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Most-Cited Institutions by Subject

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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 23 59 1,657 11,743 3,631
2 Yale University 20 46 1,503 11,205 3,205
3 New York University 18 48 1,323 8,601 3,543
4 University of Chicago 17 38 1,254 7,086 1,980
5 University of Virginia 16 34 1,395 3,759 2,867
6 Stanford University 19 34 1,208 4,245 2,389
7 University of California, Los Angeles 18 31 1,277 3,476 2,638
8 Columbia University School of Law 15 33 711 5,170 1,407
9 Fordham University 18 29 964 3,237 1,770
10 George Washington University 10 28 760 3,179 2,132
11 University of Pennsylvania 14 30 772 2,983 2,173
12 University of California, Berkeley 13 29 733 3,123 1,917
13 Georgetown University 13 28 662 2,314 1,792
14 Northwestern University 14 25 735 2,237 1,147
15 Brooklyn Law School 10 34 451 3,489 1,165
16 Cornell University 11 27 458 2,734 1,351
17 University of Texas at Austin 12 26 625 2,080 1,026
18 University of Michigan 13 22 581 1,753 1,530
19 Washington University 11 25 539 2,134 1,208
20 Duke University 9 27 384 2,167 1,545
21 University of Florida 11 23 433 1,652 1,677
22 Boston University 10 24 472 1,839 1,070
23 Vanderbilt University 9 22 343 2,053 1,197
24 Rutgers University 11 21 454 1,417 886
25 Arizona State University 8 23 293 1,745 1,212
26 University of South Carolina 9 24 255 1,826 858
27 Yeshiva University 11 16 436 891 760
28 University of Georgia 11 18 409 903 881
29 University of California, Irvine 10 21 310 1,235 1,031
30 Ohio State University 11 19 305 1,293 688
31 University of Colorado Boulder 9 9 252 367 1,677
32 St. John's University 5 8 439 381 735
33 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 20 209 1,490 767
34 University of Southern California 9 17 270 1,111 787
35 Wake Forest University 11 15 280 681 1,078
36 University of San Diego 9 20 219 1,355 696
37 University of Iowa 9 10 273 352 1,309
38 Emory University 7 21 185 1,207 814
39 Florida State University 9 12 267 592 664
40 Texas A&M University 8 14 234 590 649
41 University of California, San Francisco 8 15 184 890 559
42 Suffolk University 6 18 119 1,203 591
43 University of Minnesota 7 17 196 916 441
44 Santa Clara University 6 15 204 824 440
45 University of Richmond 7 15 183 705 629
46 University of Alabama 8 8 201 157 1,010
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 184 538 686
48 Georgia State University 7 13 163 706 628
49 Louisiana State University 8 16 174 728 543
50 University of Maryland 6 13 160 560 735
51 University of Houston 6 18 129 1,163 354
52 George Mason University 8 15 145 769 612
53 Indiana University Bloomington 8 14 170 566 566
54 University of Kentucky 6 19 129 975 324
55 University of California, Davis 7 13 141 511 569
56 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 15 136 576 471
57 University of Oklahoma 9 8 210 240 398
58 Willamette University College of Law 7 15 145 606 324
59 American University 7 10 157 271 560
60 Drexel University 5 9 94 219 888
61 Southwestern Law School 6 14 123 655 339
62 Case Western Reserve University 8 12 162 436 325
63 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 14 70 991 267
64 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 4 9 104 405 595
65 Villanova University 6 11 113 568 386
66 University at Buffalo 5 11 98 569 441
67 Tulane University 5 13 73 584 511
68 Pepperdine University 6 17 111 680 219
69 Loyola Marymount University 5 11 87 437 542
70 University of Washington 5 11 84 498 488
71 University of Denver 7 9 156 283 289
72 Wayne State University 5 18 82 790 179
73 University of Utah 6 8 112 247 503
74 DePaul University 6 14 87 566 322
75 William & Mary Law School 6 10 133 274 350
76 Temple University 5 7 83 265 571
77 St. Mary's University 4 12 93 375 409
78 Quinnipiac University 4 12 98 593 186
79 University of St. Thomas 6 8 99 317 378
80 University of Notre Dame 7 11 101 345 266
81 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 9 67 362 397
82 Pennsylvania State University 6 12 99 360 236
83 University of Pittsburgh 4 11 63 334 433
84 Vermont Law School 4 13 52 656 185
85 Boston College 5 10 101 248 299
86 Roger Williams University 5 12 101 436 127
87 Washington and Lee University 5 10 94 291 271
88 University of Arizona 6 9 94 309 242
89 University of Missouri 6 9 104 307 192
90 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 12 71 476 192
91 Seattle University 4 10 70 551 112
92 Northeastern University 5 11 76 328 270
93 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4 10 66 360 284
94 New York Law School 5 7 61 432 235
95 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 10 83 251 284
96 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 11 60 453 199
97 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 4 11 82 333 187
98 University of Connecticut 4 6 68 226 343
99 Loyola University Chicago 6 8 98 155 248
100 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 9 87 233 225