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Faculty Scholarship Support: Helpful Writing Tools

This guide is intended to help law faculty navigate the process of submitting papers to law journals.

Writing Tools

Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a range of citation metrics, including the number of papers, total citations and the h-index. https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish

Scrivener

Scrivener is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors. Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

Think, Check, Submit

Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. https://thinkchecksubmit.org

Zotero

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materialshttps://www.zotero.org