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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 47 131 9,880 55,488 18,044
2 Harvard University 43 117 9,362 50,669 17,009
3 University of Virginia 38 73 6,860 20,213 12,031
4 New York University 34 83 5,397 28,279 11,626
5 University of Chicago 33 67 5,650 15,679 10,673
6 Georgetown University 33 72 5,195 18,525 10,204
7 Columbia University School of Law 37 68 4,767 15,823 7,025
8 Stanford University 32 64 3,995 17,098 6,764
9 University of California, Los Angeles 32 63 4,053 14,940 7,046
10 University of California, Berkeley 26 64 2,928 17,525 7,028
11 Northwestern University 26 59 3,066 13,576 6,065
12 University of Michigan 28 43 3,735 8,252 5,587
13 George Washington University 25 61 2,651 12,155 6,332
14 University of Texas at Austin 23 48 2,534 11,072 5,182
15 University of Pennsylvania 23 50 2,634 8,139 5,457
16 Duke University 25 42 2,431 7,556 5,377
17 Vanderbilt University 21 47 1,994 8,097 3,740
18 Rutgers University 18 42 1,506 7,051 3,553
19 University of Florida 18 36 1,639 5,248 3,481
20 Cornell University 18 38 1,396 6,111 3,542
21 Fordham University 15 35 1,471 5,230 3,561
22 University of San Diego 15 47 1,308 6,676 2,686
23 Boston University 18 28 1,507 3,091 4,195
24 University of California, Davis 21 36 1,529 4,249 3,069
25 University of Minnesota 19 33 1,271 3,483 3,888
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 15 35 1,205 4,813 2,486
27 Emory University 15 36 1,014 4,682 3,504
28 Florida State University 16 28 1,243 2,893 3,775
29 University of Notre Dame 16 35 1,210 3,777 2,947
30 Washington University 18 26 1,164 2,531 3,421
31 William & Mary Law School 16 32 1,118 3,345 2,862
32 George Mason University 13 36 868 4,820 2,437
33 Ohio State University 14 34 879 4,357 1,881
34 University of Maryland 13 32 822 3,552 1,872
35 Texas A&M University 15 23 983 1,906 2,448
36 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 22 819 1,968 2,482
37 University of Colorado Boulder 14 28 740 3,186 1,697
38 Indiana University Bloomington 12 28 602 3,160 1,784
39 Brigham Young University Law School 14 29 795 2,349 1,482
40 University of California, San Francisco 13 21 746 1,745 2,060
41 Pepperdine University 13 30 642 2,826 1,583
42 Yeshiva University 13 27 699 2,253 1,558
43 University of Georgia 12 26 624 2,427 1,609
44 Southern Methodist University 14 21 709 1,340 2,050
45 Brooklyn Law School 14 23 697 2,070 1,412
46 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 11 26 555 2,292 1,897
47 University of St. Thomas 12 28 483 3,030 1,509
48 Seattle University 8 26 382 3,528 1,355
49 Pennsylvania State University 10 23 560 1,741 1,915
50 University of Arizona 14 25 576 1,910 1,583
51 Temple University 12 25 580 2,095 1,393
52 University of California, Irvine 14 19 640 1,249 1,646
53 University of Denver 12 22 569 1,824 1,358
54 University of Utah 12 23 549 1,469 1,647
55 University of Pittsburgh 10 29 467 2,551 1,126
56 University of Houston 9 28 355 2,907 1,345
57 Boston College 12 26 492 1,921 1,436
58 University of Richmond 13 24 559 1,829 1,135
59 University of Iowa 10 22 429 1,548 1,695
60 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 22 508 1,553 1,206
61 University of South Carolina 11 19 524 970 1,533
62 Catholic University of America 12 19 574 1,059 1,052
63 University of Baltimore 9 18 444 1,239 1,557
64 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10 21 389 1,823 1,295
65 Arizona State University 11 24 378 1,812 1,353
66 University of Miami 9 23 299 2,493 1,086
67 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 22 397 1,854 1,091
68 Wayne State University 7 25 242 2,799 871
69 University of Southern California 12 18 469 1,202 1,082
70 Loyola Marymount University 9 19 433 1,368 1,065
71 South Texas College of Law Houston 11 17 465 823 1,323
72 Northeastern University 9 18 356 1,207 1,481
73 University at Buffalo 10 19 396 1,534 966
74 University of Alabama 10 23 391 1,621 832
75 Georgia State University 11 15 406 988 1,162
76 Indiana University Indianapolis 9 19 389 1,117 1,086
77 University of Cincinnati 8 24 314 1,815 736
78 Seton Hall University 9 22 351 1,473 834
79 American University 8 22 272 1,462 1,221
80 New York Law School 9 20 280 1,575 1,064
81 Santa Clara University 9 24 288 1,826 761
82 Loyola University Chicago 10 16 353 1,027 1,055
83 Michigan State University 9 17 341 1,086 1,066
84 Hofstra University 8 24 327 1,564 716
85 University of Oklahoma 10 15 386 962 802
86 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 22 289 1,493 735
87 University of Washington 7 15 340 732 1,109
88 Samford University 7 23 272 1,651 641
89 University of Kansas 10 23 297 1,354 730
90 Washington and Lee University 9 16 331 797 1,022
91 Tulane University 8 21 252 1,400 873
92 Case Western Reserve University 8 21 265 1,378 722
93 Albany Law School 8 19 259 1,111 961
94 Syracuse University 9 12 235 641 1,487
95 University of Connecticut 11 14 350 647 852
96 Chapman University 8 21 275 1,036 883
97 Willamette University College of Law 10 19 323 962 579
98 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 17 296 884 708
99 Florida International University 8 17 237 1,103 788
100 Wake Forest University 8 20 224 1,365 600