UPDATE: We have been informed by U.S. News & World Report that they have decided not to pursue a Scholarly Impact Ranking at this time. Hein remains committed to having the best and most accurate data possible and will continue to maintain/update all data collected and curated during this project within HeinOnline. Author Profiles and the individual author administration pages will remain accessible to view and update facility information going forward.
Chronological Order Of Events:
2019
- February 13, 2019: U.S. News Considers Evaluating Law School Scholarly Impact
- March 20, 2019: Sichelman: A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News ‘Citation’ Ranking
- April 22, 2019: U.S. News Law School Scholarly Impact, An update from HeinOnline
- May 2, 2019: U.S. News Responds to the Law School Community
- July 1, 2019: The U.S. News Scholarly Impact Project (Update from HeinOnline)
- July 15, 2019: Shane Marmion (President) and William Shannon Hein (Executive Vice President) present on a panel at AALL (Download PowerPoint | Download PDF)
2020
- January 4, 2020: Shane Marmion (President) presents on a panel at AALS (Download PowerPoint | Download PDF)
- January 27, 2020: HeinOnline Integrates with ORCID
- February 5, 2020: WISBLAWG – Why Hein’s ORCID Integration Could be a Big Deal for U.S. News Law School Scholarly Impact Ranking
- August 26, 2020: Phase II of the ORCID integration goes live in HeinOnline
2021
- September 14, 2021: LSA Statement on Recent Rejection of “Scholarly Impact” Metric