Tracking citations in Law

There are two major challenges for successfully collecting cites to legal publication: -Even if the legal publishers’ content is available for indexing within Google Scholar or other scholarly databases, the full text indexing, which is essential for cross-linking references to publications, is not always available. This is most likely because of the particular arrangements that Google Scholar or database publishers have in place with other publishers as to what content and to what degree the content could be indexed by them. -Even if legal content is available and indexing of full text is permitted by the publishers, there are technical challenges in automation of cross-linking of references from footnotes. As a consequence of these challenges it is essential to manually search citations across a large number of legal content providers/databases and then collate the data. Consulting vast range of scholarly resources listed in this publication helps reveal a reasonably comprehensive picture of the impact of author’s works within academia, and the use of resources other than databases of scholarly works, the impact, which is outside of academia.