For quantitative (read, not formal *or* purely descriptive statistics) research. Thanks.
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Best Judicial Journals
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APSR, AJPS, JOP
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I only ask because I have heard that some judicial journals have very narrow definitions of "quant" or "stat." Thanks.
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bump
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Law & Society Review is the best. Judicature, Law & Social Inquiry, and Justice System Journal are also very good. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is okay, I guess, but it's becoming clear that they would prefer to publish narrow pieces by law professors. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization is good if you've got the type of piece that fits there, but its scope is pretty narrow.
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Though this has been discussed elsewhere here, the lack of a sub-field journal makes ordering difficult. Clearly the top 3 are the top 3. After that I'd say PRQ and LSR are next for most straight up quantitative work. Then I'd go somewhere like APR or Judicature or JSJ.
Another question, what do you think the tenure requirement is for someone at a Top 100 R1 in judicial v. at a Top 50 v. at a Top 25, as far as place and numbers of articles?
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Judicature and Justice System Journal.
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^ I think those are consistently the most interesting for those of us who are broadly interested in law and courts (including topics like judicial administration), but the perception is that Law & Society Review is the best, as others have noted. It's certainly the most widely read across disciplines.
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^^why would judicial be any different than tenure requirements for, say, a congress person?
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These things vary, even across subfields. Congress gets to count LSQ. Judicial gets to count PRQ or JSJ.Posted 3 months ago # -
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at a top 50, probably not a top 20.Posted 3 months ago # -
Harvard law review
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JELS is the pits. Has anyone noticed the editor publishes an article in every issue? Has anyone noticed that authors get a reviewer who happens to find 2-3 obscure papers by the editor that need to be cited in the revised manuscript?
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agree that JELS seems clubby and oriented toward promoting a certain group - LSR, JSJ, LSI, Judicature are all really good and really well read so you can't go wrong with any of those -JLEO is not as interesting as it might have been - pretty narrow and oriented toward purity of commitment to attitudinalists rather than cutting edge stuff, but for what it addresses, it's very sound
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I know several colleagues who will never again submit to JELS. Too many incompetent reviews, strange editorial judgment, etc. It's a joke.
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I submitted a manuscript to JELS once and will never, ever repeat that mistake again.
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What about law reviews?
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Not peer reviewed = not helpful for tenure at most places.
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Law reviews might raise one's profile in the discipline (broadly defined), but they usually don't count for much come tenure time. I think a fair comparison would be to a book chapter at some places.
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Publication in law reviews signal that you don't know what you're doing. It's a net negative toward tenure in most good departments.
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^ This seems crazy to me (except where the CV is dominated by law review articles, with very few peer-reviewed).
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I agree with the last poster. Unless your entire CV are law reviews, there is no reason to think one would be negatively treated for a few law review article come tenure time. Political scientists publishing in law reviews, like it or not, is becoming increasingly common.Posted 1 month ago # -
a net negative? that's just stupid - you can't get tenure just on them, but they aren't a negative esp if it's high profile law reviews - I wonder why people post on topics they clearly don't know anything about?
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Effort spent writing a law review article pre-tenure could/should have been spent on something peer-reviewed. Failing to realize this is a sign that you are clue-impaired, which is a bad signal to send at tenure time.
Plus: The LR submission/acceptance process is diametrically opposite that for scientific fields, and probably leads to worse work appearing in higher-visibility outlets.
Those political scientists writing in law reviews almost all (a) have tenure, and (b) have appointments of some kind in law schools. The latter creates an incentive for those people to write LR articles. If both of those criteria don't apply to you, just say no.
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No subfield journal? Hardly. The problem is too many weak journals that claim to be open to judicial politics papers.
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