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Most-Cited Institutions by Subject

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Last Updated: December 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 38 69 4,873 17,471 10,011
2 Harvard University 34 60 4,300 16,411 9,794
3 University of Virginia 28 46 3,519 7,665 6,171
4 Georgetown University 26 41 2,729 5,941 6,427
5 University of Chicago 28 40 2,769 6,157 5,793
6 Stanford University 27 37 2,643 6,243 5,300
7 New York University 25 41 2,118 6,505 4,813
8 Columbia University School of Law 25 35 2,494 5,225 3,900
9 University of California, Los Angeles 22 36 1,719 4,851 4,122
10 University of California, Berkeley 19 39 1,552 4,648 4,124
11 University of Pennsylvania 22 29 1,877 3,067 2,944
12 Northwestern University 19 34 1,558 4,627 2,942
13 University of Michigan 20 29 1,460 3,319 2,512
14 University of Texas at Austin 17 31 1,159 4,104 2,586
15 Fordham University 14 30 1,109 3,570 2,325
16 Rutgers University 18 26 1,089 2,260 2,356
17 George Washington University 18 24 1,103 2,252 1,780
18 University of Minnesota 15 22 1,052 1,566 2,487
19 Duke University 15 27 891 2,961 1,769
20 University of California, Davis 15 20 936 1,291 2,819
21 Vanderbilt University 15 21 871 1,790 2,261
22 Emory University 12 18 630 1,732 2,073
23 George Mason University 12 25 636 2,063 1,633
24 Boston University 15 18 788 1,057 1,690
25 Cornell University 14 21 572 1,585 2,067
26 Washington University 14 15 706 1,020 1,851
27 University of Notre Dame 14 18 689 1,146 1,582
28 Brigham Young University 17 14 892 589 1,109
29 University of Florida 12 20 574 1,286 1,392
30 Texas A&M University 14 16 562 934 1,260
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 530 840 1,464
32 Seattle University 9 20 452 1,429 1,168
33 Albany Law School 10 20 407 1,259 1,536
34 Temple University 11 14 526 724 1,448
35 University of St. Thomas 11 17 387 1,719 959
36 University of San Diego 10 18 409 1,488 1,069
37 William & Mary Law School 12 16 494 780 1,130
38 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 16 401 1,006 1,097
39 Loyola University Chicago 12 12 393 471 1,500
40 University of Richmond 13 16 410 1,054 801
41 University of California, San Francisco 10 21 310 1,285 964
42 American University 11 17 367 1,196 762
43 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 12 335 840 1,155
44 Ohio State University 11 15 417 856 732
45 University of Colorado Boulder 11 14 417 632 898
46 Boston College 12 13 391 653 912
47 Florida State University 10 12 360 466 1,231
48 Yeshiva University 8 16 294 918 937
49 University of Maryland 8 12 337 677 828
50 Indiana University Bloomington 9 13 270 796 1,013
51 Arizona State University 8 13 227 789 1,219
52 University of South Carolina 10 10 353 231 797
53 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 279 685 687
54 University of Arizona 10 11 221 741 805
55 University of Utah 8 9 260 446 879
56 University of Southern California 11 13 333 361 599
57 University of Pittsburgh 7 13 220 779 737
58 Tulane University 8 13 194 667 934
59 University of Iowa 9 11 233 521 838
60 University of Baltimore 9 13 210 690 776
61 Wayne State University 8 12 223 832 547
62 University at Buffalo 6 15 175 1,137 483
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 10 227 570 770
64 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 119 172 1,668
65 University of California, Irvine 8 13 264 492 632
66 University of Georgia 8 8 297 327 610
67 Wake Forest University 8 13 198 756 605
68 New York Law School 8 14 196 756 611
69 University of Houston 6 15 149 764 621
70 Southern Methodist University 7 10 222 395 620
71 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 192 500 648
72 Catholic University of America 6 12 266 390 349
73 University of Missouri 6 12 204 439 564
74 Syracuse University 5 9 138 255 1,011
75 University of Kansas 6 14 162 587 536
76 Pepperdine University 7 14 169 633 452
77 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 13 150 590 534
78 Washington and Lee University 7 7 227 152 578
79 Michigan State University 7 7 194 295 598
80 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 126 376 762
81 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 146 552 472
82 Brooklyn Law School 9 7 187 234 561
83 DePaul University 5 14 110 526 649
84 University of Denver 8 10 174 299 539
85 Georgia State University 7 11 158 463 451
86 Pennsylvania State University 7 8 187 256 491
87 Pace University 5 8 57 158 1,168
88 University of Washington 6 11 139 500 444
89 Lewis & Clark Law School 8 11 157 386 463
90 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 10 176 298 421
91 Northeastern University 7 10 133 401 524
92 Santa Clara University 6 10 119 531 433
93 Stetson University 7 9 152 323 385
94 University of Miami 6 10 100 413 521
95 University of Alabama 6 13 133 463 305
96 University of New Mexico 6 11 131 383 384
97 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 4 161 103 496
98 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 8 132 169 560
99 University of Cincinnati 8 10 142 318 336
100 Florida International University 5 13 89 458 446