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Posted on Mon, 25. July 2022Mon, 13. March 2023

Scopus/Scimago: Useless for Studying Legal Research!An Empirical Assessment of Misclassification Rates in a Popular Scientometric Data Source

DOI 10.25527/re.2022.02
Empirical research on citation patterns and scholarly reputation in academic research ("scientometrics") frequently relies on a commercial database called Scopus. Scientometric studies routinely analyse the contents of this database as representing the universe of research articles in various academic fields, including legal research. We reviewed the publically available data on German law journals and found that hardly ten percent of them are classified correctly. Even our most charitable count puts the misclassification rate at around 60 percent. In scientometrically studies regarding legal research, the use of Scopus is therefore indefensible. Evidence of an indefensible...
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Authors
Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann
Lill Emmelheinz
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Academic Posts
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bibliometrics, citations analysis, legal studies, scientometrics, Scopus
Posted on Wed, 5. January 2022Tue, 29. March 2022

Court Decisions: 99 % Uncharted Deep Sea? Mapping the Blind Spot of Digital Legal Studies over Half a Century (1971-2019)

DOI 10.25527/re.2022.01
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann
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Posted on Tue, 5. October 2021

Legal Network Analytics 101

DOI 10.25527/re.2021.11
by Seán Fobbe
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Posted on Thu, 29. July 2021Thu, 29. July 2021

Empirical Tax Research in Germany Federal Government Plans to Establish New Institute (IfeS)

DOI 10.25527/re.2021.09
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann and Dr. Julia Kraft
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Posted on Thu, 24. June 2021Thu, 24. June 2021

Berkeley 12 – 0 Stanford International Pedigrees of Private Law Professors in Germany

DOI 10.25527/re.2021.07
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann
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Posted on Fri, 20. November 2020Thu, 24. June 2021

Online Symposium “Empirical Turn”

DOI 10.25527/re.2020.06
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann and Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh
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Posted on Fri, 20. November 2020Fri, 20. November 2020

Die empirische Wende in der Rechtswissenschaft Online-Symposium »Empirische Wende«

DOI 10.25527/re.2020.07
by Prof. Dr. Niels Petersen
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