Replicability in empirical legal research

JM Chin, K Zeiler - Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
As part of a broader methodological reform movement, scientists are increasingly interested
in improving the replicability of their research. Replicability allows others to perform …

Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals' editorial board positions

A Nishikawa-Pacher, T Heck, K Schoch - Research Evaluation, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Editormetrics analyses the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the
scientific publication system. Such analyses would best rely on open, structured, and …

Fixing Law Reviews

B Friedman - Duke LJ, 2017 - HeinOnline
Very few people are happy at present with the law review publishing process, from article
submission and selection to editing. Complaints are longstanding; similar ones emerge from …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting anomalous citation groups in journal networks

S Kojaku, G Livan, N Masuda - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The ever-increasing competitiveness in the academic publishing market incentivizes journal
editors to pursue higher impact factors. This translates into journals becoming more …

Assessing affirmative action's diversity rationale

A Chilton, J Driver, JS Masur, K Rozema - Colum. L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
Debate about the relative quality of various law review volumes is usually confined to
student editors' offices. On rare occasions, such discussion may spill over into the faculty …

Citations, justifications, and the troubled state of legal scholarship: an empirical study

JL Harrison, AR Mashburn - Tex. A&M L. Rev., 2015 - HeinOnline
Recent pedagogical, economic, and technological changes require law schools to
reevaluate their resource allocations. Although typically viewed in terms of curricular …

Academic favoritism at work: insider bias in Turkish national journals

L Tutuncu, R Yucedogru, I Sarisoy - Scientometrics, 2022 - Springer
The study utilizes a unique dataset of 16,575 research papers published in 68 national
Business and Economics journals to investigate editorial bias towards insiders in Turkish …

Academic in-group bias: An empirical examination of the link between author and journal affiliation

Y Reingewertz, C Lutmar - Journal of Informetrics, 2018 - Elsevier
Do academic journals favor authors who share their institutional affiliation? To answer this
question we examine citation counts, as a proxy for paper quality, for articles published in …

Academic in-group bias in the top five economics journals

C Lutmar, Y Reingewertz - Scientometrics, 2021 - Springer
This paper studies academic in-group bias in the top five economics journals. We examine
citation counts for articles published in these journals during the years 2006–2015, and …

All-pervading insider bias alters review time in Turkish university journals

L Tutuncu - Scientometrics, 2023 - Springer
This study investigates review time and insider bias in 56,920 papers published by 258
Social Sciences journals. Results show that average review duration in Social Sciences is …