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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 12 24 444 4,201 848
2 Harvard University 8 24 292 4,129 676
3 University of Pennsylvania 11 22 417 1,669 910
4 New York University 9 24 325 2,221 820
5 University of Minnesota 13 19 476 933 1,125
6 University of Virginia 9 19 335 1,723 965
7 Georgetown University 9 23 293 1,758 702
8 University of Chicago 10 16 335 962 669
9 University of California, Berkeley 6 15 259 1,115 612
10 Boston University 8 16 238 864 729
11 Columbia University School of Law 8 16 215 1,245 515
12 Stanford University 7 23 204 1,413 395
13 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 234 954 548
14 University of Michigan 10 14 255 795 569
15 Duke University 7 16 120 1,315 644
16 Vanderbilt University 6 13 118 740 859
17 Fordham University 9 13 181 566 547
18 Rutgers University 5 17 115 889 464
19 University of Iowa 5 10 185 413 481
20 George Washington University 6 15 118 789 435
21 Texas A&M University 6 15 136 789 311
22 Emory University 5 12 111 471 696
23 University of Connecticut 5 9 98 676 454
24 University of Texas at Austin 5 15 87 690 471
25 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 14 129 601 315
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 78 522 499
27 University of Florida 5 12 103 402 348
28 Wake Forest University 4 13 46 799 287
29 University of San Diego 5 11 93 599 212
30 University of California, Davis 6 8 101 214 360
31 Drexel University 4 10 52 281 538
32 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 61 429 322
33 Yeshiva University 5 9 86 303 224
34 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 79 104 422
35 University of Southern California 5 8 72 291 287
36 Arizona State University 4 10 49 323 374
37 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 15 31 648 183
38 University of Missouri 5 12 68 384 188
39 Washington University 4 11 76 285 225
40 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 58 377 218
41 Suffolk University 3 8 44 470 190
42 Syracuse University 4 9 50 501 125
43 Cornell University 5 10 76 263 182
44 George Mason University 5 8 67 289 195
45 Northwestern University 4 9 41 468 168
46 Pennsylvania State University 5 7 78 150 222
47 DePaul University 5 7 56 222 257
48 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 81 100 234
49 Georgia State University 3 11 36 383 191
50 Boston College 3 5 62 331 93
51 Saint Louis University 4 9 52 276 178
52 St. Mary's University 4 9 50 282 161
53 University of Maryland 4 9 40 351 152
54 University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 11 31 425 101
55 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 45 244 174
56 University of California, Irvine 5 5 75 92 148
57 Seton Hall University 5 11 34 320 149
58 University of Houston 4 8 38 223 206
59 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 44 210 176
60 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 45 232 134
61 University of Louisville 3 12 27 378 89
62 University of Oklahoma 3 8 50 193 125
63 Ohio State University 4 9 42 168 168
64 University of Washington 3 10 30 255 132
65 University of Arizona 4 6 44 95 180
66 Temple University 3 5 35 144 173
67 University of South Carolina 3 7 35 175 139
68 University of Alabama 2 5 32 95 220
69 Brigham Young University Law School 2 6 12 252 186
70 University of Georgia 3 7 33 177 129
71 Seattle University 2 2 43 173 69
72 Southwestern Law School 2 9 23 260 93
73 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 22 179 164
74 American University 3 7 28 151 132
75 Louisiana State University 3 8 19 242 99
76 Samford University 3 5 23 126 172
77 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 31 162 91
78 Northeastern University 2 9 20 195 112
79 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 34 113 110
80 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 14 297 42
81 Marquette University 4 5 44 48 95
82 Loyola University Chicago 2 8 23 182 85
83 University of Kansas 3 5 19 245 49
84 California Western School of Law 3 4 22 57 189
85 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 25 132 107
86 Santa Clara University 2 8 25 194 44
87 University of Miami 3 4 28 56 146
88 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 39 45 100
89 University of Tulsa 2 8 18 184 60
90 Southern Methodist University 3 7 24 97 102
91 South Texas College of Law Houston 2 5 18 118 111
92 Wayne State University 2 7 14 170 85
93 Florida State University 2 6 19 106 109
94 University of Notre Dame 2 6 16 148 81
95 University of Kentucky 3 7 28 101 51
96 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 21 40 141
97 Tulane University 1 7 6 150 122
98 Quinnipiac University 3 4 26 90 69
99 University of Idaho 3 7 19 121 74
100 Touro University 1 6 21 105 73