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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 Yale University 12 23 520 4,098 992
2 Harvard University 9 24 334 4,074 733
3 University of Pennsylvania 12 22 505 1,562 989
4 New York University 9 24 394 2,167 913
5 University of Minnesota 12 19 532 848 1,217
6 University of Virginia 9 19 390 1,651 1,031
7 Georgetown University 9 22 349 1,692 766
8 University of Chicago 9 16 393 896 762
9 University of California, Berkeley 6 14 300 1,044 639
10 Columbia University School of Law 9 15 261 1,193 568
11 Stanford University 8 22 258 1,356 421
12 Boston University 8 15 281 823 763
13 University of California, Los Angeles 10 16 293 892 581
14 University of Michigan 11 14 298 724 615
15 Duke University 7 16 139 1,292 671
16 Vanderbilt University 7 12 126 651 961
17 Fordham University 10 12 209 531 577
18 Rutgers University 6 17 154 862 506
19 George Washington University 7 14 138 763 511
20 University of Iowa 6 10 208 387 507
21 Texas A&M University 7 15 165 747 332
22 Emory University 6 11 145 436 712
23 University of Connecticut 6 8 113 648 470
24 University of Texas at Austin 6 14 99 674 484
25 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 13 151 577 328
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7 11 88 506 513
27 University of San Diego 4 11 118 571 221
28 Wake Forest University 4 13 55 787 314
29 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 14 87 591 212
30 University of Florida 6 10 105 334 369
31 Arizona State University 5 10 71 404 413
32 University of California, Davis 7 7 113 187 410
33 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 4 7 74 414 360
34 Drexel University 4 10 55 278 562
35 Yeshiva University 5 9 104 289 260
36 University of Missouri 5 12 84 368 209
37 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 78 115 478
38 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 69 381 240
39 Syracuse University 4 9 66 484 129
40 University of Southern California 5 7 76 254 295
41 George Mason University 5 8 83 276 234
42 Washington University 4 11 94 268 182
43 Northwestern University 4 9 55 454 167
44 Pennsylvania State University 5 8 90 181 260
45 Suffolk University 4 8 50 462 174
46 DePaul University 5 6 81 196 280
47 Cornell University 4 9 79 246 196
48 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 93 86 260
49 Boston College 4 4 78 311 101
50 Saint Louis University 5 9 66 261 195
51 Georgia State University 3 11 37 377 202
52 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 11 37 476 104
53 University of Maryland 4 9 44 346 158
54 St. Mary's University 4 9 55 277 167
55 University of California, Irvine 5 4 92 75 164
56 Seton Hall University 5 10 44 308 165
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 52 238 187
58 University of Houston 4 8 50 211 219
59 University of Louisville 3 12 32 374 116
60 University of Oklahoma 4 8 62 179 158
61 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 49 182 215
62 University of Washington 3 9 45 240 138
63 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 43 230 148
64 Ohio State University 5 8 48 162 171
65 University of South Carolina 3 7 49 160 153
66 Brigham Young University 3 6 17 246 220
67 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 29 173 195
68 Temple University 4 5 40 138 173
69 University of Arizona 3 6 43 89 199
70 Seattle University 2 2 50 164 77
71 University of Alabama 2 5 30 94 234
72 Northeastern University 3 9 31 184 134
73 Southwestern Law School 2 9 25 257 89
74 University of Georgia 3 7 37 157 122
75 Louisiana State University 3 8 24 237 105
76 University of Pittsburgh 3 6 37 155 107
77 American University 3 7 30 147 143
78 Samford University 3 5 26 122 178
79 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 15 295 48
80 University of Missouri-Kansas City 3 5 38 108 119
81 Loyola University Chicago 2 8 24 181 96
82 University of Kansas 3 5 21 241 51
83 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 29 127 113
84 Santa Clara University 2 8 29 193 50
85 Marquette University 4 5 49 40 95
86 California Western School of Law 3 4 20 55 215
87 South Texas College of Law Houston 3 5 22 114 136
88 Southern Methodist University 4 6 30 91 115
89 University of Miami 3 4 30 54 147
90 Wayne State University 3 6 21 143 98
91 University of Tulsa 2 8 20 181 65
92 William & Mary Law School 3 5 36 78 87
93 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 37 45 112
94 Tulane University 1 7 9 147 128
95 University of Notre Dame 2 7 17 156 78
96 University of California, San Francisco 4 3 23 38 158
97 University of Idaho 4 6 24 115 77
98 University of Kentucky 3 7 30 98 61
99 Florida State University 3 6 19 102 110
100 Quinnipiac University 3 4 28 87 80