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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 33 69 4,234 18,055 9,423
2 Harvard University 33 62 3,836 17,145 9,312
3 University of Virginia 26 48 3,291 8,253 6,067
4 University of Chicago 27 41 2,577 6,542 5,536
5 Stanford University 26 37 2,419 6,578 4,903
6 Georgetown University 23 38 2,336 5,520 5,645
7 New York University 23 41 1,978 6,889 4,362
8 Columbia University School of Law 23 37 2,231 5,547 3,620
9 University of California, Los Angeles 22 37 1,607 5,016 3,617
10 University of California, Berkeley 18 40 1,380 4,845 3,735
11 University of Pennsylvania 21 30 1,728 3,309 2,643
12 Northwestern University 18 34 1,412 4,867 2,696
13 University of Texas at Austin 17 33 1,234 4,339 2,605
14 University of Michigan 18 31 1,168 3,511 2,229
15 Fordham University 14 31 988 3,765 2,120
16 Rutgers University 17 27 982 2,398 2,213
17 University of Minnesota 14 22 1,027 1,689 2,219
18 George Washington University 17 26 983 2,408 1,565
19 Duke University 14 27 788 3,104 1,737
20 Vanderbilt University 15 22 838 1,907 2,216
21 University of California, Davis 14 20 824 1,439 2,534
22 Boston University 15 19 743 1,127 1,683
23 Emory University 10 18 542 1,848 1,964
24 Washington University 14 16 677 1,097 1,871
25 University of Notre Dame 14 19 680 1,233 1,617
26 Cornell University 13 22 537 1,652 1,913
27 George Mason University 11 26 524 2,155 1,503
28 University of Florida 12 22 523 1,374 1,201
29 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 519 884 1,357
30 Temple University 11 15 510 767 1,206
31 Texas A&M University 13 17 483 1,024 1,060
32 Seattle University 9 21 399 1,495 1,067
33 Albany Law School 9 21 364 1,319 1,360
34 University of San Diego 10 19 387 1,663 909
35 University of St. Thomas 9 18 336 1,794 910
36 Brigham Young University Law School 13 14 519 569 734
37 William & Mary Law School 10 16 359 851 1,176
38 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 17 341 1,096 987
39 Loyola University Chicago 11 13 368 518 1,359
40 University of Richmond 11 16 370 1,107 793
41 American University 10 17 320 1,267 792
42 University of Colorado Boulder 10 15 387 684 859
43 Ohio State University 10 16 368 942 721
44 University of California, San Francisco 9 22 259 1,355 847
45 Boston College 11 14 380 680 805
46 Florida State University 10 13 319 530 1,152
47 Indiana University Bloomington 9 14 274 981 966
48 Yeshiva University 7 16 269 969 884
49 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 12 263 782 1,030
50 University of Arizona 9 11 258 777 898
51 University of Maryland 8 13 290 757 733
52 Arizona State University 8 13 203 806 1,122
53 University of Iowa 9 12 259 660 846
54 University of South Carolina 11 10 346 264 722
55 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 271 717 616
56 University of Utah 8 9 238 478 836
57 University of Pittsburgh 7 14 187 822 712
58 University of Southern California 10 13 300 415 493
59 Tulane University 7 13 168 704 867
60 University of Baltimore 7 13 185 728 739
61 Wayne State University 7 12 211 860 490
62 University at Buffalo 6 15 161 1,155 473
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 11 211 605 689
64 University of Georgia 8 8 278 361 544
65 New York Law School 8 14 183 776 647
66 University of California, Irvine 8 13 222 534 632
67 Wake Forest University 7 14 169 797 565
68 Catholic University of America 5 12 248 423 416
69 Southern Methodist University 6 10 213 429 539
70 University of Missouri 6 12 198 464 581
71 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 168 529 590
72 University of Houston 6 15 124 790 574
73 Washington and Lee University 6 8 213 174 568
74 University of Kansas 6 14 144 613 509
75 Michigan State University 7 8 178 342 565
76 Syracuse University 5 9 115 284 928
77 Pepperdine University 6 14 139 670 412
78 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 113 187 944
79 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 128 596 473
80 Brooklyn Law School 9 8 166 260 533
81 University of Denver 8 12 159 325 499
82 University of Washington 5 11 131 532 447
83 Pennsylvania State University 7 9 174 286 423
84 Georgia State University 6 11 146 484 383
85 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 124 579 397
86 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 109 394 621
87 DePaul University 5 13 94 505 595
88 Pace University 5 9 55 163 1,095
89 South Texas College of Law Houston 8 10 164 318 382
90 Lewis & Clark Law School 6 12 141 408 395
91 Northeastern University 6 10 114 428 495
92 Stetson University 6 10 148 331 394
93 Santa Clara University 5 10 101 552 370
94 University of Miami 6 10 96 423 487
95 University of New Mexico 6 12 127 418 329
96 University of Mississippi 7 8 152 215 326
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 9 112 194 517
98 University of Alabama 5 13 111 480 268
99 Florida International University 4 13 83 472 402
100 University of Cincinnati 7 10 118 345 319