The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 11, Issue 3 on December 15, 2023. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:
Anne Marie Lofaso, Under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Must Whistleblower–Employees Prove Their Employer Acted With Retaliatory Intent?, No. 2023-018
In our most recent post on scholarly impact, we focused on downloads of papers in a single issue of our SSRN paper series. To expand upon our previous analysis, we decided to look for trends across multiple issues. Specifically, we looked at how many readers opened the email distribution and how many clicked through from their inbox to the paper posted on SSRN. Some observations:
Publishing smaller, more frequent issues to capture audiences throughout the academic year.
This semester, we have been curious as to the impact of promotion of our faculty scholarship, specifically our institution’s SSRN paper series. Our inquiry extended to how broadly a work is promoted, distributed, and how descriptive is its metadata via SSRN. We typically distribute issues of our paper series multiple times throughout an academic year. Some observations:
Downloads of works with tiles that include a case name increased by 21% in the week after distribution. No additional promotion efforts were undertaken during that time frame, for this example.
The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 11, Issue 2 on September 14, 2023. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:
Valarie Blake, The Freedom Premium, No. 2023-010
The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 11, Issue 1 on May 16, 2023. The following authors were featured for their new scholarship recently published to SSRN:
Joshua E. Weishart, Brief of Amici Curiae Constitution and Education Law Scholars in Support of Respondents in West Virginia v. Beaver, No. 2023-001
