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Librarian Stephanie Miller Presents at Mapping Scholarly Communications in Law Libraries Conference

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On Friday, May 23, 2025, law librarian Stephanie Miller presented a new work-in-progress at the Mapping Scholarly Communications in Law Libraries conference. The conference was held at the University at Buffalo School of Law and hosted by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. The conference presented the results of the first major survey describing the extent of scholarly communications work being performed in academic law libraries in the United States in addition to presentations of papers written by members of the study team and other librarian scholars. Ms. Miller presented a paper titled "All in Good Time: An Analysis of Longitudinal Citation Data to Assess the Impact of Open Access Digital Archives."

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New Citations to WVU Law Scholarship: July to September 2023

Tags: Robert Bastress Valarie Blake Cody Corliss Amy Cyphert Ann Eisenberg Anne Marie Lofaso Jena Martin Patrick McGinley Alison Peck Jesse Richardson Amelia Rinehart Matthew Titolo S. Sean Tu Joshua Weishart faculty scholarship observations on scholarly impact citation analysis

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 Precision between July 1, 2023 and September 30, 2023.

Robert Bastress

Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller Publish Scholarly Impact Article in "The Role of Citation in the Law'

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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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Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller Win Outstanding Article Award

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West Virginia University College of Law Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller won the Outstanding Article Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section for their article: "The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work". The article was published in volume 39 of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal.

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New Citations to WVU Law Faculty Scholarship, January - March 2021

Tags: citation analysis scholarly impact Amy Cyphert Valarie Blake Anne Marie Lofaso Jena Martin Patrick McGinley Caroline Osborne Alison Peck Will Rhee Jesse Richardson Hollee Temple Sean Tu Joshua Weishart

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 this year between January 1 and March 31, 2021.

Valarie Blake