Scholarly Impact Rankings
HeinOnline’s Scholarly Impact Rankings spotlight the most influential authors, journals, and institutions in legal scholarship through a transparent, citation-based methodology updated monthly.
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Related HeinOnline Blog Posts
Discover news about ScholarCheck features as well as tips and tricks for making the most of the tool in these posts from HeinOnline bloggers.
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Tip of the Week: How to Use ScholarCheck
Watch a brief video or read this quick guide to get an overview of HeinOnline’s ScholarCheck.
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U.S. News Law School Scholarly Impact: An Update from HeinOnline
In February 2019, U.S. News announced that they were considering evaluating U.S. law school scholarly impact and would be using HeinOnline as the source for the citation data.
Since this announcement, we have received many questions and concerns from the library community, so we took this opportunity to provide some background information and an update on our involvement with this project.
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U.S. News Considers Using Hein’s ScholarCheck to Evaluate Law School Scholarly Impact
U.S. News & World Report is the global authority in education rankings. They specifically rank the Best Law Schools based on a number of factors including LSAT scores, job placement success, student-faculty ratio, and much more. U.S. News has been collaborating with the Hein Company to potentially create a new ranking which would evaluate the scholarly impact of law schools across the United States.