The New York University Law Review is a bimonthly general law review covering legal scholarship in all areas, including legal theory and policy, environmental law , legal history , and international law . The journal was established in 1924 as a collaborative effort between law students and members of the local bar. Its first editor-in-chief was Paul D. Kaufman. Between 1924 and 1950, it was at various times known as the Annual Review of the Law School of New York University and the New York University Law Quarterly Review before obtaining its current name in 1950.
7-513: Each year, the journal selects 52 new members from a class of approximately 450. Members are selected using a competitive process, which takes into account an applicant's first-year grades, performance in a writing competition, and potential to contribute to diversity on the journal. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.427. On October 6, 2018,
14-664: A group called "Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences" filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the review over discrimination against white males in selecting staff editors and articles to publish. The challengers lost at trial and again on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . The Supreme Court of
21-912: The natural and social sciences , including impact factors . JCR was originally published as a part of the Science Citation Index . Currently, the JCR , as a distinct service, is based on citations compiled from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index . As of the 2023 edition, journals from the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index have also been included. The information given for each journal includes: There are separate editions for
28-631: The United States declined to review the case. Prominent alumni of the New York University Law Review include: The journal has published the following notable articles: Journal Citation Reports Journal Citation Reports ( JCR ) is an annual publication by Clarivate . It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection . It provides information about academic journals in
35-453: The detailed tables on microfiche . In general, various universities, administrative centers and ministries in charge of higher education make their evaluations of university professors and other researchers on the number and quality of articles published in journals indexed in the JCR. In recent years, it has often been released in mid-June. The 2017 Journal Citation Reports , based on 2016 data,
42-513: The sciences and the social sciences; the 2013 science edition includes 8,411 journals, and the 2012 social science edition contains 3,016 titles. The issue for each year is published the following year after the citations for the year have been published and the information processed. The publication is available online ( JCR on the Web ), or in CD format ( JCR on CD-ROM ); it was originally published in print, with
49-488: Was released on June 14, 2017. In April 2020, Journal Citation Reports included a beta for open access data, which uses Unpaywall data. It officially left the beta phase with the release of the 2020 JCR in June 2020. The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in
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