During September 2022, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 12,483 new full-text downloads of the 5,701 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,185 different institutions across 146 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 396,227.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,256 times in September 2022. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Scholarship by West Virginia University College of law professor Caroline Osborne and law librarian Stephanie Miller is newly published in The Role of Citation in the Law. The volume follows the April 2021 symposium, Citation and the Law, hosted by Yale Law School. It features twenty-one of the scholarly works presented at the symposium. Professor Osborne and Ms. Miller's work, The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work, was previously published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly. It was also awarded AALL ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award in 2021.

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During August 2022, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 9,332 new full-text downloads of the 5,698 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 826 different institutions across 133 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 382,052.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 2,754 times in August 2022. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are:

The scholarship of West Virginia University College of Law faculty members is frequently cited as authority in numerous legal disciplines. The following is a list of faculty authored works cited  and made available on Westlaw Edge between April 1 and June 30, 2022. 

Robert Bastress Jr.

During July 2022, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 10,879 new full-text downloads of the 5,698 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 728 different institutions across 136 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 375,956.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 2,780 times in July 2022. The most downloaded articles from the faculty scholarship collection last month are: