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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 11 24 508 4,136 995
2 Harvard University 9 24 331 4,025 701
3 University of Pennsylvania 12 22 509 1,554 967
4 New York University 9 24 379 2,113 919
5 University of Virginia 9 19 398 1,653 1,038
6 University of Minnesota 12 19 516 849 1,201
7 Georgetown University 9 22 371 1,693 904
8 University of Chicago 10 17 397 968 727
9 University of California, Berkeley 6 14 306 1,045 718
10 Stanford University 8 22 258 1,375 437
11 Columbia University School of Law 9 15 263 1,206 559
12 Boston University 8 15 285 810 795
13 University of California, Los Angeles 10 16 295 892 577
14 University of Michigan 11 14 301 724 605
15 Duke University 7 16 144 1,303 692
16 Vanderbilt University 7 12 143 651 1,050
17 Fordham University 10 12 212 531 578
18 Rutgers University 6 17 156 851 499
19 University of Iowa 6 10 209 388 513
20 George Washington University 7 14 140 763 465
21 Emory University 6 11 149 437 732
22 Texas A&M University 7 15 169 747 330
23 University of Connecticut 6 8 120 648 488
24 University of Texas at Austin 6 14 101 675 504
25 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 13 149 577 335
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7 11 91 506 512
27 Wake Forest University 5 13 58 787 313
28 University of Florida 6 11 118 362 373
29 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 14 87 594 209
30 University of California, Davis 7 7 117 187 400
31 Arizona State University 5 10 71 404 411
32 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 4 7 76 414 352
33 University of San Diego 4 9 100 425 221
34 Drexel University 4 9 55 269 578
35 Yeshiva University 5 9 105 289 269
36 University of Missouri 5 12 84 368 206
37 University of Colorado Boulder 6 5 81 100 461
38 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 69 381 235
39 Georgia State University 4 10 60 372 275
40 Syracuse University 4 9 66 485 132
41 George Mason University 5 8 84 276 228
42 Suffolk University 4 8 52 462 202
43 Washington University 4 11 95 268 181
44 Northwestern University 4 9 55 454 181
45 Pennsylvania State University 5 8 90 181 273
46 Cornell University 4 10 83 280 201
47 DePaul University 5 6 80 195 270
48 University of Southern California 5 6 72 244 208
49 University of Maryland 5 9 53 349 195
50 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 92 80 240
51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 11 37 476 105
52 Saint Louis University 4 9 61 261 194
53 St. Mary's University 4 9 55 277 165
54 University of California, Irvine 5 4 92 75 160
55 Seton Hall University 5 10 45 301 162
56 University of Houston 4 8 51 212 220
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 53 237 183
58 University of Oklahoma 4 8 66 179 153
59 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 49 182 217
60 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 47 230 146
61 University of Washington 3 9 45 240 144
62 Boston College 3 4 44 311 75
63 Ohio State University 5 8 48 161 184
64 University of Louisville 3 12 25 371 92
65 University of South Carolina 3 7 49 160 151
66 Brigham Young University Law School 3 6 17 246 212
67 University of Arizona 4 6 48 89 195
68 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 29 173 198
69 Temple University 4 5 40 138 178
70 Seattle University 2 2 51 165 76
71 University of Alabama 2 5 32 94 230
72 Southwestern Law School 2 9 25 257 96
73 University of Georgia 3 6 37 150 133
74 Louisiana State University 3 8 24 237 107
75 Northeastern University 3 9 29 184 121
76 American University 3 7 30 147 140
77 Samford University 3 5 27 122 178
78 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 15 295 50
79 University of Missouri-Kansas City 3 5 39 108 115
80 University of Pittsburgh 3 6 33 152 101
81 Loyola University Chicago 2 8 24 181 96
82 University of Kansas 3 5 21 241 52
83 California Western School of Law 4 4 24 55 211
84 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 29 127 111
85 Santa Clara University 2 8 29 191 45
86 Marquette University 5 5 50 40 85
87 University of California, San Francisco 4 3 28 60 157
88 South Texas College of Law Houston 3 5 23 118 120
89 William & Mary Law School 3 5 36 78 94
90 University of Tulsa 2 8 21 181 64
91 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 38 45 105
92 Southern Methodist University 4 6 30 82 90
93 University of Idaho 4 6 25 115 81
94 Tulane University 1 7 9 147 129
95 University of Notre Dame 2 7 17 156 80
96 University of Miami 3 4 25 54 139
97 Wayne State University 3 6 17 144 82
98 University of Kentucky 3 7 31 98 57
99 Quinnipiac University 3 4 29 87 78
100 Florida State University 3 6 19 102 101