Law librarians and library staff are available to help you find your way around the library and its legal materials, provide research support, and assist you in locating materials that are not in our library. You can find the latest information about our hours and services on the library homepage. There are several ways to contact us:
Email us
In Person: The Borrowing Services Desk and Reference Office are on the main floor of the law library. Online and in-person appointments with the reference staff can be made from the library homepage.
Call us:
Borrowing Services Desk: (650) 723-2477
Reference Desk: (650) 725-0800
In addition to obtaining citation data for articles, tools also are available to measure journal impact. This may be useful information for determining which journals to submit articles for publication consideration.
Washington and Lee's Law Journal Rankings from the Law Library at the Washington & Lee University School of Law is a free resource that ranks law journals based on the number of journal citations, case citations, currency factor, and impact factor. You can create lists of rankings based on subject, country, language, journal type, editor, and format.
InCites Journal Citation Reports allows you to compare scholarly and technical journals from the science, technology, and social sciences fields, drawing upon data from Web of Science's Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. A law category is available.
Google Scholar is a free resource that provides a Top Publications list, organized into the following categories:
Law is a subcategory within Social Sciences.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank is a free resource that provides rankings for journals and countries based on information from the Scopus database with data from more than 34,000 titles. Law is available as a subject category.
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