Library Services for Law Faculty

SSRN creates an Author Page from the information you supply on the Individual Info page under User Home.  Select Personal Info on the Menu bar and follow the prompts.  Once the profile is completed, it will be displayed whenever a user clicks on your name in SSRN.  The Profile includes the number of papers you have in SSRN, downloads and citations.  

SSRN's author rankings are available under the Rankings tab. Click on Rankings >Author Rankings  SSRN Top Law Authors for a table of the top 3,000 Law authors.  Rankings for 9 different measures are available, ranging from Total Downloads to the Author-Level Eigenfactor score.  

Google Scholar Citations offers citation metrics for scholarship that appears in Google Scholar.  An overview of the process of setting up a profile and gaining access to the citation counts that Google collects on your scholarship is here. The instructions for setting up your Google Scholar profile are available here and summarized below:

1. sign into your Google account. 
2. open the Scholar profile sign-up form and confirm the spelling of your name, enter your affiliation, etc. 
3. Google Scholar will then show you a list of articles written by people with names similar to you. Add the articles you have written.
4. If there are missing articles, you can search for them by selecting "Add articles" from the menu. You can also enter them in manually by clicking "Add article manually."
5. Review the list and apply the updates to your profile. You can always make changes by hand. 
6. Make your profile public so that it will appear when someone searches for your name. 

You can create graphs of citation counts for particular articles, and set up notifications about new citations to your work.  Automatic updating is available; you can opt to be notified of new citations, and check them yourself before they display or you can add articles to your profile yourself.  The method you choose for updating your profile has no effect on your Cited By counts and citation metrics - these are continually updated to reflect the current state of the web.