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Most-Cited Institutions by Subject

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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 23 59 1,769 13,553 3,822
2 Yale University 19 46 1,427 11,197 3,132
3 New York University 18 48 1,275 8,585 3,517
4 University of Chicago 16 38 1,197 7,119 1,941
5 University of Virginia 16 34 1,441 3,769 3,139
6 University of California, Los Angeles 18 31 1,249 3,474 2,616
7 Stanford University 18 34 1,137 4,198 2,296
8 Columbia University School of Law 15 33 704 5,165 1,443
9 Fordham University 18 29 951 3,241 1,812
10 George Washington University 10 28 743 3,176 2,107
11 University of Pennsylvania 14 30 755 2,982 2,125
12 University of California, Berkeley 13 29 720 3,126 1,927
13 Georgetown University 12 29 623 2,571 1,648
14 Northwestern University 14 25 703 2,218 1,142
15 Brooklyn Law School 10 34 415 3,469 1,127
16 Cornell University 10 26 447 2,651 1,322
17 University of Michigan 13 22 563 1,753 1,519
18 University of Texas at Austin 11 25 601 2,031 1,018
19 Washington University 11 25 533 2,131 1,217
20 Duke University 9 27 391 2,299 1,593
21 University of Florida 11 23 427 1,631 1,730
22 Boston University 10 24 472 1,887 1,088
23 Vanderbilt University 9 22 338 2,053 1,225
24 Rutgers University 11 21 449 1,411 909
25 Arizona State University 8 22 283 1,719 1,178
26 University of South Carolina 9 24 249 1,826 862
27 University of California, Irvine 10 21 314 1,233 1,055
28 Yeshiva University 11 16 425 889 775
29 University of Georgia 11 18 399 900 858
30 University of Colorado Boulder 9 9 243 366 1,719
31 St. John's University 5 8 436 381 720
32 Ohio State University 10 19 280 1,285 655
33 Emory University 8 21 227 1,274 868
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 20 208 1,490 761
35 University of Southern California 9 17 262 1,111 749
36 University of San Diego 9 20 218 1,355 688
37 Wake Forest University 10 14 256 634 1,084
38 University of Iowa 9 10 264 352 1,280
39 Florida State University 9 13 294 638 714
40 Texas A&M University 8 14 235 598 696
41 University of Minnesota 7 17 193 914 460
42 Suffolk University 6 18 116 1,203 576
43 Santa Clara University 6 15 202 824 457
44 University of California, San Francisco 8 15 173 862 547
45 University of Richmond 7 15 178 705 632
46 University of Alabama 8 8 190 157 1,003
47 Louisiana State University 8 16 172 726 549
48 University of Maryland 6 13 158 561 764
49 Georgia State University 7 13 160 704 624
50 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 183 537 635
51 George Mason University 8 15 143 769 618
52 University of Houston 6 18 124 1,163 355
53 Indiana University Bloomington 7 14 158 522 617
54 University of Kentucky 6 19 129 982 339
55 University of California, Davis 7 13 138 511 548
56 American University 7 11 157 341 573
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 15 133 575 480
58 University of Oklahoma 9 8 202 239 391
59 Case Western Reserve University 7 12 163 457 345
60 Willamette University College of Law 7 15 144 606 301
61 Southwestern Law School 6 14 123 655 337
62 Drexel University 5 9 89 218 876
63 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 14 68 990 257
64 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 4 9 103 405 585
65 University at Buffalo 5 11 101 569 442
66 Villanova University 6 11 109 568 366
67 Pepperdine University 6 17 110 678 227
68 Loyola Marymount University 5 11 86 436 547
69 University of Washington 5 11 84 498 488
70 University of Denver 7 9 153 272 310
71 University of Utah 6 8 108 247 545
72 Wayne State University 5 18 81 788 173
73 William & Mary Law School 6 10 129 273 362
74 Tulane University 4 13 56 547 487
75 Temple University 5 7 79 263 560
76 Quinnipiac University 4 12 97 592 175
77 Boston College 5 12 105 380 315
78 St. Mary's University 4 12 87 374 404
79 University of St. Thomas 6 8 99 317 375
80 University of Notre Dame 7 11 99 343 283
81 DePaul University 6 12 77 479 274
82 Vermont Law School 4 13 52 657 221
83 Pennsylvania State University 6 12 96 359 250
84 University of Pittsburgh 4 11 62 333 434
85 Roger Williams University 5 12 95 436 143
86 Washington and Lee University 5 10 93 290 280
87 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 9 64 356 355
88 University of Missouri 6 9 104 307 188
89 University of Arizona 6 9 92 309 245
90 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 12 70 475 191
91 Seattle University 4 10 69 551 114
92 Seton Hall University 6 8 80 265 307
93 Northeastern University 5 11 73 328 275
94 New York Law School 5 7 60 432 245
95 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 11 60 453 213
96 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 4 11 80 333 194
97 University of Connecticut 4 6 68 226 338
98 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 10 78 251 259
99 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 9 87 233 225
100 Michigan State University 5 7 87 127 301