In regard to the citation count issue, see this interesting
(dispiriting?) post discussing the author's recent research on the
subject
(http://therightcoast.blogspot.com/2005/07/voice-crying-in-wilderness-an
d-then.html).

Jamie

Jamie Darin Prenkert
Assistant Professor of Business Law
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
1309 East Tenth Street, Room 233
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Ph:    812-856-5069
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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:57 PM
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Subject: Re: PRJ/AACSBI Issues

   Regarding the difficulty of convincing non-law business
colleagues about the worth of law reviews, I can relate that
Georgia once lost a promising assistant professor to a law
school career in part because our department head at the time
dismissed an article's acceptance in the Texas Law Review
because it was a "student publication." What I've done in the
past about my own law review articles is at evaluation time to
go through the volume the article appears in and list the
luminaries who have published in that law review. Using this
strategy,I believe I have gotten several department heads to
agree that law reviews are worthwhile publication outlets,
although "different."

   A related and equally serious research  challenge for legal
studies faculty comes when the business school evaluation
process questions why our articles arn't cited more, i.e.,
like the other areas are.  I think that the answer lies in the
fact that research areas for business school social sciences
is far narrower than  in the larger and more open-ended field
of law--thus more people writing about fewer subjects-- and
because legal scholarship is closer to history and philosophy
than to  social and physical science where the writing about
methodologies rather than content predominates, but for
whatever reason my business colleagues have always looked
askance at our relative lack of citations. Any thoughts? 

Missed seeing you all at San FRANcisco this time. Next year
for sure.

Lee