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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 12 24 451 4,203 918
2 Harvard University 8 24 294 4,132 701
3 New York University 9 24 334 2,245 921
4 University of Pennsylvania 11 22 431 1,667 884
5 University of Minnesota 13 19 462 920 1,101
6 University of Virginia 9 19 347 1,723 941
7 Georgetown University 9 23 296 1,758 809
8 University of Chicago 10 16 341 962 701
9 University of California, Berkeley 6 15 262 1,128 621
10 Columbia University School of Law 8 16 233 1,250 548
11 Boston University 8 16 241 864 774
12 Stanford University 7 23 208 1,413 434
13 University of Michigan 10 14 260 794 589
14 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 236 953 548
15 Duke University 7 16 123 1,320 691
16 Vanderbilt University 6 13 120 740 899
17 Fordham University 9 13 183 564 535
18 Rutgers University 5 17 123 889 472
19 University of Iowa 5 10 189 413 497
20 George Washington University 6 15 118 790 469
21 Emory University 5 12 117 473 758
22 Texas A&M University 6 15 140 789 315
23 University of Connecticut 5 9 103 676 486
24 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 14 130 601 344
25 University of Texas at Austin 5 15 92 689 453
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 78 522 531
27 Wake Forest University 4 13 46 799 272
28 University of San Diego 5 10 93 590 211
29 University of Florida 5 10 97 372 358
30 Drexel University 4 10 56 282 587
31 University of California, Davis 6 8 101 208 362
32 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 64 429 339
33 Yeshiva University 5 9 93 303 261
34 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 80 104 449
35 Washington University 4 11 77 285 291
36 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 15 33 648 187
37 Arizona State University 4 10 49 323 375
38 University of Southern California 5 8 72 291 274
39 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 59 393 240
40 University of Missouri 5 12 68 384 191
41 George Mason University 5 8 76 288 226
42 Suffolk University 3 8 46 470 200
43 Cornell University 5 10 76 263 219
44 Syracuse University 4 9 50 501 114
45 Northwestern University 4 9 41 468 179
46 Pennsylvania State University 5 7 79 150 226
47 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 83 101 246
48 DePaul University 5 7 57 222 260
49 Georgia State University 3 11 36 392 183
50 Saint Louis University 4 9 52 276 179
51 University of Maryland 4 9 43 351 156
52 University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 11 31 471 91
53 St. Mary's University 4 9 49 281 166
54 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 47 245 182
55 Seton Hall University 5 11 35 320 173
56 University of California, Irvine 5 5 77 92 143
57 University of Houston 4 8 39 223 204
58 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 46 232 148
59 University of Louisville 3 12 28 378 88
60 Boston College 3 5 40 318 81
61 University of Oklahoma 3 8 51 193 130
62 Ohio State University 4 9 44 168 185
63 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 40 186 172
64 University of Washington 3 10 30 256 144
65 University of Arizona 4 6 45 95 186
66 Temple University 3 5 35 144 187
67 University of South Carolina 3 7 36 175 141
68 Brigham Young University Law School 2 6 12 252 198
69 University of Georgia 3 7 33 177 144
70 Southwestern Law School 2 9 23 259 103
71 Seattle University 2 2 43 173 71
72 University of Alabama 2 5 36 95 155
73 American University 3 7 28 151 140
74 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 22 181 143
75 Louisiana State University 3 8 19 242 92
76 Samford University 3 5 23 126 177
77 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 25 182 95
78 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 15 296 43
79 Northeastern University 2 9 20 195 109
80 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 34 113 107
81 Marquette University 4 5 46 48 99
82 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 31 162 75
83 University of Kansas 3 5 21 245 53
84 California Western School of Law 3 4 22 55 202
85 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 26 132 108
86 University of Miami 3 4 28 56 151
87 Santa Clara University 2 8 25 194 41
88 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 39 45 103
89 William & Mary Law School 3 5 35 81 87
90 South Texas College of Law Houston 3 5 20 122 118
91 University of Tulsa 2 8 19 184 60
92 Florida State University 2 6 19 106 127
93 Southern Methodist University 3 7 24 97 104
94 Wayne State University 2 7 15 170 80
95 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 22 38 154
96 University of Notre Dame 2 6 16 148 85
97 University of Idaho 3 7 19 121 91
98 Tulane University 1 7 6 150 132
99 Quinnipiac University 3 4 28 90 59
100 University of Kentucky 3 6 28 100 44