changes to the methodology occurred this year:

Instead of using Westlaw searches like VOL +1 JNL +6 YEAR searches were
changed to VOL +1 JNL /8 YEAR.

The final cut-off date for searches changed from October 31 to December
31

The Impact-factor calculation changed from a simple method of dividing
total cites over 8 years by items published in those 8 years, to a more
complex method of reporting the median value of the annual
impact-factors. The annual impact-factors being calculated by dividing
the cites received by a journal in each individual year of the survey
period by the items published by the journal in that same year and all
other years back to the beginning of the survey period.

The weight given to impact-factor vs. total cites in the combined score
ranking was reduced from 0.57 to 0.34

More information on these decisions is at
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/methodchange2007.asp

]]> new/changed titles 2007-10-19T16:13:05Z 2007-10-19T11:10:41-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.2570 2007-10-19T16:10:41Z TITLE CHANGES: Jersey Law Review (vol 1-10, 1997-2006) changed to, Jersey and Guernsey Law Review (vol 11, 2007- ) Australian Journal of Legal History (v1(1995)-v9(2005)) changed to, Legal History (v10(2006)- ) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law... doyle doylej@wlu.edu TITLE CHANGES:
Jersey Law Review (vol 1-10, 1997-2006) changed to, Jersey and Guernsey Law Review (vol 11, 2007- )
Australian Journal of Legal History (v1(1995)-v9(2005)) changed to, Legal History (v10(2006)- )
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law ( - v28 no.2 (2007)) changed to, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (v29 no.1 (2007)-)

NEW TITLES: 2007-
Advance: The Journal of the ACS Issue Groups (2007-)
American College of Construction Lawyers Journal (2007-)
Connecticut Law Review CONNtemplations (2007)[online]
Harvard International Law Journal Online (2007-)[online]
Law and Financial Markets Review (2007-) (United Kingdom)
Law and Humanities (2007-) (United Kingdom)
Legisprudence (2007-) (United Kingdom)
Southern California Law Review Postscript (2007-)[online]
University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy (2007-)
U.S.-Mexico Legal Review (2007-)



NEW TITLES: 2006-

Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (2006-) (Taiwan)

International Journal of Nuclear Law (2006-)

Liberty University Law Review (2006-)

Michigan Law Review First Impressions (2006-)[online]

Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (2006-)[online]

Swedish Studies in European Law (2006-) (United Kingdom)

University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra (2006-)[online]

Yearbook of Cultural Property Law (2006-)

]]> Spreadsheet out from law journals list 2007-10-13T23:57:17Z 2007-10-13T18:55:26-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.2554 2007-10-13T23:55:26Z There is now a spreadsheet output function at the law journals listing at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ You'll see a "create spreadsheet" box, check that, set your other journal, ranking, submissions preferences, and then click Submit. It will display the usual webpage... doyle doylej@wlu.edu
There is now a spreadsheet output function at the law journals listing at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ

You'll see a "create spreadsheet" box, check that, set your other
journal, ranking, submissions preferences, and then click Submit. It
will display the usual webpage results, along with a clickable link to a
spreadsheet version.

You could use this for submission purposes to create a mail-merge
listing of journal addresses, or you could do statistical manipulations
of the rankings.

]]> Michigan Law Review's Book Review Issue 2007-08-08T17:58:30Z 2007-08-08T12:23:53-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.2402 2007-08-08T17:23:53Z Does the annual Michigan Law Review's "Survey of Books Related to the Law" issue hurt the journal's ranking? And the answer is "yes", unless you take the view that the issue adds to the law review's luster by displaying its... doyle doylej@wlu.edu Does the annual Michigan Law Review's "Survey of Books Related to the Law" issue hurt the journal's ranking? And the answer is "yes", unless you take the view that the issue adds to the law review's luster by displaying its insouciance to the rankings. I looked at each of the 3805 citing articles counted in the 1999-2006 ranking at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ and found that 611 of them cited to Michigan's book review issues (and did not also cite some other recent Michigan Law Review issue). Plugging the reduced citation count into the ranking database (and also reducing the number of published articles by the count of those in the book review issues) produced the following results:




RankCombined
Score		Impact
Factor		Total
Cites
Without1267.48.53194
With1660.56.43805

So had it not published any of its book review issues, Michigan Law Review would rank 12th and not 16th (on the combined total-cites/impact-factor score). Publishing the issue produces more citeable articles and thus total cites is increased, but the review's impact factor is reduced. This is not to suggest that the Michigan Law Review should eliminate its book review issue, but that it would help the review's ranking if it published fewer book reviews.

]]> new/changed titles 2007-04-12T17:00:52Z 2007-04-12T12:00:08-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.2093 2007-04-12T17:00:08Z NEW TITLES: Akron Intellectual Property Journal (vol.1 no.1 2007-) Macquarie Law Symposium (vol.1 2006-) TITLE CHANGES: Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Journal (vol.1 1983 - vol.19 2005), changed title to: Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law... doyle doylej@wlu.edu
NEW TITLES:

Akron Intellectual Property Journal (vol.1 no.1 2007-)
Macquarie Law Symposium (vol.1 2006-)

TITLE CHANGES:

Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Journal (vol.1 1983 - vol.19 2005), changed title to: Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal (vol.20 2006-)

Journal of East European Law ( -vol.11 2004), changed title to: Columbia Journal of East European Law

Research in Law and Economics (vol.1 1979 - vol. 21 2004), changed title to: Research in Law and Economics: A Journal of Policy (vol. 22 2007-)

]]> new/changed titles 2007-03-28T20:15:01Z 2007-03-28T15:14:25-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.2080 2007-03-28T20:14:25Z TITLE CHANGE: Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges ( - v.26 no.1 Spring 2006), changed to, Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary (v.26 no.2 Fall 2006-) NEW TITLES: Florida Entertainment Law Review (2006-)... doyle doylej@wlu.edu
TITLE CHANGE:

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges ( - v.26 no.1 Spring 2006), changed to, Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary (v.26 no.2 Fall 2006-)

NEW TITLES:

Florida Entertainment Law Review (2006-)

Luxembourg Journal of Law, Economics and Finance (2007-)

Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy (2005-)

London Law Review (2005-)

International Journal of Transitional Justice (2007-)

]]> new address for Current Law Journal Content 2007-03-09T01:54:24Z 2007-03-08T20:50:40-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.2030 2007-03-09T01:50:40Z Current Law Journal Content has moved to a new server. The database now resides on a SQL Server, which will ensure a robust platform for future growth. HOMEPAGE Please change any links you have from http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp to http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx Note... doyle doylej@wlu.edu
Current Law Journal Content has moved to a new server. The database
now resides on a SQL Server, which will ensure a robust platform for
future growth.

HOMEPAGE

Please change any links you have from
http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp to
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx
Note the file name change to "index.aspx".

RSS FEEDS

Those who output RSS data from CLJC will need to change their base URL
from http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp to
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx
Note the filename change to "xml.aspx".

For merged multiple journal RSS feeds use URLs like:

http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx (defaults to age=4 days and all
countries)
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx?country=australia
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx?country=us&age=5&id=175 (assumes
you've signed up for a journal profile in which case you'd have your own
id number)
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx?age=6


In the past, static copies of just the current issue of each journal
have been kept in files such as
http://law.wlu.edu/library/databases/feeds/journals/jnl785.xml (where
the "785" is the internal CLJC identifier for the journal). These
duplicate files are no longer being produced, and anyone wanting an RSS
feed for one specific journal now needs to use a URL like:

http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx?mainid=785&top=1
(change the "&top=1" to e.g. "&top=2" to see the most recent 2 issues)

alternatively you can use an ISSN or a journal title to identify the
journal, such as:
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx?issn=0065-1915&top=3
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx?title=yale+law+journal&top=2

Also, for anyone wanting to input a complete list of individual journal
feeds there is an OPML file (a format that many feed readers will import
from) at href="http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/feeds/lawjournalsOPML.xml">http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/feeds/lawjournalsOPML.xml.


PROFILES

In the past, in order to limit displayed journals to your preference
list you've needed to sign-up to receive a weekly e-mail notification.
Should you wish to do so, you can now obtain a profile ID without
receiving a weekly e-mail mailing. This would be appropriate for those
wanting to read a chosen list of journal TOCs on their feed reader. It
does seem to me that anyone who looks at a feed reader every day or so
is better-off subscribing to CLJC via their feed reader.

Anyone who isn't familiar with feed readers might try the following:
go to http://www.google.com/reader/
and if you don't already have a GMail account then create one
once you've established an account you'll see an "Add Subscription"
link
click on it and add: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/xml.aspx

If anyone sees anything that doesn't work as expected please let me know.

John Doyle
doylej@wlu.edu

]]> journal changes 2007-02-06T13:36:41Z 2007-02-06T08:34:21-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.1951 2007-02-06T13:34:21Z Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law (v.10 2006 -), previously Journal of Texas Consumer Law (v.1 1997 - v.9 2006) The Alabama Law Review has changed its publication schedule, effective with volume 58, publishing 5 issues instead of 4.... doyle doylej@wlu.edu Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law (v.10 2006 -), previously Journal of Texas Consumer Law (v.1 1997 - v.9 2006)

The Alabama Law Review has changed its publication schedule, effective with volume 58, publishing 5 issues instead of 4.

]]> new/changed titles 2007-01-30T16:24:00Z 2007-01-30T11:22:52-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2007:/lawrevs/20.1928 2007-01-30T16:22:52Z doyle doylej@wlu.edu TITLE CHANGE: Global Jurist (v.7 2007-), was previously Global Jurist Frontiers (v.1-6 2001-2006), Global Jurist Advances (v.1-6 2001-2006), and Global Jurist Topics (v.1-6 2001-2006)

NEW TITLE: Harvard Law & Policy Review (v.1 2007-)

]]> Colons in Law Review Titles 2006-12-20T14:01:02Z 2006-12-20T08:53:10-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2006:/lawrevs/20.1839 2006-12-20T13:53:10Z As the authors' say: "We should not overstate the point of this paper". Joshua Deahl & Bernard A. Eskandari in, "Before & After the Colon", 10 Green Bag 2d. 7 (Autumn 2006), divert us with a statistical analysis on the... doyle doylej@wlu.edu As the authors' say: "We should not overstate the point of this paper". Joshua Deahl & Bernard A. Eskandari in, "Before & After the Colon", 10 Green Bag 2d. 7 (Autumn 2006), divert us with a statistical analysis on the incidence of colons in law review article/note titles. Their chief finding is that use of titular colons by authors is imitative and thus indicative of less authorial originality, and that comparing elite vs. non-elite journals, and articles vs. notes, it's statistically the lesser piece of scholarship that's more likely to have a colon in its title!

]]> New Titles 2006-12-14T18:43:10Z 2006-12-14T13:40:57-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2006:/lawrevs/20.1836 2006-12-14T18:40:57Z NEW TITLE: Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law (2006-) NEW TITLE: Religion and Human Rights (2006-)(Netherlands) NEW TITLE: Shidler Journal of Law, Commerce & Technology (2004-)[online] NEW TITLE: Journal of International Aging, Law & Policy (2005-) NEW TITLE:... doyle doylej@wlu.edu NEW TITLE: Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law (2006-)

NEW TITLE: Religion and Human Rights (2006-)(Netherlands)

NEW TITLE: Shidler Journal of Law, Commerce & Technology (2004-)[online]

NEW TITLE: Journal of International Aging, Law & Policy (2005-)

NEW TITLE: Capital Markets Law Journal (2006-) (United Kingdom)

]]> Title Change 2006-12-14T18:40:19Z 2006-12-14T13:39:59-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2006:/lawrevs/20.1835 2006-12-14T18:39:59Z TITLE CHANGE: Jersey Law Review (vol 1-10, 1997-2006) changed to Jersey and Guernsey Law Review (vol 11, 2007- )... doyle doylej@wlu.edu TITLE CHANGE: Jersey Law Review (vol 1-10, 1997-2006) changed to Jersey and Guernsey Law Review (vol 11, 2007- )

]]> Law Journal Rankings Updated 2006-12-14T18:44:48Z 2006-12-14T13:38:38-05:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2006:/lawrevs/20.1834 2006-12-14T18:38:38Z The law journal rankings were updated in mid_November for 1999-2006 at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx The most significant change is a new ranking that combines the impact-factor and total-cites scores into a combined ranking. The new ranking is normalized so that the top... doyle doylej@wlu.edu The law journal rankings were updated in mid_November for 1999-2006 at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx The most significant change is a new ranking that combines the impact-factor and total-cites scores into a combined ranking. The new ranking is normalized so that the top ranked journal(s) in a retrieved set will always have a value of 100 and other journals will have a lesser score in proportion to each journal's combined-score. Although combined-score is intended to be the primary ranking (and is the default ranking for author submission purposes on the website) the separate rankings by total-cites and by impact-factor are still available.

Combined-score ranking is based on the idea proposed by Ronen Perry that neither ranking by total cites nor by impact-factor are in themselves sufficient, and need to be combined. See, "The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: Refinement and Implementation" available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=897063 (to be published in the Connecticut Law Review) . The problem in any combined ranking is what weight to give to the underlying factors. Perry calculated a weight of 0.577 for impact-factor (and thus 0.433 for total cites) based on the idea that Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal have equal prestige, and 0.577 is the weight that makes the combined impact-factor and total-cites counts equal for these journals (over the survey period of 1998-2005). However, the default weighting used on the website is a slightly different value of 0.57. It was decided to use 0.57 because that weighting gives Harvard Law Review a normalized rank of 100 over each of nine rankings (1991-1998...1999-2006) while maximizing the average of Yale Law Journal's rank during those same years. While Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal are generally considered comparable, Harvard is still widely regarded as the gold-standard and deserves an edge over this period. It is expected that the 0.57 weighting will continue to be used in future annual surveys, and thus Harvard Law Review may at some time drop below a combined-score ranking of 100.


A webpage is available that shows for each law journal how many total cites to an article would have to occur over the following 8 years in order to make such an article worth publishing (from a combined-score ranking point of view). For the Yale Law Journal, for example, the number is '9', so in other words, if it's "known" that an article/note/review/introduction/obit... will receive less than a total of 9 cites during the 8 years after it's published then publishing the item will reduce Yale Law Journal's combined-score (see, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/citesneeded.aspx). Note, however, that because ranking is based on rounding to one decimal place, small changes in combined-score may not change a journal's actual ranking.


Note also that the immediacy index has been removed from the website. An immediacy index is a method for comparing how rapidly the average article in a particular journal will be discovered and cited. For example, the 2004 immediacy index figures were based on the number of articles citing each journal's articles dated 2004, where the citing articles are dated 2003 or 2004. It was felt that this index was not sufficiently used to justify maintaining it.

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