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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 Yale University 12 24 515 4,140 1,034
2 Harvard University 9 24 326 4,068 748
3 University of Pennsylvania 12 22 501 1,555 1,030
4 New York University 9 24 368 2,110 959
5 University of Minnesota 12 19 523 862 1,278
6 University of Virginia 9 19 384 1,651 1,086
7 Georgetown University 8 22 344 1,692 761
8 University of Chicago 9 16 378 892 800
9 University of California, Berkeley 6 14 302 1,048 657
10 Columbia University School of Law 9 15 258 1,206 603
11 Stanford University 8 22 255 1,374 406
12 University of California, Los Angeles 10 16 290 892 562
13 University of Michigan 11 14 298 727 654
14 Boston University 8 15 261 823 727
15 Duke University 7 17 153 1,379 693
16 Vanderbilt University 6 12 123 651 972
17 Fordham University 9 12 205 531 607
18 Rutgers University 6 17 148 851 518
19 George Washington University 7 14 137 763 545
20 University of Iowa 6 10 207 387 519
21 Texas A&M University 6 15 163 747 349
22 Emory University 6 11 141 436 733
23 University of Connecticut 6 8 112 648 474
24 University of Texas at Austin 6 14 99 674 499
25 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 13 151 577 324
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 11 86 506 498
27 Wake Forest University 4 13 55 787 339
28 University of San Diego 4 10 111 560 228
29 University of Florida 6 10 108 359 376
30 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 14 87 592 242
31 University of California, Davis 7 7 111 187 428
32 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 4 7 74 414 364
33 Arizona State University 5 10 71 404 371
34 Drexel University 4 9 54 269 560
35 Yeshiva University 5 9 102 289 268
36 University of Missouri 5 12 83 368 219
37 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 76 115 497
38 Georgia State University 4 11 61 383 299
39 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 69 381 260
40 Syracuse University 4 9 66 484 138
41 Washington University 4 11 91 268 204
42 DePaul University 5 6 81 196 306
43 Northwestern University 4 9 55 454 173
44 Suffolk University 4 8 49 461 196
45 Pennsylvania State University 5 8 88 181 268
46 University of Southern California 5 7 71 254 278
47 University of Maryland 5 10 56 359 218
48 George Mason University 5 8 78 242 223
49 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 92 86 282
50 Cornell University 4 9 76 245 203
51 Boston College 4 4 76 310 125
52 Saint Louis University 5 9 66 261 205
53 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 11 35 465 106
54 St. Mary's University 4 9 54 277 174
55 University of California, Irvine 5 4 92 75 169
56 University of Houston 4 8 49 211 232
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 51 238 191
58 Seton Hall University 5 10 43 308 154
59 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 49 182 227
60 University of Louisville 3 12 32 374 120
61 University of Oklahoma 4 8 61 179 166
62 University of Washington 3 9 45 240 147
63 Ohio State University 5 8 47 161 189
64 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 42 230 145
65 University of South Carolina 3 7 49 160 164
66 Brigham Young University 3 6 17 246 220
67 Temple University 4 5 40 138 180
68 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 29 173 201
69 University of Arizona 3 6 45 89 197
70 Northeastern University 3 9 31 184 149
71 Seattle University 2 2 49 164 83
72 University of Alabama 2 5 29 94 248
73 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 29 181 144
74 Southwestern Law School 2 9 25 257 89
75 Louisiana State University 3 8 24 237 109
76 University of Georgia 3 6 35 150 124
77 University of Pittsburgh 3 6 37 153 106
78 American University 3 7 30 147 146
79 University of Missouri-Kansas City 3 5 37 108 132
80 Samford University 3 5 26 122 172
81 University of North Texas at Dallas 2 11 14 295 44
82 University of Kansas 3 5 20 241 52
83 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 29 127 115
84 California Western School of Law 3 4 19 55 231
85 Marquette University 4 5 48 40 93
86 Santa Clara University 2 8 26 190 47
87 South Texas College of Law Houston 3 5 20 114 148
88 University of California, San Francisco 4 3 28 61 159
89 William & Mary Law School 3 5 35 78 106
90 University of Tulsa 2 8 20 181 69
91 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 37 45 116
92 Southern Methodist University 4 6 29 86 102
93 Florida State University 3 6 19 102 134
94 Tulane University 1 7 9 147 140
95 Wayne State University 3 6 17 145 95
96 University of Notre Dame 2 7 17 156 83
97 University of Kentucky 3 7 30 98 66
98 University of Miami 3 4 24 54 131
99 University of Idaho 3 6 22 115 79
100 Quinnipiac University 3 4 28 87 76