Does “Scopus” Bear a Relation to Science of Constitutional Law?

Interpreting the right to bear arms--gun regulation and constitutional law.

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller, a case challenging hand-gun-control statutes adopted in 1976 in Washington, D.C. The question before the Court is whether the District's prohibition of further registration of hand-guns, its ban on the carrying of concealed guns, and its mandate that guns kept in homes remain unloaded and either locked or disassembled violate...

Constitutional Law

A Point of Constitutional Law

Dimensions: A Competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?

Dimensions is a partly free scholarly database launched by Digital Science in January 2018. Dimensions includes journal articles and citation counts, making it a potential new source of impact data. This article explores the value of Dimensions from an impact assessment perspective with an examination of Food Science research 2008-2018 and a random sample of 10,000 Scopus articles from 2012. Th...

Constitutional Law: Parole Status

In Rose v. Haskins,' the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reiterated the orthodox view that since a prisoner parole system is not constitutionally compelled, parole status is merely a "privilege" regulated by statute and not circumscribed by either the specific constitutional guarantees applicable to a criminal proceeding nor the traditional safeguards of procedural due process. However, ...