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FIU Law Library’s Digital Initiatives Center is pleased to report the following scholarly impact achievements made by FIU Law in November 2019.

 

Digital Commons Network Impact

Our institutional repository, eCollections @ FIU Law Library and had 5717 full-text downloads and 90 new submission was posted, bringing the total works to 3595Florida International University College of Law scholarship was read by 671 institutions across 132 countries. Here are the details:

 

The most popular papers were:

 

Aziza N. Botchway

Abolished by Law—Maintained in Practice: The Trokosi as Practiced in Parts of the Republic of Ghana (154 downloads)

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vol3/iss2/8/

 

Thomas E. Baker

The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law (154 downloads)

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/180/

 

Lissa L. Broome; Jerry W. Markham

Banking and Insurance: Before and after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (108 downloads)

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/360/

 

Scott F. Norberg

Contract Claims and the Willful and Malicious Injury Exception to the Discharge in Bankruptcy (98 downloads)

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/374/

 

The most popular publications were:

 

Faculty Publications (2946 downloads) http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications

 

FIU Law Review (2225 downloads)

http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview

 

Caribbean Law and Jurisprudence (121 downloads)

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/caribbean/

 

SelectedWorks Suite of profile pages and Expert Gallery Impact

 

FIU College of Law scholarship had 4987 full-text downloads through our SelectedWorks Suite542 institutions read it across 117 countries. Here are the details:

 

The most popular papers were:

 

Howard M Wasserman

Moral Panics and Body Cameras – 629 downloads

https://works.bepress.com/howard_wasserman/63/

 

Hannibal Travis

Freedom or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq – 197 downloads

https://works.bepress.com/travis/32/

 

Thomas E. Baker

The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law – 154 downloads

https://works.bepress.com/thomas-baker/49/

 

Jerry W. Markham

Manipulation of Commodity Futures Prices-The Unprosecutable Crime – 123 downloads

https://works.bepress.com/jerry_markham/5/

 

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Impact

 

As part of the dual upload and scholarly impact process utilized by FIU Law Library’s Digital Initiatives Center, we are also increasing our scholarly impact in SSRN. Currently, 3578 subscribers receive our works through our FIU College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series. This month 7911 visits to our Series enabled the Series to achieve 467 downloads; additionally, the law library uploaded faculty works to the Series. Here are the most downloaded works for November 2019 in SSRN:

 

Louis N. Schulze

Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School’s Successful Efforts to Raise Its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline – 40 downloads

Abstract ID 2960192

 

Antony Page & Robert A. Katz

The Truth about Ben and Jerry’s – 36 downloads

Abstract ID 2291615

 

Charles Chernor Jalloh

The Law and Politics of the Charles Taylor Case – 19 downloads

Abstract ID 2524366

 

HeinOnline Author Profiles and ScholarCheck Impact

 

Hein Scholar Check statistics for Hein Author Profiles for FIU Law reveal that FIU Law authors have been cited

176 times in cases, and

6029 times in articles, for a total of

6205 citations.

 

Follow FIU Law authors at eCollections, where you can also read  FIU Law Review and follow FIU Law Review Symposia.