The sixteen law reviews you should follow on Twitter
Last year at PrawfsBlawg, I blogged about a Twitter census of law reviews. I've maintained a Twitter list of law reviews. But I thought I'd do a little analysis of these law reviews.
Twitter remains one of the easiest places for me to find and aggregate journal content. I use Feedly extensively for blogs and other RSS-friendly places, but I've found that many law reviews lack an RSS, or the process of inputting them all one at a time to be laborious. Concurring Opinions continues to host law review tables of contents (which I find one of the most valuable contributions to legal blogging), but, as boards turn over year after year, few still use the service. Sadly, it's almost as if law reviews don't want people easily finding and reading what they publish.
I looked at the flagship law reviews at the 108 law schools with a U.S. News & World Report peer score of 2.2 or higher. If I found their Twitter accounts, I included them. I then examined how many tweets they had, how many followers they had, and when their last tweet (not a retweet) took place.
As it is, there are only 64 of these journals that even have a Twitter account. And that includes accounts that have as few as zero tweets.
So I then created a benchmark: the law reviews worth following are those with at least 100 tweets, at least 100 followers, and at least one tweet in the last 30 days. I thought that would be a pretty minimal standard for level of engagement and recency of engagement. This 100/100/30 standard reduces the list to 16 accounts worth following:
A majority are "top 15" law reviews, which shows that the higher-quality schools tend to have a more active and engaged social media presence. Indeed, the Penn Law Review has been praised for its social media presence.Alas, law review editorial boards turn over annually, and so many of these accounts have fallen into disuse, including one I've praised before.
Below is the complete list, with 100/100/30 law reviews highlighted. If you see a journal not listed, tweet me about it @derektmuller.
| Peer score | Journal | Tweets | Followers | Last tweet (not RT) |
| 4.8 | @YaleLJournal | 525 | 3400 | May 6, 2014 |
| 4.8 | @HarvLRev | 476 | 11.9K | April 18, 2014 |
| 4.7 | @StanLRev | 246 | 2673 | January 15, 2014 |
| 4.6 | @ColumLRev | 140 | 967 | May 12, 2014 |
| 4.6 | @UChiLRev | 204 | 1759 | May 15, 2014 |
| 4.4 | @nyulawreview | 946 | 2789 | May 4, 2014 |
| 4.4 | @CalifLRev | 237 | 1129 | May 12, 2014 |
| 4.4 | @michlawreview | 125 | 837 | May 19, 2014 |
| 4.3 | @PennLawReview | 225 | 830 | May 8, 2014 |
| 4.3 | @VirginiaLawRev | 12 | 137 | April 9, 2014 |
| 4.2 | @DukeLawJournal | 9 | 554 | April 7, 2014 |
| 4.1 | @NULRev | 56 | 145 | May 16, 2014 |
| 4.1 | @Cornell_Law_Rev | 1 | 496 | July 21, 2010 |
| 4.1 | @GeorgetownLJ | 14 | 313 | October 29, 2013 |
| 4.0 | @TexasLRev | 239 | 962 | May 16, 2014 |
| 3.9 | @UCLALawReview | 99 | 1217 | April 30, 2014 |
| 3.8 | Vanderbilt | |||
| 3.6 | Washington (St. Louis) | |||
| 3.5 | @MinnesotaLawRev | 21 | 58 | May 11, 2014 |
| 3.5 | @SCalLRev | 5 | 48 | May 9, 2013 |
| 3.5 | North Carolina | |||
| 3.4 | Emory | |||
| 3.4 | George Washington | |||
| 3.4 | @NotreDameLawRev | 10 | 80 | April 16, 2014 |
| 3.4 | @UCDavisLawRev | 32 | 137 | October 5, 2012 |
| 3.3 | @BULawReview | 493 | 599 | February 28, 2014 |
| 3.3 | Wisconsin | |||
| 3.2 | William & Mary | |||
| 3.2 | @IowaLawReview | 186 | 658 | May 17, 2014 |
| 3.2 | Indiana (Bloomington) | |||
| 3.2 | @OhioStateLJ | 154 | 552 | May 12, 2014 |
| 3.2 | @BCLawReview | 258 | 711 | April 1, 2014 |
| 3.2 | @fordhamlrev | 232 | 929 | May 13, 2014 |
| 3.2 | Washington & Lee | |||
| 3.1 | @AlaLawReview | 2 | 150 | January 11, 2013 |
| 3.1 | @WashLawReview | 106 | 508 | May 16, 2014 |
| 3.1 | @GaLRev | 3 | 60 | February 13, 2014 |
| 3.1 | @WFULawReview | 238 | 228 | April 11, 2014 |
| 3.1 | @arizlrev | 31 | 167 | April 2, 2013 |
| 3.1 | @UIllLRev | 78 | 451 | May 16, 2014 |
| 3.1 | @UFLawReview | 125 | 306 | October 28, 2013 |
| 3.1 | @HastingsLJ | 43 | 139 | April 22, 2014 |
| 3.0 | Arizona State | |||
| 3.0 | Colorado | |||
| 3.0 | @TulaneLawReview | 39 | 362 | May 2, 2014 |
| 2.9 | BYU | |||
| 2.9 | Florida State | |||
| 2.9 | Maryland | |||
| 2.8 | Utah | |||
| 2.8 | @ConnLRev | 28 | 434 | March 18, 2014 |
| 2.8 | @CardozoLRev | 50 | 603 | April 29, 2014 |
| 2.8 | @AmULRev | 115 | 392 | April 29, 2014 |
| 2.7 | George Mason | |||
| 2.7 | @TempleLawReview | 27 | 81 | December 17, 2012 |
| 2.7 | @UMLawReview | 13 | 345 | February 14, 2014 |
| 2.7 | San Diego | |||
| 2.7 | @OregonLawReview | 5 | 172 | March 12, 2012 |
| 2.6 | SMU | |||
| 2.6 | @PeppLawReview | 579 | 452 | May 14, 2014 |
| 2.6 | Houston | |||
| 2.6 | @CaseWResLRev | 799 | 539 | March 26, 2014 |
| 2.6 | @denverlawreview | 19 | 196 | May 17, 2014 |
| 2.6 | @ukanlrev | 96 | 405 | May 2, 2014 |
| 2.6 | Tennessee | |||
| 2.6 | @PittLawReview | 0 | 2 | n/a |
| 2.6 | Loyola (Los Angeles) | |||
| 2.5 | Richmond | |||
| 2.5 | Nebraska | |||
| 2.5 | @KYLawJournal | 17 | 111 | March 20, 2012 |
| 2.5 | Oklahoma | |||
| 2.5 | Georgia State | |||
| 2.5 | Missouri (Columbia) | |||
| 2.5 | @LUCLawJournal | 167 | 86 | April 22, 2014 |
| 2.5 | Chicago-Kent | |||
| 2.5 | Brooklyn | |||
| 2.4 | Baylor | |||
| 2.4 | @pennstatim | 27 | 125 | September 18, 2013 |
| 2.4 | Lewis & Clark | |||
| 2.4 | New Mexico | |||
| 2.4 | Cincinnati | |||
| 2.4 | @RutgersLJ | 12 | 412 | May 2, 2014 |
| 2.4 | @RutgersLRev | 49 | 427 | May 15, 2014 |
| 2.4 | Indiana (Indianapolis) | |||
| 2.4 | Marquette | |||
| 2.4 | Hawaii | |||
| 2.4 | Santa Clara | |||
| 2.3 | @arklawrev | 156 | 1680 | February 17, 2014 |
| 2.3 | @SHULawReview | 22 | 113 | January 28, 2014 |
| 2.3 | @NevLawJournal | 18 | 27 | April 8, 2014 |
| 2.3 | @MichStLRev | 202 | 373 | April 11, 2014 |
| 2.3 | Seattle | |||
| 2.3 | @nuljournal | 28 | 200 | May 5, 2014 |
| 2.3 | @SCLawReview | 305 | 536 | April 11, 2014 |
| 2.3 | @VillanovaLawRev | 1 | 33 | April 14, 2014 |
| 2.3 | SUNY (Buffalo) | |||
| 2.3 | Catholic | |||
| 2.3 | @SyracuseLRev | 20 | 75 | May 7, 2014 |
| 2.3 | DePaul | |||
| 2.2 | @lalawreview | 40 | 308 | April 30, 2014 |
| 2.2 | Louisville | |||
| 2.2 | Mississippi | |||
| 2.2 | @UMKCLawReview | 0 | 3 | n/a |
| 2.2 | @GonzagaLawRev | 75 | 78 | May 16, 2014 |
| 2.2 | St. John's | |||
| 2.2 | @UALRLawReview | 210 | 338 | April 23, 2014 |
| 2.2 | @MaineLawReview | 65 | 247 | May 19, 2014 |
| 2.2 | Hofstra | |||
| 2.2 | @HULawJournal | 331 | 295 | April 9, 2014 |