Title

Aaron Lercher

Collection Analysis Librarian

225-578-4778

Education

M.L.S., University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2006.

Ph.D., Philosophy, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 1999.

B.A., Columbia University, 1984.

Librarianship

With Lawrence Smolinsky, Persistent value of older scientific journal articles, Scientometrics 108(3): 1205-1220 (2016).
With Lawrence Smolinsky & Andrew McDaniel, Testing theories of preferential attachment in random networks of citations, Journal Of The Association For Information Science & Technology 66(10): 2132-2145 (2015).
Correlation over Time for Citations to Mathematics Articles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64(3) (2013): 455-463.
With Lawrence Smolinsky, Citation Rates in Mathematics: A Study of Variation by Subdiscipline, Scientometrics 91(3) (2012): 911-924.
Efficiency of Scientific Communication: A Survey of World Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(10) (2010): 2049-2060.
"A Survey of Attitudes about Digital Repositories among Faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge," Journal of Academic Librarianship 34(5) (2008): 408-415.

Philosophy

Polluter Pays, in Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, edited by Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light (Routledge) forthcoming 2018.
A Social Contract for Health Information. Journal of Information Ethics 17(2), 2008.
Torture and Moral Knowledge, Review Journal of Political Philosophy 6(1), 2008.
Are There Any Environmental Rights? Environmental Values16, August 2007.
Liberty of Ecological Conscience, Environmental Ethics 28, Summer 2006.
Is Anyone to Blame for Pollution? Environmental Ethics 26, Winter 2004.
What is the Goal of Proof? Logique et Analyse, Vol. 179-180, 2004.