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Most-Cited Institutions by Subject

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Last Updated: November 2025

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Past 12 Months
Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 15 25 831 2,582 1,534
2 University of California, Berkeley 13 20 628 2,001 1,251
3 Georgetown University 11 18 560 1,347 1,719
4 University of Michigan 13 16 630 1,306 1,043
5 Stanford University 13 16 567 1,398 1,090
6 Harvard University 9 17 355 1,639 1,460
7 Yale University 9 19 339 1,261 921
8 University of Florida 9 22 313 1,332 596
9 Vanderbilt University 10 15 336 925 727
10 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 216 1,127 936
11 Rutgers University 12 12 393 516 579
12 University of California, San Francisco 10 9 327 300 800
13 University of California, Los Angeles 8 17 236 814 696
14 Loyola University Chicago 7 12 203 534 1,019
15 Duke University 8 13 204 690 798
16 Arizona State University 6 11 227 667 621
17 University of Virginia 6 11 232 636 613
18 University of Minnesota 6 8 130 536 1,178
19 Ohio State University 9 9 274 253 713
20 Washington University 9 12 254 463 450
21 Boston University 8 14 161 561 697
22 Columbia University School of Law 8 12 153 871 408
23 University of Denver 8 12 239 467 371
24 University of Chicago 8 12 166 553 516
25 George Washington University 7 16 156 617 464
26 Emory University 7 10 133 389 676
27 University of California, Davis 7 12 127 523 555
28 Fordham University 6 14 118 594 491
29 Northeastern University 5 11 129 563 458
30 American University 7 9 155 288 586
31 Northwestern University 6 12 110 540 452
32 University of Maryland 7 7 181 279 340
33 Texas A&M University 7 12 141 394 399
34 University of Missouri 9 10 178 256 283
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 138 429 298
36 Pace University 6 11 105 307 435
37 Cornell University 6 8 107 504 234
38 Florida State University 6 8 97 271 494
39 Indiana University Bloomington 6 10 115 375 268
40 Georgia State University 8 5 142 107 384
41 Wake Forest University 5 8 93 373 367
42 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 6 110 120 517
43 University of California, Irvine 7 3 104 56 589
44 Temple University 6 9 105 261 364
45 Pennsylvania State University 6 7 108 136 404
46 University of Houston 5 11 76 400 292
47 William & Mary Law School 6 9 118 223 217
48 University of San Diego 6 8 92 290 256
49 Wayne State University 5 5 94 168 315
50 Drake University 4 7 51 101 547
51 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 6 69 90 441
52 Brooklyn Law School 4 11 62 449 110
53 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 69 166 333
54 George Mason University 4 9 73 262 205
55 University of Utah 6 3 66 17 475
56 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 65 213 278
57 Saint Louis University 4 3 65 33 457
58 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 8 66 235 224
59 Seattle University 5 8 57 230 243
60 Yeshiva University 5 4 53 100 389
61 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 65 64 354
62 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 70 210 174
63 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 56 192 259
64 Syracuse University 5 5 66 121 273
65 University of Texas at Austin 3 8 36 275 255
66 Villanova University 4 6 75 85 245
67 University of Iowa 5 7 74 170 158
68 University of Georgia 4 4 68 88 260
69 Suffolk University 3 5 32 318 204
70 University of Richmond 4 6 59 78 294
71 University of South Carolina 4 6 46 98 336
72 Drexel University 3 5 43 162 289
73 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 8 55 209 174
74 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 5 73 54 220
75 Louisiana State University 4 7 52 185 175
76 Southern Methodist University 5 5 70 81 178
77 University of Oklahoma 4 4 65 53 227
78 St. John's University 5 4 67 47 221
79 Santa Clara University 4 5 40 210 161
80 Northern Kentucky University 4 9 53 148 149
81 University of Miami 4 5 69 110 107
82 Case Western Reserve University 4 9 36 219 160
83 University of Washington 4 6 60 94 145
84 DePaul University 3 7 21 120 309
85 Howard University 1 3 5 113 397
86 University of Southern California 4 5 37 138 207
87 University of Pittsburgh 4 3 55 42 209
88 Brigham Young University 3 5 51 147 119
89 Southwestern Law School 4 6 36 111 188
90 Michigan State University 4 7 31 171 151
91 University of St. Thomas 3 5 40 93 184
92 Pepperdine University 3 9 32 219 96
93 University of Louisville 3 5 24 131 209
94 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 5 36 159 116
95 University of Kansas 4 6 48 98 109
96 University of Arizona 3 4 36 121 144
97 New York Law School 3 5 29 189 92
98 Samford University 4 6 31 96 156
99 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 4 4 27 76 185
100 California Western School of Law 4 5 41 77 109