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PB.com Beats Volokh Conspiracy

In news related to the preceding post on Leiter’s study of faculty scholarsly impact, David Bernstein blogs that:

If the Volokh Conspirators Were a Law Faculty: Using Brian Leiter’s methodology, counting those who post at least semi-regularly (me, Eugene, Paul, Orin, Randy, Dale, Todd, Jonathan, and Jim), and excluding, as Leiter does, the untenured (Sasha and Ilya), and David Kopel, who is not an academic by profession (though he still has an impressive citation count), we would have a mean “scholarly impact” count of 670 (median of 572), trailing only Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and tied with Chicago. Adding occassional contributors Stuart, Russell, and David P. would lead to very similar results. (Numbers updated to correct calculation errors).

Fine. If that’s the way we’re going to play in the blawgosphere, let’s go.

Using Brian Leiter’s methodology, if ProfessorBainbridge.com was a Law Faculty, “we” would have a scholarly impact count of 1250. If we throw in common alternative spellings of my first name, the count rises to 1300. Or almost double that of VC.

Let’s not make too much of that fact, however. I may have the VC mean beat pretty handily, but my (younger!) friend and UCLA colleague Eugene Volokh’s citation count is a whopping 2008, zooming past us. Of course, he gets to write about sexy stuff like guns and free speech.