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Most-Cited Institutions by Subject

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Last Updated: December 2025

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Past 12 Months
Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 16 25 860 2,644 1,451
2 University of California, Berkeley 13 21 640 2,041 1,207
3 Georgetown University 11 19 572 1,371 1,651
4 University of Michigan 13 16 634 1,302 1,027
5 Stanford University 13 16 570 1,394 1,028
6 Harvard University 9 17 347 1,622 1,393
7 Yale University 9 19 347 1,261 872
8 University of Florida 9 22 312 1,427 562
9 Vanderbilt University 11 15 355 931 700
10 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 218 1,127 853
11 Rutgers University 12 12 396 516 556
12 University of California, San Francisco 10 9 329 300 763
13 Duke University 8 13 210 701 793
14 Loyola University Chicago 7 12 204 534 962
15 University of California, Los Angeles 8 17 194 814 636
16 University of Virginia 7 11 236 636 591
17 Arizona State University 6 11 229 667 580
18 University of Minnesota 6 8 132 536 1,127
19 Ohio State University 9 9 277 253 642
20 Washington University 9 12 258 463 440
21 Boston University 8 14 163 597 712
22 University of Denver 8 12 241 467 353
23 Columbia University School of Law 8 12 153 871 362
24 George Washington University 7 16 167 645 451
25 University of Chicago 8 12 168 553 487
26 Emory University 7 10 137 389 655
27 Fordham University 6 14 118 594 484
28 Northeastern University 5 11 130 563 444
29 American University 7 9 160 288 536
30 University of California, Davis 7 11 125 482 496
31 Northwestern University 6 12 112 540 432
32 University of Maryland 7 7 184 279 331
33 Texas A&M University 7 12 141 394 387
34 University of Missouri 9 10 181 256 278
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 139 429 285
36 Florida State University 6 9 102 330 449
37 Pace University 6 11 118 311 372
38 Cornell University 6 8 108 504 233
39 Indiana University Bloomington 6 10 116 375 257
40 Georgia State University 8 5 143 107 375
41 Wake Forest University 5 8 93 372 325
42 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 6 111 120 481
43 University of California, Irvine 7 3 105 56 561
44 Pennsylvania State University 6 7 109 136 404
45 Temple University 6 8 96 206 356
46 University of Houston 5 10 73 388 284
47 William & Mary Law School 6 9 121 223 196
48 University of San Diego 6 8 90 286 233
49 Wayne State University 5 5 95 168 291
50 Saint Louis University 4 3 68 33 524
51 George Mason University 4 11 77 300 215
52 Brooklyn Law School 4 11 63 449 104
53 Drake University 4 7 53 101 480
54 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 6 70 90 408
55 University of Utah 6 3 66 17 477
56 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 71 166 307
57 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 8 69 245 219
58 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 65 213 258
59 Yeshiva University 5 4 56 100 369
60 Seattle University 5 8 57 230 234
61 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 65 64 337
62 Syracuse University 5 5 66 121 274
63 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 70 210 163
64 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 56 192 236
65 University of Iowa 5 7 74 170 161
66 University of Texas at Austin 3 8 36 275 244
67 Villanova University 4 6 75 85 229
68 University of Georgia 4 4 68 88 240
69 Suffolk University 3 5 32 318 189
70 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 8 58 206 169
71 Louisiana State University 4 7 53 185 160
72 University of Oklahoma 4 4 65 53 227
73 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 4 70 42 209
74 Southern Methodist University 5 5 70 81 164
75 Drexel University 3 4 40 140 251
76 University of Richmond 3 4 52 50 277
77 St. John's University 5 4 67 47 193
78 University of South Carolina 3 5 34 73 328
79 Brigham Young University 3 6 54 173 132
80 Case Western Reserve University 4 9 36 227 155
81 Santa Clara University 4 5 40 210 153
82 DePaul University 3 7 21 130 312
83 Northern Kentucky University 4 9 55 148 127
84 University of Southern California 4 5 39 138 201
85 University of Pittsburgh 4 3 56 43 210
86 University of Miami 3 4 62 92 94
87 Howard University 1 3 5 113 342
88 University of St. Thomas 3 5 40 93 189
89 Michigan State University 4 7 31 171 144
90 University of Washington 4 6 52 94 113
91 Pepperdine University 3 9 32 219 87
92 Southwestern Law School 4 6 36 111 163
93 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 5 36 159 110
94 University of Louisville 3 5 24 131 187
95 University of Kansas 4 6 48 98 99
96 University of Arizona 3 4 36 121 131
97 New York Law School 3 5 29 189 80
98 Samford University 4 6 31 96 151
99 California Western School of Law 4 5 42 77 114
100 Cleveland State University 3 5 25 141 129