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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 February 2020.

Digital Commons Network Impact

Our institutional repository, eCollections @ FIU Law Library had 6515 full-text downloads, and 65 new submissions were posted. Florida International University College of Law scholarship was read by 727 institutions across 132 countries. Here are the details:

 

The most popular papers were:

Brigham Daniels

Come Hell and High Water: Climate Change Policy in the Age of Trump (225 downloads)

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vol13/iss1/7/

 

Thomas E. Baker

The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law (198 downloads)

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

 

Federica Vergani

Why Transgender Children Should Have the Right to Block their Own Puberty with Court Authorization (109 downloads)

https:https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vol13/iss4/16/

 

The most popular publications were:

Faculty Publications (2794 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications

 

FIU Law Review (3069 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview

 

Caribbean Law and Jurisprudence
Jamaica (117 downloads)
https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/jamaica/

 

 SelectedWorks Suite of profile pages and Expert Gallery Impact

 

FIU College of Law scholarship had 4061 full-text downloads through our SelectedWorks Suite, 532 institutions read it across 124 countries. Here are the details:

 

The most popular papers were:

 

Howard M Wasserman

Moral Panics and Body Cameras – 426 downloads

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

 

Jerry W. Markham

Manipulation of Commodity Futures Prices-The Unprosecutable Crime – 218 downloads

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

 

Thomas E. Baker

The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law – 198 downloads

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

 

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 10312 visits to our Series enabled the Series to achieve 1104 downloads. Here are the most downloaded works for February 2020 in SSRN:

 

Howard Wasserman

Academic Feeder Judges – 537 downloads

Abstract ID 3526903

 

Raul Ruiz

Leveraging Noncognitive Skills to Foster Bar Exam Success: An Analysis of the Efficacy of the Bar Passage Program at FIU Law – 199 downloads

Abstract ID 3524423

 

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 – 51 downloads

Abstract ID 2960192

 

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

190 times in cases, and

6098 times in articles, for a total of

6288 citations.

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

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News from FIU Law Library Digital Initiatives Center:

HeinOnline & ORCID update:

It is time to connect your ORCID account with your HeinOnline author profile page. Here are the instructions on how to do it, or if you need help, please contact mlam@fiu.edu.

Faculty publications are regularly uploaded to eCollections and SelectedWorks, please remember to send the information of your most recent works to mlam@fiu.edu. Also, if you have not created your Google Scholar Profile, or would like assistance in its creation, please reach out to Maria Lam at mlam@fiu.edu to schedule your appointment. The Digital Initiatives Center at FIU Law Library is also asking that all law faculty create an ORCiD; if you haven’t yet or need our support with this or other scholarly impact resource, please Ask a Law Librarian.