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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 Mon, 8. July 2019

The Forbidden Tree of Knowledge France restricts predictive analytics for judicial decisions

DOI 10.25527/re.2019.09
by Nico Kuhlmann
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Posted on Fri, 28. June 2019Sun, 29. March 2020

The Hindsight Bias On the problem of ex ante knowledge in negligence assessment ex post

DOI 10.25527/re.2019.08
by Dipl.-Psych. Alica Mohnert and Dr. Daniel Effer-Uhe
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Posted on Wed, 5. June 2019Wed, 12. June 2019

Why lab experiments are a powerful tool for legal scholarship

DOI 10.25527/re.2019.07
by Dr. Konstantin Chatziathanasiou and Dr. Monika Leszczyńska
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Posted on Sun, 12. May 2019Wed, 12. June 2019

Related Party Transactions of Listed Companies in Germany

DOI 10.25527/re.2019.06
by Prof. Dr. Andreas Engert and Prof. Dr. Tim Florstedt
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Posted on Wed, 1. May 2019Wed, 12. June 2019

Standardization of State Exams or Competition in the Federal System?

DOI 10.25527/re.2019.05
by Prof. Dr. Lorenz Kähler
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Posted on Wed, 1. May 2019Wed, 12. June 2019

Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?

DOI 10.25527/re.2019.04
by Prof. Simon Deakin Ph.D, Prof. Prabirjit Sarkar Ph.D. and Prof. Dr. Mathias Siems
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