The Volokh team has considered its cite counts as if it were a faculty, Florida State has done the same, and Brian Leiter has done it for 20 law schools. How does the Glom stack up?
We're a small outfit, but a powerful one. Our tenureds average 278 cites per person since 2000, throw promising young scholars like Vic and me in there (ed. Uh-oh, might want to disable comments for this one), and the average is still 246 - with a bullet, I think.
And all this attention comes even though we're a little more oriented towards tax, banking, and venture capital than are some other all-guns-freedom-and-internet-all-the-time blogs that I could name. The blog itself has been cited in 53 journal articles. It puts our mean up there with Georgetown and Penn if you do things the way Leiter did, and with UVA's tenureds if you count our untenureds, which Leiter didn't. And the Glom can wave to Florida State in its rear-view, though of course it would do so politely and respectfully.
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1. Posted by Gordon Smith on August 2, 2008 @ 13:38 | Permalink
David,
This is funny and interesting. I have never tried to track down all of the citations to my work, mainly because my name is so common. Lots of false positives on "gordon /2 smith" but lots of missed citations on "d. gordon smith" -- including all of my Conglomerate posts that have been cited. I was pleased to see that Conglomerate was being cited in journal articles and appreciate the fact that blog attribution has now become the norm, replacing theft of ideas, which seemed to prevail in the early days.
2. Posted by David Zaring on August 2, 2008 @ 13:51 | Permalink
I would be the first to acknowledge that counting your contributions up was the shakiest part of the study, where I surely gave you credit for at least some false positives (and missed some others). It does help, in that regard, to have a last name like Zaring (though at least you don't have a distant and apparently fecund relative forcibly Norplanted by a judge unhappy with the duration of her time on welfare).
3. Posted by Vic on August 2, 2008 @ 14:46 | Permalink
Plus, all this business law in the curriculum means that Glom law school graduates have a higher median starting salary than Volokh law school grads.
4. Posted by NonVoxPop on August 2, 2008 @ 16:00 | Permalink
Supra and infra, don't count, guys. :^)
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