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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 March 2020.

Digital Commons Network Impact

Our institutional repository, eCollections @ FIU Law Library had 6376 full-text downloads, and 46 new submissions were posted. Florida International University College of Law scholarship was read by 539 institutions across 144 countries. Here are the details:

 

The most popular papers were:

Thomas E. Baker 

The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law (150 downloads) 

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

 

Aaron N. Taylor 

The Marginalization of Black Aspiring Lawyers 

(145 downloads) 

https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vol13/iss3/8/ 

 

Lissa L. Broome; Jerry W. Markham 

Banking and Insurance: Before and after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (125 downloads) 

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

 

 

The most popular publications were:

Faculty Publications (2464 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications

 

FIU Law Review (2970 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview

 

Caribbean Law and Jurisprudence
Jamaica (263 downloads)
https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/jamaica/

 

 SelectedWorks Suite of profile pages and Expert Gallery Impact

 

FIU College of Law scholarship had 3672 full-text downloads through our SelectedWorks Suite, 366 institutions read it across 123 countries. Here are the details:

 

The most popular papers were:

 

Howard M Wasserman

Moral Panics and Body Cameras – 473 downloads

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

 

Thomas E. Baker 

The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law – 150 downloads 

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

 

Jerry W. Markham 

Banking and Insurance: Before and after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act –125downloads 

https://works.bepress.com/jerry_markham/33/ 

 

 

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 6878 visits to our Series enabled the Series to achieve 402 downloads. Here are the most downloaded works for March 2020 in SSRN:

 

Raul Ruiz 

Leveraging Noncognitive Skills to Foster Bar Exam Success: An Analysis of the Efficacy of the Bar Passage Program at FIU Law – 53 downloads 

Abstract ID 3524423 

 

Howard Wasserman 

Academic Feeder Judges – 34 downloads 

Abstract ID 3526903 

 

Antony Page& Robert A. Katz 

The Truth about Ben and Jerry’s – 19downloads 

Abstract ID 2291615 

 

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

6084 times in articles, for a total of

6274 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.