But now we have Berkeley's revenge on law professors: if a law review article is published, and nobody cites it...does it exist? This problem may be more urgent than you realize, according to new research by Tom Smith (Law, San Diego):
43 percent of [all] articles are not cited . . . at all. Zero, nada, zilch. Almost 80 percent (i.e. 79 percent) of law review articles get ten or fewer citations. So where are all the citations going? Well, let's look at articles that get more than 100 citations. These are the elite. They make up less than 1 percent of all articles, .898 percent to be precise. They get, is anybody listening out there? 96 percent of all citations to law review articles. That's all. Only 96 percent. Talk about concentration of wealth.
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