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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 53 128 11,665 52,376 19,112
2 Harvard University 47 113 10,630 47,395 17,831
3 New York University 37 82 6,373 27,230 12,652
4 University of Virginia 40 70 7,813 18,337 12,875
5 University of Chicago 35 62 6,470 14,558 11,549
6 Georgetown University 35 69 5,909 17,581 10,715
7 Columbia University School of Law 40 66 5,641 15,110 7,720
8 Stanford University 34 63 4,623 16,088 7,231
9 University of California, Los Angeles 33 61 4,676 13,949 7,535
10 University of California, Berkeley 30 64 3,518 17,308 7,571
11 Northwestern University 28 59 3,376 12,358 6,367
12 University of Michigan 28 41 4,094 7,843 6,113
13 George Washington University 27 58 3,122 11,362 6,740
14 University of Texas at Austin 25 45 2,912 10,455 5,537
15 University of Pennsylvania 25 50 2,964 7,739 5,959
16 Duke University 27 41 2,889 7,158 5,954
17 Vanderbilt University 22 46 2,325 7,644 3,956
18 Rutgers University 19 41 1,751 6,777 3,915
19 University of Florida 20 33 1,869 4,876 3,696
20 Cornell University 20 37 1,617 5,867 3,767
21 Fordham University 16 33 1,742 4,666 3,976
22 University of San Diego 18 46 1,539 6,432 2,902
23 University of California, Davis 22 35 1,803 3,903 3,393
24 Boston University 20 26 1,719 2,816 4,493
25 University of Minnesota 20 32 1,423 3,260 4,213
26 Emory University 17 35 1,205 4,590 3,887
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19 35 1,441 4,567 2,702
28 Florida State University 18 27 1,466 2,584 4,002
29 University of Notre Dame 18 33 1,402 3,617 3,156
30 Washington University 20 27 1,343 2,958 3,840
31 William & Mary Law School 18 31 1,356 3,111 3,281
32 George Mason University 14 36 1,106 4,724 2,680
33 Ohio State University 16 35 1,072 4,288 2,022
34 University of Maryland 14 31 965 3,395 2,027
35 Texas A&M University 17 22 1,056 1,726 2,614
36 University of Colorado Boulder 15 27 871 3,050 1,819
37 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 21 888 1,800 2,629
38 Indiana University Bloomington 14 27 695 2,971 1,907
39 Brigham Young University Law School 15 28 915 2,060 1,580
40 Pepperdine University 14 30 748 2,698 1,695
41 University of California, San Francisco 15 20 845 1,606 2,128
42 Yeshiva University 15 25 837 2,097 1,679
43 Southern Methodist University 15 20 846 1,216 2,310
44 University of Georgia 14 26 734 2,362 1,704
45 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 12 25 635 2,189 2,022
46 Brooklyn Law School 15 23 784 1,938 1,499
47 University of St. Thomas 12 28 548 2,955 1,621
48 Pennsylvania State University 12 21 670 1,608 2,086
49 Seattle University 9 26 450 3,429 1,372
50 University of Arizona 14 24 680 1,805 1,739
51 Temple University 14 25 662 1,984 1,495
52 University of Denver 13 22 703 1,709 1,495
53 University of California, Irvine 15 18 713 1,139 1,717
54 University of Pittsburgh 11 29 554 2,406 1,192
55 University of Houston 9 28 411 2,850 1,446
56 Boston College 12 26 574 1,830 1,569
57 University of Utah 13 20 638 1,339 1,732
58 University of Richmond 14 23 660 1,731 1,232
59 University of Iowa 12 22 521 1,507 1,810
60 University of South Carolina 13 18 643 876 1,768
61 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 21 606 1,397 1,288
62 Arizona State University 13 22 486 1,757 1,511
63 University of Miami 12 22 379 2,343 1,161
64 Loyola Marymount University 12 18 564 1,291 1,279
65 University of Baltimore 11 17 515 1,151 1,632
66 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 11 21 439 1,744 1,412
67 Wayne State University 9 25 303 2,736 1,032
68 Catholic University of America 12 19 624 998 1,111
69 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 21 456 1,635 1,124
70 University of Alabama 11 23 498 1,596 931
71 Northeastern University 10 17 411 1,172 1,570
72 University at Buffalo 10 19 459 1,460 1,024
73 University of Southern California 11 17 494 1,105 1,162
74 South Texas College of Law Houston 11 15 506 740 1,416
75 Georgia State University 11 15 464 910 1,293
76 Indiana University Indianapolis 9 19 449 1,086 1,114
77 University of Cincinnati 10 24 374 1,751 823
78 New York Law School 10 20 328 1,506 1,165
79 Santa Clara University 9 24 336 1,797 844
80 Hofstra University 10 22 410 1,474 766
81 American University 9 21 299 1,422 1,332
82 Seton Hall University 10 20 396 1,299 877
83 Michigan State University 10 17 387 1,048 1,146
84 Loyola University Chicago 11 16 388 989 1,166
85 University of Oklahoma 11 14 439 906 853
86 Samford University 8 22 307 1,614 705
87 University of Washington 10 15 389 676 1,193
88 Tulane University 9 21 301 1,342 955
89 Case Western Reserve University 9 21 326 1,333 806
90 Albany Law School 9 18 306 1,066 1,124
91 University of Connecticut 12 14 437 551 960
92 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 22 309 1,375 771
93 University of Kansas 9 21 332 1,214 776
94 Syracuse University 9 12 277 592 1,605
95 Willamette University College of Law 11 18 410 895 647
96 Chapman University 9 20 319 962 933
97 Florida International University 8 17 296 1,046 867
98 Capital University 6 20 189 1,604 815
99 Washington and Lee University 9 15 314 731 1,004
100 University of Kentucky 9 18 383 753 634