Abstract

A review of the relevant literature turned up no studies examining the influence of abstracts on citation to law review articles. Nor were studies found examining the influence of tables of contents. To chart this territory, we explore whether abstracts and tables of contents impact the scholarly influence of academic work in the field of legal studies by using a large sample of law review articles published in top 100 law reviews. Part I describes our methodology while Part II reports the results. Part III summarizes the results and discusses them in view of the title question: should your law review article have an abstract and table of contents?

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Article

Publication Date

2016

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Coauthored with Lee Petherbridge, Professor of Law and Richard A Vachon Research Fellow, Loyola Law School Los Angeles.

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