Benchmarks for Australian Law Researchers’ H-Index and Citation Count Bibliometrics
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Queensland University of Technology
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University of the Sunshine Coast Australia
Abstract
This article reports on Australian-based law researchers’ bibliometric measures, as recorded on Google Scholar in September 2024. It presents benchmark findings by academic position for H-index and raw citation count. In the context of the shift towards—and the need for—more nuanced and sophisticated research assessment measures, this article provides guidance to the Australian legal academy on Australian-specific data in relation to existing bibliometric measures. At the same time, it acknowledges the significant limits of using Google Scholar as a repository and the use of bibliometric measures more generally. It therefore reflects on ways of living with bibliometrics in the context of the neoliberal university and digital capitalism.
The raw data set is provided as a downloadable Excel document under ‘Other Links’
Disclosure Statement: The first author serves as an Editor for Law, Technology and Humans. To maintain the integrity of the publication process and to comply with the COPE guidelines, the article submission, blind peer review, and revisions were conducted independently of the Journal’s publishing environment.
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Author Biographies
Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. Kieran is founding and general editor of Law, Technology and Humans. For over 25 years Kieran has been trying to connect law and technology with the humanities, and build a critical community of law, technology and humanities researchers, for the simple reason that without insights and understanding from the humanities there will not be a future.
Timothy D Peters is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research) at the School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast. From 2017 to 2024 he was the president of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia. Tim’s work contributes to both the field of cultural legal studies and to critical legal histories of the corporation. He is the author of A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law (2021, Edinburgh University Press) and co-editor (with Karen Crawley and Thomas Giddens) of The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies (2024, Routledge). His current monograph project draws upon political and economic theologies to re-examine the nature of corporate personhood and the vicariousness of corporate power from the medieval church to new corporate technologies.
