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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 16 24 844 2,477 1,497
2 University of California, Berkeley 13 20 641 1,997 1,209
3 Georgetown University 11 18 565 1,342 1,645
4 University of Michigan 13 16 639 1,302 1,049
5 Stanford University 13 16 578 1,399 1,022
6 Harvard University 10 17 376 1,614 1,391
7 Yale University 8 19 325 1,239 882
8 University of Florida 10 22 334 1,332 562
9 Vanderbilt University 10 15 340 927 658
10 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 227 1,127 856
11 Rutgers University 12 12 396 516 589
12 University of California, San Francisco 10 9 331 300 752
13 University of California, Los Angeles 8 17 236 809 666
14 Loyola University Chicago 7 12 204 534 955
15 Duke University 8 13 211 691 750
16 University of Virginia 7 11 244 640 627
17 Arizona State University 6 11 228 665 586
18 University of Minnesota 6 8 133 536 1,155
19 Ohio State University 9 9 277 252 623
20 Washington University 9 12 259 463 458
21 University of Denver 8 12 241 470 344
22 Columbia University School of Law 8 12 154 872 363
23 George Washington University 7 16 170 645 463
24 Boston University 8 13 154 480 666
25 University of Chicago 8 12 171 553 483
26 Emory University 7 10 137 387 628
27 University of California, Davis 7 13 133 582 456
28 Fordham University 6 14 120 594 472
29 American University 7 9 162 288 518
30 Northeastern University 5 11 123 560 407
31 Northwestern University 6 12 113 540 424
32 University of Maryland 7 7 184 279 334
33 Texas A&M University 7 12 144 394 402
34 University of Missouri 9 10 181 256 288
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 140 429 282
36 Cornell University 6 8 108 504 249
37 Florida State University 6 9 102 330 424
38 Pace University 6 11 107 312 387
39 Indiana University Bloomington 6 10 118 376 263
40 Georgia State University 8 5 143 107 372
41 University of California, Irvine 7 3 107 56 568
42 Wake Forest University 5 8 94 372 325
43 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 6 111 120 479
44 Temple University 6 8 102 216 362
45 University of Houston 5 11 79 400 288
46 Pennsylvania State University 6 7 109 136 395
47 William & Mary Law School 6 10 124 267 193
48 University of San Diego 6 8 93 290 234
49 Wayne State University 5 5 96 168 287
50 George Mason University 4 11 77 300 202
51 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 6 70 90 411
52 Brooklyn Law School 4 11 63 449 94
53 Saint Louis University 4 3 65 33 481
54 University of Utah 6 3 66 17 478
55 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 70 163 311
56 Drake University 4 7 53 101 448
57 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 63 213 270
58 Seattle University 5 9 61 249 245
59 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 8 67 235 215
60 Yeshiva University 5 4 57 100 379
61 University of Pittsburgh 4 4 67 167 265
62 University of Texas at Austin 3 9 40 289 267
63 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 65 65 325
64 University of Georgia 4 5 73 101 253
65 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 70 210 160
66 Syracuse University 5 5 66 121 262
67 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 56 192 235
68 University of Iowa 5 7 74 170 156
69 Villanova University 4 6 75 86 225
70 University of South Carolina 4 6 46 98 345
71 Suffolk University 4 5 33 318 189
72 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 8 58 206 165
73 Drexel University 3 5 43 162 256
74 University of Oklahoma 4 4 66 53 242
75 Louisiana State University 4 7 53 185 159
76 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 4 70 42 211
77 University of Richmond 3 4 52 50 276
78 Southern Methodist University 5 5 71 81 152
79 St. John's University 5 4 67 47 197
80 Case Western Reserve University 4 9 36 227 151
81 Santa Clara University 4 5 40 210 150
82 Northern Kentucky University 4 9 55 148 117
83 University of Washington 5 6 63 94 129
84 DePaul University 3 7 21 120 303
85 University of Southern California 4 5 39 138 192
86 University of Miami 3 4 64 92 100
87 Howard University 1 3 5 113 347
88 Brigham Young University Law School 3 5 49 133 114
89 University of St. Thomas 3 5 40 93 185
90 Michigan State University 4 7 31 171 146
91 Southwestern Law School 4 6 37 111 163
92 Pepperdine University 3 9 32 219 84
93 University of Arizona 3 4 39 121 135
94 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 5 36 159 110
95 New York Law School 3 5 30 189 95
96 University of Kansas 4 6 48 98 90
97 University of Louisville 3 5 22 131 182
98 Seton Hall University 4 5 31 81 159
99 Cleveland State University 3 5 25 141 130
100 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 4 4 27 76 179