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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 13 27 695 2,776 1,369
2 University of California, Berkeley 12 21 522 2,167 1,132
3 Georgetown University 11 19 465 1,479 1,518
4 University of Michigan 12 18 536 1,415 915
5 Stanford University 13 17 495 1,484 920
6 Harvard University 9 17 309 1,655 1,253
7 Yale University 10 20 326 1,320 900
8 University of Florida 9 23 272 1,465 505
9 Vanderbilt University 10 16 292 1,024 663
10 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 190 1,167 791
11 Rutgers University 11 12 318 596 458
12 University of California, San Francisco 8 9 290 349 692
13 Loyola University Chicago 7 13 183 559 881
14 University of Virginia 7 11 219 666 589
15 Duke University 8 14 179 741 706
16 University of Minnesota 6 8 119 552 1,064
17 Washington University 9 15 222 607 455
18 University of California, Los Angeles 7 17 152 859 582
19 Arizona State University 6 11 186 709 539
20 Ohio State University 8 9 224 292 569
21 Columbia University School of Law 7 13 124 902 336
22 George Washington University 6 16 139 677 435
23 University of Chicago 8 12 155 573 440
24 Boston University 6 13 126 514 622
25 University of Denver 7 12 182 529 318
26 Emory University 6 11 118 408 623
27 Fordham University 6 14 98 618 447
28 Northeastern University 5 12 102 589 371
29 University of Maryland 7 7 160 310 309
30 University of California, Davis 6 11 105 513 404
31 Northwestern University 6 12 95 560 383
32 Texas A&M University 6 13 120 418 376
33 American University 7 11 119 297 452
34 University of Missouri 8 10 158 280 264
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 113 458 265
36 Florida State University 5 10 97 348 379
37 Cornell University 6 9 94 518 224
38 Indiana University Bloomington 5 10 107 386 255
39 University of California, Irvine 7 4 109 62 519
40 Pace University 5 11 99 325 322
41 Georgia State University 8 6 127 126 327
42 Wake Forest University 5 8 82 409 281
43 Pennsylvania State University 6 8 98 149 390
44 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 7 86 145 457
45 Temple University 5 8 89 215 346
46 University of Houston 5 10 71 390 264
47 William & Mary Law School 5 9 95 250 181
48 Wayne State University 5 5 87 181 255
49 University of San Diego 5 8 70 314 208
50 University of Utah 6 3 67 20 464
51 Saint Louis University 4 3 56 45 486
52 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 7 52 110 386
53 Brooklyn Law School 4 11 47 466 95
54 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 52 224 255
55 Yeshiva University 5 4 52 101 341
56 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 8 57 238 190
57 Seattle University 5 9 48 241 229
58 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 55 174 250
59 Drake University 4 7 40 114 360
60 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 51 197 228
61 Villanova University 4 6 65 124 215
62 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 62 221 145
63 George Mason University 3 11 43 303 166
64 Syracuse University 5 5 54 133 238
65 University of Iowa 5 7 63 181 146
66 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 9 47 227 181
67 University of Oklahoma 4 5 64 57 238
68 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 57 73 256
69 University of Texas at Austin 3 8 31 235 233
70 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 4 5 63 64 193
71 University of Georgia 4 5 60 94 163
72 Drexel University 2 5 37 144 237
73 Louisiana State University 4 7 45 193 145
74 Howard University 2 4 13 176 325
75 Southern Methodist University 4 6 62 95 136
76 University of Richmond 4 4 42 63 259
77 University of South Carolina 3 5 30 77 309
78 Santa Clara University 4 5 37 213 126
79 University of Pittsburgh 3 3 50 50 202
80 St. John's University 5 6 51 63 180
81 Case Western Reserve University 3 9 27 236 147
82 DePaul University 3 7 18 134 263
83 Northern Kentucky University 4 10 40 163 105
84 University of Miami 3 4 49 113 91
85 Brigham Young University Law School 3 5 40 143 105
86 Suffolk University 2 5 21 173 171
87 Pepperdine University 3 10 29 223 76
88 Southwestern Law School 4 6 31 118 146
89 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 5 32 163 102
90 New York Law School 3 5 29 192 92
91 University of Washington 4 6 41 106 103
92 Michigan State University 3 8 23 179 131
93 University of St. Thomas 3 5 31 102 150
94 University of Arizona 2 5 26 139 134
95 California Western School of Law 4 5 41 79 102
96 University of Southern California 3 5 24 101 167
97 University of Louisville 2 5 19 136 157
98 University of Kansas 3 6 35 111 85
99 Samford University 4 6 29 99 124
100 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 4 5 23 81 164