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Research Repository Update: January 2024

During January 2024, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 16,542 new full-text downloads of the 5,790 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,267 different institutions across 149 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 638,961.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 4,708 times in January 2024. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Research Repository Update: November 2023

During November 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 22,706 new full-text downloads of the 5,790 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,557 different institutions across 168 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 608,093.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 7,631 times in November 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Research Repository Update: October 2023

During October 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 20,581 new full-text downloads of the 5,790 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,454 different institutions across 160 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 585,387.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 5,411 times in October 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

Observations on Scholarly Impact, October 2023 Part 2

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.

Research Repository Update: September 2023

During September 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 14,551 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1173 different institutions across 141 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 574,852.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,870 times in September 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are: