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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.

From the abstract:

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 January 1 and March 31, 2022.

Robert Bastress Jr.

West Virginia College of Law Professor Caroline Osborne and librarian Stephanie Miller recently spoke at the Yale Virtual Symposium on Citation held on April 22-23, 2021. The symposium featured scholarship of law librarians and faculty on range of issues such citation analysis, scholarly impact metrics, link rot, and other empirical research in the use of citations. The event was sponsored by Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, The Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School, AALL ALL-SIS Committee on Research and Scholarship, The Boulder Conference, and Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

Professor Osborne and Ms. Miller presented their paper, "The Scholarly Matrix Impact: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of A Scholar’s Work", which has been recently published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.  All papers presented at the symposium will be published in a forthcoming volume from the Hein Company.