[David Bernstein, February 20, 2009 at 12:48pm] Trackbacks
Rating the Scholarly Impact of the VC "Faculty":

Brian Leiter has posted a new study of the "scholarly impact" of top law school faculties in the U.S.

Using the same methodology as Brian Leiter's recent survey, and including regular VC bloggers except for Ilya and Sasha, who are not yet tenured (and therefore would be excluded under the Leiter methodology), David Kopel, who is not a law professor, and Paul Cassell, who was busy serving as a federal judge until recently,* the "mean scholarly impact" of VC bloggers is 530, which beats every law school in the country. The "median scholarly impact" is 330, which beats everyone but Yale.

* The list is thus Adler, Barnett, Bernstein, Carpenter, Kerr, Lindgren, Posner, Post, Volokh, and Zywicki. Adding Paul Cassell to the list would not substantially change the results.

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[Ilya Somin, February 20, 2009 at 7:31pm] Trackbacks
Scholarly Impact of the VC's Untenured "Faculty":

Just for fun, I measured the scholarly impact of the VC untenured "faculty" (David Kopel, Sasha Volokh, and myself) using Brian Leiter's recent scale discussed in David Bernstein's post. With a "scholarly impact" of approximately 183 (mean 168, median 198), we would rank tenth on Leiter's scale (which of course only considers tenured professors), just ahead of the tenured faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and UC Irvine (170), and just behind Michigan (185). Our median citation count would rank seventh, just behind Columbia; our mean falls just outside the top ten.

I don't claim any great scientific validity for this "study." Comparing a group of three lawbloggers to the average score for the top ten tenured faculty at various law schools isn't really good methodology. But it's a mildly interesting result nonetheless.

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