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Last Updated: November 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 25 59 2,220 12,921 6,853
2 Harvard University 23 48 1,767 11,092 5,511
3 University of California, Los Angeles 19 38 1,543 6,515 4,563
4 New York University 18 39 1,166 6,559 3,838
5 University of California, Berkeley 16 38 1,176 5,380 4,179
6 Georgetown University 16 37 1,235 4,913 4,037
7 University of Virginia 15 40 1,081 5,800 3,604
8 Stanford University 16 33 1,091 5,335 1,880
9 Columbia University School of Law 14 33 953 3,818 3,120
10 University of Chicago 15 29 966 4,096 2,261
11 Seattle University 11 32 798 4,832 2,171
12 University of California, Irvine 12 29 683 3,189 2,386
13 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 15 19 790 1,475 2,625
14 University of Pennsylvania 14 21 736 1,970 2,386
15 Rutgers University 12 25 665 2,186 2,432
16 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 17 553 2,963 1,537
17 University of South Carolina 13 20 686 1,276 2,508
18 Vanderbilt University 11 20 557 2,660 1,422
19 University of St. Thomas 13 19 655 1,225 2,229
20 Boston University 12 20 575 1,244 2,598
21 University of Michigan 10 23 503 1,929 2,229
22 University of Florida 11 23 489 1,968 2,175
23 Fordham University 10 24 531 1,667 2,180
24 Northwestern University 13 23 548 1,704 1,909
25 Arizona State University 10 23 480 2,215 1,575
26 Washington University 12 27 527 2,010 1,463
27 University of California, Davis 10 22 502 1,557 1,897
28 George Washington University 9 24 370 2,021 2,064
29 Texas A&M University 10 19 446 1,247 2,309
30 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 24 531 1,691 1,335
31 University of Denver 12 12 582 695 2,031
32 Temple University 11 21 494 1,383 1,750
33 University of California, San Francisco 11 21 393 1,670 1,845
34 American University 9 20 435 1,326 1,918
35 Suffolk University 12 16 492 1,033 1,766
36 Duke University 10 23 413 1,825 1,358
37 University of Minnesota 9 16 443 825 2,088
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8 26 287 2,440 1,253
39 Wake Forest University 8 16 321 1,022 2,207
40 Southwestern Law School 13 14 461 581 1,869
41 Northeastern University 7 19 263 1,710 1,740
42 Cornell University 9 21 286 1,491 1,728
43 University of Pittsburgh 10 18 331 1,321 1,472
44 Emory University 7 18 293 1,380 1,592
45 University of Baltimore 6 13 191 632 2,708
46 New York Law School 9 19 245 1,529 1,477
47 William & Mary Law School 7 15 170 585 2,672
48 Ohio State University 9 20 323 1,405 1,102
49 Southern Methodist University 9 15 317 639 1,878
50 University of Colorado Boulder 12 18 368 1,068 1,006
51 Pepperdine University 8 16 249 931 1,620
52 Florida State University 10 15 283 994 1,213
53 Indiana University Bloomington 9 19 298 1,092 1,009
54 University of Miami 7 17 286 1,122 1,039
55 University of San Diego 8 19 223 1,370 1,104
56 Georgia State University 11 17 355 819 980
57 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 9 17 303 1,010 890
58 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 333 668 1,050
59 University of New Mexico 8 15 272 816 1,094
60 Drexel University 8 17 277 779 1,102
61 University of Texas at Austin 6 23 210 1,565 653
62 Michigan State University 7 16 223 979 1,090
63 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 10 15 314 684 826
64 University of Southern California 9 12 235 623 1,233
65 University of Missouri-Kansas City 9 17 199 1,093 917
66 Loyola University Chicago 8 15 273 627 984
67 Loyola Marymount University 8 18 262 825 755
68 University at Buffalo 8 16 216 878 903
69 George Mason University 7 16 214 1,024 768
70 St. John's University 8 13 229 665 964
71 Pennsylvania State University 7 12 218 524 1,148
72 University of Illinois Chicago 9 12 258 563 895
73 University of Arizona 8 11 189 721 1,071
74 Boston College 7 14 201 879 843
75 Wayne State University 9 14 213 829 791
76 University of Notre Dame 6 15 190 748 868
77 Brigham Young University 8 13 178 585 1,035
78 Nova Southeastern University 6 15 213 687 756
79 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 14 205 554 913
80 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 13 217 674 711
81 Yeshiva University 6 14 158 896 739
82 University of Maryland 8 13 239 594 611
83 Syracuse University 7 11 223 467 770
84 Marquette University 6 14 168 723 764
85 University of Houston 6 17 157 843 690
86 University of Washington 7 12 198 616 702
87 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 15 147 763 800
88 University of Louisville 6 12 164 500 971
89 Santa Clara University 6 16 156 780 708
90 Hofstra University 6 15 174 744 598
91 Case Western Reserve University 7 14 165 715 642
92 Mercer University 6 15 197 676 516
93 Villanova University 6 9 197 556 635
94 Stetson University 8 14 201 548 586
95 Touro University 6 11 158 543 691
96 DePaul University 6 14 112 654 761
97 University of Connecticut 8 11 158 373 799
98 Howard University 7 14 163 529 616
99 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 14 161 660 479
100 University of Iowa 6 11 160 385 729